22 Engagement

22.1 Industry 22.1.1 PIA

Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA) and the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design have had a close relationship for many years. A staff member from the department has always been on the education sub-committee of the PIA. A report on the department’s functioning and results is also published in the PIA’s annual report.

All short courses and events hosted by the department are advertised through the PIA, ensuring that the architectural role-players in and around Tshwane are reached. The PIA sponsors books, cash and membership prizes during the annual prize-giving ceremony that honours and exhibits the best students’ work. In the past, the PIA has also been the biggest sponsor of the student’s year-end function, an event that the student body organises.

Table 54 Staff PIA engagements

TUT staff member PIA activities and involvement Year

Mel Stander Workshop: Presents a PIA CPD-accredited drawing course at the Pretoria Institute of Architects. 2018-2019

Mostert van Schoor Committee member: Pretoria Institute for Architecture. 2019 to present Emmanuel Nkambule Presenter: SA National Department of Public Works / Pretoria Institute of Architects (NDPW / PIA) Architectural Forum 25 September 2019 2019 Adjudicator: for the Pretoria Institute of Architects Awards for Architecture 2019 2019 Partnership: the department’s Archive for Architects and Designers’(ADA) has established a partnership with PIA through the In Plain Sight lecture series to document and tell the stories of black designers 2021 to present Marinda Bolt Committee member: Pretoria Institute for Architecture (PIA)2020 to present 2020 to present

Tebogo Ramatlo Adjudicator: for the Pretoria Institute of Architects Awards for Architecture 2021 2021

22.1.2 Etex Group South Africa

In 2019, the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design was approached by Marley Building Systems (now Etex Group South Africa) to donate their factory modular alternative construction prototype for research in the Design-Make Studio towards an innovative and efficient alternative house for a family living in a shack at Itirileng informal settlement in Laudium, Pretoria. This House Puseletso Project was opened on 30 August 2019. In 2020 and 2021, Etex Group South Africa continued its relationship by donating drywall construction materials to TUT that were used to renovate and retrofit two pre-school classrooms in Itirileng informal settlement. Each year they also provide technical support, tools and training (workshops) to BArch 4 (Tech) students on drywall construction as part of Studio Work 4 MakerSpace’s project.

22.1.3 Profession practitioners

In Plain Sight

In Plain Sight is the theme of the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT) Department of Architecture and Industrial Design’s Archive of Design and Architecture’s (ADA) public lecture series. The series grapples with the scant history of Black architects documented in the industry. Intentional and visible, In Plain Sight tasks us to rediscover the lives and work of Black architects who have been left out of repositories on the African continent. The lack of knowledge available about Black designers has made us question the role of the archive in perpetuating exclusivity and paucity within the industry. This series explores themes around rewriting and reflecting on the rich history of Black designers on our continent. • IPS Lecture 1: Linda Mvusi (architect), 31 March 2021 • IPS Film Documentary: Aziz Tayob (architect), shot in 2021 and will be launched in July 2022 • Thorsten Deckler Workshop with MArch 1 students: 2021.

A housing model-building design workshop was held with Thorsten Deckler of 26’10 Architects in the third quarter of 2021. The project required students to work in the Pretoria neighbourhoods of Sunnyside, Salvokop and Pretoria West. Deckler accompanied students to various sites where the recordings and observations of people and their domestic activity in their urban contexts were captured through hand drawings. A further model-building workshop was held to explore typological housing responses to the needs of people and the city through the immediacy and decision-making of doing and making models.

Image 32 Model Building workshop

22.2 Community

The department has adopted an approach that integrates teaching and research with the implementation of community projects.

22.2.1 Teaching and community projects

A focus on a design-through-making teaching and learning approach led to the establishment of the MakerSpace facility and the merge of the Industrial Design department with the Architecture department. Each year group does at least one project involving designing and making, and where possible donates the creative work to a community.

