Inside the Milan Triennale’s UK Pavilion with Forensic Architecture

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This March the V&A, in collaboration with the British Council and Art Jameel, represent the UK as an international participant at the XXII Milan Triennale, with the exhibition Maps of Defiance. The project expands the V&A’s interest in cultural heritage reconstruction and protection, as explored in our Culture in Crisis programme, and emphasizes the importance of understanding contemporary digital design process, with all its myriad applications, as it evolves today.

Maps of Defiance exhibits the crucial work of research agency Forensic Architecture (FA) and their ongoing collaboration with Yazda, the global organisation for the Yazidi people.

Presented in Milan are the initial stages of a wider project, which is still an active investigation.

In order to produce a detailed record of the current condition of these sites, Forensic Architecture developed ways to work accurately, discreetly and safely in these difficult surroundings. Using kites, drones and bottle rigs for cameras – inexpensive tools that are easily acquired and transported – the documentation team created a database of material for analysis. The thousands of images produced from each site were then processed by Forensic Architecture into a 3D point cloud through a process known as ‘structure from motion’ photogrammetry.

For the Milan Triennale, the V&A has extended and expanded the work shown at the London Design Biennale in 2018.

For Milan we have placed emphasis on Forensic Architecture’s technique and provided more context to the Yazidi’s culture, heritage and architecture. We hope that this documentation can create a legacy for the Yazidi culture, particularly as little formal documentation of their history and culture exists.

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