The founding director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, on scrutinising spaces and landscapes to throw light on state lies, deception and miscarriages of justice. This article originally appeared in the August 2022, Design for a Better World issu...
The founding director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, on scrutinising spaces and landscapes to throw light on state lies, deception and miscarriages of justice.issue of Wallpaper*
Forensic Architecture is based at Goldsmiths College in London, within the Centre for Research Architecture founded by Weizman in 2005. In recent years, the studio has received increasing recognition for its output. Weizman was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 2019, received an MBE in 2020, and the Design Innovation Medal in 2021.
A 1:1 architectural model of the Kassel internet café where Halit Yozgat was murdered in 2006 sits below a screen showing a timeline of activity of all those present in the café at the time of the attack Above and four images below, Forensic Architecture’s ongoing collaboration with Ukrainian group Center for Spatial Technologies includes an investigation into the Russian bombing of the Kyiv TV tower in March 2022, close to the site of one of the worst massacres of the Holocaust
Intervention exhibitions are more targeted, seeking to place research close to the scene of a specific crime as a process of generating awareness and discussion within a local audience in ways maybe traditional journalism cannot. An intervention exhibition currently showing at the Frankfurter Kunstverein focuses on racially motivated murders involving German state authorities, including a 2020 attack in Hanau, just 20km from Frankfurt.
‘The idea of modelling the smell cloud was a question – could you really miss walking through this sensorial moment?’ Varvia asks rhetorically, in explanation of why smell was a critical if invisible spatial component. The experiences of sound, smell and hearing, and how they can change understanding, are a recurring component of Forensic Architecture’s work.
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