

A Violent House Triptych
Three structures from three separate conflicts, the architectural ‘Ordinary Men’ of incredible violence and trauma. All three given the...


Ex-Sniper's Nest, Confuses Nation-Building for Peace-Building
Despite the obvious merits of the architectural responses and endeavors employed to resurrect the site over a 22 year period, and...


Peace-building narrative on Robben Island
In 2015, "South African president Jacob Zuma re-iterated his controversial position that teenage mothers should be sent to Robben Island...


WARM Festival 2017
Call for Papers / Why Remember? - Memory and Forgetting in Times of War and Its Aftermath 3-Day Conference


Same, Same but Different
‘Same, same but different’ - The National Museum of Memory, Bogotá, Colombia, appears to be yet another gentrified and sanitised vehicle...


Out of Sight, Out of Mind: On the History and Legality of Detention Centres
Concentration camp, detention centre, and internment camp are different names for the same concept: “A camp where persons are confined,...


Shaping Safety: How Architects Can Build a Stronger Peace
“The built environment is not a magic solution that can feed hungry children and prevent violence – but it can act as a salve for...


The idea of destroying someones memory,
Architecture that “aspires to deal with memory can only do so by taking into account what memory struggles in vein to resist” An...


Creeping demolition by stealth
The PbCRC proposal to rework the Maze Prizon suggested by the board and their appointed architects Libeskind and Egret West risks a less...


Secret Scottish POW Camps of the Past
Secret POW Camps of the past, is a project exploring the destruction of Scottish memory. There were hundreds of ‘prisoner of war camps’...