'our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance, ...we are neither in the amphitheatre, nor on the stage, but in the panoptic machine'
-Michel Foucault

This long-listed entry for the 2003 'East Lancashire Panopticons' competition sought to provide an earnest intervention on the much beloved Coppice hilltop in Peel Park.

Naturally a hilltop provides the perfect panoptic machine without any artifice at all, but what the Coppice does lack is shelter. Our proposal sought to provide a simple enclosure of a timber frame and rammed-earth walls, with a through draught to provide comfort. The view south-west over the town would be diffracted through an open aperture of robust glazed and mirrored fins, to provide a kaleidoscopic spectacle of the town for the shelter's occupants. To provide a reciprocal relationship, robust steel 'pelescopes' were to be sited in adjacent areas allowing residents and incapacitated locals the chance to admire the Coppice from afar.

The winning competition entry for The Coppice was resited to Haslingden after local opposition to its imposition.