Architecture is reconceptualized as a performative and relational practice that emerges through the body’s interaction with space. Central to this view is the idea that space is not a neutral container but a political field shaped by gestures, rhythms, and presences. The notion of “minor architecture” describes spatial practices that are affective, situated, and often invisible to dominant narratives—acts of walking, waiting, assembling, or inhabiting that carry political force without monumental form. The body becomes the primary agent of spatial meaning, turning everyday movements into architectural events. Rather than producing objects, architecture is seen as staging encounters and enabling forms of care, dissent, and collective presence. Power is spatialized, but so is resistance—through reappropriations, interruptions, and the cultivation of alternative temporalities and aesthetics. This approach questions disciplinary enclosures and invites a broader understanding of architecture that includes activism, performance, and social practice. The Anthropocene, as a condition of planetary crisis, further underscores the urgency of minor, embodied, and ethically grounded modes of spatial production. Architecture, in this sense, is not the act of building alone but a choreography of life, where space is made through relations and gestures.
