Tag: Socio-Technical Support
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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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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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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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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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ASF Challenging Practice: Student Summaries
The students were requested to summarise the 9 chapters of ASF International’s Challenging Practice into short Pecha Kucha style videos. Chapter 0: The Urban Context Class Read Individually Chapter 1: Disasters, risk reduction and Reconstruction Mandy Schindler, Gareth Howe, Israel Ogundare, Saddum Biwa & Binaica Morar Chapter 2: Discrimination Daniel Grout, Adam Propheta, David Flax…
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