.top-header{ transform: scale(0.5); transform-origin: top left; width: 200%; } Unstable Installation Series: Tavares, P. (coord.) (2019) Expulsions: Forced Displacements and Archaeological Destruction in the Mega-Mining Project Mirador in the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuadorian Amazonia. Rio de Janeiro and London: autonoma and Forensic Architecture.

Tavares, P. (coord.) (2019) Expulsions: Forced Displacements and Archaeological Destruction in the Mega-Mining Project Mirador in the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuadorian Amazonia. Rio de Janeiro and London: autonoma and Forensic Architecture.



Expulsions reconstructs mega-mining as a territorial process in which forced displacement, ecological devastation and archaeological destruction operate as one coordinated violence. The report rejects the administrative separation of human rights, environmental damage and cultural heritage. Satellite imagery, government documents, corporate reports, interviews, field visits and collaborative mapping are assembled to demonstrate how the Mirador mine transformed the Cordillera del Cóndor through coercion, enclosure and erasure. Its iconic contribution is the evidentiary map: territory becomes a witness whose altered surfaces register legal and political acts. The methodology is explicitly collaborative, developed with affected communities and local organisations rather than extracting testimony into an external expert framework. Architecture and cartography function here as instruments of counter-forensics, making dispersed harms visible within a common spatial sequence. The report bridges environmental justice, indigenous territorial rights, archaeology and investigative architecture by showing that extractive projects do not merely occupy land; they reorganise memory, legality and the conditions under which communities can remain attached to place.