FASSLER GALLERY EXHIBITION

Yeoville Studio, a community oriented research initiative driven by the Wits School of Architecture and Planning, in partnership with Yeoville community organisations – the Yeoville Stakeholders Forum (YSF) and the Yeoville Bellevue Community Development Trust (YBCDT), is showcasing some of its latest work.

Yeoville Studio is based on three pillars: it is a teaching and leaning initiative, involving students and staff in locally-relevant and applied research, policy and landscape design; it is a research initiative, gathering a broad number of researchers in a multi-disciplinary focus on a local space; it is a community partnership, aimed at crystallising local debate and proposing locally relevant ideas and solutions for local issues.

The central theme of the exhibition is trading, reflecting one of the central issues debated in Yeoville in 2011, and one of the key area in which Yeoville studio has been engaging in, together with its community partners. The exhibition presents innovative trading stalls, designed with the participation of street traders. It invites you to reflect on street, spaza and market traders’ stories, and to redesign Rockey Raleigh as you would dream it to be.

The show is also about Yeoville communities, past present and future – presented through a series of portraits: of local activists, of special places and buildings, of former residents remembering the place and of current ones falling in love in Yeoville. You are also invited to explore the neighbourhood, using for instance the series of neighbourhood guides produced by Yeoville Studio on different themes: Politics, Arts and Culture, African Diversity, Architecture.