The representation of social space: mapping the city
The aim here is to offer a diverse account of the city, primarily through a process of ‘mapping’. The intention is to describe how space can be constructed through a series of networks and relational systems and then go on to explore the different ways in which these spaces are revealed in film, visual images, music, architecture, audio + text.

Economic and cultural [dis]enterprise and [un] developments have made a real and strong change to the landscape of Yeoville. But whilst these [un]developments generally bode well for a certain sector's economic growth, there is a danger that the memory and reality of historical spaces are erased in favour of the new + recently emergent physical and psychological constructions.

How we document and archive these changes is a challenge for all those involved with research and necessarily bound up with notions of value and ownership.

below is the greater site

yeoville: proclaimed in 1890

bellevue: proclaimed in 1889

bellevue east: proclaimed in 1889

http://www.hotelyeoville.co.za/

this is an interesting blog where one gets all kind of views
http://deathofjohannesburg.blogspot.com/2006/07/visit-to-yeoville.html

site

Open City: Designing Coexistence

In an age when migration is changing the face of many cities, when mass mobility and communication are altering our perception of distance and difference, when individualism has become a driving force of social life, the Open City is a tenuous notion. As our cities grow and diversify, the question is no longer if we want to live together, but how to live together - how to share the resources and opportunities cities offer.
http://www.iabr.nl/EN/open_city/program/publications.php

COURSE PROGRAMME

date Topic Research
04 February Briefing Spatial Vocabulary
11 February Site Visit
18 February Seminar Presentation1 Recording Techniques
25 February Seminar Presentation 2 Themes*
04 March Seminar Presentation 3 Themes*
25 March Seminar Presentation 4 Themes*
01 April Seminar Presentation 5 Themes*
14 April Seminar Presentation 6 Matrix
08 April Seminar Presentation 7 Matrix
15 April Seminar Presentation 8 Matrix
22 April Seminar Presentation 9 Matrix
29 April Seminar Presentation 10 Masterplan
07 May Seminar Presentation 11 Dictionary
10May-04June Take Home Test

final hand in

please bring the documents to the seminar room at 14:00 on tuesday 09 june 2009.

the group work needs to be binded as a single document and these should be handed to palesa by friday 12 june 2009. we shall discuss this if there is a clash kusasa.

tuesday 02 june 1 2 1 crits

this is the order of the 1 to 1 sessions which will begin at 11:00. you may, amongst yourselves, for logistical reasons swap places, but please respect the times and be there 15 minutes before your allocated time.

time – name
11:00 – geoffrey b
11:15 – mawabo m
11:30 – potsiso p
11:45 – eulenda m
12:00 – yasmin s
12:15 – gontse k
12:30 – abdul a b
12:45 – ofentse m
13:00 – eugene n
13:15 – mitchel h
13:30 – mduduzi n
13:45 – jarred w
14:00 – kabelo m
14:15 – londeka t
14:30 – lerato m
14:45 – siphiwe p
15:00 – richard e