Surveillance has a long history of architecture and society. In the course of history and modernity, as a rule, the monitoring process, a symbol of power has been used. Recently it was used to ensure or to show the attempt, the security in urban areas. This has increased the complexity of the topic and expanded the scope. Power, control, sex, fear and suspicion are woven into the surveillance zone. As the monitoring tools used in architecture and the urban environment? What are the consequences and implications for the future?
Transparency, accountability and the first architecture, with the rise of the Panopticon of Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th Century met. The panopticon was a prison, could see where a minimum number of guards designed all prisoners. The cells are in prison perimeter patrols, creating a strong background lighting of the prisoners. The center of the round was hidden, the prison guard tower, the guards inside. In this configuration, it was for the guards to see exactly what the prisoners were always simple. However, there was more to the prison cells. Because the guards could not be seen, had to accept the prisoners that they have observed. So, as Hille Koskela says in “The look, without eyes: video-surveillance and the changing nature of” urban area “, while the Panopticon allegedly trapped in the body, it is actually meant for the psyche: in this mechanism of “the soul is the prison of the body.” “It’s interesting because Koskela argues that monitoring is not only a moving body control in space, but also affects the esprit de corps. constantly consulted by a power unseen and unknown to a trial, the social norms is likely to follow. The spirit and soul are forced to behave the body in an acceptable manner. While the body locked up, the soul is. Michel Foucault suffers adds: “The visibility is a trap. It is this view that modern society, its control of power and knowledge practices.” Like the panopticon, see the visibility of the body, but deals change in the mind. Visibility is forcing people to social norms, to meet the requirements set by the Government.
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