Founded in 2024, FAIA builds on the pioneering work of Forensic Architecture and its sister organisation Forensis, to work with – and from within – communities that have suffered state, corporate and environmental violence and to produce evidence to support their claims to justice. It is set up by leading members of these organisations that have undertaken critical work in the Greek context and beyond over the past decade.

Based in Athens and active across Greece, the Balkans, and the Eastern Mediterranean, FAIA operates from the margins of Europe, a frontier where multiple forces collide.

FAIA, from the Greek φαιά, denotes the liminal space between darkness and light. Using aesthetic investigative tools — cartography, 3D modelling, and time-based media — FAIA makes complex events legible to wider publics. Our work spans legal fora, media, politics, and the cultural sphere, creating spaces that foster public accountability, collective debate, and new ways of imagining justice through radical visual practices.

FAIA is the newest member of the Investigative Commons.