To showcase the world’s most inventive designers, the London Design Biennale invites participants who represent their country, city, or territory to respond to a given subject with an original work, and installs them throughout the Somerset House arts center in the spring. The premise created an obstacle for designer Ini Archibong, who in 2019 was approached by artist and set designer Es Devlin, the artistic director for this year’s “Resonance”-themed iteration of the event (postponed from 2020, due to the pandemic). “I’m appreciative of celebrating culture, but the idea of representing a flag that covers so many people who are so diverse and different didn’t sit right with me,” Archibong says on Ep. 75 of our At a Distance podcast, recorded last September. “I thought, Well, who do I identify with?”