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 decision ladder model by Rasmussen (1980) as a sequence of control room’s operator mental activities, supposes a controlled field of repeating operations
source: Ivergård, Toni, and Brian Hunts. Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future (London: Taylor & Francis, 2009), 33.
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.”
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.
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.
