Performative Environments

Urban Design at Architecture & Design

Research

Bo Stjerne Thomsen

Performative Environments

Performative Environments is a research project within Department of Architecture & Design, Aalborg University, investigating how modern communication technology can be used to improve local interaction between humans and environment and in specific directed towards the development of technology and methods to be incorporated in city design and architecture. In connection with this the project works from the principals of interactive environments, where the integration of digital technology in buildings as well as the development of new digital simulation tools and intelligent building components make the individual citizen able to affect the functionality and expression of the architecture of the city and thereby locally individualize and change the environment.

Performative Environments focuses on what a building does instead of what it is. The research project assumptions are with this that the increased utilization of digital communication and pervasive computing will contribute to environments more open to change and able to be reconfigured according to the present people and networks at the given moment. In this way performative environments focuses on the actions between humans and buildings and thereby how design can become a dynamic active for the city environment, instead of focusing on the static appearance in the city. A performative approach to city design is open and dynamic and causes a continuous communication and exchange between the local environment and the physical appearance of the building.

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