YEOVILLE STUDIO IN THE CLASSROOM
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Download the Yeoville Studio 2011 course catalogue
2011
Participatory Design – Street trading stalls
Facilitated by Kirsten Doërman
Level: Second year
Discipline: Architecture
When: Second Semester 2011
Number of students: 8 (subgroup of a class of about 70)
Theme: Trading
Aim: to design and construct a structure that accommodates various kinds of trading and caters in particular very small and informal businesses. The structure has to be mobile/ easily de-mountable, robust, water resistant, durable, light (transportable by one person) and aesthetically pleasing.
Three phases:
- Research: Analysis and study of existing street trading units, outdoor equipment and luggage designs.
- Workshops with Yeoville street traders: one initial to discuss project and find out local needs; one intermediary to test prototypes and amend them
- A selection of the best prototypes was built and showcased at the final Yeoville Studio exhibition (Nov 2012)
Photography – Street portrait and activists
Facilitated by Solam Mkhabela
Level: Second year
Discipline: Architecture
When: Second semester 2011
Number of students: 15
Theme: Photography and the built environment
Students engaged in two exercises related to Yeoville:
- They were asked to document Saunders-Natal street through street photography (4 different groups on different themes)
- They were asked to do portraits of local activists, picturing them in their Yeoville environment
Their work was included in broader Yeoville Studio initiatives:
- Natal-Saunders street photographs were shown in several interactive workshops-cum-exhibitions, and in a video (Youtube);
- Activists portraits were included in a larger research project on local activism in Yeoville, and showcased in YS final exhibition
Land Management - Absentee landlords
Facilitated by Neil Klug
Level: 2nd Year
Discipline: Planning
When: First semester 2011
Number of students: 23
Theme: Land management
Students engaged in two exercises in relation to Yeoville:
- to prepare research seminars on: absentee landlords, expropriation, alternative land registration systems and land tenure options.
- to broadly examine the problem of absentee landlords and their planning implications as well as coming up with possible recommendations based on international case studies
Urban Design (2nd year Planning)
Facilitated by Garth Klein
Tutor: Potsiso Phasha
Level: 2nd Year
Discipline: Planning – Urban Design
When: First Semester 2010
Number of students: 22
Theme: Public space: eating, trading, playing
Students were asked to take three themes and workshop physical interventions to investigate participatory design and to translate these themes into urban design interventions. The interventions needed to identify appropriate participatory design methods based on these themes. Students were asked to make use of design principles related to the ARPL2015 course and to ground design interventions in research undertaken through reading and precedents – especially emphasising the role of the public realm and community space
Yeoville Building Stories
Facilitated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Margot Rubin
Level: Third
Discipline: Planning – Politics & Housing
When: Second semester 2011
Number of students: 19 in Politics / 10 in Housing
Theme: Housing politics: building and housing unit management
Groups of 5 students studied each one building in Yeoville (5 buildings were included: a middle class building, a renovated building, a building under renovation – emptied-; a ‘bad building’; a shared house). They had to work at the building and at the housing unit scale to understand the organisation and management of space, power relations, financial flows, individual and collective strategies and tactics.
Urban regeneration
Facilitated by Mpho Matsipa
Level: Fourth Year
Discipline: Architecture – Research elective
When: Second semester 2011
Number of students: 10
Theme: Urban regeneration
The aim of the course was to engage critically with the processes of gentrification in Johannesburg through intensive and comparative fieldwork in two sites: Main Street Life (Jeppestown) and Yeoville. The research was divided in 4 parts:
- Enclave urbanism
- Building biographies
- Key institutional players
- Urban voices
Integrated Planning Project
Facilitated by Garth Klein
Tutor: Abdul Abed
Level: 4th Year
Discipline: Planning
When: First Semester 2011
Number of students: 13
Theme: Spatial Development Framework for Yeoville
Students were asked to design and represent a set of spatial visions, interventions and policies for the Yeoville - indicating the nature of development to be fostered based on specific sectoral issues, based on a particular normative position, developed in reference to other cities (here Maputo, Mozambique). They wrote a report that illustrates and documents a developmental path for Yeoville
Yeoville Activists Stories
Facilitated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
Level: Masters
Discipline: Planning – Politics, Governance and the City
When: Second semester 2011
Number of students: 4 / 2
Theme: Local leadership in Yeoville
Students were requested to portray different types of local leaders & activists in Yeoville (7 in total), as a way to reflect on local leadership, individual and collective agency, processes of building political legitimacy and political networks and modes of action. They used various ethnographic methods to unravel different aspects of local leadership – interviews, observation, study of schedule of activists’ activities. The result of their research was converted into posters presenting each activist, showcased in the final Yeoville Studio exhibition.
