Forensic Architecture named a Right Livelihood Award 2024 laureate
Eyal Weizman spoke yesterday to accept the 2024 Right Livelihood Award on behalf of Forensic Architecture, saying it was the one accolade he wanted the Goldsmiths, University of London-based research group to obtain in times defined by brutal conflict in different countries. He and his colleagues were honored by the jury for an inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy and hundreds others that used "pioneering digital forensic methods to ensure justice and accountability for victims and survivors of human and environmental rights violations."Weizman continued by thanking his friend Issa Amro, the founder of the Palestinian group Youth Against Settlements (YAS) and one of the three other 2024 laureates named by the Award’s jury.Read the full post on Bustler
Eyal Weizman spoke yesterday to accept the 2024 Right Livelihood Award on behalf of Forensic Architecture, saying it was the one accolade he wanted the Goldsmiths, University of London-based research group to obtain in times defined by brutal conflict in different countries.
He and his colleagues were honored by the jury for an inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy and hundreds others that used "pioneering digital forensic methods to ensure justice and accountability for victims and survivors of human and environmental rights violations."
Weizman continued by thanking his friend Issa Amro, the founder of the Palestinian group Youth Against Settlements (YAS) and one of the three other 2024 laureates named by the Award’s jury.
Read the full post on Bustler
