The Berlin and the Cretan issues of KAM workshops 2012 examine the conditions of police and prison as major references of architecture today.
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The model of the human processing mechanism by Rasmussen (1980)
source: Ivergård, Toni, and Brian Hunts. Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future (London: Taylor & Francis, 2009), 31.
Prisoner’s dilemma (Games theory): Tanya and Cinque have been arrested for robbing the Hibernia Savings Bank and placed in separate isolation cells. Both care much more about their personal freedom than about the welfare of their accomplice. A clever prosecutor makes the following offer to each. “You may choose to confess or remain silent. If you confess and your accomplice remains silent I will drop all charges against you and use your testimony to ensure that your accomplice does serious time. Likewise, if your accomplice confesses while you remain silent, they will go free while you do the time. If you both confess I get two convictions, but I’ll see to it that you both get early parole. If you both remain silent, I’ll have to settle for token sentences on firearms possession charges. If you wish to confess, you must leave a note with the jailer before my return tomorrow morning.”
The human component integrated into the man-machine system as the model for the fundamental operation of control rooms.
From F.V. Taylor Psychology and the Design of Machines, in 1957
Dymaxion car is a concept car designed by architect Buckminster Fuller in 1933. The word Dymaxion (dynamic, maximum, ion) is a brand name that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered them part of a more general project to improve humanity’s living conditions.
The ‘penal farm’ in Chania
The institution of penal farms or Agricultural prisons (in greek: Αγροτικές φυλακές) was introduced in Greece in 1911. The first of these prisons began to operate in 1925 for prisoners that exhibited “a good behaviour” and they had already completed 5/6 of their punishment, or for prisoners who could not stay in solitary confinement “due to health problems” (Eleftheria, 9 Oct 1911 p.3). Continuing the logic of penal colonies, the convicts where put to work inside the prison’s facilities or in fields and animal farms outside the main building. The goods produced were used to not only to cover the prison’s own needs; but also provided for other prisons or state-public facilities (hospitals etc). Understood as productive units, the prisons became correctional facilities which entrusted the prisoners with a larger degree of mobility (compared to the solitary types of confinement) exchanging lesser confinement and lower security measures with manual labor.
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Room Exercises
source: Die Zimmergymnastik
It is rather the whole economy - for example the workshop or the factory - which these mechanisms of power presuppose as they already act from within on bodies and souls, as they already act inside the economic field on the forces and relations of production
Gilles Deleuze, Foucault (Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1986), 26, 27, 29, 38
A collection of hundreds of books and other texts from across the world written under conditions of enforced incarceration. Through the collection of texts an archipelago of prison cells emerges. The cells are thus revealed as sites of intellectual production, marking the limit condition of writing. Paradoxically, imprisonment emerges as an active practice of citizenship a mechanism of political opposition that call for a confrontation or intolerance with certain forms of government.
Sensorama Simulator, by M.L.Heilig
The Sensorama Machine was invented in 1957 and patented in 1962. It is a simulator for one to four people that provides the illusion of reality using a 3-D motion picture with smell, stereo sound, vibrations of the seat, and wind in the hair to create the illusion.
The office space could be conceived as an isolated paradise: an idiosyncratic cockpit viewing the world. whitehotel: Lynne Cohen, Corporate office (1976)
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