As part of a newly developed Visual Investigations workshop, first-year students from the
This organisation is an international body comprising 193 member states that have ratified the Chemical Weapons Convention and committed to the complete elimination of chemical weapons stockpiles. Established in 1997, the OPCW was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2013 for its efforts.
Over the course of three days, students from both programmes explored how investigative practices from journalism are increasingly being incorporated into the fields of art, design, filmmaking, and photography. Led by Jake Charles Rees, curator, producer, and Programme Manager for The Centre for Investigative Journalism in London, this new study component enables students to develop public interest stories related to technology, society, and politics. For the brief developed in collaboration with the OPCW, students focused on case studies related to the Syrian Civil War, espionage and the OPCW, overlooked histories, and the destruction of chemical weapons.
The outcomes were presented on the final day of the workshop to Anne Glick, Public Affairs Officer, and Elisabeth Waechter, Head of Public Affairs and OPCW Spokesperson.
Student participants: Abdulrahman Al-Ward, Mateo Arciniegas Huertas, Pamela Bachar, Kjel Bader, Ying Yun Chen, Pallak Dutta, Bárbara Fernandes Fonseca, Dolores Ganuza, Reina Hasbini, Anna Lebedieva, Francesco Pio Lenti, Xinglin Li, Hemanth Madupu, Curtis Mbella Ngom, Ágota Mucsi, Oriane Périno, Ennie Petersen, Giada Pieber, Justinas Prekeris, Janina Schröter, Nicole Zacharia Simonsen, Lena Steinbauer, Joske Vink, Nola der Weduwe, and Stefan Zondervan
Supervision: Jake Charles Rees, Edwin Jakobs, Niels Schrader, and Shadman Shahid
