Ashkan Cheheltan

Ashkan Cheheltan is an architect and spatial researcher. He earned his Master’s degree at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) and has been collaborating with Forensic Architecture and Forensis since 2021. His research has focused on investigating crimes connected to Germany’s colonial history, police violence, and racist terror attacks in Germany and beyond.
Ashkan is a visiting researcher with the New Illegalisms Study Group at the Fluminense Federal University (GENI/UFF), where he examines state, corporate, and environmental violence. He is contributing to the development of a Forensic Architecture unit at the NGO Redes de Maré, in Rio de Janeiro, training local researchers in tools and methodologies for investigating police violence in Rio’s favelas.

Ashkan Cheheltan is an architect and spatial researcher. He is a doctoral candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London, and has been collaborating with Forensic Architecture and Forensis since 2021. His research focuses on investigating crimes connected to Germany’s colonial history, police violence, and racist terror attacks in Germany and beyond.

Additionally, he is contributing to the development of a forensic architecture unit at the NGO Redes de Maré in Rio de Janeiro, training local researchers in FA’s tools and methodologies to investigate police violence in Rio’s favelas.