Student Silvia Helga
StudentReimagining Panopticon as Symbiotic Forest Environment
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Archi-Hack: Panopticon
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Reimagining Panopticon as Symbiotic Forest Environment: Blurring Surveillance Hierarchies
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Name: Silvia Helga
Instagram: @silhelga
Nationality: Indonesia
Institution / Company: Pelita Harapan University
Name: Aurasisilia Mardika Pakpahan
Instagram: @aurasisilia
Nationality: Indonesia
Institution / Company: Pelita Harapan University
Name: Natasha Angelina Wibowo
Instagram: @natashawng
Nationality: Indonesia
Institution / Company: Pelita Harapan University
Name: Ayasha Alethea Vivaldien
Instagram: @ayashalethea
Nationality: Indonesia
Institution / Company: Pelita Harapan University
According to the Panopticon theory, individuals can be influenced even when no one is physically present if they sense continual surveillance. The theory is based on the idea that, even if the inmates couldn’t see the guards, they could all see the central guard tower of a jail. This constant feeling of being watched leads to inmates behaving well, fearing constant scrutiny, which results in isolation, lack of privacy, and high levels of stress.
The panopticon concept is solid but suggests room for improvement reducing the stress experienced by the inmates. Thus, a proposed enhancement expanding the panopticon model into a city-like scale and infusing natural landscape and elements and transform them into a forest environment. This reimagining aims and allows inmates to do their daily activities freely, engage in social interactions and experience just a diminished sense of constant surveillance. Despite this enlargement, the watchtower in the middle remains, allowing the guards still could observe by binoculars and they also could have direct interactions with the inmates. This revised concept of panopticon promises a vibrant and more liberating compared to the surrounding context. In the end, the interaction between inmates and guards blends and blurs the hierarchies of surveillance.
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