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.

Our latest investigation examines the hidden practice of asylum seekers being coerced by Greek border guards into assisting in illegal pushbacks across the Evros/Meriç river border between Greece and Türkiye. We interviewed two survivors, now in Switzerland, who exposed the conditions of their forced labour while at Tychero Border Guard Station. The project supports testimonies submitted before legal fora to expose the infrastructures of violence and secrecy shaping Europe’s borders today.

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Developed in collaboration with WAV research collective at the request of Legal Centre Lesvos, and with further research by Republik magazine and Solomon.