Eyal Weizman
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Eyal Weizman is the Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.
He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability.
In 2019, he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020, he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of The Right Livelihood Award, a Peabody Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture, and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.
Eyal graduated with a degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in 1998, and received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.
- investigations
- The Massacre of Aid Workers in Tel al-Sultan
- Three Days at Al-Azhar University: 28-30 January 2024
- The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation
- The Environmental Continuum of Genocide in Namibia
- Return to al-Ma'in
- The Massacre at Tur Al-Zagh: Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
- Israel's Destruction of the Port of Gaza
- The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design
- A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023
- 'When it Stopped Being a War': The Situated Testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Swakopmund
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Shark Island
- The Killing of Hind Rajab
- The Grenfell Tower Fire: Situated Testimonies
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: The Hornkranz Massacre
- German Arms Exports to Israel
- ‘No traces of life’: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024
- Humanitarian Violence in Gaza
- Israeli Disinformation: al-Ahli Hospital
- Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea
- Destruction of Medical Infrastructure in Gaza
- The Killing of Dilan Cruz
- The Pylos Shipwreck
- Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948
- The Nebelivka Hypothesis
- 'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland
- A City Within a Building: The Mariupol Drama Theatre
- Fire in Moria Refugee Camp
- Restituting Evidence: Genocide and Reparations in German Colonial Namibia
- Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist
- The Raid on Al-Haq's Offices: 18 August 2022
- Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
- Sheikh Jarrah: Ethnic Cleansing in Jerusalem
- Russian Strike on the Kyiv TV Tower
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation
- The Shelling of Khudair Warehouse: Chemical Warfare by Indirect Means
- Living Archaeology in Gaza
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The Case of Parvin
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Arena Bar
- The Forest Under Detection
- Dispossession and The Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia
- The Black Boxes of Disappearance: Enforced Disappearance in the Siege of the Palace of Justice
- The Murder of Lucas Villa
- Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
- Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana
- European Arms in the Bombing of Yemen
- Torture and Detention in Myanmar
- The Extrajudicial Execution of Ahmad Erekat
- NSO Group’s Breach of Private Data with ‘Fleming’, a COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Software
- Tear Gas in Plaza de la Dignidad
- Intentional Fires in Papua
- Police Brutality at the Black Lives Matter Protests
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Situated Testimony
- The Killing of Muhammad al-Arab
- Pushbacks in Melilla: ND and NT v. Spain
- The Killing of Mark Duggan
- Cloud Studies
- The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
- Model Zoo
- The Beating of Faisal al-Natsheh
- Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The case of Ayşe Erdoğan
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Analysis of video evidence
- Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta
- The Killing of Harith Augustus
- The Battle of Ilovaisk
- Herbicidal Warfare in Gaza
- Conquer and Divide
- MatchKing: Warren B. Kanders and the Israeli army
- Triple-Chaser
- The Killing of Rouzan al-Najjar
- Chemical Attacks in Al Lataminah
- The Killing of Zak Kostopoulos
- The Killing of Tahir Elçi
- Killing in Umm al-Hiran
- Lethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah
