ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to narrate the various interpretations of Performance and Performative and explore their ability to be imported, from various disciplines, into the spatial design theoretical discourse. Moreover, it will be examined how, despite many interpretations and definitions, they still converge and intersect in a common general theoretical approach. A performative-oriented architectural discourse pushes the discipline to discover new perspectives and newer spatial and mental qualities that rethink the notion of creativity and suggest new performative approaches to spatial design and research that are worth being invested in a psycho-pedagogical discourse. This paper will also explore the possibility of shaping an architectural theory based on the performative concepts and rehearse that theory. The focus will be on the main concepts of the Performative: the scenic potential, the open-form, and flexibility, the social and the participatory, the event-character in spatial situations, the transformative power of architecture, the strategic attitude towards spatial design, and the performative mental skills.
