Esta dissertação se propõe a investigar, no campo da arquitetura e urbanismo, os empregos do termo \"utopia\" num período em que este foi especialmente movente e dissensual: o final dos anos 1950 até o início dos anos 1970, no contexto europeu. Elegeu-se, para estudo de caso, as proposições da Internacional Situacionista e do Superstudio. Acompanharemos de forma mais detida os escritos situacionistas desde a fundação do movimento (1957) até cerca de 1961, período em que as discussões do grupo estão voltadas para a arquitetura, o urbanismo e a arte. No caso de Superstudio, priorizaremos a sua produção desde o seu surgimento (dezembro de 1966) até 1973, que é quando o interesse do grupo migra do tema da utopia para o estudo de modos de vida vernaculares e não-urbanos. A eleição destes dois grupos diz respeito à forma bastante distinta com que cada um lida com a questão das utopias, ao mesmo tempo que o lastro marxista comum nos permite traçar uma série de comparações, marcando as suas aproximações e divergências / This dissertation proposes to investigate, in the field of architecture and urbanism, the The term \"utopia\" in a period in which it was especially Dissensual: the late 1950s to the early 1970s in the European context. The case of the Situationist International and the Superstudio. We will more closely follow the situationist writings from the Foundation of the movement (1957) until about 1961, when discussions of the Focus on architecture, urbanism and art. In the case of Superstudio, We will prioritize its production from its inception (December 1966) until 1973, Which is when the interest of the group migrates from the theme of utopia to the study of modes of Vernacular and non-urban life. The election of these two groups concerns the Quite different from what each one deals with the question of utopias, at the same time That the common Marxist ballast allows us to draw a series of comparisons, marking Their approximations and divergences.

Esta dissertação se propõe a investigar, no campo da arquitetura e urbanismo, os empregos do termo \"utopia\" num período em que este foi especialmente movente e dissensual: o final dos anos 1950 até o início dos anos 1970, no contexto europeu. Elegeu-se, para estudo de caso, as proposições da Internacional Situacionista e do Superstudio. Acompanharemos de forma mais detida os escritos situacionistas desde a fundação do movimento (1957) até cerca de 1961, período em que as discussões do grupo estão voltadas para a arquitetura, o urbanismo e a arte. No caso de Superstudio, priorizaremos a sua produção desde o seu surgimento (dezembro de 1966) até 1973, que é quando o interesse do grupo migra do tema da utopia para o estudo de modos de vida vernaculares e não-urbanos. A eleição destes dois grupos diz respeito à forma bastante distinta com que cada um lida com a questão das utopias, ao mesmo tempo que o lastro marxista comum nos permite traçar uma série de comparações, marcando as suas aproximações e divergências / This dissertation proposes to investigate, in the field of architecture and urbanism, the The term \"utopia\" in a period in which it was especially Dissensual: the late 1950s to the early 1970s in the European context. The case of the Situationist International and the Superstudio. We will more closely follow the situationist writings from the Foundation of the movement (1957) until about 1961, when discussions of the Focus on architecture, urbanism and art. In the case of Superstudio, We will prioritize its production from its inception (December 1966) until 1973, Which is when the interest of the group migrates from the theme of utopia to the study of modes of Vernacular and non-urban life. The election of these two groups concerns the Quite different from what each one deals with the question of utopias, at the same time That the common Marxist ballast allows us to draw a series of comparisons, marking Their approximations and divergences.

This study sets out to explore first person theatre as a means of opening the individual to the problems of contemporary capitalism and its increasing pervasion of the personal in an era of embeddedness enabled by networked pervasive technology. Firstly setting out key definitions and a theoretical analysis of the problems of being in the digital age in chapter 1, and then setting this against the history of interaction in performance in chapter 2. The study then goes on (in chapters 3-5) to investigate three key aspects of first person performance as personal-as-political; sound and the city, play and games, and interactive theatre. In the final chapter, The Umbrella Project develops a piece of first person theatre as practice, a method of investigation that is vital to a thesis that discusses politics, late capitalism, and the means to resist the message-sending of private interests as fundamentally only to be understood in practice. For this reason, too, chapters 3, 4 and 5 are supported by key case studies discussing other first person theatre practice. By placing the participant at the centre of the world-constituting process of theatre in the hot space between what is and what if this study suggests that first person theatre is able to open the contemporary individual to an inbetween where they might re-see, reflect and react to what is. To imagine and, if wished, act upon a what if. In an age of the disrupted near and far, the vanishing of the interface, of the false rhetoric of choice of personalisation , and the often false rhetoric of agency at the end of the era of broadcast, first person theatre offers the subject a route to individual agency, an understanding of the urban environment as construct, and to their relationship with the subjective other something which this thesis suggests is a personal-as-political practice to rival the Spectacle of late capitalism.