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Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak
Includes bibliographical references.
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School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics
2015
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/13016 Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak Blackburn, Cameron Industrial Archaeology Includes bibliographical references. The starting point of this study begins whilst driving through a field of vineyards just outside of Cape Town, about 15 kilometers from Napier. A sea of agricultural formlessness and sameness. This scene was interrupted by a large white blanket covering most of the hill side. It appeared ridged in its form yet fluid enough to take the shape of the landscape. The vast scale (or scale-less-ness) of the landscape became somewhat reduced to an area small enough to comprehend. This object lay seemingly foreign and unfamiliar and thus estranging my view of the landscape. This led me to question its meaning. A google earth image of the exact site fortuitously captured the assembly of this artefact. The image illustrates its agricultural use, but more interestingly its reveals a series of processes of working upon the landscape. The large seemingly monolithic object reveals its individual parts, method of assembly and human labour. Embedded within the artefact too are energies- human and mechanical- which are impossible to observe in the finished artefact. Through being able to unveil the various methods and steps of this process made richer my knowledge of the landscape and therefore, I argue, helped better understand the human connection to landscape. 2015-05-28T12:26:44Z 2015-05-28T12:26:44Z 2014 Master Thesis Masters MArch http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Industrial Archaeology Blackburn, Cameron Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak |
| thesis_degree_str | Master's |
| title | Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak |
| title_full | Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak |
| title_fullStr | Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak |
| title_full_unstemmed | Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak |
| title_short | Waste / Mine: Re Interpreting mans' connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on Devils Peak |
| title_sort | waste mine re interpreting mans connection to the landscape through the conservation of a tin mine on devils peak |
| topic | Industrial Archaeology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/13016 |
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