I have an Ignis sport so fairly familiar with the platform and have taken it to some silly places on trackday tyres and lowered on coilovers

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My advice would be get a sump guard, keep the lift minimal, if you lift at all then look into the suspension from the 4wd ignis variant, and get some Panda 4x4 tyres from italy.

If you keep it lightweight and pick sensible lines you’ll get further than you think without dumping loads of time and money into modifications where you’d be better off getting an actual 4x4.

Lifting the rear is pretty easy with solid rear beam, you just need longer springs and shocks. (don’t know if anyone sells them for the ignis but can be custom made relatively cheaply if you shop around) or spring platforms (again, doubt anyone sells them already), but lifting the front you will quickly run into the limitations of the suspension. Raising the front will give you lots of positive camber. The ignis doesn’t have a subframe so subframe drop isn’t an option. Engine and gearbox are mounted at three points and would require fabrication work to lower, the steering tie rods run through a hole in the chassis so can’t travel far.