The lecture took place within the thematic lecture block Space as Evidence. Architecture as a Tool for Defending Human and Environmental Rights.
It featured projects that use architectural and spatial analytical tools to investigate and document violence, human rights violations and environmental crimes. Architectural skills such as design, three-dimensional thinking, technical drawing and 3D modelling, visual imagery or mapping contribute to supporting journalistic, humanitarian or legal practice - to investigate and tell stories that are of public interest.
Jasper Julius Humpert is a multidisciplinary researcher and artist. At FA and Forensis, Jasper assists with visual and textual research. Focusing on the interpretation of the overlap of the written and the seen, his research revolves around the investigation of state brutality, extrajudicial violence and regimes of environmental destruction.
He participated in the project "German Colonial Genocide in Namibia", which was carried out by the multidisciplinary research team Forensic Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, in collaboration with their sister agency Forensis in Berlin. Together they investigated the massacre of Namibia's indigenous people by German troops in 1893. Forensic Architecture are award-winning in the fields of human rights, journalism, architecture, design, technology and art. In 2022, the Peabody Awards wrote of them that they co-created "a whole new academic field and a new media practice."
