The Office of Control is a fictional organisation and an art project about the psychology of authoritarianism.

Through training films, commemorative plaques, plans, diagrams and institutional objects, it shows how the ordinary mechanics of architecture, bureaucracy and process become instruments of coercion.

Its premise sits close to the present: economic bifurcation, fragmenting social contracts, and power reverting to extractive norms — administered not by force but through digital media, behavioural economics and automated administration.

At its centre is the Coercion Models Library, an expanding catalogue of the mechanisms that make ordinary people complicit in systems of harm, such as moral licensing, anticipatory compliance and economic apartheid. It shows not that humans are good or evil, but how systems exploit what humans are.