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Ungrounding By Eyal Weizman
Institute of Contemporary Arts
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Eyal Weizman, director of Forensic Architecture, investigates links between violence, conflict, and the environment, producing evidence of state crimes and human rights violations, including work since 2023 for the International Court of Justice genocide case against Israel.

In Ungrounding, he maps Gaza’s terrain. From tunnels to militarised landscapes, documenting campaigns of displacement and destruction. Placing them in historical context from the Nakba to today, he argues that spatial and architectural analysis reveals patterns of control and that post–7 October actions escalated to what he defines as genocide.

Weizman will be in conversation with Equator, a magazine of politics, culture and art. 
Bios
Eyal Weizman is the founder and director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where, in 2005, he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour, Palestine.

He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, Forensis and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability. In 2019 he was elected Life Fellow of the British Academy. In 2020 he received a MBE for services to architecture. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of the Right Livelihood Award, a Peabody Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.

Eyal graduated with a degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in 1998 and received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.
 
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Wed, 06 May 2026
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Eyal Weizman (c) David Ausserhofer, Robert Bosch.