Although the one-time poet and artist will forever be associated with his 1972 live-masturbating “Seedbed” performance at Sonnabend Gallery, Vito Acconci has worked almost exclusively with design and architecture since the 1980s, when he decamped from the art world to start the firm Acconci Studio. Since then, he's allowed the experiential qualities of his earlier performance pieces to infuse his architectural projects, blurring the line between public and private with installations and buildings such as the landmark Storefront for Art and Architecture with Steven Holl.

After finding out Acconci was named Design Miami/’s Designer of the Year, ARTINFO dropped by his Brooklyn-based practice to hear more about his upcoming plans, including the design for “HERE/THERE, NOW/LATER,” a temporary installation in the Miami Design District’s Buena Vista Building, which, like his earlier performance pieces, is centered around recordings of the human voice. We also learned more about his forthcoming “Klein Bottle Playground,” which was inspired in part from 19th-century mathematical philosophy as well as by his recurring impulse to create shared public experiences that are bizarre and extraordinary.