Plan Unplan (Outside Architecture Projects)
- Submitting institution
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The University of Reading
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- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : A - Art
- Output identifier
- 85641
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Creative body of enquiry
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2018
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Plan/Unplan was a research project undertaken the curatorial group Outside Architecture founded by Tim Renshaw Bernice Donszelmann and Mary Maclean. It comprised an exhibition at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich in 2017 and a symposium paper at the Royal Academy in 2018. The exhibition addressed the central proposition that ‘from a social perspective an architecture 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.’
The research inquiry was conducted through the curation of rigorously structured, geometric art works and the research method developed through the installation process itself. Through choreographing the relations between individual artworks and the architecture of the exhibition space itself we identified two levels of spatial ‘unplanning’: 1) through the ways latent and unintended formal structures can be activated when brought into relation with another art work’ 2) through specific placements that allow the viewer to choreograph relations and activate unintended potentials in a work. In the paper presented at the Experiencing Architecture symposium organized as part of the Architecture Program at the Royal Academy we produced a narrative explication of the exhibition’s premise around ‘unplanning’ through issues of agency and indeterminacy.
As a result of this project myself and Bernice Donszelmann were commissioned to curate the exhibition Mary Maclean: What is seen, What is Shown (2018/19) at the Royal Academy. In 2020 Outside Architecture were invited to present a paper at a symposium that coincided with the exhibition Phase IV: Intersections- Art/Architecture (2020) curated by Benet Spenser and David Ryan (Anglia Ruskin University) at the University of Greenwich. Our paper discussed Plan/Unplan and its influences on our subsequent curatorial projects.
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- Non-English
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