Edited by Salvatore Peluso

Performing Architecture – A project by BASE Milano and DOPO? is the result of the collective reflection that expands the homonymous festival, launched in Milan through the collaboration between BASE and DOPO?, which engaged five districts in the southern suburbs – Corvetto, Chiaravalle, Stadera, Barona and Tortona in Milan – 5 artists and designers have been engaging through performances, installations, and public actions over the course of a year.

The book is a collective archive of stories and site-specific interventions designed by an architect and a performer in collaboration with a local organisation rooted in the five districts. It is a laboratory of experimentation capable of generating exercises in collective thinking and fostering dialogue and active participation within local communities. Comprising three essays (by Linda Di Pietro, Salvatore Peluso and Alessandro Pasero) and five conversations with the participating authors, the publication does not celebrate the festival experience but seeks to reinterpret it critically. The festival experiments with hybrid design approaches, where the body and space engage in dialogue to rewrite how we experience the city.

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