- Torture and Detention in Burundi
- The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas
- The Destruction of Yazidi Cultural Heritage
- Chemical Attacks in Douma
- The Killing of Óscar Pérez
- Sea Watch vs the Libyan Coastguard
- The Seizure of the Iuventa
- The Grenfell Tower Fire
- The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire
- The Enforced Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Students
- Torture and Detention in Cameroon
- Destruction and Return in al-Araqib
- The Murder of Halit Yozgat
- Airstrikes on the al-Jinah Mosque
- Ecocide in Indonesia
- Airstrikes on M2 Hospital
- Chemical Attack in Khan Sheikhoun
- Airstrikes on al-Hamidiah Hospital
- Ape Law
- Torture in Saydnaya Prison
- Death By Rescue: The lethal effects of non-assistance at sea
- Airstrikes in Atimah
- Pattrn: Open source software for citizen-driven mapping
- The Bombing of Rafah
- The Gaza Platform: Israel's 2014 offensive
- Stopping the Wall in Battir
- The Killing of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammed Abu Daher
- The Drone Strikes Platform
- Knock on the Roof: Drone strike in Beit Lahiya
- Drone Strike in Miranshah
- Genocide in the Ixil Triangle
- Drone Strikes on a Jirga in Datta Khel
- Living Death Camp: the archaeology of Staro Sajmište
- Drone Strike in Mir Ali
- The Use of White Phosphorus in Urban Environments
- The Left-to-Die Boat
- The Killing of Bassem Abu Rahma
- publications
- Eyal Weizman, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide, Fern Press
- Gaza Atlas
- Forensics Is What the State Does, Counter-Forensics Is What We Do: Nour Abuzaid, Elizabeth Breiner, and Eyal Weizman in Conversation
- Three Genocides
- Exchange Rate
- Forensic Architecture - Witnesses
- In Kassel
- Architettura forense: La manipolazione delle immagini nelle guerre contemporanee
- Tunnel Vision
- Investigative Aesthetics: Conflicts and Commons in the Politics of Truth
- Forensic Architecture Reports #1: The Police Shooting of Mark Duggan
- Challenging Hegemonic "Truths": A conversation with Eyal Weizman and Sarah Nankivell from Forensic Architecture
- La Verité en Ruines: Manifeste pour une architecture forensique
- Arquitectura forense: violencia en el umbral de detectabilidad
- mono.kultur #48: Eyal Weizman / Forensic Architecture
- Crimes of Space
- The Viral Emergency in Palestine
- Lines of Inquiry: Glossary, media, field manual
- Eyal Weizman Interview
- Open Verification
- ‘It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe Outsources Suffering as Migrants Drown
- Interview with Eyal Weizman
- Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
- events
- The Architecture of Genocide
- A City within a Building: Lecture and Film Presentation with Eyal Weizman and Maksym Rokmaniko
- Event: Studio B Unscripted - Eyal Weizman and Trevor Paglen live recording
- Eyal Weizman: Repair Work & Communal Life-Worlds
- Wieder da? Jemals weg? Rechte Gewalt seit 2000
- (un)Common Grounds: Reflecting on documenta fifteen
- Atmospheric Violence: Eyal Weizman
- Cloud Studies: Eyal Weizman at Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation
- Five or Six Doors: Eyal Weizman
- Conference: Imperial Ecologies
- Die Zivilisationsfrage Conference
- The Architecture of Memory: Eyal Weizman at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- Eyal Weizman Exhibition Introduction at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- Eyal Weizman in conversation with Michael Richardson
- Last Seen (2018–2021): A conversation about the architecture of violence between Hrair Sarkissian and Eyal Weizman
- Max and Iris Stern International Symposium 14: Terror Contagion
- Eyal Weizman: IAAC Lecture Series
- Eyal Weizman: SLIVER Lecture Series
- (re)programming: Accountability with Eyal Weizman
- Hell on Earth: Figures of Domination with Eyal Weizman and Marco d'Eramo
- New Now Next: Eyal Weizman
- OSINT: FORENSIC ARCHITECTURE / Eyal Weizman on investigative journalism, art and activism
- Catching Fire: Forensic Architecture in Conversation with Eugene Tan
- The Robin Evans Lecture 2020: Eyal Weizman
- Opening the Black Box
- Forensic Architecture: A conversation with founder Eyal Weizman
- Baumer Conversations, Eyal Weizman with Curtis Roth
- Jerusalem: From Past Divisions to a Shared Future?
