ISOLATION

In a society where we have become the panopticon, where we are recording our every interaction, all trust has been lost. People no longer feel that their secrets will be kept, that their stories will stay sacred and that their lives will stay their own. Combined with technology that reduces human interaction through every day tasks, physical and eye contact become an invasion of privacy, people have become faceless shapes and the built environment has become an empty outline. We have become isolated.

I AM NOT A NUMBER...

PROJECT 2.2 FIRST DRAFT

THE PANOPITCON

Playing with the idea of surveillance, one of the references that I was given was Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon.  A concept where the warden in the tower can look into the surrounding cells without being seen, creating an unknown for the inmate on whether they are being watched or not.

WALKER AND GOOGLER ROUTES

I decided to analyse the site through the walker and the googler, taking into consideration the areas that the googler cannot see.

The Googler

The Walker

SITE AND SURROUNDING AREA

The following sheets analyse the area of surrounding the Spitalfields and Banglatown area, through a number of photographs.  The third image analyses the wider area in terms of the intensity in the number of cctv cameras in the area.  As you progress east across the area, the number of cameras decrease, along with the standard of living. 

GOOGLE MAPS LIVE 2020???

Taking into account the development of surveillance in the city by 2020, Google Maps is now a program that is able to run a live-feed.  This allows the Googler to view the area within 'real-time'. Although they are still being presented with a digital image and digital mapping of the area, they are now seeing what happens in that space at the exact time it occurs, which essentially includes the vector of time.  Will the boundaries of digital and 'real' mapping of our cities always be so blurred? Will there be any point in the future where there is a direct and obvious moment when the digital becomes the real or the real becomes the digital?