POLICE BRUTALITY AT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER PROTESTS

Forensic Architecture The ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests that have swept the US since May 2020, in the wake of the killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black Americans, constitute one of the largest uprisings against systemic racism in policing in the US in a generation.  But this popular movement has itself been met […]

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THE PEOPLE’S CONTROL ROOM

Olasumbo Olaniyi The Peoples Control Room: Disrupting the Digital Panopticon takes on surveillance in the city of Johannesburg from an architectural lens to curate a multiplicity of installations that speculate and catalyze a disruption in the existing power imbalance in order to ensure democratization amongst all players of its volatile ecosystem. (A Masters’ Thesis Project […]

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