Performing Space is an ambitious project that aims to explore the relationship between performance and the built environment from all disciplines that study human activity.

The main objective of Performing Space is to create a meeting point where studies from different disciplines can be presented,   experimented with and discussed. The Performing Space 2023 Conference and Workshop, held in Nafplio, Greece, from 7 to 14 July 2023, was the second edition of this project. It was co-organised and hosted by the University of the Peloponnese, supported by the Polytechnic University of Madrid and featured 36 papers and 12 workshop participants from 10 different countries.

The results of Performing Space 2023 presented in this publication show some of the main lines of work currently being carried out. A large number of presentations show the performative expression of space through site-specific performances, a recurring line of work since the origins of the artistic expression called Happenings or, later, Performance art. There is also a large number of papers exploring, from different angles, the relationship between space, ritual and myth, a very interesting approach to the built environment that has been recurrent since the 19th century in archaeology, anthropology, geography and sociology, but which is here extended to theatre studies and cognitive sciences. Different philosophical approaches to the scenic space were also presented and we hope that in future editions, within the always necessary philosophical approach, more works on the built environment will be presented. Another interesting approach is represented by the works of different disciplines that use performance as a tool to understand our environment, of which we had several presentations in this edition. One approach that could not be overlooked is the digital, a medium that is becoming increasingly present in our perception of the environment. In this issue, several papers reflected on the use of the digital image in different types of performance. Finally, several papers were presented on the use of performance in education, an increasingly important issue that needs to be addressed in order to counteract the harmful effects of digital media.