Apr 21 2025

Eyal Weizman, Forensic Architecture-Public Talk (April 21st)

School of Art & Art History Proudly Presents

April 21, 2025

5:00 PM - 7:00 PM Central Time

Location

ARC 241 (The Academic and Residential Complex)

Address

940 W Harrison Street, Chicago, IL 60607

Cost

Free and Open to the Public

Eyal Weizman Poster
The UIC School of Art & Art History is bringing Eyal Weizman, Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, to Chicago and to University of Illinois Chicago.

PUBLIC TALK

Eyal Weizman will give a public talk titled

“Conditions of Life Calculated”

April 21st, 2025 Monday at 5-6:30 pm.
ARC 241  (The Academic and Residential Complex, 940 W Harrison St, Chicago, IL 60607)

Reception to follow.

 

For the public talk, please register here.

 

Eyal Weizman is the Founder and Director of Forensic Architecture and Professor of Spatial and Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London, where in 2005 he founded the Centre for Research Architecture. In 2007, with Sandi Hilal and Alessandro Petti, he established the architectural collective DAAR in Beit Sahour/Palestine.

He is the author of numerous books, including Hollow Land, The Least of all Possible Evils, Investigative Aesthetics, The Roundabout Revolutions, The Conflict Shoreline, FORENSIS, and Forensic Architecture: Violence at the Threshold of Detectability.

In 2019, he was elected life fellow of the British Academy. In 2020, he received an MBE for ‘services to architecture’. He was the recipient of the London Design Award (2021) and the Mark Cousins Theory Award (2024). Forensic Architecture is the recipient of The Right Livelihood Award, a Peabody Award for interactive media, the European Cultural Foundation Award for Culture, and the RIBA Charles Jencks Award.

Eyal graduated with a degree in architecture from the Architectural Association in 1998, and received his PhD in 2006 from the London Consortium at Birkbeck, University of London.

This event is generously supported by the Judith Russi Kirshner Endowed Fund and Dick Higgins Intermedia Fund from the UIC College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts and the UIC School of Art & Art History, as well as the UIC Gallery 400, UIC School of Architecture, the UIC Middle East and Muslim Societies Cluster, and Invisible Institute.

Contact

Ömür Harmanşah

Submitter

Ömür Harmanşah

Date posted

Mar 27, 2025

Date updated

Apr 16, 2025