2010	The Plan is a list of things that will fail Uncovering potential in the problems of Chisinau’s environment
	In the book East Coast Europe, Berlin based archi­tect and writer Markus Miessen notices that aside from eco­nom­i­cal and polit­i­cal dif­fer­ences, Europe is still divided by the sym­bolic border of pos­si­bil­i­ties. In fact the more one moves East – the more is pos­si­ble. At a time when Moldova is one of the strongest new can­di­dates for mem­ber­ship of the EU, the research and work­shop will focus on the alter­plans, altero­topias (places built and shared with others), and the poten­tial hidden within such prob­lems as polit­i­cal insta­bil­ity, derelict indus­trial zones or even the dom­i­nance of cars. If appar­ently ‘suc­cess­ful’ mas­ter­plans con­sume a place’s poten­tial, is it the mis­takes that create new pos­si­bil­i­ties? How can the fail­ure of one plan open the door for unimag­ined alter­na­tives? We will look for errors, cracks, and loop­holes in Chisinau’s built envi­ron­ment, and inves­ti­gate their sub­ver­sive and per­for­ma­tive poten­tial. We would like to col­lect your sug­ges­tions and obser­va­tions on the poten­tial­ity of the fail­ures, bad plans, and incor­rect deci­sions - having a look at Chisinau as a place where two wrongs might actu­ally make a right. The work­shop is open for archi­tects, artists and anyone con­cerned with the city	Joanna Warsza (PL) & Finn Williams (UK) Research, public presentations and workshops on things that go wrong 3-11 December 2010, CHIOSC / Chisinau / Moldova on the invitation of Vladimir US / Oberliht and The Polish Institut Bucarest