Powers of Truth workshop: Using Satellite imagery to investigate Xinjiang's Detention Camps

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Sunday 3 October 2021, 14:30 - 17:00 at Studio 1, Kunstquartier Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin
Cost: €8 · Language: English · Tickets

Part of the conference POWERS OF TRUTH: China, Tech, Art & Resistance (1-3 October 2021)

Using Satellite imagery to investigate Xinjiang's Detention Camps

With: Alison Killing (Architect and Journalist, UK/NL) and Megha Rajagopalan (Award-winning International Correspondent for BuzzFeed News, IN/UK)

A hands-on exploration of the network of internment camps and prisons built across Xinjiang as part of the Chinese government’s campaign against Muslim minorities.

Surveillance and heavy restrictions on journalists’ movement have made it difficult to research this issue – we will look at the techniques that our team used to find and analyse the camp network regardless. We'll use Google Earth to analyse a small number of camps, developing skills in satellite imagery analysis and looking at the specific architectural and urban characteristics of the camp network.

Alison Killing is a licensed architect and geospatial analyst who uses maps and data to investigate urgent social issues. She worked in architecture and urban planning practices in London and Rotterdam for several years, before starting her own studio, Killing Architects. Since then she has produced and curated an exhibition on death and architecture called Death in Venice, carried out research into the reconstruction. in Haiti following the 2010 earthquake and developed Migration Trail, a mapped data visualisation about migration to Europe. In 2021 she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, together with Megha Rajagopalan and Christo Buschek for a series of articles exposing the network of detention camps in Xinjiang, China.

Megha Rajagopalan is a senior correspondent for BuzzFeed News. She has been a reporter for BuzzFeed News based in China and Thailand as well as in Israel and the Palestinian territories, and before that she was a political correspondent for Reuters in China.

Registration

  • The number of participants is limited to 16. Booking is essential. Please get your ticket here: https://pretix.eu/disruptionlab/satelliteimagery

  • Please bring your laptop, charger and mouse to participate in the workshop

  • No prior experience is required