On Forensic Architecture

A Conversation with Eyal Weizman

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ID4757623
AuthorsYve-Alain Bois, Michel Feher (MICHEL FEHER is a philosopher and a founding editor of Zone, Books, NY (in 1986), as well as the president and cofounder, of Cette France-là, Paris (in 2008), a monitoring, group on French immigration policy. He is the author of, Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community, (2000) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007), with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee. Most recently, he, co-edited “Europe at a Crossroads,” the pilot issue of Near, Futures Online, with William Callison,...), Hal Foster, Jacob Lund (0000-0003-4772-8755, Centre for Investigative Journalism), Eyal Weizman (EYAL WEIZMAN, an architect, is Professor of Spatial and Visual, Cultures and Director of the Centre for Research, Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since, 2014, he has been a Global Professor at Princeton, University, and as of this year he is one of the directors of, the Centre for Investigative Journalism. In 2010 he set up, the research agency Forensic Architecture (FA), the subject, of a forthcoming book, “Forensic Architecture: Violence at, the Threshold of Detectability” (Zone Books...)
Year2016
Volume156
Pages116-140
Publication date2016-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueOctober (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0162-2870 • E-ISSN: 1536-013X
PublisherMIT Press - Journals (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1162/octo_a_00254
OpenAlexW2413308645
LanguageEN
Citations received11
References cited1

Yve-Alain Bois, Michel Feher, Hal Foster, and Eyal Weizman discuss "forensic architecture," the practice of treating common elements of our built environment as entry points through which to interrogate the present. Forensic Architecture is also the name of a research agency established by Weizman to undertake independent investigations in the context of armed conflicts, political struggles, and environmental transformation. Participants discuss cases in which the agency acts on commissions from international prosecutors, investigative journalists, the United Nations, human rights organizations, and environmental-justice and media groups. The discussion of this practice is illustrated by brief examples taken from recent investigations in places such as Pakistan, the former Yugoslavia, Gaza, Syria, and Guatemala

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