Landscapes, ecologies and human voices can record violence – and research and investigative practices can trace them.
Across Palestine the land itself has become an archive, a witness etched with marks of violence and endurance. What does it mean for bodies and landscapes to bear witness? How do plants, soils and orchards carry testimonies? How can methods of documentation – from oral histories to digital forensics – become acts of accountability and resistance? How can we equip communities with the tools to articulate and provide evidence of the violence against them? And what other methods of resistance and resilience are Palestinians cultivating and sustaining under continuous colonial destruction and erasure?
Listen to the full conversation with architect and writer Meera Badran and author and lead Palestine researcher at Forensic Architecture Shourideh Molavi, about the role of the land as witness – foregrounding how design, research and education can become tools to defend the rights of Palestinians and the future of Palestinian land.
