New ways of thinking together to reshape the city: Performing Architecture is a widespread festival that weaves together architecture and the performing arts to transform urban space alongside its inhabitants.

Born from the collaboration between BASE and DOPO?, the festival invites a new generation of architects to explore architecture as a living practice—one that challenges conventions and opens up new possibilities for social interaction.

Through performances, installations, and public actions, the festival experiments with hybrid design approaches, where the body and space engage in dialogue to rewrite how we experience the city. This multidisciplinary process not only intersects architecture, culture, and education but also contributes to making urban life richer, more inclusive, and joyful.

The festival connects five neighborhoods in the city’s southern outskirts—Corvetto, Chiaravalle, Stadera, Barona, and Tortona—creating a symbolic path, an imaginary line that links and reimagines these spaces.

Each neighborhood involved in the festival will host a site-specific intervention—a temporary installation—designed by an architect and a performer in collaboration with a local organization rooted in the area. Five neighborhoods, five ways of rethinking architecture.

Nomadic architectural devices, tools for aesthetic and political activation. Performing Architecture is among the winning projects of the Festival Architettura, promoted by the Italian Ministry of Culture to support and enhance contemporary Italian architecture. A project that intertwines experimentation and outreach with a social objective: rethinking the role of architecture in cities.