**[Learn more and view panopticon animation. ](https://www.myleszhang.org/2019/11/11/jeremy-bentham-panopticon-animation/)** **[Contact author about source files.](https://www.myleszhang.org/contact-form/)** Model is not sold for profit. The panopticon is a type of institutional building and a system of control designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham around 1785. The design allows all prisoners to be observed by a single security guard, without the inmates knowing whether they are being watched. Creative Commons image credit: Bentham MS Box 119a 121, UCL Special Collections