Table 55.1 BArch1 List of Projects BArch1

Year: 2019 Project: Itireleng Pre-School

Year: 2020 Project: Itireleng Pre-School

Table 55.2 BArch3 + Industrial Design List of Projects

BArch3 + Industrial Design 3

Year: 2019 Project: Furniture Design Project TUT Campus

BArch4 (Design) Concrete Cubes Project (2017 to present) Year: 2017 Project: TUT Main Campus

Year: 2018 Project: Groenkloof

012 Central

Year: 2019 Project: Itireleng Taxi Rank

Sculpture Design: TUT Main Campus

Year: 2020 Project: Itireleng Taxi Rank

Year: 2021 Project: Itireleng Taxi Rank

Table 55.4 BArch4 (Tech) List of Projects

BArch4 (Tech) Itireleng Pre-school Project: Maintenance and refurbishment of a pre-school in the Itireleng informal settlement in Laudium, Pretoria (2020 to present)

Year: 2020 Project: Itireleng Pre-school: Classoom 1

Year: 2021 Project: Itireleng Pre-school: Classoom 2

MArch1

Year: 2018 Project: Rietondale Primary Schoo

Year: 2021 Project: Film Screening

Lecture and presentation of a documentary by 1955 Kliptown-supporting community initia-

tives: Film Trailer: Solidarity? Revealing the everyday lived reality of Covid-19 in Kliptown, Soweto – YouTube

Image 33 BArch4(Tech) Students rototype testing.

Image 34 Student from BArch4 (Tech) working on Itireleng Pre-school

Name of engagement activity and commencement date

Concrete Cubes Project

(2017 to present)

Itireleng Preschool Project: Maintenance and refurbishment of a pre-school in the Itireleng informal settlement in Laudium, Pretoria

(2020 to present)

Brief description (maximum of two paragraphs)

The BArch 4 (Design) Concrete Cubes Project started in 2017. The first installation was done in the courtyard of Arch+ID’s Building 11. The second installation was, in 2018, at 012 Central, Pretoria Central, as part of the AZA Conference. In the same year, the installation was moved to Groenkloof, Pretoria, where it was stolen. Thereafter, in 2019, the design and making of new street furniture at an informal taxi rank in the Itireleng informal settlement in Pretoria was started and is ongoing.

A master plan was developed in collaboration with the local taxi association.

In 2020, the fourth-year Architecture students continued with the project by designing, manufacturing and installing concrete street furniture. An otherwise dilapidated space is now equipped with street furniture. The staff and students of TUT transformed the space into an area used by the community. The furniture includes benches, counters, tables and a climbing space for children. This project provided an opportunity to apply academic teaching and learning in the real world and participate in real-world construction activities and community engagement.

The project involved retrofitting an existing classroom with an insulated lightweight steel stud wall frame to improve thermal comfort for the pre-school children.

The Department of Civil Engineering worked with the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design.

Civil Engineering students analysed the existing structure, proposed internal interventions and provided recommendations.

Fourth-year Architectural Technology students were tasked to complete a building energy efficiency retrofit of an existing classroom made of steel and corrugated sheeting.

Benefits for the community Benefits for the university Other important information

Pieter Greyvensteyn and the part-time lecturer and architect Navarre Ebersohn worked on this project with BArch 4 (Design) Architecture students.

The purpose of the retrofit was to improve thermal comfort and soundproofing of the preschool classroom. The teacher and children now use a classroom that is cooler in summer and warmer in winter. This project provided an opportunity to apply academic teaching and learning in the real world. During the installation, the staff and students gained first-hand knowledge of construction techniques, new materials and their use. Staff and students of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design worked with Etex Group South Africa to complete the retrofit.

Emmanuel Nkambule, Tebogo Ramatlo and part-time lecturer and architect Phillip Sherman, worked with the students on this project.

Etex Group South Africa sponsored most of the building materials.

Image 35 MArch2 Student, Dean Smuts final portfolio review of her project SE[CURE]ING BOYS TO MEN: The design of a contemporary rites of passage tailoring facility for at-risk boys in the Pretoria CBD

Research work in the department is also integrated into community projects. External and internal funding has been effectively used to position the department to instil caring and social responsibility in academics and professionals. This social responsibility also helps define the departmental identity and responsibility to communities facing socio-economic challenges. Research and design skills are used as leverage to make up for the limited funds to complete meaningful and sustainable community development.

