On Forensic Architecture: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman

Author:

Bois Yve-Alain,Feher Michel1,Foster Hal,Weizman Eyal2

Affiliation:

1. 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,...

2. 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...

Abstract

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.

Publisher

MIT Press - Journals

Subject

Literature and Literary Theory,Music,Visual Arts and Performing Arts

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