His 1973 work Meta Filter consisted of pairs of participants seated at a computer, attempting to reach an agreement about the meanings of various images and statements.
[2] Stephen Willats ran the Centre for Behavioural Art, a cross-disciplinary research and discussion platform he established at Gallery House, London, in 1972–73.
The Artist as an Instigator of Changes in Social Cognition and Behaviour is a publication originally published in 1973 and re-issued in 2010 by Occasional Papers.
The essay includes rigorous analyses of social forms of artistic production and descriptions of a number of projects by Willats.
[5] For Brentford Towers (1985) Willats worked with residents to map the interiors of their homes, identifying objects holding personal significance.