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1. your ability to select develop and evaluate a range of appropriate source material
gathered through a breadth of appropriate research methods

2. the level of investigation and experimentation into appropriate production media,
processes and technologies.

3. the breadth and quality of practical skills, ideas and design development.

4. the documentation, organisation and presentation of your work for this module.

5. the success of your final products in relation to the briefs.

Panopticism exercise.

The modern example that I am going to base my study on is the Blenheim Walk lecture theatre.

I consider the lecture theatre to be a good example of modern day panopticism because of it’s open plan layout. It is laid out in tiers getting higher towards the back to allow the audience to be able to see everything properly, but at the same time it allows the lecturer, in our case the tutor, to be able to see everybody clearly all at once. In the words of Foucault,

“The gaze is alert everywhere.” (Panopticism, M. Foucault, pg-76)

This is true within this example because of the tiered seating system, the lecturer is able to see exactly what everyone is doing, and can therefore reprimand anybody who he deems to be not paying attention.

In the lecture theatre, everybody is required to register,

“answering to his name and showing himself when asked” (Panopticism, M. Foucault, pg-77)

And those who do no register their names to clarify their presence suffer for it later by way of their attendance records.

Under the lecturers supervision and the fear of being caught doing wrong and being pulled up on it in front of the entire class, the student strives to be productive, taking it upon themselves to not get distracted.

“So it is not necessary to use force to constrain the convict to good behaviour, the madman to calm, the worker to work, the schoolboy to application, the patient to the observation of the regulations.” (Panoticism, M. Foucault, pg-83.)

The lighting used in the lecture theatre is a good example of Foucault’s theory of,

“Visibility is a trap” (Panopticism, M. Foucault, pg-80)

Because the way that it is lit keeps the audience in full view, whereas the front of the lecture theatre I darker, one to allow the projection to be unaffected by the lighting, and two to keep the lecturer in a darker area so that,

“the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment” (Panopticism, M. Foucault, pg-82)
Or in our case, the audience can never be entirely sure when they are being observed by the tutor.

FOR THE LULZ. What an idiot.