If toxic air is a monument to slavery, how do we take it down?
A stretch of the Mississippi River once called "Plantation Country" is now the "Petrochemical Corridor", known to those who breathe its toxic air...
See more'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland
On 2 June 2020, the PPB deployed large amounts of tear gas in an attempt to force protestors to withdraw from the streets and squares of downtown...
See moreRussian Strike on Kyiv TV Tower
On 1 March 2022, Russia launched a missile strike on the Kyiv TV tower. The missiles targeting the TV tower landed on the territory known as Babyn...
See moreA City Within a Building: Mariupol Drama Theater
Before it was destroyed by a Russian airstrike, the Mariupol Theater was a key refuge in the besieged city, a unique site of solidarity and...
See moreThe Battle of Ilovaisk: Verifying Russian Military Presence in Ukraine
In late summer of 2014, the Ukrainian Armed Forces battled pro-Russian separatists for control of the town of Ilovaisk, in the border region of...
See moreThe Use of White Phosphorus in Urban Environments
We examined videos from the 2008–2009 Gaza conflict, and from Fallujah, Iraq, where US forces had deployed against the Iraqi army in white...
See moreRafah: al Tannur Neighbourhood Strike Methodology
Amnesty International and Forensic Architecture (FA) were denied entry into the Gaza strip, and as such our investigation into the bombardment of...
See moreSea Watch vs the Libyan Coast Guard
On 6 November 2017, a rescue vessel operated by the NGO Sea Watch (SW) and a patrol vessel of the Libyan coastguard were both en route towards a...
See moreDispossession and the Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia
The region, on Colombia’s northwestern Caribbean coast, is the heartland of the country’s banana industry. Urabá is known for extreme political...
See moreThe Seizure of the Iuventa
The Iuventa has rescued over ten thousand people from the Mediterranean since it began operating in 2016. When the vessel was impounded by Italian...
See moreGold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
Since Jair Bolsonaro assumed the presidency of Brazil in 2019, vast tracts of the Amazon rainforest and the indigenous communities that live in and...
See moreDrone Strike in Mir Ali
On 4 October 2010, a home on the outskirts of Mir Ali, North Waziristan, was struck by several missiles. The attack killed five people, including...
See moreThe Hanau Terror Attack: The Emergency Exit
On 19 February 2020 in Hanau, Germany, nine people were murdered in a racist terror attack. The victims were Said Nesar Hashemi, Sedat Gürbüz...
See moreIsrael’s Ecocide in Gaza: 2023-2024
Since 2014, Palestinian farmers along Gaza’s perimeter have seen their crops sprayed by airborne herbicides and regularly bulldozed, and have...
See moreOil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta
Vaca Muerta, Argentina, is one of the world's largest shale oil and gas deposits, that deposit is also home to the indigenous Mapuche people. In...
See moreHerbicidal Warfare in Gaza
Since 2014, the clearing and bulldozing of agricultural and residential lands by the Israel military close to the eastern border of Gaza has been...
See moreThe Murder of Pavlos Fyssas
Shortly after midnight on 18 September 2013, Pavlos Fyssas, a young Greek anti-fascist rapper, was murdered in Athens, in his home neighbourhood of...
See moreLethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah
On July 14 2018, in Gaza City, in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, two Palestinian teenagers climbed onto the rooftop of the al-Katibah...
See moreNo Traces of Life
Building on Forensic Architecture’s previous investigation into herbicidal warfare and its effects on Palestinian farmers along the eastern...
See moreKnock on the Roof: Drone Strike in Beit Lahiya
In the early hours of 9 January 2009, a missile struck the Salha family’s home in Beit Lahiya, Gaza. Under the direction of Fayez and Noor, we...
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