Please note that the event is now at capacity, but there will be a limited number of seats available on the door.

Join Forensic Architecture (FA) for a discussion marking the launch of FA Director and Professor Eyal Weizman’s forthcoming book, Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide.

Our director will speak on the research that informs his book, departing from our team’s work with the South African legal team on the genocide case against Israel in the International Court of Justice and locating the genocide within a century-long history of the Southwestern coast of Palestine. This event will be introduced by Nour Abuzaid (Senior Researcher, Forensic Architecture), followed by a conversation with Başak Ertür (Reader in the Centre for Research Architecture), Suhail Malik (Programme Co-Director MFA Fine Art and Reader in Critical Studies), Matthew Fuller (Professor of Cultural Studies), and Kodwo Eshun (Lecturer in the Centre for Research Architecture), moderated by Susan Schuppli (Director and Professor in the Centre for Research Architecture).

Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide examines Gaza’s ‘deep cartography’, from subterranean tunnels and militarised topography, to its unique soil, settlements, and barriers. Within broader geographic and historical context, from the Nakba to present day, the book documents Israeli campaigns of displacement and destruction that have reshaped the region in an effort to make Gaza and its surrounding areas unliveable.

The event will begin at 7pm, followed by a reception with light refreshments and a book table operated by The Word Bookshop.