Francesco Sebregondi is an architect and researcher specialising in digital investigation, particularly the use of visual and spatial analysis to document violence and human rights violations.
He is the founding director of INDEX, an independent investigative NGO established in 2020, contributing evidence on cases of public interest to courts and media alike. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at Forensic Architecture(2011–2020), where he led international investigations and co-edited the field’s foundational publication, Forensis: The Architecture of Public Truth (Sternberg Press, 2014).
His research explores the production of evidence in media environments, examining how spatial analysis can anchor truth claims against epistemic uncertainty. This practice-based inquiry draws on his ongoing investigative work on police violence cases in France and around the world. He holds a PhD from the Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London (2019); his dissertation introduced the notion of technologies of containment through an analysis of the Gaza blockade. His writings have appeared in the Architectural Review, Multitudes, AOC, Volume, Jadaliyya, and City, among other journals and edited volumes.
He is currently a Research Fellow at EnsadLab, Paris, and has held teaching positions at Parsons Paris, ISIA Urbino and the Royal College of Art. He lectures regularly on forensic architecture, open-source investigation, and the politics of evidence.
