LINKS
- Nine Urban Biotopes – Negotiating the Future of Urban Living
http://www.urban-biotopes.net/ - A project by: urban dialogues, Berlin
http://www.urbandialogues.de/ - Nine Urban Biotopes – Negotiating the Future of Urban Living
http://www.urban-biotopes.net/
Our partners in Soweto
- morethanshelters
http://morethanshelters.org/ - PlanAct Johannesburg
http://www.planact.org.za/- Mike Makwela, PlanAct programme manager – video statement
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_02 - Tebogo MKgotho, Youth Forum PlanAct member, Orlando East – video statement
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_03 - Councelor Queen Riba, Orlando East and Noordgesig – video statement
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_04 - PlanAct – Innovative Public Participation in Orlando East and Noordgesig
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_05 - PlanAct – Participatory Governance Programme
http://www.planact.org.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=46&Itemid=96 - Orlando East/Noordgesig Community Develpoment Committee
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_06 - Orlando East & Noordgesig CDC (WorldVision & PlanAct Case Study Model), video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HtXYl5Ram8
- Mike Makwela, PlanAct programme manager – video statement
- Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) at the University of
Johannesburg (UJ)
https://www.uj.ac.za/faculties/fada- Alex Opper, master program in Architecture and Informal Studio at FADA
https://www.uj.ac.za/contact/Pages/Alex-Opper.aspx - Alex Opper, Informal Studio at FADA – video statement
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_07 - Informal Studio Ruimsig, Thinking in Practice
http://informalcity.co.za/ruimsig - FADA – Informal Studio Ruimsig
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_08 - FADA – Informal Studio Marlboro South
http://blog.goethe.de/weltstadt/archives/59-The-Informal-Studio-Marlboro-South.html
- Alex Opper, master program in Architecture and Informal Studio at FADA
- Celebrating Public Spaces: Johannesburg, project by Thiresh Govender and Katharina Rohde
- coffeemanifesto: sampling instant and slow spaces in the African city by Hannah le Roux
celebrating_public_spaces_le_roux.pdf - Katharina Rohde, Berlin and Johannesburg
http://www.katharina-rohde.com/ - UrbanWorks Architecture and Urbanism, Johannesburg
http://www.urbanworks.co.za/
- coffeemanifesto: sampling instant and slow spaces in the African city by Hannah le Roux
Related projects
- LSE Cities, The Urban Age program, the London School of Economics and Political Science
http://lsecities.net/ua/ - EATMYDUST project, cinema in open space, Kliptown
http://eatmydustproject.blogspot.com/ - Abalini, food distribution and gardening education, Nyanga, Cape Town
http://abalimi.org.za/- Harvest of Hope
http://abalimibezekhaya.org.za/about/harvest-of-hope/
- Harvest of Hope
- Hotel Yeoville – A Participatory Public Art Project, conceptualized and directed by artist Terry Kurgan
http://www.hotelyeoville.co.za/ - Construct Africa, uncube Magazine No.17
http://www.uncubemagazine.com/articles/11675031#!/page1 - uTshani Fund, South African SDI Alliance
http://sasdialliance.org.za/projects/
http://sasdialliance.org.za/category/news/utshani-fund/ - Housing and the Informal City, Research project 2008-10, 26’10 south Architects & Lone Poulsen, Wits University in partnership with Goethe Institut, South Africa
http://www.housinginformalcity.co.za/ - Association of African Planning Schools
http://www.africanplanningschools.org.za/ - A Global Network of the Urban Poor
http://www.sdinet.org/ - CAN Community Architects Network
http://communityarchitectsnetwork.info/ - Durban, The Union Internationale des Architects (UIA) Congress
http://www.uia2014durban.org/ - 1:1, Agency for Engagement
http://www.1to1.org.za/p/home.html - Architecture for Humanity
https://architectureforhumanity.org/ - Barefoot College
http://www.barefootcollege.org/ - Transition Network
http://www.transitionnetwork.org/
Related literature
- Cooperatives Act, Government Gazette, 2005
Cooperatives_Act_a14-05 - Arjun Appadurai, The Capacity to Aspire: Culture and the Terms of Recognition Culture and Public Action. Rao, Vijayendra and Michael Walton (ed). Stanford University Press. 2004.
Arjun_Appadurai_The_Capacity_to_Aspire.pdf - Mathieu Hilgers, What is urban social sustainability? Socially Engaged Art. ULB, Goldsmiths, September 2013, Literature Review from CUCR Goldsmiths College University of London about Urban Sustainability and Social Engaged Art Practices
CUCR-Feedback_Sept2013-LitReviews.pdf - The Importance of Informality, learning from Africa, Comparative Study between Informal settlements and Vinex-districts in the Netherlands
Futurecycles_The-importance-of-informality-learning-from-africa.pdf - The Social Design Public Action Reader – Studio Lukas Feireiss
http://www.studiolukasfeireiss.com/The-Social-Design-Public-Action-Reader - City of Cape Town adopts reblocking policy
http://futurecapetown.com/2013/12/city-of-cape-town-adopts-reblocking-policy/#.Up8iCnyppaw - Landscape Strategies for Informal Settlements: Creating Armatures to Shape Urban Form
https://scenariojournal.com/landscape-strategies-for-informal-settlements-creating-armatures-to-shape-urban-form/ - Creative Economy Report 2013
http://www.creativeeconomyreport2013.com/ - Doung Jahangeer, …just passing through…, published in Shoe Shop,
Goethe Institute and Fanele, 2010, p.7-12.
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_09 - Welcome to Soweto! An Agora of Exchange – exhibition proposal
http://potrc.org/b/soweto_10 - SLUM Lab Magazine, The Social Design Public Action Reader, Issue 8, 2013
https://web.archive.org/web/20160413112338/http://socialdesign.ac.at/static/downloads/The_Social_Design_Public_Action_Reader.pdf - Donald Pugh, A Tour of Soweto SOUTH AFRICA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Tb1cNmic4 - Ubuntu
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28philosophy%29
Design for the Living World, HFBK 