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Another week, another Practitioner Story. Today, explores the use of design as a tool for participation in city planning, reflecting on her personal involvement in past projects. Read more at: https://justspatialdesignza.com/2023/06/21/bringing-justice-in-planning-public-projects-design-as-a-tool-for-participation/

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 feeli…

In this week’s publication for Practitioner Stories we have an exciting contribution from Kekelwa Akombelwa, presenting a poster that critically reviews architecture literature, exploring decoloniality through alternative knowledge systems. Read the full article here: https://justspatialdesignza.com/2023/06/08/decoloniality-and-its-technological-intepretations/

DECOLONIALITY AND ITS TECHNOLOGICAL INTEPRETATIONS. Project introduction The project aimed to create a poster that critically reviews literature based on architecture and visually represents their interpretation. The poster was created by Akheel Kha…

This week on Practitioner Stories we have Camilla Allan presenting a summary of her Masters Thesis, recently completed at the Politecnico di Milano. In it, she proposes an analytical framework to address urban informality by reconsidering the Metabolists’ utopian paradigms. Read the full summary here: https://justspatialdesignza.com/2023/05/24/informal-metabolism/

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 spatiall…

It’s week two of Practitioner Stories! Today we bring you an idea by who re-thinks notions of waste handling by observing the practice of bricolage in architecture. Read full story here: https://justspatialdesignza.com/2023/05/10/radical-materials-brick-collage/

Radical Materials [brick-collage] 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 …

We are back for another round of Practitioner Stories! Up first is an idea from on how we could re-think the suburban model we are currently facing in South Africa. Read her full story here: https://lnkd.in/dz6hHdZb

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 sha…

Architect of LemonPebble Design reflects on witness, archive and memory of her family and homes around the Group Areas Act evictions in Johannesburg in this latest contribution.

(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, ideolo…

A fascinating project story from this week around the Cosmological links between Southern Africa and Tswana migrationary spatial practices.

Migration as Cosmological Technic Questions on Cyclical Migration Why do Tswana tribes amongst other tribal groups in Southern Africa cyclically migrate? This is a story of the Barolong Boo Rra Tshidi clan of the Tswana tribe who h…

Our contribution this week comes from Jhono Bennett, who reflects on his work through 1 to 1 - Agency of Engagement on how the word 'community' is used (and mis-used) in spatial development practice in South Africa.

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 cap…

Architect unpacks her master's thesis work on indegenous map making and through her design research project: the Anti-Atlas.

https://justspatialdesignza.com/2022/03/23/the-anti-atlas/

The Anti-Atlas This project started with a map, a 1930 colonial map of Dar es Salaam created during the British administration. I couldn’t help but be enticed by the beautifully drawn, meticulous historical maps …

A great resource from Namibia University of Science and Technology - NUST

Participatory Informal Settlement Upgrading Project: Namibia | Integrated Land Management Institute The Integrated Land Management Institute (ILMI) at the Namibia University of Science and Technology (NUST) has been selected as the implementing partner for the project “Participatory Informal Settlement Upgrading in Namibia. Urban diagnostics and informal settlement upgrading strategies in Namibi...

Our Cohort 1 contributor Olasumbo Olaniyi has developed this piece of work from her master's thesis where she explored the role of surveillance on public space in Joburg, SA.

Surveillance and Civic Institutions: A presence and/or absence This article has been developed as an excerpt from my Masters’ Thesis Project developed at the Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa in GSA Unit 14 GSA Unit 14 r…

Elao Martin asks us a series of critical questions around what displacement and spatial practice means in Northern Namibia.

Read the full story here: https://justspatialdesignza.com/2022/07/13/urban-development-in-northern-namibia-questions-around-the-displacement-of-local-spatial-practices/

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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 integ…