Is Your Office Designed to Control You? [The 'Severance' Effect]

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Synopsis

Severance Architecture: Reality or Fiction?

In Severance, Lumon Industries’ eerie, minimalist offices are designed to sever employees from their identities—both literally and architecturally. My video explores how corporate office design has long been a tool of control, tracing its roots to figures like Frederick Taylor, who pioneered “scientific management” to maximize efficiency, and Robert Propst, whose “Action Office” was meant to free workers but was distorted into cubicle farms. We examine how buildings like Eero Saarinen’s John Deere HQ and the Bell Labs complex shaped the sterile corporate aesthetic, while real-life disasters like the Waterside Mall’s Sick Building Syndrome revealed the dangers of hyper-controlled workspaces. Drawing parallels to The Backrooms, liminal space, and memory palaces, I break down how Severance turns office life into psychological horror. Ultimately, the video asks: Where does your job end and your identity begin? And how can we design workplaces that respect humans, not just efficiency?

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#WatersideMall
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#SickBuildingSyndrome
#ScientificManagement
#ActionOffice
#Bürolandschaft
#MemoryPalace
#LiminalSpace
#TheBackrooms