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Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity
Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/27392 Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity Botes, Nico maluqa@hotmail.com Laubscher, Jacques Barker, A.A.J. (Arthur Adrian Johnson) Zondi, Fanele Diverse Community Social Stitch UCTD Dissertation MArch(Prof)--University of Pretoria, 2012 The influence of social constructs on the moral fibre and the nature of interactions within a community can never be over emphasized. Social constructs being tangible and intangible elements which form spaces within which communities interact with one another. Where social constructs are chaotic, conflicts within those communities are bound to follow. This has been observed in countries like Rwanda where inequalities among the different communities within the country led to genocide. This dissertation aims to investigate possibilities of using architecture as a tool to create opportunities for cultural and social integration thus encouraging a people to foster values of ‘otherness’ ‘selflessness’ and community. This will be achieved by constructing strong social networks (tangible and intangible) throughout an ethnically, and culturally diverse landscape, with an aim to contribute towards the upliftment of the immediate community. It is hoped that lessons learnt from this study could be of benefit to the South African society at large since the phenomenon observed within the communities being studied presents itself in other communities within the country as well. The anger so thick in the atmosphere, tension bound up into (the site) pockets, slowly strangle and suffocate her pillars, breaking them, forcing them into the ground, causing them to disappear in their turmoil, misunderstandings, and continuous drift and neglect. Tightening the bonds of individualistic interactions ignorance and “disconnectedness” forged by man’s forgetful nature of social ills he exists within. (a poem by the author, inspired by the site chosen for the dissertation) Architecture MArch(Prof) Unrestricted 2013-09-07T11:23:40Z 2013-08-29 2013-09-07T11:23:40Z 2013-04-17 2012 2013-08-19 Dissertation Zondi, F 2012, Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity, MArch(Prof) Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27392> C13/4/783/gm http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27392 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08192013-095830/ en © 2013 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Diverse Community Social Stitch UCTD Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity |
| title | Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity |
| title_full | Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity |
| title_fullStr | Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity |
| title_short | Social stitch : connecting segregated communities through activity |
| title_sort | social stitch connecting segregated communities through activity |
| topic | Diverse Community Social Stitch UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/27392 http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-08192013-095830/ |