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YEOVILLE STUDIO IN THE CLASSROOM

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2011

Participatory Design – Street trading stalls

Facilitated by Kirsten Do?rman

Level: Second year

Discipline: Architecture

When: Second Semester 2011

Number of students: 8 (subgroup of a class of about 70)

Theme: Trading

Aim: to design and construct a structure that accommodates various kinds of trading and caters in particular very small and informal businesses. The structure has to be mobile/ easily de-mountable, robust, water resistant, durable, light (transportable by one person) and aesthetically pleasing.

Three phases:

  • Research: Analysis and study of existing street trading units, outdoor equipment and luggage designs. 
  • Workshops with Yeoville street traders: one initial to discuss project and find out local needs; one intermediary to test prototypes and amend them
  • A selection of the best prototypes was built and showcased at the final Yeoville Studio exhibition (Nov 2012) 

Photography – Street portrait and activists

Facilitated by Solam Mkhabela

Level: Second year

Discipline: Architecture

When: Second semester 2011

Number of students: 15

Theme: Photography and the built environment 

足球竞彩app排名s engaged in two exercises related to Yeoville:

  • They were asked to document Saunders-Natal street through street photography (4 different groups on different themes)
  • They were asked to do portraits of local activists, picturing them in their Yeoville environment

Their work was included in broader Yeoville Studio initiatives:

  • Natal-Saunders street photographs were shown in several interactive workshops-cum-exhibitions, and in a video (Youtube);
  • Activists portraits were included in a larger research project on local activism in Yeoville, and showcased in YS final exhibition 

Land Management - Absentee landlords

Facilitated by Neil Klug

Level: 2nd Year

Discipline: Planning

When: First semester 2011

Number of students: 23

Theme: Land management

足球竞彩app排名s engaged in two exercises in relation to Yeoville:

  • to prepare research seminars on: absentee landlords, expropriation, alternative land registration systems and land tenure options.
  • to broadly examine the problem of absentee landlords and their planning implications as well as coming up with possible recommendations based on international case studies

Urban Design (2nd year Planning)

Facilitated by Garth Klein
Tutor: Potsiso Phasha 

Level: 2nd Year

Discipline: Planning – Urban Design

When: First Semester 2010

Number of students: 22

Theme: Public space: eating, trading, playing

足球竞彩app排名s were asked to take three themes and workshop physical interventions to investigate participatory design and to translate these themes into urban design interventions. The interventions needed to identify appropriate participatory design methods based on these themes. 足球竞彩app排名s were asked to make use of design principles related to the ARPL2015 course and to ground design interventions in research undertaken through reading and precedents – especially emphasising the role of the public realm and community space 

Yeoville Building Stories

Facilitated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Margot Rubin 

Level: Third

Discipline: Planning – Politics & Housing

When: Second semester 2011

Number of students: 19 in Politics / 10 in Housing

Theme: Housing politics: building and housing unit management

Groups of 5 students studied each one building in Yeoville (5 buildings were included: a middle class building, a renovated building, a building under renovation – emptied-; a ‘bad building’; a shared house). They had to work at the building and at the housing unit scale to understand the organisation and management of space, power relations, financial flows, individual and collective strategies and tactics.

Urban regeneration

Facilitated by Mpho Matsipa

Level: Fourth Year

Discipline: Architecture – Research elective

When: Second semester 2011

Number of students: 10

Theme: Urban regeneration

The aim of the course was to engage critically with the processes of gentrification in Johannesburg through intensive and comparative fieldwork in two sites: Main Street Life (Jeppestown) and Yeoville. The research was divided in 4 parts:

  • Enclave urbanism
  • Building biographies
  • Key institutional players
  • Urban voices

Integrated Planning Project

Facilitated by Garth Klein
Tutor: Abdul Abed

Level: 4th Year

Discipline: Planning

When: First Semester 2011

Number of students: 13

Theme: Spatial Development Framework for Yeoville

足球竞彩app排名s were asked to design and represent a set of spatial visions, interventions and policies for the Yeoville - indicating the nature of development to be fostered based on specific sectoral issues, based on a particular normative position, developed in reference to other cities (here Maputo, Mozambique). They wrote a report that illustrates and documents a developmental path for Yeoville

Yeoville Activists Stories

Facilitated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou 

Level: Masters

Discipline: Planning – Politics, Governance and the City

When: Second semester 2011

Number of students: 4 / 2

Theme: Local leadership in Yeoville

足球竞彩app排名s were requested to portray different types of local leaders & activists in Yeoville (7 in total), as a way to reflect on local leadership, individual and collective agency, processes of building political legitimacy and political networks and modes of action. They used various ethnographic methods to unravel different aspects of local leadership – interviews, observation, study of schedule of activists’ activities. The result of their research was converted into posters presenting each activist, showcased in the final Yeoville Studio exhibition.

