Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak

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dc.contributor.authorBlackburn, Cameronen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-28T12:26:44Z
dc.date.available2015-05-28T12:26:44Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe starting point of this study begins whilst driving through a field of vineyards just outside of Cape Town, about 15 kilometers from Napier. A sea of agricultural formlessness and sameness. This scene was interrupted by a large white blanket covering most of the hill side. It appeared ridged in its form yet fluid enough to take the shape of the landscape. The vast scale (or scale-less-ness) of the landscape became somewhat reduced to an area small enough to comprehend. This object lay seemingly foreign and unfamiliar and thus estranging my view of the landscape. This led me to question its meaning. A google earth image of the exact site fortuitously captured the assembly of this artefact. The image illustrates its agricultural use, but more interestingly its reveals a series of processes of working upon the landscape. The large seemingly monolithic object reveals its individual parts, method of assembly and human labour. Embedded within the artefact too are energies- human and mechanical- which are impossible to observe in the finished artefact. Through being able to unveil the various methods and steps of this process made richer my knowledge of the landscape and therefore, I argue, helped better understand the human connection to landscape.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBlackburn, C. (2014). <i>Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBlackburn, Cameron. <i>"Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBlackburn, C. 2014. Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Blackburn, Cameron AB - The starting point of this study begins whilst driving through a field of vineyards just outside of Cape Town, about 15 kilometers from Napier. A sea of agricultural formlessness and sameness. This scene was interrupted by a large white blanket covering most of the hill side. It appeared ridged in its form yet fluid enough to take the shape of the landscape. The vast scale (or scale-less-ness) of the landscape became somewhat reduced to an area small enough to comprehend. This object lay seemingly foreign and unfamiliar and thus estranging my view of the landscape. This led me to question its meaning. A google earth image of the exact site fortuitously captured the assembly of this artefact. The image illustrates its agricultural use, but more interestingly its reveals a series of processes of working upon the landscape. The large seemingly monolithic object reveals its individual parts, method of assembly and human labour. Embedded within the artefact too are energies- human and mechanical- which are impossible to observe in the finished artefact. Through being able to unveil the various methods and steps of this process made richer my knowledge of the landscape and therefore, I argue, helped better understand the human connection to landscape. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak TI - Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBlackburn C. Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Engineering & the Built Environment ,School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Architecture, Planning and Geomaticsen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Engineering and the Built Environment
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherIndustrial Archaeologyen_ZA
dc.titleWaste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peaken_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMArchen_ZA
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