It's not what you know; it's what you can prove. For years, Forensic Architecture has exposed state crimes against civilians, nature, and humanity. This week on Downstream, Ash Sarkar meets FA's director Eyal Weizman, to discuss Israel's settler colonial project, the police killing of Mark Duggan, and how the testimony of blindfolded torture victims helped construct a model of Bashar al-Assad's most notorious torture prison.

00:00 Intro
01:31 Beginnings In Palestine
06:28 The Importance of Maps
10:26 Eyal’s Beginnings And Assembling The Team
22:11 Exposing Government Lies
30:42 Assad’s Torture Prisons And Reconstructing Memories
52:35 How Different Senses Affect Memory
56:35 Forensic Architecture And Gaza

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