Research
Prof Christo Vosloo
Research Outputs
1997 鈥婣bstract: The role of public spaces in urban integration. Accepted for publication in the proceedings of the International Federation of Housing and Planning Annual Conference.
1998 Poster on the Re-development of the Migrant Labour Hostels exhibited at National Housing Conference, Durban.
2007 Paper at W69: Housing Sociology: 2007 International Conference: 鈥淐ommunities and the Frontiers of Housing鈥: The environmental impact of selected low-cost housing developments in the Eastern Cape Province
2008 Paper at Union of International Architects 23rd World Congress of Architecture, Torino, Italy: Architecture as an Expression of South African Identity & Defiance
2010 Article: Towards local identity in South African architecture. Published in Image and Text No.16 (Department of Education Accredited Journal)
2015 Article: Establishing viable architectural firms. Published in Architecture SA (May/ June 2015) (Department of Education Accredited Journal)
2015 Entrepreneurial Education and training for architects. Paper delivered at 5th International Conference on Architecture, Athens.
2015 Entrepreneurial Education and training for architects. Article published in Athens Journal for Architecture Vol 2, Issue 1 (January 2016) ISSN number: 2407-9472
2016 Participatory Entrepreneurial Learning for Architects. Paper delivered at 6th International Conference on Architecture, Athens.
2016 Experiential Entrepreneurial Learning in Architecture. Published in Athens Institute for Education and Research Conference Paper Series ARC2016-2096. ISSN:2241-2891.
2017 Entrepreneurship Education for South African Architectural Students. Paper delivered at 4th International Conference S.Arch. 7-9 May, Hong Kong. Published in Conference Proceedings with ISSN number: 2198-1688. 2017 How enduring South African Firms got there (co-authored with Profs. P. Vosloo and A. Antonites, University of Pretoria). Published in Architecture SA (November/ December 2017) (Department of Education Accredited Journal). 2018 A Framework for Entrepreneurship Education, Training and Support for South African Architects (co-authored with Profs. P. Vosloo and A. Antonites, University of Pretoria). Accepted for publication in South African Journal for Higher Education Vol 32 no. 5 of 2018. (Department of Education Accredited Journal)
2018 An Entrepreneurship Programme for Architects. Paper delivered at 5th International Conference S.ARCH. 22-24 May, Venice Italy
Alexander Opper
Research Output
Opper, A. 2013. Ways of belonging. In B. Law-Viljoen (Ed.). Hotel Yeoville (pp.65-80). Fourthwall Books. Johannesburg.
Opper, A. 2012. 2010 reasons for living. In J. Gaylard (Ed.) 2010 reasons to live in a small town (pp.13-19 (in the 鈥楾EXTS鈥 component of the two-part publication)). VANSA. Johannesburg.
Opper, A. 2012. Productive 鈥楲eakage鈥 and the 鈥楩olding鈥 of the Studio into the Field. FADA Research Newsletter. Issue 16:pp.4-8.
Opper, A. 2012. The Limitations of the 鈥楬alf鈥 and the 鈥榃hole鈥. Art South Africa. Vol. 11:pp.14-15.
Opper, A. 2012. The Art of Subtraction. Art South Africa. Vol. 10:pp.18-19.
Opper, A. 2011. Maja Marx: Fold (Exhibition catalogue for a show at the Whatiftheworld Gallery, Cape Town). Cape Town. Whatiftheworld Gallery. pp.6-12.
Opper, A. 2011. Tables of Uncomfortable Contents: Reading between the Lines. Art South Africa. Vol. 09:pp.34-38.
Opper, A. 2010. Undoing Architecture. On Making: Integrating Approaches to Practice-Led Research in Art and Design. (Ed. L. Farber). FADA, UJ. International colloquium held at FADA, UJ, on 15-16 October 2009.
Opper, A. 2010. The Art of being Public. Art South Africa. 2010. Vol. 09:44-49.
Opper, A. 2010. Creating meaning in architecture and furniture design in a South African context: searching for interdisciplinary lessons between two disciplines. Imaging Ourselves: Visual Identities in Representation. (Ed. L. Farber) FADA, UJ. International conference held at FADA, UJ, on 15 June 2009. pp.48-71.
Recent Conference presentations:
Alexander Opper. A Tale of Three Cities or, bringing back the Public in (PUBLIC) Art. Second Annual Public Art Conference, Maboneng (MOAD), Johannesburg. 16-18 November 2012.
Alexander Opper & Thorsten Deckler. Informal Studio: Ruimsig 鈥 Unsettling the Status Quo. AZA Conference, Cape Town. 13-17 September 2012.
Alexander Opper & Thorsten Deckler. Informal Studio: Ruimsig. Goethe-Institut, One-day Sub-Saharan Regional Conference, Goethe-Institut, Johannesburg. 3 May 2012.
Alexander Opper & Thorsten Deckler. Informal Studio: Ruimsig 鈥 Unsettling the Status Quo. Eunic Architecture Studio #4; Johannesburg. 21-25 November 2011.