- S AM Calls Eyal Weizman: in conversation with Andreas Ruby
- Eyal Weizman in Conversation with Mania Akbari
- Eyal Weizman at the Virtual Opening and Streaming Festival: Critical Zones
- ZOOMIN: Eyal Weizman + Tao Zhu at HKU Architecture
- The Architecture of Public Truth at A.M Qattan Foundation
- Forensic Architecture: True to Scale Opening Reception
- Eyal Weizman on Colonialism as Climate Change
- Rajiv Vaidya Memorial Lecture: Forensic Architecture — Counter Investigations
- Forensic Architecture: The long duration of a split second at the ICA
- Eyal Weizman at the Borderless Citizen Project
- Eyal Weizman at MAC
- Body Politics: The architecture of struggle from cells to territories
- Leaving the Twenty-First Century: Excursions After Late Capitalism
- Media Forum: The new forensic journalism
- IAS Book Launch: Emptied Lands - A legal geography of Bedouin rights in the Negev
- The Architecture of Advocacy
- Investigative Architecture as a Tool for Political Intervention
- Breaking the Wall of Human Rights Violations
- Propositions #7/1: Counter Forensics
- Alan H Rider Distinguished Lecture
- Architect's Journal 100
- Forensic Aesthetics with Eyal Weizman
- Political Futures
- European Cultural Foundation Award 2018
- Data Against Devilry
- The Mediapart Symposium: 'Truth in the Digital Age'
- The Right to Know: Eyal Weizman at Mediapart
- 34C3
- Eyal Weizman at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (UCL)
- TUM Talks on Architecture
- Papanek Lecture 2017: The Architectural Sensorium
- Investigative Aesthetics in Architecture and Journalism
- Yan P. Lin Centre Democracy, Space, and Technology Lecture: Eyal Weizman at McGill
- Eyal Weizman at MoMA
- IDS Public Lecture Series: Eyal Weizman at The Cooper Union
- Press Conference: The Ayotzinapa Platform
- The Parliament of Bodies: A Century of Camps
- Neelan Tiruchelvam Memorial Lecture
- Investigative Aethestics, Events, and Traces: Eyal Weizman in conversation with Matthew Fuller
- Investigative Aesthetics, Events, and Traces
- Book Launch and Lecture: Forensic Architecture
- Tribunal Unravelling the NSU Complex
- Evidence, Activism, and the Law in the Age of Post-Truth
- Only the Criminal Can Solve the Crime
- Dictionary of Now #2 | Dipesh Chakrabarty & Eyal Weizman
- Keynote Conversation: Anxious to Share
- LoganCIJ16: Methods and Tools for Visual Investigations
- EAT 2016: Traces and Fragments
- Wall Exchange Lecture 2015: Forensic Architecture
- Mediate-Forecast
- Terms of Media II: Actions - Brown University
- Eyal Weizman at PROA
- Moscow Biennale 2015: Keynote by Eyal and Ines Weizman
- FORENSIS - Book launch
- Eyal Weizman at MIT
- Eyal Weizman presents Forensis at the New School
- The New Cartography
- FORENSIS: Architecture at the Threshold of Detectability
- Forensic Futures
- The Architecture of Public Truth
- Forensis: Keynote by Eyal Weizman
- The Architecture of Public Truth with Jonathan Littell and Eyal Weizman
- Contested Terrain
- The Place of Law in War
- 4th UniSA Nelson Mandela Lecture
- Society and Space 30th Anniversary Lecture
- Talking Architecture
- Architecture and Its Pasts
- The Politics of Verticality: The Architecture of Warfare in the West Bank
- press
- Eyal Weizman: “En Gaza estamos viendo una forma de destrucción que es a la vez destruir el pasado y el futuro”
- Interview: Frank Barat with Eyal Weizman | "What we are seeing is a systematic and organised campaign to destroy life in Gaza."
- Art, Surveillance & Investigation: Trevor Paglen & Eyal Weizman
- The Planning of Palestine: Urban Planning Under and as Occupation with Dana Erekat and Eyal Weizman
- Once Again, Germany Defines Who Is a Jew
- Eyal Weizman: How Israel uses architecture to exert control | The Big Picture EP11
- ‘We scholen architecten om voor gerechtigheid’
- L’immagine (in)fedele
- Eyal Weizman: „Rassismus und Antisemitismus werden künstlich getrennt“
- In Kassel
- Eyal Weizman: Wallpaper* 10 Thinkers of 2022 – Can architectural analysis hold power to account?
- Aridity Lines: Violence, climate change, and shifting shorelines (Podcast)
- Who Will Remember the Horrors of Ukraine?
- Open source intelligence methods are being used to investigate war crimes in Ukraine
- Forensic Architecture: Mapping is Power with Eyal Weizman
- Projekt Aufklärung | Wie wird Wissen zu Erkenntnis?
