watchtower

Among the districts of Berlin Berlin-Kreuzberg was the first to get a watchtower to observe his inhabitants at a central place, the Kottbusser Tor. The tower was built by Martin Kaltwasser, a Berlin artist and architect. His installation “Watchtower” reacted to plans proposing the surveillance and control of public space favored by several Berliner politicians. The tower symbolized an evident, well-known and well-established mode of observation. This is why we chose this place to start our inquiry into surveillance systems.

We decided to use the watchtower according to its potential for one day.

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