Category: Practitioner Contribution
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Bringing Justice in Planning Public Projects: Design as a Tool for Participation
Introduction The word ‘city’ is derived from the French word ‘cité’ meaning town. Around the sixteenth century, the idea of city came to represent the character of life in a neighborhood, the feeling people harbored about neighbors and strangers and attachments to place.[1] I’m personally more fond of the cite’s anthropological consciousness; which describes it…
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Radical Materials [brick-collage]
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Radical Materials [brick-collage] Modern material handling requires revolutionary thinking. With the increasing scarcity of virgin raw materials, demolition sites represent an untapped resource, a stockpile of potentially valuable, pre-used materials. This project aims to re-think waste by designing a catalogue of new materials with it. However, its purpose is not to debate the pros and…
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The Suburban Commune: A case for Johannesburg
The suburban commune is a motivation for developing a different social structure, it is not a utopia, perhaps overly optimistic. The suburban commune intends to highlight the opportunities of a shared living. An idea to readjust South African cities for better spatial justice and encourage household agency and development, to restructure the sprawling suburbs for…
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(En)Countering Archive
Meditating on…Writing In the past few years there have been several new publications, writings, considerations and contemplations around the concept of archive, its making process, meanings, ideologies, manifestations and contestation. This piece is a meditation on what it would mean to contest the ‘archive’ through a post-colonial approach; it contemplates an alternate counter-archive, embedded in…
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Urban development in Northern Namibia: Questions around the displacement of local spatial practices
There was little to no specific interest on the spatial development in northern Namibia towns, how they could be responsive to existing practices, and how existing domestic practices could be integrated into urban development and planning processes.
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COVID-19 and the concept of “Urban Triage”
Re-Blogged from Point of View by: The concept of ‘Triage’ in medical terms refers to “the assignment of degrees of urgency to wounds or illnesses to decide the order of treatment of a large number of patients or casualties.” Could we apply this term to thinking in urban terms to repurpose elements of the city…
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Community Caution
“ …this project exemplifies community architecture…”, “…the community built this structure….”, “…the community protested against…”, ”..the community agreed with….” When one read these sentences captured in the above picture, hears these When one reads these sentences captured in the above picture, hears these phrases, or even shares these words in your practice or institutional spaces,…
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No Such thing as a Community Centre – Workshops
The first workshop which was funded by the CTIN grant received by 1to1, served our needs to facilitate a shared learning experience between our researchers, who we identified via a social media call and by reaching out to youth activists in our network. We hosted a workshop at the Tshimologong Hub where we unpacked the…
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Hactivate: Vrededorp
1to1, alongside a group of former interns and students, set out to develop a mechanism to support recently graduated students of spatial design. Through a series of discussions and workshops the collaboration formed an idea of developing a series of action research workshops that give current students and pre-professionals a flexible and open space to […]…
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Trying to understand Spatial Inequality in South Africa
Image Reference: Davis, R.J. 1981. The model of the apartheid city according to Davies. [online]http://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/1807?lang=en Workshopping Spatial Inequality in South Africa On 14 February some people* gathered at The Point and discussed some basics around the topic of Spatial Inequality in South Africa. The discussion was mostly anecdotal and involved us sharing our ideas and…
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