Yr 4: The Theatre of Mistakes All of Pask’s ‘performances’, including the interactive mechanical performance that was created for the Cybernetics Serendipity Exhibition in 1968, were based on consequential logical systems. The same approach was adopted by the ‘Theatre of Mistakes’ (Michael Greenhall, Anthony Howell, Glenys Johnson, Peter Stickland and Fiona Templeton). This was the title for the Yr 4 building study on the site of Pollock’s Toy Museum in Fitzrovia. Yr 4 students then undertook further design exercises to help identify individual areas of interest in preparation for Yr 5.
Top: David Gouldstone and Kieran Hawkins, The existing building is demolished so that a radical debating club can be built to celebrate the long-standing tradition of dissent and pamphleteering in the area. Two differently distinct circulations both separate and unite debaters and the visiting public. Bottom: Thomas Evans and Nick Westby, The site is developed to become a highly interactive and competitive karaoke club. Extreme mechanisms expose successful singers to the occupants of the building as a whole, who occupy the surrounding bars and gathering spaces.