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.

  A prison has to be before anything else a system of archiving. Its archive would firstly be the necessary diary of punishment. 

A prison has to be before anything else a system of archiving. Its archive would firstly be the necessary diary of punishment. 

(Source: andren)

  Milwaukee Police

Milwaukee Police

  The office space could be conceived as an isolated paradise: an idiosyncratic cockpit viewing the world.  whitehotel: Lynne Cohen, Corporate office (1976)

The office space could be conceived as an isolated paradise: an idiosyncratic cockpit viewing the world.  whitehotel: Lynne Cohen, Corporate office (1976)

(via floresenelatico)

  A super market could be the nowadays paradigm of a controlled area, the watched field par excellence in-ataxia: capitalism in crisis

A super market could be the nowadays paradigm of a controlled area, the watched field par excellence in-ataxia: capitalism in crisis

(Source: logarchitecture)

  In Berlin’s issue the concept of “gamification” is linked to the cultures of control. A video game strategy and its architectures form an approach to “systems of watching” (screenshot from Black Mirror 3).

In Berlin’s issue the concept of “gamification” is linked to the cultures of control. A video game strategy and its architectures form an approach to “systems of watching” (screenshot from Black Mirror 3).

Observation in the dark

  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]