Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth [electronic resource].

Forensic Architecture Sternberg Press 2014

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Forensics originated from the term “forensis” which is Latin for “pertaining to the forum.” The Roman forum was a multidimensional space of negotiation and truth-finding in which humans as well as objects participated in politics, law, and the economy. With the advent of modernity, forensics shifted to refer exclusively to the courts of law and to the use of medicine, and today as a science in service to the law. The present use of forensics, along with its popular representations have become increasingly central to the modes by which states police and govern their subjects. By returning to forensis this book seeks to unlock forensics’ original potential as a political practice and reorient it. Inverting the direction of the forensic gaze it designates a field of action in which individuals and organizations detect and confront state violations. The condition of forensis is one in which new technologies for mediating the “testimony” of material objects—bones, ruins, toxic substances, landscapes, and the contemporary medias in which they are captured and represented—are mobilized in order to engage with struggles for justice, systemic violence, and environmental transformations across the frontiers of contemporary conflict.
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Space (Architecture)
Geopolitics
Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc.
Remote-sensing images
Violence
War
Military art and science

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Forensic Architecture
Eyal Weizman
Susan Schuppli
Shela Sheikh
Francesco Sebregondi
Thomas Keenan
Anselm Franke
Lawrence Abu Hamdan
Nabil Ahmed
Maayan Amir
Hisham Ashkar
Ryan Bishop
Jacob Burns
Howard Caygill
Gabriel Cuéllar
DAAR
Eitan Diamond
Emily Dische-Becker
Grupa Spomenik
Ayesha Hameed
Charles Heller
Helene Kazan
Steffen Krämer
Adrian Lahoud
Armin Linke
Jonathan Littell
Modelling Kivalina
Model Court
Gerald Nestler
Robert Jan van Pelt
Godofredo Pereira
Nicola Perugini
Alessandro Petti
Lorenzo Pezzani
Cesare P. R. Romano
Michael Sfard
SITU Research
Caroline Sturdy Colls
John Palmesino
Ann-Sofi Rönnskog
Territorial Agency
Paulo Tavares
Füsun Türetken
Srdjan Jovanovic Weiss
NAO
Ines Weizman
Chris Woods
Working Group Four Faces of Omarska
James Burton
ZAK Group