ARCHITECTURE, INVESTIGATIONS + DIGITAL MEDIA
We use our architecture and urban planning skills to investigate urgent social issues, from surveillance in cities, to migration to uncovering secret networks of prison camps. We use maps and data to investigate and tell stories, develop new investigative and storytelling techniques and train others to use them too. More >
Locating Xinjiang’s camps
A BuzzFeed News investigation based on thousands of satellite images reveals a vast, growing infrastructure for long-term detention and incarceration.
Reconstructing the Melilla massacre
An investigation into the deaths of 23 migrants at the Spain-Morocco border, with Lighthouse Reports
The challenges of conducting open source research in China
Research into resources and strategies for open source investigations in China, for Bellingcat
Social media surveillance
It’s scarily easy to track someone around a city via their Instagram stories
Migration Trail
Follow two fictional migrants travelling to Europe in real time over ten days, via maps, social media storytelling and a podcast
Death in Venice
An exhibition about changing approaches to death and how architecture has changed with it.
Architecture + investigative journalism series
A series of lectures and hands-on workshops on geolocation, DIY aerial photography, photogrammetry, open source analysis and more.