- Eyal Weizman: Why Aesthetics Must Mean More than Beauty
- The Problem of Mapping Clouds | Culture File
- Il “laboratorio” di Israele, dalla pandemia alle frontiere
- Investigative Aesthetics: Eyal Weizman interviewed by Rhoda Feng
- Aesthetics Is a Battleground – Matthew Fuller and Eyal Weizman Provide a Tactical Guide
- La géographie légale: À propos de Eyal Weizman, La Vérité en ruines
- Letting the World In: How is Investigative Journalism Changing? With Eyal Weizman and Matthew Fuller
- Mapping the Social in Theory and Practice
- The Artists Bringing Activism Into and Beyond Gallery Spaces
- Design Innovation Medal Winner 2021 Eyal Weizman MBE
- Police, une question d'images (3/4) «Lorsque des images sont utilisées pour appuyer une argumentation, cela conditionne toujours ce que l’on voit»
- Eyal Weizman, archéologue et enquêteur d’une vérité en ruines
- Meurtres et crimes de guerre : quand l’architecture se met au service des enquêteurs
- « La vérité en ruines » – L’architecture forensique face aux États
- The Forensics of Human Rights – An Interview with Eyal Weizman
- Eyal Weizman on Mirror with a Memory Podcast | Episode Six: Power
- Eyal Weizman : « Il n’y a pas de science sans activisme »
- »Was sind die Fakten, was ist passiert?«
- Episode 4: Equality
- Podcast: Looking into the split-second with Eyal Weizman
- How Forensic Architecture Supports Journalists with Complex Investigative Techniques
- Interview with Eyal Weizman and Paulo Tavares
- The Militarization of Quarantine
- Forensic Architecture’s Founder on How the Group Used VR to Corroborate a Whistleblower’s Account of Human Rights Abuses in Israel
- Forum for Social Practice in Art/Media: Cultural Resistance in the Post-Open Data Age
- Forensic Architecture Redeploys Surveillance-State Tech to Combat State-Sponsored Violence
- Homeland Security Algorithm Revokes U.S. Visa of War Crimes Investigator Eyal Weizman
- Head of Turner Prize-Nominated Forensic Architecture Barred From US Visit
- Homeland Security Banned Forensic Architecture’s Director From Entry to US
- Forensic Architecture Founder Says United States Prevented His Visit
- The Science and the Art of Open-Source Journalism
- Evidently Art
- Eyal Weizman elected Fellow of the British Academy
- Architecte Légiste
- An interview with Forensic Architecture on the cases of Pavlos Fyssas and Zak Kostopoulos
- Silenced at ‘the University of Whispers,’ an Assad Prison Survivor Can Now Tell His Story
- Russian State TV Distorts The Intercept’s Reporting on a Syrian Chemical Attack
- Political, Forensic, Hi-Tech: How 'research architecture' is redefining art
- ‘A Gunshot, a Speech, a Whisper’: The art detectives exposing Middle East crimes
- ‘It’s an Act of Murder’: How Europe outsources suffering as migrants drown
- Turner-Prize Shortlisted Forensic Architecture’s Eyal Weizman
- Interview with Forensic Architecture Founder Eyal Weizman
- The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
- Vitenskap, Kunst og Folkemobilisering Mot Brudd på Rettigheter
- Book Review: Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability
- The Architects Reconstructing Crime Scenes No One Else Can
- Eyal Weizman Named on ArtReview’s ‘Power 100’
- Architecture on the Edge of Law and Violence
- Through the Eyes of a Pioneering Forensic Architect
- The Vertical Apartheid
- Vertical Apartheid
- The Most Important Piece at Documenta14 in Kassel Is Not an Artwork. It’s Evidence.
- Son[i]a #207: Eyal Weizman
- Interview with Eyal Weizman
- Interview with Eyal Weizman (English)
- The Rise of Forensic Architecture
- Conflict Interest
- Architects Seek to Debunk Spy's Testimony in Neo-Nazi Murder Trial
- War in Cities
- Decolonising Technology
- Are They Human?
- Digital Model of Syria’s Hidden Prison Released
- 'The Worst Place on Earth': Inside Assad's brutal Saydnaya prison
- An Architect's Investigation Into Urban Warfare
- The Desert Threshold
- Forensic Architect Eyal Weizman Looks at War’s Impact on the Built Environment
- 665: The Least of All Possible Evils