On July 14, 2018, Harith Augustus, a 37-year-old barber, was walking down the street in Chicago’s South Side when the five police officers stopped him for carrying a gun. Within seconds, officer ...

The director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, has been denied entry to the US after being classified as a “security threat” by a Homeland Security algorithm. The unconventional artist and ...

Despite all their well-publicized challenges, today’s cities are still regarded as immense sources of untapped potential. Architects and other designers are constantly expected to get involved in or ...

LONDON — Last year, Israeli police officers raided a Bedouin village in the Negev desert called Umm al-Hiran. Israeli authorities said that during the raid a villager had purposely run over an Israeli ...

Born in Israel and educated at the Architectural Association (AA), Eyal Weizman could be considered more a detective than an architect. In 2011, Weizman established Forensic Architecture, an agency ...

On May 24, a gunman entered Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, and killed 19 children and two teachers before being shot by off-duty Border Patrol officers. For nearly an hour, police massed in ...

Triple-Chaser, Forensic Architecture, 2019. High-definition video, color, sound; 10:43 min. (Courtesy Forensic Architecture and Praxis Films.) “While my company and the museum have distinct missions, ...

A still from “Triple-Chaser” showing various Safariland tear gas canisters (image courtesy Forensic Architecture/Praxis Films) Forensic Architecture’s submission for the 2019 Whitney Biennial includes ...

From biometric identification technologies and artificial intelligence (AI) to communications interception equipment and unmanned surveillance drones, modern nation states have a vast array of ...

On July 14, 2018, 37-year-old Harith Augustus was shot to death by police in Chicago’s South Shore neighborhood. It’s a sentence that rings with depressing familiarity for people in the United States.