Join us for a 2-hour online event where performance designers, scholars, and practitioners share early ideas, insights, and fragments of research. This is a space to explore emergent ideas for discussion and feedback.

Hosted by PSi Performance+Design Working Group

PSi Performance+Design Working Group is a global network of artists, designers, architects and theorists focusing on interdisciplinary design performativity in all its creative and discursive machinations.

The working group undertakes research into connections between performance, performance studies and design through embodied praxis of performing design and designing performance, and through discussions and writing, exploring theoretical underpinnings of this interdisciplinary realm of practice, methodologies for inquiry, generative processes and practices, questions of agency through designing and performing, and critical analysis and reflection upon the doing and the thing done.

Contact: psiperformancedesign@gmail.com

Dorita Hannah

Dorita Hannah is an independent artist and designer-academic working across spatial, performing, and visual arts. She collaborates with communities and organisations to shape cultural environments, while also co-conceiving, curating, and creating events, installations, exhibitions, objects, and public interventions.
With over 25 years of experience teaching architecture, art, and design, Hannah has developed and launched new academic programmes, including Interior Design, Spatial Design, and Performance Design. Her leadership spans several international initiatives, including roles as Research Curator for World Stage Design, Theory Curator for the Prague Quadrennial, Co-Curator for FLUID STATES, and Design Director for PhoneHome in Chile’s Architecture Biennale.

https://doritahannah.academia.edu/

David Shearing

David Shearing is a multi-award-winning artist and placemaking specialist working with immersive multimedia and community-focused art. His installations, often using video, sound, and natural materials, explore how audiences engage with space and experience. He is the founder of Variable Matter and Senior Lecturer in Design-led Experience and Placemaking at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Holding a PhD from the University of Leeds, David’s notable works include New Beginning (2023), The Rising Sun (2022), and Black Rock (2017). He also served on cultural strategy projects, including Havering’s London Borough of Culture bid and its 2025–2028 strategy, A Good Life.

www.davidshearing.com
www.variablematter.com
https://www.cssd.ac.uk/staff-profiles/dr-david-shearing