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Megan Vipond
Embracing Urban Decay I explore the transformative power of decay within a central part of Johannesburg’s inner city and study its material and technical dimensions. I have focused on decay as a...
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Simphiwe Mojapelo
[Un]curated: The decontextualised museum My research investigates the power of modern museums in recontextualising and culturally displacing objects of traditional genesis. I critique the exhibition...
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Heike Melcher
Context-Appropriate Industrial Repurposing My project tackles premature deindustrialisation in South Africa and argues for a local-scale industrial model to help reindustrialise cities and improve...
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Lerato Mabudusha
Legoga: Centring motherhood in Johannesburg My project draws extensively from the birthing rituals of the BaPedi cosmology, their culture, and architectures. I began by looking at the Bapedi homestead...
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Masego Musi
Kitso Ya Tlhago: An alternate archive in aid of the land claims process for indigenous South Africans Land in South Africa is a deeply contested resource, marred by a history of dispossession that has...
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Pranav Kalyan
[Po]Laerates of a Diaspora: Excavations of Hindu Indian diasporic landscape(s) This project draws inspiration from myths and storytelling to explore the assimilation of sacred religious practices in...
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Sihle Gumede
Looting Resilience: Subtitle subversive ownership tactics for the anti-fragile mall This design proposal addresses the impact of looting in communities through subversive spatial programming, drawing...
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Khaalid Dangor
The City of Situations: A contemporary critique of capitalism and the spectacle This project explores the concept of the “spectacle” as described by Guy Debord and apply it to the socio-economic...
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Tasmiya Chandlay
The Making of The Mother: Dismantling institutionally complicit architectures towards ethical futures “The Making of the Mother” explores the concept of institutionalisation through metaphors of a...
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Delon Green
Refiguring the Archive: A new architectural vocabulary through the hybridisation of the traditional and colonial architecture in Ndar, Senegal. The project goal is to observe traditional Senegalese...
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