Description
This seminar examines how spatial reconstruction operates as a practice across forensic, journalistic, archival, and memorial contexts. We study how architectural tools can synthesize diverse forms of evidence – photographs, testimonies, data sets, and material traces – to produce spatial knowledge that serves different purposes: providing evidence in legal forums, verifying events for news audiences, preserving cultural heritage, or building collective memory.
Our investigations will grow out of a range of theoretical frameworks and innovative contemporary practices: from the New York Times Visual Investigations unit and Forensic Architecture's investigative methodologies to the multimodal assemblages of archaeological reconstruction; from visual epistemologies that shape what we can know through images, to Actor-Network Theory's insights on how evidence travels and transforms. Students will engage with foundational texts from the theory of architecture, Science and Technology Studie