SURVEILLER ET DIVERTIR _ Discipline and entertain

This project puts forward some of the implications linked with the dawning of a new paradigm of control, in which the relation between building and institution changes radically from the former Foucaldian model of disciplinary institutions. The project adopts Telecare as a case study, and it interprets it as an open surface of connection, as a fluid system that maintains stability of form through change. By proposing an implementation of Telecare, the project suggests a new, functionally indeterminate kind of building, in which the control of “collectives of information” is made possible and somehow negotiable by the overlaying of associated virtual institutions.