A Framework Towards Understanding the Performativity of Products

Products embody possibilities for performativity in everyday actions. These are eliminated the design process to create usage scenarios. But users interpret product use terms of performativity. Product cases discussed borrowed from performance art literature: iterability, referentiality, delegated performance, as a set task-based instructions outsourced other people, allowing construction, enabling improvisation, plurality meanings, collective body, and dependence on time space. The methodology is structured applying these critical (CD) activity-centred (ACD); because while CD bears resemblances with its position subjects design, ACD focuses activities user’s body it performs products. Body-product relations considered process; but potential greater So, can include consideration users’ actions terms.