Lisa Luksch and her team have worked to present their designed architectures of activism, media and law based on seven real cases. The exhibition begins on October 10, 2024 and will be on display at the TUM Architecture Museum until February 9, 2025.
Image above: SITU Research, 2023
Human rights violations are more present in public discourse than ever before. This is not least due to the ubiquitous availability of image sources: Smartphones, satellites, surveillance and police cameras produce gigantic amounts of material capturing violent and repressive incidents as well as ongoing rights violations. Newsrooms, prosecutors and major human rights organizations are increasingly challenged with processing and contextualizing such data streams, both in the context of current events and longer-term reporting and legal proceedings. Visual Investigation has established itself as a new discipline to ensure a comprehensive presentation of controversial issues. It uses a range of tools to link video and image content with people, places and events. Interdisciplinary teams consisting of architects, filmmakers, computer scientists and other experts work with a variety of methods and tools to investigate crimes in time and space: from spatial analysis and 3D modeling to the use of artificial intelligence and machine learning. The aim is to visualize and present facts and contexts in an objective, transparent, value-free and, as far as possible, independent manner. Against the backdrop of controversial events and targeted misinformation in a fast-moving (media) world, visual investigation has also developed rapidly as a discipline – a fact that offers opportunities and challenges in equal measure.
With this exhibition, the TUM Architecture Museum is dedicating itself to the still young field of visual investigation and uses seven case studies to show the role that architecture plays between activism, the media and the law to stand up for justice and accountability. The exhibition includes investigations into internment camps in the Chinese region of Xinjiang, police violence in the USA, the killing of Colombian journalist Abelardo Liz, Russia’s attack on the theater in Mariupol, geo-remote sensing and land expropriation in the West Bank, brutal political campaigns during Mexico’s “Dirty War” and the consequences of the climate catastrophe for Pacific island states.
Cooperation partners: Alison Killing, London; Bellingcat, Amsterdam; The Center for Spatial Technologies (CST), Kyiv and Berlin, and SITU Research, New York City
Curators: Lisa Luksch, Andres Lepik
Exhibition design: CPWH, Munich
Graphic design: PARAT.cc, Munich
WHEN?
Exhibition dates: Thursday, October 10, 2024 – Sunday, February 09, 2025
Media conference: Wednesday, October 09, 2024 11 a.m.
Opening: Wednesday, October 09, 2024, 7 p.m.
Opening hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 10 am – 6 pm, Thursday, 10 am – 8 pm
WHERE?
Architecture Museum of the TUM
in the Pinakothek der Moderne
Arcisstraße 21 | 80333 Munich
