Environmental Justice
(February 2024)
Shared by Nabil Ahmed | Traced by Radha D’Souza
(Norsk oversettelse kommer)
The course will be exploring a set of terms that cross references INTERPRT’s practice around concepts, methodologies and legal/rights terminologies. These will be drawn from a digital, indexical book project INTERPRT are currently working on. We will then move to a live project where participants will collaborate on collecting information, and adding, contributing to a common map or a 3D model on an environmental case/site.
Nabil Ahmed is a researcher and writer from Dhaka, Bangladesh. For over fifteen years his spatial practice and writing has interrogated the representational challenges of environmental destruction
and conflict across visual culture and law. He is the founder and co-director of INTERPRT, a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations. The group’s online platform on the toxic legacy of French nuclear tests in Maohi Nui (French Polynesia) with the investigative newsroom DISCLOSE won the 2022 Sigma award for data journalism. He is professor of visual intervention at The Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KiT) in the faculty of architecture and design, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim where he leads the Norwegian Research Council funded project “Climate Rights: Designing Visual
Evidence for Climate Cases”. He is a member of the advisory board for Stop
Ecocide International.
Radha D’Souza is a professor of law and former barrister at the High Court of Bombay. She holds a B.A (Philosophy, University of Mumbai), LLB (University of Mumbai) and PhD (Geography and Law, University of Auckland) and taught at the Universities of Auckland and Waikato in New Zealand before coming to University of Westminster. Radha is a writer, critic and commentator on Third World issues and a social justice activist. Together with Jonas Staal she is co-founder of the Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes (Digital Archive: Court for Intergenerational Climate Crimes – Framer Framed). She is currently a senior fellow at the Leuphana University Lüneburg, Germany. Her research areas include international law, sociology, human geography, development studies social movement studies, and comparative philosophy and theory.