Forensic Architecture Guest Professors Stafford and Kamara Scott, co-founders of Tottenham Rights, will deliver a four-part public lecture series over the 2022-23 academic year delving into the racist state-designed attacks on Black communities since their arrival. This lecture will take place on 27 October 2022, 7-9pm PSHB LG01.

This lecture series inaugurates a new annual Guest Professorship hosted by Forensic Architecture and the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. Guest Professors Scott will utilise a multi-layered approach curated by Tottenham Right to examine the context of present day manifestations of racism and conflict between “the community” and the state through the actions of the state and the community’s responses and defences. Each lecture is accompanied by a workshop, open to all students.

The first lecture will look at the context of present-day manifestations of racism and conflict through a historical lens. Departing from a consideration of colonialism and migration policies and the marginalisation experienced by first generation Black British children, through to present-day brutality and miscarriages of justice, and Black communities’ response through UK-wide development of their own, autonomous and self-built services and spaces, the lecture will provide an introduction to the rest of the year-long lecture series.

Hosted by Forensic Architecture and the Centre for Research Architecture, Department of Visual Cultures.

Funded by a UKRI Frontier Research Grant.

Download a pdf of the program here.