När rummen råder
En studie om skolan som disciplinerande rum
This study titled When the spaces dominate A study of the school as disciplinary rooms is a study where the emphasis is on quality and where the results are based on observations. The purpose of the research was to analyse rooms and other artefacts in the school as seen from Foucault?s analysis of power. He emphasised that power is expressed in human relationships. To understand how that power is used one can study the techniques adopted and resistance offered. We have studied two types of schools, firstly schools with n open architecture and secondly schools with a more confined architecture. In those schools, where there is an open architecture, there is a less visible disciplinary control than in those schools where the architecture is more confined. By rendering the techniques of power invisible you obtain a feeling of freedom while the disciplinary responsibility lies with he individual. That how looks and open and freely are in fact more controlled than the visible control.