Performance and architecture: review of design process in digital culture

Abstract

The paper has as objective present the results of research in design processes considering the aspects of performance as medium of central decision and, thus, responding to aspects of information organization and communication in the digital era. The research is linked with the activities of the Nomads.usp – Núcleo de Estudos de Habitantes Interativos (Nucleus of Study of Interactive Inhabitants), linked to the Instituto de Arquitetura e Urbanismo (Urbanism and Archtecture Institute), Universidade de São Paulo and it is founded on the research lines: hybrid spatialities, design process and communication processes. It corroborates the Usman Haque (2010) statement that “it is not possible to think architecture as something steady and immutable. Instead of this, we should see it as something dynamic and agile”. We realize that, currently, what shall stimulate a contemporaneous architecture production more adequate in the cultural context is the revision of the design process itself, aiming to deal primarily with questions of performance as a guideline for the functional, organizational, material and formal definitions of the architectonic objects.