Methodologies
Forums
Exhibitions
- A Show of Affection—Collection Constellation 1
- Impasse des Lilas (MBL Architectes)
- Les usages du monde – New ways of the World
- Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design at C-mine
- Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design
- Report: Notes From Reality
- Affect Me: Social Media Images in Art
- Forensic Architecture: Hacia una Estética Investigativa
- Situation #82: Bomb Cloud Atlas
- Forensic Architecture: Towards an Investigative Aesthetics
- The Urban-Data Complex
On 8 March 2015, three bombs landed near the Turkey-Syria border, between the town of Atimah, Syria and a nearby internally displaced persons (IDP) camp, where more than thirty thousand civilians were sheltered.
No military force claimed responsibility for the attack. Forensic Architecture (FA) and Airwars together determined it was likely to be a US strike on al-Qaeda militants who operated in the area.
The analysis sought to confirm the exact location of each strike. People in the camp and in Atimah photographed the bomb clouds shortly after the strike, and uploaded their images and videos to the internet. We verified two sources to be of the same strike, from different perspectives—one from the town and the other from the IDP camp.
We reconstructed the cameras’ locations and their cone of vision, and intersected these perspectives to locate the strike. Comparing the size of the smoke plumes with those of other known bombs in our archive, we estimated that these were one ton bombs.