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 24 May 2023, 7-9pm PSHB LG02.

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 fourth and final lecture will focus on the relentless and prolonged efforts by the state to marginalise Black British communities, from policy responses to public protests, to the specific agendas of institutions which utilise hyper-surveillance strategies and multi-agency approaches in order to police Black communities throughout the country.

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.