Theatrical Catalyzer: A Relational Participatory Architecture

The following study claims an architectural disruption to the current manifestation of the hierarchical dynamics of political, social, and cultural power dictating the relational participation of people within the built context. A Theatrical Catalyzer is proposed as a collection of reactive methods to provision the stages required to rehabilitate the relational performance of the city and challenge the prescribed ingestion of the socio-economic and political conventions of the age. This thesis argues that architecture has the ability to re-orient the cultural performance by empowering people to take charge of fulfilling and determining the power relations. The relational participation of individuals and communities facilitates the indefinite transformation of the socio-cultural and physical fabric of the built environment.