Date: February 12th 2018
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm PST
Location: UCSC Humanities 1 210
The meeting is being co-hosted with the UCSC Center for Emerging Worlds. The Center for Emerging Worlds will also be coordinating another event with Dr. Weizman at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History on February 16th 5:30pm-7:30pm, “The Architectural Sensorium.”
Dr. Eyal Weizman is Professor of Spatial and Visual Culture and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is also a global professor at Princeton University and the founder of Forensic Architecture, an interdisciplinary research agency that works with activists and civil society activists worldwide. Dr. Weizman’s recent publications include Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability (2017), The Conflict Shoreline (with Fazal Sheikh, 2015), and FORENSIS (with Anselm Franke, 2014).
Readings:
- Chapter 1 from: Eyal Weizman’s. Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. (Please email Suraiya Jetha <sjetha@ucsc.edu>)
- Interview: “On Forensic Architecture: A Conversation with Eyal Weizman.” (Link here)
- Article: “Walking Through Walls.” (Link here)
