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Accepted Contribution:
Spatial design practice in a post-post city: a situated southern urbanist inquiry around how
Jhono Bennett
(University College London)
Contribution:
I'd like to share the early findings on my practice-orientated PhD through design that is focusing on the spatial design practices through a Southern Urbanist lens in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Why would you like to speak in this workshop?:
The persistent reality of gross and systemic inequality in South Africa can be seen most clearly seen in the built urban that continues to re-enforce post-colonial and post-Apartheid spatial city patterns. While South Africa's socio-economic inequality is a well-documented and hotly discussed topics of research and public debate; the socio-systemic nature of the country's spatial inequality remains a more elusive and collectively murky topic - particularly in regards to the inter-scalar and positional dimensions of practice within the spatial design disciplines and the city systems they work within.
This inter-personal and inter-scalar difficulty of engaging with the nature of spatial inequality is not limited to South Africa and the locationally sensitive work being done through Southern scholarship across the social sciences and humanities offers a situated means to theoretically house the doctoral study. The approach of the larger project is supported by the guiding principles and intentions of Southern Urbanism and is positioned at the disciplinary intersection of architecture, urban studies and arts-practice.
This contribution hopes to share the initial methodological findings of this project and contribute an additional perspective to the discussion on Southern Urban Design.
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Accepted Contribution:
Jhono Bennett (University College London)
Contribution:
Why would you like to speak in this workshop?:
The persistent reality of gross and systemic inequality in South Africa can be seen most clearly seen in the built urban that continues to re-enforce post-colonial and post-Apartheid spatial city patterns. While South Africa's socio-economic inequality is a well-documented and hotly discussed topics of research and public debate; the socio-systemic nature of the country's spatial inequality remains a more elusive and collectively murky topic - particularly in regards to the inter-scalar and positional dimensions of practice within the spatial design disciplines and the city systems they work within.
This inter-personal and inter-scalar difficulty of engaging with the nature of spatial inequality is not limited to South Africa and the locationally sensitive work being done through Southern scholarship across the social sciences and humanities offers a situated means to theoretically house the doctoral study. The approach of the larger project is supported by the guiding principles and intentions of Southern Urbanism and is positioned at the disciplinary intersection of architecture, urban studies and arts-practice.
This contribution hopes to share the initial methodological findings of this project and contribute an additional perspective to the discussion on Southern Urban Design.
Urban design from the global South/East: Imagining just futures
Session 1 Thursday 7 July, 2022, -