The Watched Field

The Berlin and the Cretan issues of KAM workshops 2012 examine the conditions of police and prison as major references of architecture today.

  The Control Room serves as an important architectural precedent for the structure of surveillance. Based on the foucaultian concept of Panopticon, it also represents a growing stable cockpit, where from a handler can organize remote sovereignty over an observed field. The more a Control Room gets big and sophisticated, the more sovereignty over the watched field becomes complex and unpersonalized. Automatic control protocols substitute “immediate” observation. The ideal Control Room is an emptied space where the only human presence needed concerns technical reparations or treatment of malfunctions. A.A. [photo via amazing future]

The Control Room serves as an important architectural precedent for the structure of surveillance. Based on the foucaultian concept of Panopticon, it also represents a growing stable cockpit, where from a handler can organize remote sovereignty over an observed field. The more a Control Room gets big and sophisticated, the more sovereignty over the watched field becomes complex and unpersonalized. Automatic control protocols substitute “immediate” observation. The ideal Control Room is an emptied space where the only human presence needed concerns technical reparations or treatment of malfunctions. A.A. [photo via amazing future]

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