Searching for dissidence in the School of Architecture at the University of Costa Rica: performative arts and architecture’s boundaries

Abstract

This paper examines the pedagogical opportunities that arose after students executed a series of performative events at the School of Architecture or Escuela de Arquitectura (EA by its name in Spanish) at the University of Costa Rica (UCR). These performative events occurred in October of 2019. The “October events” allowed for a group of students to begin an ongoing exploration of the potential of performance and of the value of intersecting spatial or architectural knowledge with performative practices.