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

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.