Intra-action practices. The performance of bodies between ideation, materialisation and the inhabiting of urban-architectural space: New perspectives in teaching

Abstract

This article reviews the postulates of performance applied to design of architecture and urban planning, to contribute to the construction of alternative knowledge to the representationalist tradition in which these disciplines have developed and its possible use in teaching. The concern arises from Karen Barad’s questions: how have questions of ‘fact’ been replaced by questions of meaning, and how did language become more reliable than matter? Through a review of authors who have approached these questions, three categories are studied to discuss new contributions in the materialisation of bodies, which, in the specific case of Latin America, produce hybrid experiences between hegemonic knowledge and spontaneous actions to conceive space from other logics. The intersection of these practices with approaches to teaching and the practice of architecture from epigenesis, palingenesis or ex-nihilo, allows us to propose alternatives to dominant representationalism.