Forensic Architecture investigates alleged links between refugee charities and people smugglers
Researchers at Forensic Architecture are investigating allegations that human rights organisations colluded with human traffickers to smuggle refugees across the Mediterranean, in the latest real-world intervention by the team.
The group, based at Goldsmiths university in London, is working to quash allegations that non-governmental organisations assisted smugglers ferrying refugees to Europe in boats.
"The burden of search and rescue operations has fallen quite heavily on NGOs and yet some of those NGOs have been accused for assisting smugglers," said Christina Varvia, an architect and researcher at Forensic Architecture.
The project is one of many cases the team is working on. Others include a neo-nazi murder, ethnic cleansing of the Yazidi people by ISIS in Iraq and a video reconstruction of the fatal Grenfell Tower fire in London. Forensic Architecture showcased in ICA exhibition
Founded in 2010 by Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture is an investigative agency that works on behalf of NGOs. "We undertake spatial and media research on different conflict zones, on different violent events," Varvia explained.
"We do this kind of architectural analysis that we then compose as evidence for different legal and political forums, so we work with human rights organisations, with NGOs and with citizen-led groups."
Forensic Architecture constructed a 360-degree view of a rescue scene in the Mediterranean for an investigation into th...
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