Routledge Companion to Paradigms of Performativity in Design and Architecture

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

• Preface: Paradigms of Performativity, as a Journey as destination in Today’s Design-Thinking Foreword: ‘Unchained’ Introduction: Performance Engrained Prologue: Works at Work 1 Performances of Architectures and Environments: En Route to a Theory and Framework 2 Social Performativity: Architecture’s Contribution to Societal Progress 3 Informing Form: The Influence of Morphogenesis and Performativity in Practice 4 Architecture of Change: Towards Transformable Architecture 5 Dynamic Aesthetics and Advanced Geometries: The Meaning of Style and Form-making in Performative Design 6 The Paradoxes of Performative Architecture: Toward a New Discipline and a New Agenda for the Profession 7 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 7.2 Poetics and More in Performative Architecture: Towards a Neuroscience of Dynamic Experience and Design 8 The Cognitive Dimension: The Role of Research in Performative Design Processes 8.1 The Theory 8.2 Theory Put into Research Practice 9 Integrated Design Thinking: Inter- and Transdisciplinarity in Performative Design Methodology 9.1 The Theory 9.2 Research Case Studies 10 Performative Biotechnical Forms: Culturalizing the Microbiota from High-Tech to Bio-Tech Architecture