Africa seems to have ‘lost’ the development ‘game’, as terms such as ‘smart’ and ‘fourth industrial revolution’ discourses now dominate, and Africa is now perceived to be lagging behind.

If we look beyond the dominant narratives, big government and big capital, we will find grass-roots initiatives at local level, at site level, and in communities. Away from the prevalent news cycles, we find governance systems, decision-making mechanisms, financial support systems that are highly evolved and that may be the answers to conceptualising an alternative future where the focus is on decentralised and local systems of innovation rather than grand political gestures.

At the TUT Arch+ID, we present an alternative, unique, forward-looking and optimistic outlook – a counter-narrative to the doom and gloom of political analysis that dominates the news cycles, much of what is written and much of what emerges in the public domain about Africa.

Table 57 Community Enagagement 2019

Name of engagement activity and commencement date Brief description (maximum of two paragraphs)

House Puseletso Project: The design and construction of a new prefabricated house in the Itireleng informal settlement in Pretoria With the assistance of representatives from Etex Group South Africa (a parent company of Marley Building Systems), TUT staff and students built a prefabricated house for a family in the Itireleng informal settlement, Pretoria

(2018)

Benefits for the community Benefits for the university Other important information

A family in need now has a home (that is a permanent structure) to live in. This project provided an opportunity to apply academic teaching and learning in the real world. During the installation, the staff and students gained firsthand knowledge of construction techniques, new materials and their use. Volunteering DoA+ID students (BArch 1 to MArch 1) were led by Victor Mokaba, Emmanuel Nkambule and representatives from Etex Group. https://tutarchitecture.co.za/2019/08/ house-puseletso-tut-architecture-community-project-handover/

https://www.etexgroup.com/es-pe/of-living/teammates/overview-teammates-stories/pi107356/

House Monareng Project: Bushbuckridge (Phase 1)

(2020 to present) A new prefabricated house is beign designed in Bushbuckridge for the Monareng family. A prefabricated house was designed for the parents of Katlego Monareng, who was tragically killed in 2018 outside the TUT Soshanguve South Campus.

The second phase will be the construction of the house in Bushbuckridge. Staff and students of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design worked with Marley Roofing South Africa to design the prefabricated house. During the process, the staff and students gained first-hand knowledge of prefabricated systems. The project was led by Amira Osman.

Itireleng Preschool Project: Maintenance and refurbishment of a pre-school in the Itireleng informal settlement, Laudium, Pretoria

(2020 to present) The project involved retrofitting an existing classroom with an insulated lightweight steel stud wall frame to improve the thermal comfort for the pre-school children.

The Department of Civil Engineering worked together with the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design.

Civil Engineering students analysed the existing structure, proposed internal interventions and provided recommendations. The purpose of the retrofit was to improve thermal comfort and soundproofing of the pre-school classroom. The teacher and children now use a classroom that is cooler in summer and warmer in winter. This project provided an opportunity to apply academic teaching and learning in the real world. During the installation, the staff and students gained firsthand knowledge of construction techniques, new materials and their use. Staff and students of the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design worked with Etex Group South Africa to complete the retrofit.

Emmanuel Nkambule, Tebogo Ramatlo and part-time lecturer and architect Phillip Sherman worked with the students on this project.

Etex Group South Africa sponsored most of the building materials.

Project Koko:

Newly proposed studio and storage facility for indigenous farming and art creation activities in Jane Furse in Limpopo

(2021 to present) Fourth-year Architectural Technology students were tasked to complete a building energy efficiency retrofit of an existing classroom made of steel and corrugated sheeting.

