Prison Design Panopticon
The east wing of kilmainham gaol opened in 1864, and 'was enthusiastically received with its 'panoptic design'. An expression of power and a symbol of surveillance, the panopticon is a notorious architectural concept intended as a disciplinary mechanism. This chapter discusses the final failure of jeremy bentham's proposed construction of the panopticon prison.
RealLife Panopticons Deserted Dystopian Prisons in Cuba Urbanist
It was designed as a circular building with prisoners’ cells arranged around the outer wall and dominated by. Bentham's panopticon penitentiary is a project full of contradiction and ambiguity; The panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad:
Bentham’s panopticon was imagined as the ‘ideal’ prison;
For the controllers, at least. The ‘panopticon’ is a key emblematic concept in management and organization studies (mos) that has long fuelled scholarly conversations. Bentham argued that prisons should use an ingenious system of surveillance to encourage inmates to reform their behaviour. Prison design is a controversial topic in the field of architecture. Though jeremy bentham is credited as the inventor of the infamous panopticon prison. Michel foucault begins here with a discussion of bentham’s prison design, the panopticon, then moves from architecture into the realm of social theory and dynamics of control. In 1803, prime minister henry addington refused to fund the building. An institutional building proposed by bentham allowing constant surveillance of inmates.









