Control Room and the Controlled Environment (2019) names the typology that organises the present. The Control Room is the room of the 21st century: a space that operates through a ubiquitous sensory apparatus installed across the ground and far above it, feeding everything it gathers into a single computational system. The issue refuses to treat this as architecture in the conventional sense; it treats the Control Room as the abstracted space from which the world is now watched, modelled, and adjusted in real time. What follows is the controlled environment — a regime in which inhabitation has been replaced by monitoring as the basic spatial relation, and the difference between a room and the world it tracks begins to dissolve. It is the figure through which Silicity Protocols first names the operative space from which the new world is governed.

Edited by: Aleksandr Delev