African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments

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dc.contributor.advisorEvans, Marthaen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorInggs, Aliceen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2014-09-02T10:03:27Z
dc.date.available2014-09-02T10:03:27Z
dc.date.issued2014en_ZA
dc.description.abstractSix sections, six ways of reading African cities and, by extension, Africa. Anchored in the Cape Town metropolis - an important node in both North?South and South?South global trade networks ? this project investigates the African urban as a site of knowledge production. Rather than attempt to capture a complete or panoramic vision of Cape Town, this project is instead a non-linear narrative of the city space constructed out of a combination of essays, narrative fragments, reportage, images and formal and informal interviews. Starting with what makes an African city "African" in African City, the investigation moves through five more thematic categories: Built Environment;; Renewal/Decay;; Everyday Urbanism;; Nature;; and Pattern. Out of each section new ways of reading the city emerge ? through architectural surfaces;; the city as archive;; pop culture;; ecology;; and design. This project is about curating and creating an analytical topography of a specific urban space in Africa;; but it is also about engaging with the urban on an experiential level. Readers are encouraged to engage in a dialogue with the urban form, to trace the contours of the city space. The textual and visual material contained within the project is rendered into building blocks, which can be rearranged into various visions of the city, transferring agency to the reader to create their own interpretation of (this) city space. This interactive element manifests an important idea underpinning the project: there are multiple lines of flight emanating from the supposed fixed grid of the post-colonial or post-apartheid city space;; the urban narrative can be rewritten;; Africa can be reimagined. Ultimately, this project is an experiment in and juxtaposition of modes of analysis, advancing new ways of reading African urban forms ? from Africa.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationInggs, A. (2014). <i>African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6860en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationInggs, Alice. <i>"African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6860en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationInggs, A. 2014. African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Inggs, Alice AB - Six sections, six ways of reading African cities and, by extension, Africa. Anchored in the Cape Town metropolis - an important node in both North?South and South?South global trade networks ? this project investigates the African urban as a site of knowledge production. Rather than attempt to capture a complete or panoramic vision of Cape Town, this project is instead a non-linear narrative of the city space constructed out of a combination of essays, narrative fragments, reportage, images and formal and informal interviews. Starting with what makes an African city "African" in African City, the investigation moves through five more thematic categories: Built Environment;; Renewal/Decay;; Everyday Urbanism;; Nature;; and Pattern. Out of each section new ways of reading the city emerge ? through architectural surfaces;; the city as archive;; pop culture;; ecology;; and design. This project is about curating and creating an analytical topography of a specific urban space in Africa;; but it is also about engaging with the urban on an experiential level. Readers are encouraged to engage in a dialogue with the urban form, to trace the contours of the city space. The textual and visual material contained within the project is rendered into building blocks, which can be rearranged into various visions of the city, transferring agency to the reader to create their own interpretation of (this) city space. This interactive element manifests an important idea underpinning the project: there are multiple lines of flight emanating from the supposed fixed grid of the post-colonial or post-apartheid city space;; the urban narrative can be rewritten;; Africa can be reimagined. Ultimately, this project is an experiment in and juxtaposition of modes of analysis, advancing new ways of reading African urban forms ? from Africa. DA - 2014 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2014 T1 - African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments TI - African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6860 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/6860
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationInggs A. African city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragments. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 2014 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/6860en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentMichaelis School of Fine Arten_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.titleAfrican city- Cape Town in pieces/aesthetics, theories, narratives, fragmentsen_ZA
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