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Check out the April/ May edition of Earthworks magazine, where Chrisna du Plessis explains some of conceptual points around resilient and regenerative urbanism, as a new development paradigm.
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We have uploaded the full papers presented during the World Building Congress on our Publications page.
This digital diary is a snap shot of the learning, wisdom, and inspiration gained by students from the University of Pretoria who had the opportunity to conduct a study tour of a few catalytic projects in Melbourne. Their working name Trust, provides the overarching vision for the loose framework within which their personal research is being conducted; entrusted with the potential to design the future they look toward projects of hope, positivity and trust for inspiration. And in Melbourne they found it. Please click on the link below to read our reflections on the trip and summaries of the projects we visited. We are very grateful to all our friends in Melbourne for making this experience so wonderfully memorable. http://issuu.com/trustsa/docs/melbournelo We'd love to receive your feedback! Sustainable and Resilient Urban Form - Second National Urban Design Seminar on 2 August 20137/6/2013 Co-hosted by the School of the Built Environment, University of Pretoria and School of Architecture & Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, this Second National Urban Design Seminar is aimed at investigating these issues of urban resilience and the transformative capacity of cities to create sustainable conditions for life. It will specifically focus on three questions: What is the relationship between urban morphology and resilience? How can this be described in theory and in practice? How can this be accommodated or planned for through appropriate urban design interventions or how can urban design enhance the transformative capacity of urban systems? The University of Pretoria will be hosting Prof Serge Salat, a leading French architect and economist and founder of the Urban Morphology Laboratory in Paris. Prof Salat has done extensive work on sustainable and resilient urbanism. He will be one of the two keynote speakers. At the same time, the University of the Witwatersrand will also be hosting Prof. Rahul Mehrotra, who will be the other keynote speaker for the seminar. Prof Methrotra is from the Graduate School of Design of Harvard University. As part of their visits, a one-day seminar is organised on August 2, 2013 for all interested stake-holders to explore these issues and questions. We would like to invite interested academics and practitioners to submit a short abstract to indicate their intention to participate. The abstracts should be between 200 and 300 words and address one of the questions above. Final abstracts should be sent to Prof. Paul Kotze (e-mail: [email protected]) at the SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE & PLANNING, UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND by 21 June 2013. These abstracts will be reviewed by a panel of four independent reviewers. Speakers will be notified early in July on whether their abstracts have been accepted and the programme will be made available soon afterwards. This seminar is supported by the URBAN DESIGN INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, a NRF grant 78649 as well as a grant from the Research Fund of the School of Architecture and Planning of the University of the Witwatersrand. For more information, please download the PDF Flyer:
We were on a guided tour of the city of Melbourne led by one of the city council's urban designers, when we walked past this intriguing and engaging public space appropriation called "the free shop". Later, we came to discover that it is a part of the activist group "Occupy Melbourne" (http://occupymelbourne.net/category/actions-protests/free-shop/). Part of their quest is to create an awareness about our future on this world, by questioning how we can live better to create a kinder world to live in. We wondered how something like this might manifest in our cities...free hugs, anyone?
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