Investigative Practice/ Climate Justice - Public lecture by Nabil Ahmed

Date: 06.03.2025
Time: 18:00-19:30, doors open at 17:30
Host: Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Assembly



Investigative Practice / Climate Justice
Investigative practice refers to shared evidence-based digital methodologies used by artist-researchers, investigative journalists, lawyers, filmmakers, and others to hold power accountable. Drawing on a series of visual and spatial investigations on environmental destruction and rights violations developed in collaboration with civil society organisations, activists, lawyers and impacted communities, Nabil Ahmed explores some of the opportunities and challenges of developing an investigative practice for climate justice and accountability in an unequal world.

Nabil Ahmed is professor and head of research at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KIT) at NTNU. For over a decade, his critical spatial practice and essays have explored the political ecology of environmental violence. At NTNU, he is the Principal Investigator of the Research council of Norway funded project “Climate Rights” which develops methodologies for designing evidence across the geographies of climate cases. He co-directs with the architect Olga Lucko, the research agency INTERPRT, a member organisation of Investigative Commons initiated by Forensic Architecture. INTERPRT, brings together architects, artist-researchers, film-makers, and coders to expose violations linked to extractive projects, corporate capture, and related violations worldwide. INTERPRT’s online platform, with investigative journalists DISCLOSE and Princeton Science and Global Security, exposed the toxic legacy of French nuclear colonialism in the Pacific and won the 2022 Sigma Award for Data Journalism. INTERPRT’s most recent major exhibition on Sámi land rights and truth commission process in Sápmi was commissioned by the Helsinki Biennial. The research from the exhibition was later developed into evidence files for the Øyfjellet case by the Climate Rights project. Ahmed holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths. He is currently working on a book on sensing ecocide.

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