Performing House: A Talk in Seven Fragments

Περίληψη

Performing House is an ongoing practice research project exploring dwelling as a collective, evolving act rather than a fixed architectural state. Set in an olive grove in Chiliomodi, Greece, it unfolds as a slow-built experiment in co-designing a space for residencies, performance-making, and interdisciplinary exchange. The project imagines home not as an object to be completed, but as a relationship — sustained by presence, participation, and shared care.

Through performative workshops, sketches, and site gatherings, Performing House explores how architecture can perform as a verb: shaping, listening, and responding in real time. The grove, the house, and the nearby archaeological site act as living collaborators in a choreography of making and unmaking, remembering and reimagining.

This paper presents fragments of that process as a lecture-performance on the page — a document that performs its own construction. It proposes that building together is also a way of thinking together, and that design, when practiced as conversation, becomes a form of belonging.