2010

Housing studio (2nd year Arch)

Facilitated by Kirsten Do?rmann and Mpho Matsipa

Level: Second year

Discipline: Architecture

When: First semester 2010

Number of students: 72

Theme: Housing

The course was organised in two phases:

  • Research on themes related to housing (subdivision, rents, non residential uses of houses and flats, vacant lots…)
  • Modelisation of a building for affordable housing on 4 vacant lots (Pope street) based on research findings.

One of the research theme involved a workshop with residents (15 residents, 15 students + staff) – narratives of housing trajectories and drawing of living spaces 

Planning for public spaces – eating, trading, playing

Facilitated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Nqobile Malaza 

Level: Second year

Discipline: Planning

When: First semester 2010

Number of students: 22

Theme: Public space: eating, trading, playing 

足球竞彩app排名s were divided into three groups/ themes:

  • African restaurants (creating a database and celebrating food diversity)
  • Teenagers’ spaces of leisure (Sheikh Anta Diop College)
  • Perceptions of street traders in Rockey‐Raleigh Street

足球竞彩app排名s were requested to develop a research report and a communication strategy towards Yeoville communities

Design for planners – looking at public space

Facilitated by Solam Mkhabela

Level: Third year

Discipline: Planning

When: First Semester 2010

Number of students: 15

Theme: Learning and Playing, Living and Working, Shopping and Trading

足球竞彩app排名s were divided into the three themes, asked to choose a few sites linked to their theme and to :

  • Observe
  • Investigate about their site yesterday, today and possibly tomorrow
  • Draw, map, graphically represent their findings
  • Draft small scale interventions as recommendations

Advanced design studio

Facilitated by Hilton Judin

Level: Honours

Discipline: Architecture

When: First semester 2010

Number of students: 15

Theme: Local / Global connections – Re‐imagining Yeoville

足球竞彩app排名s were asked to propose an intervention around the idea of local/global connections as manifest in Yeoville migrant economy and social life.

Urban design studio (Masters)

Facilitated by Astrid Ley

Level: Masters

Discipline: Urban design

When: First semester 2010

Number of students: 5

Theme: Accessible Cities

足球竞彩app排名s worked on two sites – the Bedford Center and the Sports field. They elaborated different design models and interventions, sometimes in conjunction with local stakeholders, to increase accessibility of these two spaces. 

Photography

Facilitated by Sally Gaule

Level: 2nd Year

Discipline: Architecture – photography elective

When: Second semester 2010

Number of students: 14

Theme: Photography and the Built Environment

足球竞彩app排名s engaged in two exercises related to Yeoville:

  • They were asked to document Muller street (through street photography)
  • They were asked to do portraits of local activists, picturing them in their Yeoville environment

Their work was included in broader Yeoville Studio initiatives:

  • Muller street photographs were shown in several interactive exhibitions;
  • Activists portraits are meant to be part of a larger research project on local activism in Yeoville

Urban Design (2nd year Planning)

Facilitated by: Garth Klein and Tanya Winkler

Level: 2nd Year

Discipline: Planning – Urban Design

When: Second Semester 2010

Number of students: 22

Theme: Public space: eating, trading, playing 

足球竞彩app排名s were asked to build on the research done in the first semester (planning for public space) and to imagine design solutions to issues identified in the fields of trading, eating, and playing. 

Housing (3rd year Planning)

Facilitated by Sarah Charlton

Level: 3rd Year

Discipline: Planning

When: Second Semester 2010

Number of students: 11

Theme: Housing

足球竞彩app排名s are asked to explore the links between income generation and living circumstances for low‐income residents in Yeoville, by organising a set of interviews with people generating an income in public areas in Yeoville: informal recyclers, park photographers, car guards, spaza shop workers, street vendors, etc.

Urban Politics (3rd year Planning & Political Studies)

Faciliated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou

Level: 3rd Year

Discipline: Planning – Urban Politics elective

When: Second Semester 2010

Number of students: 17

Theme: City, Politics and Governance

足球竞彩app排名s worked in group around various themes related to urban politics in Yeoville:

  • The governance of the market
  • Street traders’ mobilisation
  • Establishing a business forum in Rockey‐Raleigh street
  • Church politics and local integration
  • The governance of the ANC branch
  • Community management of ‘bad buildings’

Architecture Project (Honours)

Faciliated by Naomi Roux

Level: Honours

Discipline: Architecture

When: Second Semester 2010

Number of students: 8

Theme: Yeoville stories

足球竞彩app排名s are asked to write a visitors’ guide to Yeoville, including historical information and a set of thematic self‐guided walking tours, on a variety of themes: architecture, political history, music and culture, African diversity.

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