THE MURDER OF HALIT YOZGAT
Project team: Forensic Architecture (United Kingdom) Collaborators: documenta 14, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Initiative 6 April, The People’s Tribunal “Unraveling the NSU Complex” (Germany); Official inquiries: presented to Hessen Parliamentary NSU-Inquiry, used in the Report of the German Federal Parliamentary NSU-Inquiry, 2017 (Germany); Original incident: Kassel, Germany, April 6, 2006; Investigation: 2016–17
On 6 April 2006, 21-year-old Halit Yozgat was murdered in his family-run internet cafe in Kassel, Germany. His was the ninth of ten racist murders committed in Germany between 2000 and 2007 by a neo-Nazi group known as the National Socialist Underground (NSU). At the time of the killing Andreas Temme, an agent of the German domestic intelligence service (Verfassungsschutz), was present in the cafe. Temme claimed not to have witnessed the murder.
Within the 77 square meters of the internet cafe, and the 9 minutes 26 seconds during which the incident unfolded, different actors—members of migrant communities, a state employee, and the murderers—were positioned in relation to each other in a manner yet to be made clear, but one whose implications bear great political significance. This unit of space and time stands as a microcosm of the social and political controversy known as the “NSU Complex.”
Commissioned by Unraveling the NSU Complex, a Germany-wide alliance of antiracist activists, Forensic Architecture’s investigation became possible when hundreds of documents from the Hessen police investigation of the murder—reports, witness depositions, photographs, and computer and phone logs—were leaked at the end of 2015.
Image: A composite of Forensic Architecture’s physical and virtual reconstructions of the internet café where Halit Yozgat was murdered; Image by Forensic Architecture, 2017 © Forensic Architecture
Designing Peace
What would be possible if we were to design for peace?
Designing Peace explores the unique role design can play in pursuing peace and creating a more equitable world. The exhibition features design projects from around the globe that look at ways to create and sustain more durable peaceful interactions—from creative confrontations that challenge existing structures to designs that demand embracing justice and truth in a search for reconciliation.
Visitors will encounter a wide range of design responses to the underlying reasons for conflict and division and will be encouraged to consider their own agency in designing peace.
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Defining Peace
Designing the Future Now
How Can Design Address the Root Causes of Conflict?
How Can Design Embrace Truth and Dignity in a Search for Peace and Justice?
How Can Design Engage Creative Confrontation?
How Can Design Facilitate the Transition from Instability to Peace?
How Can Design Support Humane Forms of Peace and Security?
Imagining the Future Now
Securing Our Collective Future
Papers, Please
Papers, Please
The Adventures of Daly Graphic Novels
An Architecture of Peace
Body Mapping
Body Mapping
Christmas Operations
How Can Design Support Humane Forms of Peace and Security?
In Transit Studio
Island Tracker
Island Tracker
Social Emergency Response Centers
Startblok Elzenhagen
Teeter-Totter Wall
Teeter-Totter Wall
The Business of Peace
Astropolitics: Depletion of Terrestrial Resources and the Cosmic Future of Capitalism
CONIFA
Hate Speech Lexicons
How Can Design Address the Root Causes of Conflict?
New World Summit – Rojava
New World Summit – Rojava
New World Summits
Peace Pavilion
Positive Peace Index
Rare Earthenware
Regreening Africa
Regreening Africa
Stalled!
Universal Declaration of Human Rights Posters
Art the Arms Fair
Beautiful Trouble Toolbox
Black Lives Matter Harlem Street Mural
Black Lives Matter Street Mural Census
Black Lives Matter Street Mural Visualization
Extinction Symbol
How Can Design Engage Creative Confrontation?
Maps (Bullet Rug Series)
Objects, People, and Peace
Universality through Visual Symbols
World Peace Symbol
The Chronic
“To Whom Does the Earth Belong?”
Citizen-State, a Bottom-Up Reparation Model
Conflict Kitchen
Conflict Kitchen
Designing the Kitchen
How Can Design Embrace Truth and Dignity in a Search for Peace and Justice?
My Ancestors’ Garden
Paper Monuments
The Murder of Halit Yozgat
Women, War, and Peace
BLUE: The Architecture of UN Peace Missions
Casa Azul
Designing for Dignity
Designing for Urban Inclusivity
HarassMap
HarassMap
How Can Design Facilitate the Transition from Instability to Peace?
Ideas Box
Ideas Box
Ideas Box
Jordan River Peace Park
Korea Remade
Musings on Peace
Recoding Post-War Syria
RefAid
RefAid App
Safe Passage Bags Workshop
Stone Garden