{"id":1632,"date":"2023-05-12T05:46:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/?p=1632"},"modified":"2023-05-12T05:48:41","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T09:48:41","slug":"forensic-architecture-mariupol-bombing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv-ukrtaz\/2023\/05\/12\/forensic-architecture-mariupol-bombing\/","title":{"rendered":"Forensic Architecture: Mariupol bombing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Forensic Architecture<\/a> — which has done tremendous investigative “counter-forensics<\/a>” work in Palestine\/Gaza, Syria, Lebanon, Myanmar, Colombia, Brazil’s Yanomamo territory, and Louisiana’s “Death Alley,” among other zones of war and human rights violation — has been working with the Center for Spatial Technologies<\/a> on the March 2022 bombing of Mariupol’s Drama Theatre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This 20-minute video presents the first part of their investigation. Their investigation of the Russian bombing of Kyiv’s Babyn Yar<\/a> is also excellent, and viewable from their website. (See co-founder Eyal Weizman’s writings<\/a>, including his co-authored volume on Investigative Aesthetics<\/em>, and the “Methodology” section of their extensively documented web site<\/a> for further information on their approach.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“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 resistance. With Forensis & Forensic Architecture, the Center for Spatial Technologies interviewed survivors to tell the story of a self-organized commune: a city within a building.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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