Key details
Time
- 6pm – 9pm
Location
- Kensington
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Lecture Theatre 1, Darwin Building, Royal College of Art
Price
- Free
Who could attend
- Everyone
Type
- Lecture
Public premiere of Situated Testimonies of Grenfell - a new film by Forensic Architecture and members of Grenfell community.
The Grenfell Tower fire was a generational tragedy for London and the UK, which ultimately claimed 72 lives.
As we approach the seventh anniversary, with the campaign for justice still ongoing, this event is a call for reorganising our relationship with the city. It includes the first public screening of Situated Testimonies of Grenfell, a film by Forensic Architecture, that weaves interconnected stories of the night of the fire, from the perspective of survivors, bereaved families, and witnesses.
Ten individuals affected by the fire worked with researchers from Forensic Architecture, at Goldsmiths, University of London, to tell their stories using a 3D digital model of the tower and its surrounding environment. These include Marcio Gomes, Edward Daffarn, Nazanin Aghlani, Shahrokh Aghlani, Nicholas Burton, Nina Masroh, David O’Connell, Sarah Ali.
Through the bespoke interviewing technique of ‘Situated Testimony’, Forensic Architecture helped survivors and witnesses access their memories and reconstruct it the way they remembered it. Piecing these reconstructions together, and combining it with analysis of the fire, this triptych 60-min film is a shared story of that fatal night.
This is an event about memory, recollection, and storytelling, but it is as much about the state of architecture and our personal relationship to the city.
The film screening will be followed by a panel discussion including participants of the film.
Panel Members
Nazanin Aghlani, Nina Masroh, Nicholas Burton, David O Connell and Sandra Ruiz
Programme
6pm: Film Screening
Break
7.30pm: Discussion with Grenfell community and Forensic Architecture
8.15pm: Food
Co-organised by Thomas Aquilina (RCA) and Samaneh Moafi and Robert Trafford (Forensic Architecture)in collaboration between the RCA and Forensic Architecture.
Support from Adrian Lahoud, Sandra Denicke-Polcher, Charlotte Grace, Lucy Last, Taz Gray, Thandiwe Loewenson, Eyal Weizman, Elizabeth Breiner, Isabella Parlamis, Kishan San, Nicholas Masterton, Nicole Halova, Natalia Sliwinska, Elliot Bourne
As the event contains sensitive and potentially traumatic material, wellbeing support workers will be present.
