Nabil Ahmed

About

Nabil Ahmed is Professor of Visual Intervention at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art (KiT), Faculty of Architecture and Design (AD) at NTNU. He serves as the co-leader of the PhD Programme Board in Artistic Research and head of Research at KiT.

At NTNU, he leads two major projects: he is the Principal Investigator of the ERC project Sensing Ecocide: Advancing Accountability for Environmental Atrocity Crimes (starting in 2026) and the Research Council of Norway-funded project Climate Rights: Designing Evidence for Climate Justice. He is also the Project Leader of Visible Truth: The Rise of Emerging Technologies in Investigative Practices for Building Accountability, funded through NTNU’s Artistic Research programme.

For over 15 years, his spatial practice and writing have examined the aesthetic, representational, and legal challenges of environmental destruction and conflict across visual culture, environmental humanities, and international law. He is the founder and co-director of INTERPRT (with Olga Lucko), a research agency dedicated to environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations. INTERPRT’s team—including architects, filmmakers, researchers, and developers—has conducted investigations into environmental destruction and human rights violations related to extractive industries, nuclear testing, and conflicts in West Papua, Brazil, Nigeria, Maohi Nui (French Polynesia), and the Pacific seabed. Their most recent major exhibition, Colonial Present: Counter-Mapping the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Sápmi, was commissioned by the Helsinki Biennial in 2023. INTERPRT is a member organization of Investigative Commons, initiated by Forensic Architecture.

Ahmed holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Publications

2025

Ahmed, Nabil; Johanson, Oskar. (2025) Climate rights: a spatial framework for environmental action. European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy
Academic article

2022

Philippe, Sébastien; Schoenberger, Sonya; Ahmed, Nabil. (2022) Radiation Exposures and Compensation of Victims of French Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in Polynesia. Science and Global Security
Academic article

2021

Ahmed, Nabil; Cann, Esther. (2021) Road to Injustice: Ecological Impunity and Resistance in West Papua.
Chapter

2020

Ahmed, Nabil. (2020) Infrastructural Snare. e-flux Architecture
Academic article

2019

Ahmed, Nabil. (2019) Ecocide in West Papua: The Case of the Grasberg Mine. Candide – Journal for Architectural Knowledge
Academic article

2018

Ahmed, Nabil. (2018) Architecture, Justice and its Demand. The Architectural Review
Popular scientific article

2017

Ahmed, Nabil. (2017) Proof of Ecocide: Towards a Forensic Practice for the Proposed International Crime Against the Environment. Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science
Academic article

2016

Alonzo, Michael; Hoek, Jamon Van den; Ahmed, Nabil. (2016) Capturing coupled riparian and coastal disturbance from industrial mining using cloud-resilient satellite time series analysis. Scientific Reports
Academic article

2013

Ahmed, Nabil. (2013) Entangled Earth. Third Text
Academic article
Ahmed, Nabil. (2013) Earthly Poison: Sensing Arsenic in the Bengal Delta.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

Ahmed, Nabil; Johanson, Oskar. (2025) Climate rights: a spatial framework for environmental action. European Journal of Cultural Management and Policy
Academic article
Philippe, Sébastien; Schoenberger, Sonya; Ahmed, Nabil. (2022) Radiation Exposures and Compensation of Victims of French Atmospheric Nuclear Tests in Polynesia. Science and Global Security
Academic article
Ahmed, Nabil. (2020) Infrastructural Snare. e-flux Architecture
Academic article
Ahmed, Nabil. (2019) Ecocide in West Papua: The Case of the Grasberg Mine. Candide – Journal for Architectural Knowledge
Academic article
Ahmed, Nabil. (2018) Architecture, Justice and its Demand. The Architectural Review
Popular scientific article
Ahmed, Nabil. (2017) Proof of Ecocide: Towards a Forensic Practice for the Proposed International Crime Against the Environment. Archaeological and Environmental Forensic Science
Academic article
Alonzo, Michael; Hoek, Jamon Van den; Ahmed, Nabil. (2016) Capturing coupled riparian and coastal disturbance from industrial mining using cloud-resilient satellite time series analysis. Scientific Reports
Academic article
Ahmed, Nabil. (2013) Entangled Earth. Third Text
Academic article

Part of book/report

Ahmed, Nabil; Cann, Esther. (2021) Road to Injustice: Ecological Impunity and Resistance in West Papua.
Chapter
Ahmed, Nabil. (2013) Earthly Poison: Sensing Arsenic in the Bengal Delta.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

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