- Title
- The design of municipal council chamber for East London: an exploration of culture and identity in a contested socio-spatial landscape
- Creator
- Malefane, Reetumetsi
- Subject
- Municipal buildings -- South Africa -- East London -- Designs and plans Architecture -- South Africa -- East London -- Designs and plans
- Subject
- Architecture -- South Africa -- East London
- Date Issued
- 2017
- Date
- 2017
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/38761
- Identifier
- vital:34957
- Description
- The treatise seeks to explore the notions of African identity and culture in post-apartheid public space through the design of a Municipal Council Chamber for East London on the site of the first hearings of the Truth and Reconciliations Commissions in South Africa. Public space in post-apartheid South Africa is still a contested subject, where histories and identities of culture are not equally represented. The design project seeks to facilitate an inclusion of subjugated narratives of African culture into public spaces through architectural representation of form and cultural practices through programme. A qualitative research methodology is utilised for the study, as the focus for the research is to examine and explore culture and identity through a theoretical lens, based on exploring the existing theory of Jonathon Noble ‘Questions of African Identity: White Skin, Black masks’. The aim is to examine how culture and identity in architecture of post-apartheid South Africa engages with African consciousness through spatial and physical themes to renegotiate identity of public spaces, where subjugated narratives can be equally represented. The treatise provides evidence that within the discourse of culture and architecture in South Africa, architectural hybridity can be used as a mechanism for forging a new identity of an African discourse, facilitated through a dialogue of dominant narratives of colonial rule and subjugated narratives of an African discourse. The study concludes that explorations of African themes in the post-apartheid landscape can contribute and uplift the socio-spatial landscape through presenting new perspectives of identity and culture that reflect the narrative of African identity and culture that has been excluded in these public spaces.
- Format
- various leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Arts
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
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