Alexander Opper & Thorsten Deckler. Informal Studio Ruimsig. African Perspectives, Casablanca. 3-5 November 2011.
Alexander Opper. (Not) Everything counts in large amounts: Dusty Realism and the productive 鈥榓rchive鈥 of the in between. Synthetic Dirt, Rhodes University.16-17 April 2011.
Alexander Opper. Landscapes and Trajectories of Displacement: Finding Place in Hotel Yeoville; SAVAH. Wits, Johannesburg. 11-15 January 2011.
Dr Finzi Saidi
Research Outcome:
Book chapter entitled 鈥淩ethinking the Role of Landscape Architecture in Urban Cape Town.鈥 in the 鈥淭he South African Landscape Architecture Reader鈥
Recent Conference Papers:
Toroitich. C and Saidi F. 2012 Towards Vision 2030: Developing a Responsive Landscape Architecture Curriculum for Kenya. 49th IFLA World Congress. 4th to 7th September 2012 Cape town
Saidi. F. 2011: From The Voortrekker Monument To Freedom Park. 2nd IFLA AFRICA symposium to be held from 5-7th October 2011 at the Africa Institute for Capacity Development (AICAD) Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture & Technology (JKUAT) Kenya
Saidi F and Nazier F.2011. Enhancing Learner Performance in Design Education for Disadvantaged Students: The Case of Diploma Programmes in Architecture and Jewellery Design and Manufacture. Sixth International Design Education Conference 7 & 8 September 2011, 东京热
Jabu Makhubu
Research Outcome:
Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal
Saidi, F., Makhubu, J. and Adu-Agyei, D. (2022) 鈥淢ultiple Mnazi Mmoja: Exploring Identities of Contemporary African Urban Landscapes鈥,听The Journal of Public Space, 7(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.32891/jps.v7i1.1534.
Saidi, F., Makhubu, J., Adengo, D. 2020. 鈥 Exploring the Nakivubo and Kinawataka Wetland Settlements鈥. Folio: Journal of Contemporary African Architecture. Vol 2, p 204-219. GSA Imprints
Peer Reviewed Conference proceedings
Makhubu, J. 2022. “Repositioning architectural education through tactics of transgression”. The City is [NOT] a Tree: The Urban Ecologies of Divided Cities, TUT & IEREK, 5-7 July 2022
Adu-Agyei, D., Makhubu JA., Saidi, FE. 2019. 鈥淐ollaboration as a Form of Counterculture鈥. The Design After Conference, Bogota, Columbia. p 639-650
Makhubu, A. 2018. 鈥淎 Cub Speaks: Narratives about Cities in Africa from Young Graduates in Johannesburg鈥. In Robert Holman (ed). International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences Proceedings, 42nd International Academic Conference, Rome, Italy 10-13 September. p. 218-235
Makhubu, A. 2016. 鈥淎 Democratic City? The impact of transport networks on social cohesion鈥. In Carol Hien (ed.) International Planning History Society Proceedings, 17th IPHS Conference, History-Urbanism-Resilience, TU Delft 17-21 July 2016, V.03 p.223
Conferences
Invited talks
2022- Tshwane University of Technology. 鈥淣ot Another Community Centre, Market or Research Facility:听Provocations towards alternative Readings of the African Urban–听Guest Lecture to master鈥檚 Class
2021-South African Institute of Architects 鈥淢any Voices鈥 transformation webinar series #2 decolonizing architectural education. SAIA. 鈥淯nsettling鈥.听 Presenter and panelist
2021- African Construction Expo. Soaring, The SACAP Stakeholder Convention. 鈥淲here are we: Harnessing the creative potential of the youth鈥. Presenter and Panelist
2021- African Construction Expo. African Smart Cities Summit. (panelist)
2021- A Seat at the Table. Pretoria Institute of Architects. Panelists
2021- Health and Vitality: Creating Appropriate Cities in Africa. 鈥淣orth/South Conversations鈥. Presenter and panelist
2020- South North Festival of the minds. GSA. 鈥淩adical Teaching Practice at the 东京热: Africanizing the Curriculum鈥. Presenter and panelist
2019- Politics of Architecture in Africa. SOAS and GSA. 鈥淎rchitectural Pedagogy in (South) Africa through the听 Tactics of Transgression鈥
2018- Association of Collegiate Schools on Architecture (ACSA-US)- 鈥淐ultivating a New Normal鈥. PLAY with Rules. (co-authored with Tariq Toffa)
2018- Tshwane University of Technology Architecture department in collaboration with 东京热 Architecture department- Between Cities Joint Seminar Series. 鈥淯rban Resilience: An American Story鈥. 24 July 2018- Guest Presenter
2017- Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA). 鈥淒iscursive Reinforcings of a Racialized Needy Other鈥. #Decolonise (co-authored & presented with Tuliza Sindi)
2017- Design Education Forum of Southern Africa (DEFSA). 鈥淓xploring a decolonized curriculum in architecture鈥. #Decolonise (co-authored & presented with Finzi Saidi)
2016- 3rd UROLab. 鈥淏raamfontein reimagined鈥 (presented by my 4th year students based on research I supervised). Wits university. Invited by Solam Makhabela- Braamfontein City Studio Coordinator (Wits)
Leon Krige
Research Outcomes:
JHB Nocturnes photo essay interview in DOMUS Italy web 鈥 October 2012
JHB Nocturnes in Playboy SA 鈥 November 2012
De Arte December 2012 鈥 Peer review by Melinda Silverman
Recent Conference Papers:
3 Houses by Gawie Fagan Art Historians Conference at Wits 2011
Denver Hendricks
Research
Book Chapters
The City of Slums: Johannesburg鈥檚 inner-city informality, editor Carlo Pozzi, Pescara, Italy. Taylor and Francis, 2021
Journal Articles
Hendricks, D. M. & Dr A. Martinez Perez, 鈥淏orders of Precincts (pending publication in 2021): Unpacking the Politics of White Neighbourhood Identities in the Post-Apartheid Black City鈥, Urbanism at the Borders Conference, Zaman, Q M and Hall, G (editors) (2020 – forthcoming), Urbanism at Borders – A Discourse Analysis, Springer Urban Book Series, Springer Verlag, Switzerland.
