This drawing uses the "Stop Watching Us" protest as a foundation, employing architectural language to explore the oppressive nature of surveillance. Through mapping techniques, I construct a layered three-dimensional space to expose the complexity and secrecy of surveillance systems. Interdisciplinary concepts are used to express the individual’s conflict and unease under surveillance with oppressive spatial qualities and symbolic details.
The project critiques future digital social control, where intelligent systems deeply integrate with humanity. As autonomy fades, floating and staggered spaces disrupt cohesion, symbolizing a monitored society’s erosion of freedom.
In the spirit of reconciliation Monash University acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.
