[1][2] The community centre, sited at Talacre Public Open Space in Kentish Town, in the London Borough of Camden, was commissioned in 1964 by Ed Berman and the Inter-Action Trust[3] and built in 1971.
[4] The Inter-Action Centre is particularly notable for having been one of the first buildings to make concrete the ideas of flexible architecture[5] and impermanence.
[6] Price's body of work as a whole had a tremendous influence on the architecture profession,[7][8][9] and the Inter-Action Centre helped realize the ambitions of his earlier, unbuilt Fun Palace[4][2] (which had proposed the fusion of architecture and information technology, entertainment and educational activities[10]) and Potteries Thinkbelt.
[13] Price had been working with, and was influenced by, cybernetician Gordon Pask and used the Inter-Action Centre as a way to present an architectural approach to second-order cybernetics.
[16][17] Price himself persuaded English Heritage not to list the building, and supported its demolition in 2003[18] because he believed it had fulfilled its purpose as a temporary commodity with a short lifespan.