Hendricks, D. M. & Hendricks M. T., 鈥淔ostering Innovative Entrepreneurial Design Students: Exploring the Relationship Between Innovation Characteristics and Attitudes Towards Entrepreneurship in South African Design Students鈥, Education, Design and Practice 鈥 Understanding skills in a Complex World, AMPS, Architecture MPS; Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey / New York, 10.14324/111.444.amps.2020v18i1.005
Conference papers
Hendricks, D. M. 2021. 鈥淎pplications of Augmented Reality as a Blended Learning Tool: A case study for Architectural Technology and Detailing鈥, SOTL Conference (Pending)
Hendricks, D. M. 2021. 鈥淒eveloping an Educational Strategy for Emerging Technology in Design: A Case Study of the FABLAB at FADA, UJ鈥, Design Education Forum Southern Africa (DEFSA) Conference (Pending)
Hendricks, D. M. & Dr A. Martinez Perez, 2019. 鈥淧eripheral corridors: the post-metropolitan landscape of Melville (Johannesburg) and Leganes (Madrid), The National Conference of SIU, 2018 The Italian Society of Urban Planners, Florence, Italy.
Hendricks, D. M. 2018. 鈥淒ecolonisation in Tertiary Design Education: Redesigning the Content, Structure and Space of Design鈥, Disciplines for an Inclusive Pedagogy, Cumulus Conference, Paris, France 2018
Hendricks, D. M. 2016. Black Space: a spatial narrative of the socio-economic effect post-apartheid planning has on black people, in the Cape Flats, Cape Town, CPUD’ 16, International City Planning and Urban Design Conference, DAKAM Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
Hendricks, D. M. 2015. Unpacking the Decision-Making Process of Johannesburg City Projects: A Dialogue Between Design and Participation, D. Hendricks, CUI 15 International Urban Issues Conference on Informality, DAKAM Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
Dr P. Tumubweinee & D. Hendricks, 2012. 鈥淎dvertisement, Fashion and Home鈥, DAKAM Archtheo 12 Theory of Architecture Conference, Istanbul, Turkey.
听Community Engagement Project
Slovo Park, Nancefield, Johannesburg, Building a park with 2nd-year architecture students in collaboration with One-to-One Agency, 2013
Vrededorp (Fietas), Johannesburg. Developing a new vision for Fietas with 1st-year architecture students in collaboration with Salma Patel, Fietas Museum 2015-2021
Lotlekhane centre of the aged and garden. In collaboration with the departments of Industrial Design and Visual Art and Honors students. Design and build recreation space and garden for the elderly, 2017.
Academic and Pedagogical Projects
鈥淰irtual Reality as a pedagogical tool for an Immersive Experience of Historically Significant Urban Spaces: A virtual recreation of an erased multicultural community by apartheid鈥, Hendricks, D. M., Ntshona, M., Potgieter, I. 2021
鈥淎lternative approaches to understanding Construction Technology in Architecture using Augmented Reality鈥, Hendricks, D. M., Potgieter, I. 2021
鈥淰isualising Urban Data in Gauteng”, A collaboration with the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), Hendricks, D. M., Potgieter, I., Dr Parker, A. Naidoo, Y., Khanyile, S. 2021
鈥淢ycelium in assemblies: solutions for incremental housing鈥 A collaboration with the Biotechnology and Food Technology Department, 东京热. Hendricks, D. M., Dr Serepa-Dlamini, M., Mcgurk, T.M, 2021
鈥淥rigami Constellations: Using folding to develop new perceptions of structure鈥, Hendricks, D. M., M., Mcgurk, T.M, 2021
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