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Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons? (M.Foucault, Discipline and Punish) For Disciplined Spaces, I revisited the three schools I attended during my formative years, between the ages of seven and 19. Whilst approaching the architecture as autobiography, I also analyse and explore the psychology of these buildings in regards to more universal concerns, therefore allowing the viewer to directly engage with the work and to evoke common histories. The photographs reference a universal template of education, childhood and adolescence. At the same time, they underscore the ideologies of discipline that pervade even the most liberal of educations. The absence of people from the images underlines the ambiguity and placelessness of the institutions, their architectural features being characteristic of spaces in which individuals are assessed and controlled. Yet rather than acting as literal portrayals of the architecture, the photographs make these qualities function in a metaphorical way and raise questions about the level in which our everyday surroundings have an impact on our actions and behaviour.disciplined_spaces_menu.html

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Disciplined Spaces