President of Progress Design (1)

Panopticon Prison

“The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe all prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the “sentiment of an invisible omniscience.”

“Bentham himself described the Panopticon as “a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.”