Category: Researcher 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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Informal Metabolism
RETHINKING THE METABOLIST URBAN UTOPIAS TO ADDRESS URBAN INFORMALITY How do we search for subaltern solutions to the insatiable need for safe and affordable housing in our systemically and spatially oppressive urban environments? Can the successes and failures of previous architectural movements inform our approach towards understanding and tackling urban informality? Completed as part of…
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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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(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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The Center, the In-Between and the Periphery
I have a keen interest in cities and the urbanisation process. I can trace this interest to my experiences growing up in an apartheid era black township. I feel this has increased my awareness of the challenges of housing, economic development, and the lack of social integration my home in Soweto has with the rest…
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South African Backyard Rentals: A Case for Support
Backyard rental accommodation is a prominent practice within South Africa’s current set of housing options. Despite the immense popularity and prevalence of this form of housing – possibly due to its lower visual prominence in comparison to informal settlements – it has been largely neglected by policymakers and researchers until fairly recently (Scheba & Turok,…
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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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