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Forensic Architecture

Violence at the Threshold of Detectability

Zone Books
Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture
  • Forfatter: Eyal (Goldsmiths University of London) Weizman
  • Format: Pocket
  • Antall sider: 376
  • Språk: Engelsk
  • Forlag/Utgiver: SD Books
  • Serienavn: Zone Books
  • EAN: 9781935408871
  • Utgivelsesår: 2019
  • Bidragsyter: Weizman, Eyal (Goldsmiths, University of London)
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In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN.

Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing.

In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group¿s founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this p