Up Close Cape Town Part 2: A Reluctant Monument
[ May 8, 2013; 8:00 am; ] This second in this series of posts looking at projects produced by the students of Unit 17 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, during a field trip to Cape Town. This project is entitled ‘A Reluctant Monument’ and is sited in a disused granite quarry at the foot of Table Mountain, it investigates the effect of suburban boundary walls as architectural artefacts of Post-Apartheid fear, and traces the history of bounded space in Cape Town.
Watch: Urban Age Electric City: Saskia Sassen – Urbanising technology
Happy Friday! Join Future Cape Town and enjoy Saskia Sassen’s talk on urbanising technology
Future African Cities: The new post-colonialisation
A recent lecture by Vanessa Watson of the African Centre for Cities questions how many of the latest master-planning proposals for rapidly developing African Cities are at best fictional renderings of false utopias, and at worst artefacts of a new type of exploitative and damaging property-development.
Stories from the city: Museum of Brisbane
Stories from the city: Museum of Brisbane is brought to you by Cartel Film Production.
Recovery of the Real: Up Close Cape Town
This series of posts will look at a few of the projects produced by the students of Unit 17 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London, during a field trip to Cape Town. The first project to feature is entitled ‘Strategy for Philippi Farming’. This project defines a strategy for the 4528 hectares of mixed unconsolidated land of Philippi, to intervene in the unregulated mining industry re-mediating the landscape to harness water and wind for the production of energy and food. It proposed solutions to macro instability at micro level, proposing to intensify the productivity of the Phillippi community so they could absorb external fluctuations whilst prospering through internal enterprise.
Future Cape Town to host the Strelka Institute
On 12 and 13 April 2013, Future Cape Town will be hosting a group of students from the Strelka Institute of Design, Media and Architecture, in Cape Town.
Harrington Imaginings: Media School & Pedestrian Friendly Culture Hub
This week we take a look at some of the works which emerged from the honours architecture studio entitled Flaneur, Space, Time run by Adam Lee Casey at the University of Cape Town last year. With this final post we look at Mia Borman’s pedestrian prioritised Culture Design Lab and Arno Van Wyk’s Media School.
Harrington Imaginings: Multi-use Spaces
This week we take a look at some of the works which emerged from the honours architecture studio entitled Flaneur, Space, Time run by Adam Lee Casey at the University of Cape Town last year. With this post we look at Tali Gild’s centre for ‘Design Communication’ and Leonard Miller’s dense multi-use concept.
Harrington Imaginings: Youth Centre and Cultural Development Lab
This week we take a look at some of the works which emerged from the honours architecture studio entitled Flaneur, Space, Time run by Adam Lee Casey at the University of Cape Town last year. With this post we look at Karina McKindly’s Youth Centre and combination of natural landscapes as well as Charlton Botha’ Cultural Development Lab.
Harrington Imaginings: Sound Lab & Artistry Complex
This week we take a look at some of the works which emerged from the honours architecture studio entitled Flaneur, Space, Time run by Adam Lee Casey at the University of Cape Town last year. With this post we look at Robert Bowen’s Cultural Development Sound Lab and Andrew Turpin’s mutli-use studio concepts.
