global panopticon
I didn’t really cut anything from the presentation included below. So, yeah, there’s a lot of slides. It’s (almost) the entire final presentation. I left it pretty much intact because not only 1) I can never edit my own work, but 2) the project is conceived more as a sci-fi narrative of Beijing and it will hopefully make more sense if read in complete order. And you can always just scroll way down to the end for some sweet images. This was for Ed Keller’s SpeedTerritoryCommunication studio, Spring 2009.
quick project description:
Architecture is a system of control predicated on limitations. This project is a study of the existing control systems in Beijing and a projection of how architecture and technology will merge to change not only prisons, but also the urban environment, the social stratification of society. Also addressed are what confinement and freedom will mean in relation to our relationship with how we build our world.
November 15th, 2009 at 11:37 am
Enjoying your work, thanks.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
Thanks Michael
March 10th, 2010 at 2:40 am
Great work, recently went over Foucault in my architectural theory course. Interesting project!
December 12th, 2010 at 5:35 am
Nice work, but why Beijing do you know this city well? I’m reading this in Beijing by co-incidence but I’ve lived here several times and it seems a strange place to base this kind of project.
December 26th, 2010 at 2:41 pm
Hi Darren, I know Beijing about as well as you can know a city having only spent a week there, which is not very well at all. I placed this project in Beijing mainly because of my research interests into surveillance and privacy and how that played against my own reaction to Tiananmen Square, a lively public place where one can not get bored counting cameras or guessing at who is a plainsclothed policemen.
May 13th, 2011 at 6:57 pm
It’s a very interesting project and solution. I can also see you are a Stanley Kubrick fan. By the way, how did you generate your exponential growth diagrams?
December 7th, 2012 at 4:47 pm
So interesting ! Too brilliant that it took me about 20 minutes to know what it is.
Will you show this in your class?