Theatricality is an inherent part of the human psyche. The city may be envisioned as a spectacular performance space, shaping our participatory interactions with objects and subjects claiming the relational nature of mankind. What is the origin of theatricality? what is the relation between the observer and the observed?

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The following thesis research exposes an architectural disruption to the manifestation of hierarchical dynamics of power dictating the relational participation of people and the built context. The Theatrical Catalyzer is, rather, 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 performance of the age. It argues that architecture can enact the cultural performance of the age through the reorientation of power relations to fulfill and determine the relational participation of individuals and communities, enabling the indefinite transformation of the social and physical fabric of the built environment.