Street Narratives Groups

the surrender is not an option

because you can only fight it for so long

it’s like cork floating in the middle of the ocean

screaming

i must control it

i must have control

it’s hard to just let life happen . . .

1 giant leap – the truth is changing

end street park	theme
selepe mutugi mazibuko baloyi gxamza mandyanda maphumulo	a	historical development
	c	24/7: timetable + programmes
	d	borders + boundaries
	f	movement + typologies
	e	landscapes + languages
	b	urban + economic morphologies
	g	culture: food + music
construct a base plan and begin to record the people’s perceptions of the site based on the above themes. the question is political: how to resuscitate the city instead of encouraging escape from it, how to resuscitate the city as a domain of the public realm? for a society of the collective . . . a common architectural language can be born out of the generic ethics of urbanization, and by generic i mean this undifferentiated common quality, which precedes the individual. it can be born out of this condition, but it should reclaim it as common space, something that addresses the dignity of those who live in the city. https://www.forum2000.cz/en/projects/forum-2000-conferences/2010/transcripts/

joubert park	theme
ngoma  guya  mfusi  zuma  godsell  thantsha  ncame	b	urban + economic morphologies
	e	landscapes + languages
	g	culture: food + music
	a	historical development
	f	movement + typologies
	c	24/7: timetable + programmes
	d	borders + boundaries
construct a base plan and begin to record the people’s perceptions of the site based on the above themes. the geographer david harvey once wrote that “the freedom to make and remake our cities and ourselves is … one of the most precious yet most neglected of our human rights”. generations of urban theorists, from lewis mumford to jane jacobs to doreen massey, have suggested that the place where cities get “remade” is in the public rather than private sphere. part of the problem, then, with privately owned public spaces (“pops”) – open-air squares, gardens and parks that look public but are not – is that the rights of the citizens using them are severely hemmed in. although this issue might be academic while we’re eating our lunch on a private park bench, the consequences of multiplying and expanding pops affects everything from our personal psyche to our ability to protest. www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/04/pops-privately-owned-public-space-cities-direct-action?cmp=share_btn_fb

Do not go gentle into that good night

Dylan Thomas, 1914 - 1953

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

a_field_trip

great trip itolo

see this place

inabit

for the external examiner's 

report

arpl3012_2014_oral-logistix

greetings.  trust you had a restful + productive weekend.  it’s the final push to the oral which will take place in the nrf basement on thursday 13 november from 08:30 – 14:00.  all presentations to be loaded on the computer by 08:27 of the day of the presentation. 

order of orals is as follows:

	name	time
	gugushe	08.45 – 09.05
	pule	09.10 – 10.30
	iqbal	10.35 – 10.55
	conco	11.00 – 11.20
break		11:25 – 11:40
	ngobeni	11.45 – 12.05
	monakali	12.10 – 12.30
	mtshali	12.35 – 12.55
	majola	13.00 – 13.20
external’s concluding thoughts		13:25 – 13:45

submission date:                                  wednesday 12 november 15:00

submission requirements:              [digital] 1 cd of project 1 – 5 + [hardcopy] project 4 + 5

make sure you respect the 15:00 deadline, that you are appropriately prepared for the orals + you maintain a professional standard, which forms part of the overall assessment [submission + oral].

goodluck

an-UrbanScan_exhibition TASKS

UrbanScans_Exhibition_Films_XYZ

i am currently conceptualising an exhibition of the work you’ve done so far in la rochelle.  this will be displayed in the gallery on wed 22 oct. the following week, wed 29 oct we shall screen the 2 films publicly a a venue yet to be decided.  for this to occur, i will need from each of you 10 – 15 images of your choice to submit to me on tuesday 7 oct.  you may do this digitally, low res for pre selection. once i have identified what will be printed, i will request a higher resolution file from you.

whilst we are here, i would like to flag lg, zc, iz + nm.  the work you’ve accomplished so far for xyz is below par and you are placing yourself in a compromising position as far as meeting the requirements arpl3012.  i implore you to work harder to get the work to an acceptable level.  we may discuss this further on tuesday. have a relaxing + pleasant weekend.