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Mario Pfeifer
On January 7, 2005, Oury Jalloh, an asylum seeker from Sierra Leone, died in a German police cell as a result of a fire. The police version of the case states that it was probably an accident caused by the detainee himself, or suicide, in connection with the ignition of a mattress made of non-flammable material to which Oury Jalloh was handcuffed and shackled.
Vojtěch Sigmund, Karolína Kripnerová, Janek Rous
The project Bellevue di Monaco takes place in several buildings in the centre of Munich. The buildings were supposed to be demolished in order to build new luxury apartments there. However, the plan was thwarted by a group of activists and their guerilla reconstruction of one of the flats. Consequently, the migration crisis in 2015 incited the foundation of an official cooperative involving several hundred local residents who rented the houses and turned them into a multifunctional centre.
András Rényi, Horváth "Byron" Balázs
Living Memorial is a counter-memorial initiated by the public and a grassroots social movement. It is a series of demonstrations since March 2014 based on participation and public discussions in the public space, organised by civilians against the Memorial for the Victims of the German Occupation of Hungary.
Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan
Architect and investigative journalist Alison Killing presents the results and methodology of the research on mapping detention camps for the Uyghurs other Muslim minorities in China, for which her team was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2021. The project uncovered details of the mass detention of these groups in so-called “re-education” camps, which the Chinese government officially denies or downplays.