Her image, though, is another thing, endlessly pliable, a site for bizarre experimentation.
The Serpentine commission has become a site for international experimentation and follows a long tradition of pavilions by some of the world's greatest architects, including Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid and Rem Koolhaas.
For example, London's prominent role as a site of experimentation (Hodson and Marvin, 2007; Bulkeley et al., 2012) has been supported by its active role in the C40 network.
Her dissertation, "Animal Abilities: Disability, Species Difference, and Aesthetic Innovation in the Long 20th Century," traces the intertwined deployments of disability, animality, and cognitive otherness as sites for literary experimentation, from Faulkner to the Harlem Renaissance to contemporary poetics.
For Zaera-Polo, whose own research has for a long time focused on the architectural "envelope" as a site of experimentation, the brief posed an interesting challenge.
They get the thunder sign, for experimentation.
"It will remain an important site of experimentation and repertoire".
One-day old chickens hatched on-site were used for experimentation following passage.
"These sites constitute dynamic spaces for experimentation, and their emerging capabilities for new material cultures are what we see as most significant for aspirations to post-consumer societies," says Adrian Smith, professor of technology and society at the University of Sussex's Science Policy Research Unit and the event's organiser.
Perhaps most cogently, the narrative reconfigures the role of architecture within such discussions, as a site for both technological innovation and for experimentation in the formation of an environmentalist culture.