2010
Housing studio (2nd year Arch)
Facilitated by Kirsten Doërmann and Mpho Matsipa
Level: Second year
Discipline: Architecture
When: First semester 2010
Number of students: 72
Theme: Housing
The course was organised in two phases:
- Research on themes related to housing (subdivision, rents, non residential uses of houses and flats, vacant lots…)
- Modelisation of a building for affordable housing on 4 vacant lots (Pope street) based on research findings.
One of the research theme involved a workshop with residents (15 residents, 15 students + staff) – narratives of housing trajectories and drawing of living spaces
Planning for public spaces – eating, trading, playing
Facilitated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou and Nqobile Malaza
Level: Second year
Discipline: Planning
When: First semester 2010
Number of students: 22
Theme: Public space: eating, trading, playing
Students were divided into three groups/ themes:
- African restaurants (creating a database and celebrating food diversity)
- Teenagers’ spaces of leisure (Sheikh Anta Diop College)
- Perceptions of street traders in Rockey‐Raleigh Street
Students were requested to develop a research report and a communication strategy towards Yeoville communities
Design for planners – looking at public space
Facilitated by Solam Mkhabela
Level: Third year
Discipline: Planning
When: First Semester 2010
Number of students: 15
Theme: Learning and Playing, Living and Working, Shopping and Trading
Students were divided into the three themes, asked to choose a few sites linked to their theme and to :
- Observe
- Investigate about their site yesterday, today and possibly tomorrow
- Draw, map, graphically represent their findings
- Draft small scale interventions as recommendations
Advanced design studio
Facilitated by Hilton Judin
Level: Honours
Discipline: Architecture
When: First semester 2010
Number of students: 15
Theme: Local / Global connections – Re‐imagining Yeoville
Students were asked to propose an intervention around the idea of local/global connections as manifest in Yeoville migrant economy and social life.
Urban design studio (Masters)
Facilitated by Astrid Ley
Level: Masters
Discipline: Urban design
When: First semester 2010
Number of students: 5
Theme: Accessible Cities
Students worked on two sites – the Bedford Center and the Sports field. They elaborated different design models and interventions, sometimes in conjunction with local stakeholders, to increase accessibility of these two spaces.
Photography
Facilitated by Sally Gaule
Level: 2nd Year
Discipline: Architecture – photography elective
When: Second semester 2010
Number of students: 14
Theme: Photography and the Built Environment
Students engaged in two exercises related to Yeoville:
- They were asked to document Muller street (through street photography)
- They were asked to do portraits of local activists, picturing them in their Yeoville environment
Their work was included in broader Yeoville Studio initiatives:
- Muller street photographs were shown in several interactive exhibitions;
- Activists portraits are meant to be part of a larger research project on local activism in Yeoville
Urban Design (2nd year Planning)
Facilitated by: Garth Klein and Tanya Winkler
Level: 2nd Year
Discipline: Planning – Urban Design
When: Second Semester 2010
Number of students: 22
Theme: Public space: eating, trading, playing
Students were asked to build on the research done in the first semester (planning for public space) and to imagine design solutions to issues identified in the fields of trading, eating, and playing.
Housing (3rd year Planning)
Facilitated by Sarah Charlton
Level: 3rd Year
Discipline: Planning
When: Second Semester 2010
Number of students: 11
Theme: Housing
Students are asked to explore the links between income generation and living circumstances for low‐income residents in Yeoville, by organising a set of interviews with people generating an income in public areas in Yeoville: informal recyclers, park photographers, car guards, spaza shop workers, street vendors, etc.
Urban Politics (3rd year Planning & Political Studies)
Faciliated by Claire Bénit-Gbaffou
Level: 3rd Year
Discipline: Planning – Urban Politics elective
When: Second Semester 2010
Number of students: 17
Theme: City, Politics and Governance
Students worked in group around various themes related to urban politics in Yeoville:
- The governance of the market
- Street traders’ mobilisation
- Establishing a business forum in Rockey‐Raleigh street
- Church politics and local integration
- The governance of the ANC branch
- Community management of ‘bad buildings’
Architecture Project (Honours)
Faciliated by Naomi Roux
Level: Honours
Discipline: Architecture
When: Second Semester 2010
Number of students: 8
Theme: Yeoville stories
Students are asked to write a visitors’ guide to Yeoville, including historical information and a set of thematic self‐guided walking tours, on a variety of themes: architecture, political history, music and culture, African diversity.