Pinguinii fragili pe marginea undelor gravitaționale. Instrumente performative pentru arhitecți

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We are accustomed to the pleasure of thinking that we can project and programme anything: lives, relations, jobs, human beings, countries, along with the spaces in which all those take place. Beside this tense works, do we still know how the space is designing and programming us? Beyond focusing on abstract thinking, visual appeal and productivity, do we know what behaviors are generated by a certain change of an angle or color or texture or form? In such a century of multiple crises like ours, how can we avoid those “énormes natures mortes architecturales", useless and dead spaces with which no one happily interact? This study is a performative toolkit made of contemporary art and dance/theatre improvisation approaches, created especially for architects, a toolkit for training three main ingredients of responsibility toward build space:1. Awareness of multiple relational contexts, questioning how a certain architectural or urban design will relate with its future inhabitants, in even the smallest and unexpected details. We see architecture as an art of long durations. Sooner or later all the seeds put into a project will emerge from it, some, if unknown, sabotaging in time the initial intentions.2. Seeing architecture as an extended body in order to embrace a non- mechanical, biological paradigm for architectural thinking, learning from nature how we can create alive spaces. Performative training will enhance a sense of what`s superfluous, necessary, healthy or hostile to life.3. Attention to the power relations expressed by architects` work, as in Milgram Experiment, when responsibility is in charge obedience disappears. As the main end is to see how can we generate collaborative, polyphonic architectures that may transform our cities in huge fitness apparatuses for democratic, non-authoritarian, nondiscriminatory social and political relations?