[FOUND] Interpretar la Naturaleza para Encontrar a Quienes nos Faltan

Over 120,000 persons are reported as disappeared in Mexico. Behind each case there is a family searching for answers. FOUND combines technology and grassroots knowledge to search, locate and drive systemic change.

🌱 Driven by families and research communities

FOUND is guided and motivated by search collectives and researchers from CentroGeo, IPN, UNAM, UdeG, Oxford, Bristol, Bath, Cambridge, and the Autonomous Universities of Zacatecas and San Luis Potosí.

Institutional Collaborations

• Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General
• UK’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO)
• Local Search Commissions and Attorney’s Offices of Jalisco, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí, and Chihuahua (Mexico)
• ⁠Colombian Search Unit
• ⁠Mexico’s National Search Commission
• ⁠Mexican Science and Technology Secretariat
• ⁠British Embassy in Mexico City
• British Association for Forensic Anthropology

Technologies in Action

• Multispectral & Hyperspectral Imaging
• Airborne LiDAR
• Seismic Noise Interferometry (TIRSA)
• Electrical Resistivity Tomography, Conductivimetry Measurements
• Satellite Spectral Analysis
• Forensic Entomology, Botany, Territorial Analysis, Soil Science

The Role of Buscadoras

Women-led collectives are at the heart of FOUND’s work. They have reshaped the national conversation on disappearance and justice. Their search practices, born from lived experience, are vital forensic knowledge. FOUND listens, learns, and incorporates their methods into our technological efforts.

Partners