Performing Architecture

By Claire McAndrew and Paul Sermon

Abstract: As ‘affordability’ translates to ‘smaller’ in cities such as London and ‘3×4 metre’ plots in the most radical resettlement colonies in Delhi, it is necessary to expand our dialogue of alternative futures. Squeezing space to a minimum is producing intensively stacked and concentrated architectural forms. It is also creating a need for dialogue on the experiential aspects of micro living particularly as digital platforms create new types of blended living environments. Performance architecture is a tactic between artist and audience that exposes the permeability between subject and space as a mode of spatial production.