Plan Unplan

'Plan Unplan' was a project organised by Outside Architecture (Bernice Donszelmann, Mary Maclean and Tim Renshaw). It was comprised of an exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery and a related live event, 'Incandescent' at the Grand Square of Greenwich University’s Royal Naval College. The artists involved were Matt Calderwood
Henry Coleman, Bernice Donszelmann, Clare Goodwin, Lucy Gunning, Vanessa Jackson, Frank Kent, Mary Maclean, Tim Renshaw, Helen Robertson.

The project took as its starting point the idea that, from a social perspective, an architecture (in the broadest sense of the word) that does not possess the potential to ‘un-plan’ itself will be experienced as static and predictable; and alternatively, spaces that do deviate from a plan carry the potential to have productive effects on experience, stimulating new forms of sensing relations in space. Each work that formed part of the project possessed its own internal and organised rigour. How these organised systems might come to change or transform was the subject of the exhibition. Thus, the exhibition itself was conceived as an experiment in the sense that the activation of the 'unplanned' was contingent on a kind of choreographing between the individual parts. The focus was on the user’s/beholder’s/constructor’s movement in and with a space; the concern being with the different ways a structured space invites or allows for its modification and some form of excess beyond the original plan. Rather than regarding un-planning as being in opposition to the plan, their interdependence was explored.

• http://www.greenwichunigalleries.co.uk/p...
• http://www.outsidearchitecture.org/?page...