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Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill
Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/53325 Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill Freimond, Keith UCTD Augmented landscape Hatherley landfill Landfill architecture Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-08 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-12 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15 Mini Dissertation (MArch(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2015. The dissertation looks at our technological environment that become so complex and independents that it is best perceived as a nature of its own. The short life cycle of technological devices leave them to be discarded when they become obsolete, introducing materials into an ecosystem that cannot process it. Very few waste management strategies currently exist within the city of Tshwane and it is largely left to informal waste pickers or reclaimers who sort and gather this so-called waste and sell it third-party recycling companies. The dissertation thus aims to look at paradigm shift through which these obsolete objects are not seen as waste, but rather as anthropological relics than can become a commodity in our future society. A commodity that can be mined for its material, energy, nostalgic and narrative value and even the data it contains. The site of investigation is Hatherley landfill where the landfill has become the livelihood of hundreds of informal workers who live on the landfill and in the neighbouring informal settlement, Phumolong. Methods used to keep the landfill contained and out of site, now make the daily movement of these workers a dangerous process and work conditions are hazardous. The intention is to change the nature of the current edge condition of the landfill and establish a porous quality connecting it to the neighbouring community with architecture mediating daily exchanges. The intention is thus to investigate architecture as a device, to augment such landscapes, for the mining of everyday objects as though they have become anthropological relics, and the re-processing of these commodities for re-consumption; brining together issues of man, nature and technology. tm2016 mi2025 Architecture MArch(Prof) Unrestricted SDG-08: Decent work and economic growth SDG-09: Industry, innovation and infrastructure SDG-11: Sustainable cities and communities SDG-12: Responsible consumption and production SDG-15: Life on land 2016-06-22T13:53:12Z 2016-06-22T13:53:12Z 2015 Mini Dissertation Freimond, K 2015, Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill, MArch(Prof) Mini Dissertation, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53325> A2016 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53325 en © 2016 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 application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Augmented landscape Hatherley landfill Landfill architecture Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-08 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-12 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15 Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| title | Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| title_full | Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| title_fullStr | Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| title_full_unstemmed | Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| title_short | Memory and decay : the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| title_sort | memory and decay the augmented landscape of hatherley landfill |
| topic | UCTD Augmented landscape Hatherley landfill Landfill architecture Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-08 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-09 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-11 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-12 Engineering, built environment and information technology theses SDG-15 |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/53325 |