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Panopticon: A Privacy Revelation, Kexin Wang, Zhexu Yang
Panopticon: A Privacy Revelation, Kexin Wang, Zhexu Yang
Architecture Thesis Prep
Our thesis project studies and analyzes the control of Surveillance Capitalism over people’s privacy, and how to make people realize the importance of privacy through the means of an architectural/design narrative. This concept comes from Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, which explains how tech companies collect extra data, capture people’s behavioral surplus and sell them to third party customers, such as advertising companies, thus the predictions about people’s preferences accordingly. In this process, technology companies can make tremendous profit by stealing users’ personal information and then …
The Regional Exchange: From Main Street To Shopping Mall To App Info-Structure, Christoper R. Depalma
The Regional Exchange: From Main Street To Shopping Mall To App Info-Structure, Christoper R. Depalma
Architecture Senior Theses
The current switch that has now made the shopping center model vulnerable to yet another evolution is the smartphone, which, since its introduction has become an essential component to American lifestyle even more quickly than the car, changing the way in which people engage in both social and commercial activity. Unlike their response to the automobile switch, if architects can recognize and accept the smartphone as a evolutionary tool, then they can take a center role in designing the next major regional exchange. This new social and commercial regional spatial organizer is still desired to be a physical place, however …