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Designing Resistance

Forensic Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London

Evidentiary Tools for Indigenous Struggles Against Green Colonialism.

This project supports indigenous communities that are facing environmental and cultural threats from extractivist activities, specifically hydrogen plants in Namibia and mining operations in Canada.

Combining local knowledges with digital tools and interdisciplinary methods, the researchers will investigate neo-colonial exploitation in the guise of green energy transition.

The Forensic Architecture  agency (industry partner) whose pioneering methods of spatial reconstruction have shed light on human rights abuses globally will work with indigenous communities to develop practical tools for mapping, documenting, and defending the complex life worlds that are currently being threatened by such extractivist incursions in these regions.

The project will produce tools of resistance, tools to strengthen indigenous sovereignty and campaigns for realising just climate futures. 

Project team


Project Lead: Susan Schuppli

Researcher & Innovation Associate: Agata Nguyen Chuong

Researcher & Innovation Associate: Omar Ferwati

Susan Schuppli

Professor Susan Schuppli is a researcher and Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. Susan’s fieldwork and documentary film practice is situated at the intersections between
 

Agata Nguyen Chuong

Agata Nguyen Chuong is an advanced researcher at Forensic Architecture. Agata’s research has focused on environmental violence, land dispossession and digital restitution through worldbuilding and
 

Omar Ferwati

Omar is the Assistant Director, Research Management at Forensic Architecture. His investigations have ranged from airstrikes to colonial violence, to environmental racism. Omar trained as an architect