On The Search for a More Sustainable Stage – Mapping the Perspectives of a Performance Designer

This article outlines the concept of performance design, dealing with the transformative work of performance designers and exploring it through contemporary concepts and artistic means. The article considers where the performance designer has an updated place in the geography of performing arts, what kind of encounters the designer experiences, and what kind of socio-cultural adaptation and learning the work may require and offer. The article discusses the topic with the photographs from the author’s site-sensitive memos and proposes an alternative method of performance design.