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In this episode, we will look at several of Forensic Architecture’s investigations and working methodologies in Gaza, Germany, and Cameroon with architect and former deputy director of Forensic Architecture, Christina Varvia, and ECCHR General Secretary Wolfgang Kaleck.
Christina Varvia, currently a Research Fellow, was formerly the Deputy Director and Lead Researcher of Forensic Architecture (FA). She was trained as an architect at the Architectural Association (AA) and Westminster University, and has taught a Diploma unit (March) at the AA (2018-2020). She was a member of the Technology Advisory Board for the International Criminal Court (2018). Currently, Christina is pursuing her PhD at Aarhus University where her research focuses on biopolitics and imaging of the human body. She has received the Novo Nordisk Foundation Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship for Practice-based Artistic Research, and is also a Fellow at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art.
Wolfgang Kaleck is founder and General Secretary of the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin, founded in 2007. Previously, he worked as a criminal law attorney and has been involved in the Koalition gegen Straflosigkeit (Coalition against Impunity) which fights to hold Argentinian military officials accountable for the murder and disappearance of German citizens during the Argentine dictatorship. Among others, he represents whistleblower Edward Snowden in Europe. Kaleck hosts the podcast Framing Human Rights on art, activism and justice and has published several books, currently preparing the release of Concrete Utopia. A Look Back into the Future of Human Rights (OR Books, 2024).