Forensic Architecture: Open Verification

取证架构：开放验证

• 批准号: EP/X026604/1
• 负责人: Eyal Weizman
• 金额: $ 274.49万
• 依托单位: Goldsmiths University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FX026604%2F1
• 关键词: Forensic; Architecture; Open; Verification

A defining characteristic of our era is a sustained attack against the traditional authorities that underpins 'facts': government experts,universities, media and the judiciary. Furthermore, social media has become a place where state actors, belligerents, and'counterfactual communities' spread doubt and construct alternative realities. Within this technological-political-epistemic crisis, factsaround human and environmental rights violations have themselves become battlefields.A common response is to buttress the traditional custodians of factual authority; FAOV seeks to offer an alternative. Departing fromthe ground-breaking work of Forensic Architecture-founded by the PI a decade ago to use architectural tools and technologies toprovide decisive evidence confronting human rights violations in courts, media and cultural venues-this project will develop a newmode of investigative practice that we call 'open verification'. FAOV will socialise the development and deployment of evidencethrough collaboration with frontline communities and diffused networks of specialists and investigators. It posits that both thequality of investigations and the trust in the facts they produce will be augmented if a greater number and a wider diversity of partiesis involved in their production. With each new case, a new community of practice will be woven from the interaction ofcomplementary and divergent viewpoints, and the integration of different forms of knowledge.FAOV will engage in real-world human rights casework, confronting nationalist "denialism" across four related domains: policeviolence against racialised communities, human rights violations at Europe's borders, environmental destruction by corporations, andcolonial legacy. Each investigation is also a starting point for critical reflections on the new social, technological, and political life offacts, to be made public in books, exhibitions, documentary films and public programmes.

我们这个时代的一个决定性特征是对支撑“事实”的传统权威的持续攻击：政府专家、大学、媒体和司法机构。此外，社交媒体已成为国家行为者、交战方和“反事实社区”传播怀疑和构建另类现实的地方。在这场技术-政治-认知危机中，有关侵犯人权和环境权利的事实本身已成为战场。常见的反应是支持事实权威的传统守护者； FAOV 试图提供一种替代方案。与法证建筑的开创性工作不同——该项目由PI十年前创立，旨在利用建筑工具和技术为法庭、媒体和文化场所的侵犯人权行为提供决定性证据——该项目将开发一种新的调查实践模式，我们称之为“开放验证”。 FAOV 将通过与一线社区以及分散的专家和调查人员网络合作，将证据的开发和部署社会化。它认为，如果更多和更广泛的各方参与调查的制作，调查的质量和对调查结果的信任都会得到提高。每一个新案例，都会通过互补和不同观点的相互作用以及不同形式知识的整合而编织出一个新的实践社区。FAOV将参与现实世界的人权案例工作，对抗四个相关领域的民族主义“否认主义”：警察针对种族化社区的暴力、欧洲边境的侵犯人权行为、公司对环境的破坏以及殖民遗产。每项调查也是对新的社会、技术和政治生活事实进行批判性反思的起点，并通过书籍、展览、纪录片和公共节目公开。