Mitra Kanaani. D.Arch, MCP, FAIA, is the Professor of Design, Research and Tectonics and former Chair at NewSchool of Architecture & Design, San Diego. She is an editor and author, an activist with the Education Is Not a Crime and Education Under Fire movements and an Affiliated Global Faculty of the Baha'i Institute for Higher Education (BIHE) Architecture Program.

"This important collection of works grounds the debate on the capacity of a design to effect change as it performs assigned tasks. The convergence of views in the same volume provides a stimulating tempest of disagreements and contradictions, and therein lays its value. Here, performativity is a function of interdependencies, integration, interaction and responsiveness between tangible and intangible forces and entities. In some essays, the focus is on the natural, the human and the built. In others, it is on the world we create in all of its dimensions, or on abandoning a human-centric view altogether for an interconnected and interdependent systems perspective."Carmina Sánchez-del-Valle, Professor of Architecture, Hampton University, Virginia

• List of Contributors xPreface: Paradigms of Performativity, as a Journey as destination in Today’s Design-Thinking Mitra KanaaniForeword: ‘Unchained’ Brett SteeleIntroduction: Performance Engrained Michael U. HenselPrologue: Works at Work David Leatherbarrow1 Performances of Architectures and Environments: En Route to a Theory and Framework Michael U. Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel2 Social Performativity: Architecture’s Contribution to Societal Progress Patrik Schumacher3 Informing Form: The Influence of Morphogenesis and Performativity in Practice Alvin Huang4 Architecture of Change: Towards Transformable Architecture Branko Kolarevic5 Dynamic Aesthetics and Advanced Geometries: The Meaning of Style and Form-making in Performative Design Andrew Whalley6 The Paradoxes of Performative Architecture: Toward a New Discipline and a New Agenda for the Profession Thomas Fisher7 Poetics of Design Beyond Intelligences: The Meaning of Embodied Aesthetics and Simulation of Mood in Performative Design and Architecture 7.1 Poetics of Design: A House Is a Tree Is an Insect Is a Computer Is a Human Mariana Ibañez7.2 Poetics and More in Performative Architecture: Towards a Neuroscience of Dynamic Experience and Design Michael A. Arbib8 The Cognitive Dimension: The Role of Research in Performative Design Processes 8.1 The Theory Mitra Kanaani8.2 Theory Put into Research Practice Joon-Ho Choi9 Integrated Design Thinking: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Performative Design Methodology 9.1 The Theory Marvin J. Malecha9.2 Research Case Studies Joon-Ho Choi10 Performative Biotechnical Forms: Culturalizing the Microbiota from High-Tech to Bio-Tech Architecture Claudia Pasquero and Marco Poletto11 Searching for a “Bioclimatic Law” in Architecture: Comfort and the Ethics of (Human) Performance William W. Braham12 Ecological Emergences: The Milieu for Performative Paradigms Caroline O’Donnell13 Performative Urban Environments and the Concept of the Future Smart Cities 13. 1 The Posthuman City: Reflections on the City of the Near Future Alejandro Zaera-Polo13. 2 Toward Establishing Measures for Performative Urban Environments: A Critical Position on Shaping the Future of Smart Cities Lucy Campbell, Mitra Kanaani, and Michael Stepner14 Seeking Material Capacity and Embedded Responsiveness: Design and Fabrication of Physically Programmed Architectural Constructs Achim Menges and Steffen Reichert15 Resiliency in Performativity: A Shared Vision with Sustainability 15.1 Preamble R.K. Stewart15.2 Resiliency in Performativity: A Shared Vision with Sustainability Terri Peters16 Architectonic Design and Computation in Performative Buildings Brady Peters17 Simulation Tools for Social Performance: Immersive Building Simulation Robert R. Neumayr18 Performative Material Morphologies Vera Parlac19 Dynamic Vocabularies 19.1 Technology of Expressive, Communicative and Responsive Surface Architecture and Design of Building Skins and Enclosure System in Performative Design Forms Michael Fox19.2 Active Façade Tectonics: Sensing and Reacting to the Wicked, Complex Entanglements of Building Envelope Architecting Douglas E. Noble20 Energy Performative Architecture: Working with the Forces of Nature to Optimize Energy Flows and the Impact on Phenomenology of Architectural Form Brian Cody21 Adaptation: Bio-Receptive Materials with a New Outlook on Performativity and Sustainability David Benjamin22 Phenomenology of Interactivity: Patterns of Human Interaction with Urban Built Environments and the Impact of Computer Automation Mitra Kanaani23 The Cybernetics of Cybernetics: A Performative Idiom Theodore Spyropoulos24 Performative Design Strategies: The Synthesis Process of a Woven Complexity Pieter de Wilde and Clarice Bleil de Souza25 Design Sensibilities: Intangible and Qualitative Design Factors in Performative Design: Enactive Experience in the (Neuro)science of Form Kristine Mun26 Health and Wellbeing: Performance- Based Design Concepts for a Healthful Built Environment and Human Equilibrium Dak Kopec27 Reciprocal Relationships of Materiality and Human Engagement: Expanding the Role of Material Systems towards Sensorial Socio-Spatial Agency Sean Ahlquist28 Computing Performativity: The Role of Coding Within BIM for the Execution of Performative Design Concepts Karen Kensek29 Professional Practice and the Performative Delivery of Architecture: Precision, Prediction, Value Phil Bernstein30 Performing Architecture: A Reflection on the Rituals and Procedures of Practice Kyle Miller31 Educating Accountable Architects: The Future Performers Ted LandsmarkEpilogue: Towards Responsibly Anticipatory Evolvable Architecture for the Anthropocene Jim DatorIndex