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Plan B is defined as a backup solution when our original plan fails. It comes into play when something unpredictable occurs, forcing us to re-evaluate and react in a new way. Plan B is preceded by a state of crisis, which generates new solutions responding to both the causes and potential consequences of that crisis. It is thus a reaction to the failure of an original plan.
Although the word 'crisis' is burdened with pessimism today, its meanings in various languages are far from purely negative. In Sanskrit, crisis (kri, kir) means to remove, purify, illuminate, or clarify. In Italian, it is linked to the gradual removal of dross through burning—a process of purging the false to reveal the true. In Greek, krisis or krinein refers to a court's judgment, a criterion for determining what is good or unjust, but also implies the power of decision, choice, solution, and explanation. In Latin, it denotes a pathological turning point in an illness leading toward recovery. The Chinese pictogram for crisis, famously, is composed of two characters: one representing danger (or a turning point) and the other opportunity.
Crisis can therefore be perceived as a challenge, a chance for change, re-evaluation, understanding, and self-awareness—a space to seize an opportunity. It may stem from uncertainty, lack, or a sudden shift in circumstances, ranging from personal events to the current global social situation where established fixtures are vanishing.
Plan B thus becomes a method for this semester's project. The task is to create a product, object, or project (which need not be material—it could be a manual or a service) for a sales exhibition planned for a Vienna gallery in February 2021. Plan B opens up numerous connotations—from pragmatic reactions to spatial or technological constraints to complex reflections on solutions based on individual experience or a societal level.
List of Students: Adriána Adamová, Viktória Arvayová, Kristína Dzuričková, Peter Leja, Juraj Olejár, Diana Paulová, Kristína Vavrová, Erik Vrábel, Viktor Tabiš,
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