The place beyond the bent pines - designing through exploration, making and discovery: an alternative design methodology through an exploration in timber for an imagining of its us... by De Klerk, Charlotte

“…This dissertation demonstrates an experiment in an alternative design methodology, beginning with structural and material exploration rather than conventional design processes where detailing plays less of a role in the design process. …”
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A Systematic Review of Alternatives to Corporal Punishment in South African Schools by Gush, Chloe Beth

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Addressing the title deed backlog in South Africa – a systems perspective by Nikiwe, Nontuthuzelo

“…Local municipalities face mounting challenges in processing these title deeds and delivering them timeously (Magagula & Mubangizi, 2019). …”
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The fabric of time : textile dyeing at the Tswaing crater

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Implementing community renewables: institutional work in South Africa's renewable energy procurement programme by Wlokas, Holle Linnea

“…An action research approach grounds this research empirically and aims to create the opportunity for actors to reflect on their actions and engagement in the community benefit implementation process. …”
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Music and arts festivals as platforms for enhancing Sustainable Development by Lopez, Gomez Camila

“…Humanity is going through a complex process of historical transformation in which the consolidation of a new paradigm – Sustainable Development – is required in order to tackle current unprecedented global crises such as Climate Change and the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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Towards design principles for project artistry in exploratory sandpit projects: A design-based research perspective by Makhoalibe, Puleng

“…Design thinking, which is said to embody practices, mind-sets and processes that empower teams to co-create innovative solutions to wicked problems (Rittel and Webber, 1973) has been adopted in this study. …”
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Development of a systemic interdisciplinary approach to understanding human behaviour during enterprise content management institutionalisation

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Exploring the effectiveness of measuring social impact investment

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Enterprise wide business management using EDEN TM as a platform by Louw, Ian

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An evaluation of the development and implementation of a pain management guideline for the Knysna Provincial Hospital by Grey, Hilary

“…The literature reveals that the implementation of a guideline increases the success of the pain management process. This research looks at the implementation of a site specific guideline at the Knysna Provincial Hospital. …”
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The law's authority to implicitly inscribe the rhetoric of forgiveness through creatures of statute tasked with truth recovery, justice, peace and reconciliation in post-conflict c... by Teele, Thapelo

“…“Live rhetoric” functions to keep everyone bound in the process towards reconciliation, and this thesis seeks to highlight that live rhetoric is significant not only for the maintenance of peace and democracy in post conflict contexts at the level of the state, but also allows processes of reconciliation and possibly forgiveness to continue among individuals beyond the confines of bodies legally mandated with reconciliation.…”
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Gutter Pop by Vossgätter, Elize

“…My work envisions precarious futuristic environments by creating tensions between process, form, material, and colour, and collapsing previously held boundaries of pictorial space and interdisciplinarity. …”
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An imaginal interpretation of interior design's methods of cultural production : towards a strategy for constructing meaning

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Authenticity, Commodification of the Self, and Micro-Influencers: An in-depth analysis into the online identity construction of South African micro-influencers within the Western C... by Bull, Joshua

“…It was also found that their performative online identities were predicated on processes of the commodification of the self. In this sense, the construction of the influencers' profiles was dictated by processes of the commodification of the self, and the influencers understanding of how to create the perception of authenticity within the minds of their followers towards their online self.…”
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Transforming teaching through the transformative integration of emerging technologies in the ePlay MakerSpace: a critical, socio-cultural design-based study by Tarling, Isabel

“…Using a design-based research approach, two iterations of the ePlay MakerSpace model are designed, enacted and formatively evaluated to refine the design principles for the ePlay MakerSpace inculcation processes and enabling conditions. Data is collected through teachers’ created artifacts, their reflections and online posts, the formative evaluations of each iteration, and school-visits and interviews with teachers 3 – 4 weeks after each ePlay MakerSpace iteration. …”
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Towards theatre remix : a net generational perspective on theatre making by Fourie, Ilse

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Reciprocity in the evolution of self through the making of homes-as-artefacts : a phenomenological study of the BaSotho female in her vernacular architecture

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Landscape Architecture for a mining solution : an exploration of pattern

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Fragile equilibriums by Botha, Alta

“…Through this body of work, I hope to create a new context and a symbolic 'place' for resistance, setting up new balances for power relations towards fulfilment − unknowing the known − and in the process a reconstitution and a reimagining of the self, embracing the unknown − the possibilities of a new known.…”
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