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RT 6 - Earthly poison

1972. Bangladesh is a new state emerging out of a national liberation war and a cyclone. Inspired by the Green Revolution, UNICEF undertook a major public health engineering project, drilling millions of hand pumps aimed at providing safe drinking water, and over subsequent years sinking private tube wells became normative practice. Although considered a major humanitarian success, it exposed a significant part of the population to ground water aquifers rich in arsenic.

RT 4 - Devil's Advocate

Current conflicts over territ­ory and resources bring to the fore the import­ance of spatial and mater­ial evid­ence to the resol­u­tion of legal and polit­ical disputes. The seminar Devils Advoc­ate in CRA sets out to inter­rog­ate such present­a­tion of evid­ence in diverse and often contra­dict­ory polit­ical and legal forums. Its goal is to think the artic­u­la­tion of expert evid­ence and docu­ment­a­tion with legal advocacy, towards a prag­mat­ics of inter­ven­tion through law, while at the same time ques­tion­ing the limits of law itself as a polit­ical tool.

Lecture:: Demons, Dungeons and The Shared Humanity of the Non-Human

Edmund Clark
Centre for Research Architecture
March 5 2013 2-4 pm
RHB 312

This talk will explore how Clark represents the experience of control and detention in the hidden prisons of the War on Terror.

Focussing on his books 'Guantanamo: If The Light Goes Out' and 'Control Order House' he will discuss how he combines photography of architecture, space and objects with found material, to evoke wider ideas of shared experience and humanity.

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