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Introducing Season 3: On Violence, Crime, Justice
Architecture Off-Centre
English - February 17, 2022 07:07 - 5 minutes - 7.07 MB - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsDesign Arts Science Social Sciences architecture cityplanning design landscape politics urbandesign Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon got me thinking about the function of design in exercising power and control in society – even though rotundas preceded the panopticon and contemporary prisons have since evolved into newer typologies. I dug deeper and immersed myself in the vast pool of knowledge existing around the themes of violence, punishment, surveillance and crime – awkwardly jumping from Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish to Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. While I came out enlightened at the end of these books, I was left wondering what the current discourses in architecture are, when it comes to addressing these themes.
Season 3 of Architecture Off-Centre positions itself as a provocation to examine the relationship of architecture with violence, crime and justice through conversations with historians, writers, lawyers, artists, forensic psychologists and, of course, architects.