Forensic Architecture
Forensic Architecture (FA) is a research agency based at Goldsmiths, University of London. Their mandate is to develop, employ, and disseminate new techniques, methods, and concepts for investigating state and corporate violence. Their team includes architects, software developers, filmmakers, investigative journalists, scientists, and lawyers.
FA is an interdisciplinary agency operating across human rights, journalism, architecture, art and aesthetics, academia and the law. In 2022, the Peabody Awards programme wrote that FA had co-created ‘an entire new academic field and emergent media practice’; in 2024, the European Research Council assessed Forensic Architecture as ‘a scientific breakthrough (defined as a revolutionary work that led to deep change in existing paradigms or new methods opening a new stream of research)’.
Since 2020, FA has supported the growth of agencies worldwide that practice and apply their methods. The Investigative Commons is both a global network of practitioners, and a physical space in Berlin, within the offices of FA’s sister agency Forensis.