One more week of “Visual Investigations” at the Architekturmuseum der TUM in the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich! The exhibition delves into a new discipline—visual investigations—in which architecture intersects with advocacy, journalism, and law in the pursuit of justice and accountability.
To coincide with the opening of the show in October 2024, we have published a reader that presents insights into the current discourse within the emergent field, illustrated by intriguing case studies from around the world. It highlights the role of architecture as a key area of expertise that defines this evolving practice.

As the exhibition comes to an end, our publication is both a documentation of the exhibited text content, and—with its BOOK+ extension—serves as an archive for image, audio and video material that brought the case studies to life. It also provides up-to-date information on the progress of ongoing projects!
Scroll through a few examples of the connection between the exhibition and our book and BOOK+ and get your copy here (also available in German) .


Video analyses created by SITU Research in collaboration with Human Rights Watch and the National Lawyers Guild document the excessive use of force by NYPD police officers against civil rights demonstrators in the context of Black Lives Matter protests in 2020.


Jan Rothuizen’s artwork Camp on the road to Ghulja, Mongolkure accompanies the investigation into Xinjiang’s network of detention camps by Alison Killing, Megha Rajagopalan, and Christo Buschek.
In our book, you can find the same drawing on a double spread, revealing information sourced from interviews with former detainees of the camp, satellite imagery, amongst others. Scanning the case study’s QR code gets you to our BOOK+ content, where you can, for example, zoom in on every detail of the multi-layered drawing.


The exhibition also features an immersive audio-video installation by independent researchers and investigators from Bellingcat, who teamed up with Colombian news agency Cerosetenta to investigate the murder of indigenous journalist Abelardo Liz during a land rights demonstration in Corinto.
Due to current developments in case studies such as the one on settler expansion in the West Bank or the hearings of young people on climate responsibility before the ICJ in The Hague, we continue to tell the stories of the exhibition in the book. Readers will also be informed about any further venues of the exhibition through announcements and documentation. Stay up to date via BOOK+!