In 2020, following heavy rains that led to the collapse of a studio workshop or storage built with mud bricks, a well-known rural photographer TC Maila posted on Facebook about the damage. Using photography and storytelling, Maila profiled an old woman, Koko, who owns the destroyed structure, her indigenous farming work and artworks. The DoA+ID Design-Make Studio made contact to collaborate on building a new studio and storage facility for Koko. After a meeting with Koko’s grandchildren, the Design-Make Studio visited Koko and TC Maila in Jane Furse in Limpopo to see the damage and start working on Project Koko. A facility for indigenous farming, artwork and educational activities will be provided to Koko with the aim of supporting other local women doing similar work in Jane Furse. Publicity and marketing of the institution to the Jane Furse local community and creative or research outputs may emerge from this project The project is funded by the SARChI: DST / NRF / SACN Research Chair in Spatial Transformation: Positive Change in the Built Environment, led by Amira Osman.

Emmanuel Nkambule leads the project in collaboration with photographer TC Maila of Pixel Tone New Media.

Name of staff member Committees, management of scientific councils, boards, etc. Jacques Laubscher Board member: National Building Regulations Review Board (in terms of Section 9, National Building Regulations and Building Standards Act, 103 of 1977) Committee member: South African Bureau of Standards Technical Committee 59 (Construction Standards) Jacques Laubscher Heads of South African Schools of Architecture (HoSA): Elected as the Chairperson of HoSA for period 2018-2019 during the HoSA meeting in Bloemfontein 28 Aug 2019 Mostert van Schoor Committee member: Pretoria Institute for Architecture Marinda Bolt Committee member: Pretoria Institute for Architecture Tebogo Ramatlo Strategic committee member: City of Johannesburg (CoJ) 4IR Urban Mobility and Johannesburg Road Agency (JRA)

Emmanuel Nkambule

Panel member: DHET Subfield review panel: Creative Outputs – Design Sushma Patel Board of reviewers, AMPS (Architecture, Media, Politics and Society) International Journal Jacques Laubscher Board member: National Tertiary Retirement Fund Emmanuel Nkambule Board Member: South African Institute of Architects (SAIA) Interim Editorial Board Year 2018 to present

2018 to present

2019

2019 2020 2020

2020 to present

2017 to present

2021 2021

22.4 Internationalisation

22.4.1 Italy

Italy-South Africa Collaboration: Civil Engineering and Architectural

2017

• 07 / 09 / 2017, submission of the project A Social and Spatial Investigation at the Moxomatsi village, Mpumalanga (SSIMM) at the Call ISARP, Italy – South Africa Joint Research Project 2018-2020 (thematic area of ‘New Technologies for

Social Science’) • 20 / 12 / 2017, the project for Exchange of Researchers has been selected within the frame of the Executive Programme of Scientific and Technological Cooperation between the South African and the Italian Republic for the years 2018 through 2020.

2018

• 08 / 04 / 2018 to 16 / 04 / 2018 (in South Africa): (1) visiting professor: Salvatore Barba and 08 / 04 / 2018 to 18 / 04 / 2018 (in South Africa); (1) visiting researcher: Sara Morena. 08 / 04 / 2018 to 22 / 04 / 2018 (in South Africa); (1) visiting researcher: Carla Ferreyra; (1) visiting student • Summer school ‘Training and digital measuring at Moxomatsi village’ provides training on digital surveying of the built environment under the SSIMM project with MicroGeo 3D eye for a photogrammetric survey, with the participation of two professors, three researchers and ten students of TUT. This experience led to the development of another master’s thesis titled ‘The survey for the valorisation of cultural heritage and as a support instrument for a sustainable architecture project in Mpumalanga, South Africa’ • 01 / 07 / 2018 to 16 / 07 / 2018 (in Italy): (3) visiting professors: Marinda Bolt, Maria Magdalena Labuschagne and Victoria

Ferraris; (9) visiting students • Youth Exchange: Documentation and Valorization of Cultural Landscapes, with the participation of students of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in Argentina, project carried out with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

• 07 / 07 / 2018 to 06 / 08 / 2018 (in South Africa): (1) visiting researcher: Andrea di Filippo • Visit to provide training on digital surveying of the built environment under the SSIMM project with MicroGeo 3D eye for photogrammetric survey • 31 / 08 / 2018 to 30 / 09 / 2018 (in Italy): (1) visiting professor: Emmanuel Nkambule, 20 / 09 / 2018 to 30 / 09 / 2018 (in

Italy); (1) visiting professor: Mostert van Schoor; (2) visiting researchers: Gopolang Motswai and Victor Mokaba – visit to provide support on architectural Survey • 17 / 09 / 2018 (in South Africa), master’s thesis presentation ‘A centre for the preservation of the stone-walled sites at

Mohlo-Pela in Mpumalanga’ by Stefan van Vuuren on the field of ISARP cooperation • 01 / 10 / 2018 to 01 / 10 / 2020 (in Italy), master’s students: Stefan van Vuuren and Khutso Chuene, students of TUT selected for a two-year scholarship from the Unisa reserved for foreign master’s students to develop a master’s degree in Environment and Territory Engineering.

2019

• 17 / 03 / 2019 to 27 / 03 / 2019 (in South Africa): (3) visiting professors: Salvatore Barba, Alfonso Santoriello and Roberto

Vanacore; (3) visiting researchers: Marco Limongiello, Carla Ferreyra and Rocco D’Auria; (12) visiting students • In the field of Youth Exchange 2018 project ‘Documentation and Valorization of Cultural Landscapes’ carried out with the support of Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. It has been developed the archaeological survey – UAVs, with topographical support – GPS. Summer school with the participation of two professors, three researchers and nine students of TUT • 06 / 08 / 2019 to 09 / 08 / 2019 (in South Africa): (1) visiting professor: Vincenzo Naddeo. • In order to attend a workshop in Durban, 06 / 08 / 2019 to 04 / 09 / 2019 (in South Africa); (1) visiting researcher: Anna

Sanseverino • In order to provide training on an architectural survey with terrestrial laser scanning, 01 / 09 / 2019 to 01 / 10 / 2019 (in

Italy): (1) visiting professor: Mostert van Schoor • Further training in photogrammetric software for the implementation of an e-learning course, 09 / 09 / 2019 to 19 / 09 / 19 (in Italy): (1) visiting professor: Jacques Laubscher • In order to provide support on the Architectural Survey course in Unisa, 25 / 11 / 2019 to 06 / 12 / 19 (in Italy): (1) visiting professor: Marinda Bolt; (1) visiting researcher: Lieze Swart • In order to provide support on the Architecture course in Unisa: 2020 (cancelled due to Covid-19) • Summer School in South Africa, with the supposed participation of: (1) visiting professor (5) visiting researchers, (3) Erasmus visiting students and (9) visiting students • In the field of Youth Exchange 2019 project ‘Documentation and Valorization of Cultural Landscapes’, carried out with the support of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.

In order to summarise:

Table 59 Youth Exchange numbers

From Italy to South Africa From South Africa to Italy

Professor Researcher Student Paper Professor Researcher Student Paper

2015 3 - - - 3 - 15 2016 2 - - 1 2 - - 2017 - - - - - - - 2018 1 3 1 1 5 2 9 1 2019 4 4 12 1 3 1 - 1

22.4.2 Mozambique

TUT Department of Architecture and Nampula University (10 to 14 May 2018)

In early 2018, a delegation from Nampula University in Mozambique visited the TUT Department of Architecture to discuss possible exchange programmes and other forms of collaboration between the architecture departments of both institutions. Thereafter, two staff members from TUT, Ms Marinda Bolt and Mr Mostert van Schoor, visited Nampula University in Mozambique to promote available postgraduate architecture courses and academic expertise for future research cooperation.

BArch 3 academic tour to Mozambique (23 to 27 September 2018)

In 2017 and 2018, the BArch 3 students and lecturers visited Maputo, Mozambique, to experience and document buildings done by Portuguese architects Jose Forjaz, Pancho Guedes, and other well-known architects as precedents for a given design brief. A visit to the Faculty of Architecture and Physical Planning at the Eduardo Mondlane University, which Forjaz organised and directed from 1985 to 2009, formed part of the excursion.

Study tours were referred to as the ‘Grand Tour’ and have always held special significance in architectural education, having originated at the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris during the seventeenth century. In addition to the studio culture integral to architectural education, the study tour provides the vehicle for establishing a social framework.

As students from southern Africa cannot easily participate in the Grand Tour of historic European sites, this was a unique opportunity to investigate the various climatic conditions and develop a contextually relevant design vocabulary by visiting Mozambique. The exposure of architectural students to environments and cultures different to their own enables them to develop a contextual understanding and investigate corresponding methods of construction.

The outcome of these exposures was not intended to encourage foreign design regurgitations and instead foster a re-engagement with familiar surroundings and local iconographies from a broadened perspective.

22.4.3 Swaziland

BArch3 architecture students architectural tour to Eswatini, Swaziland, 9 Sept to 4 Oct 2019

At the Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, the BArch3 students annually partake in a cross-border trip to Mozambique and complete a design project as part of the excursion. The idea is to expose students to a vastly different context culturally, architecturally, geographically and climatically. In 2019, political unrest in Mozambique led to the cancellation of this excursion at the last minute and an opportunity arose to break tradition and head to Eswatini. The purpose of the trip was to search for architectural ‘gems’ in the country, while hoping the students would learn a thing or two. The students were given a brief that asked them to document the trip through a series of doodle-sized sketches on squares.

22.4.4 Other countries

Table 60 Exchanges to other countries

TUT

TUT Arch+ID

Activity

South Africa: TUT Department of Architecture hosted staff and students from The National University of Cordoba (UNC), Argentina, 17 Feb to 7 March 2019 Jacques Laubscher South Africa: hosts Mr Bashar Al Shawa, PhD (Civil Engineering) candidate from the University of Bath, United Kingdom, visited TUT as part of the Newton Project 16 to 20 Feb 2019, funded by Newton Fund: Industry Academia Partnership Programme (IAPP) – South Africa. Jacques Laubscher China: visits the Jinan University in Shandong Province, China to discuss research collaboration, student and staff exchanges 18 to 28 April 2019 Jacques Laubscher United Kingdom: visits the University of Bath with two master’s degree students for workshops, 21 June – 2 July 2019, as part of the Newton Project

Year

2019

2019

2019

Jacques Laubscher United Kingdom: Visits RIBA in London, United Kingdom, to discuss Part 1 & 2 validation possibilities and procedures on 22 June 2019 2019

Peter Kinnear Switzerland: A BArch4 (Design) student, attended the European Architecture Students Assembly (EASA) in Switzerland, 24 July to\ 12 Aug 2019 2019

22.5 National education tours

Coromandel Estate trip

The BArch4 (Design) students travel to Mpumalanga Province every year to spend a weekend at the Coromandel Estate as part of an Architectural Design IV project. The trip is explorative in nature, where students and lecturers experience the main house in Coromandel Estate as well as the scenic landscape where it is located. This trip forms part of a precedent study: Students are instructed to document the house and landscape using photography and sketches, followed by a design process of the project titled ‘Landform Building: Urban Park & Ancestral Narratives using the Rebecca Street Cemetery’. The cemetery is at the main entrance of the TUT Pretoria Campus.

Image 36 BArch3 2019 trip to Eswatini

Image 37 Department staff at the Italy exhcange trip 2018

Image 36 Site visit by BArch3 to the Future Africa center 2019

As part of the coursework for Architectural Design 5, MArch1 students were taken on a field trip to Durban in August 2019. The urban contexts of the Indian Quarter and the Warwick Junction area were visited. A walk through various heritage sites, including the Grey Street Mosque complex, Emmanuel Cathedral, Ajmeri Arcade, a significant transport interchange and the muti markets at Warwick Avenue were explored. Many other significant buildings and areas in the city were also visited, including the Kwazulu Natal Society of the Arts (KZSNA) Gallery, Norman Eaton’s Nedbank building and Cato Manor.

22.6 Other Institutions

Intra-university activities

Arch+ID updated the current memorandum of understanding (MoU) between National University of Cordoba (NCU), Argentina and TUT to continue exchanging TUT students and staff and implementing a proposed double degree between TUT and NCU. A successful exchange programme with the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design at the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba in Argentina has been in existence since 2006. This school has 10 000 students in architecture. The programme entails annual reciprocal visits of students and lecturers.

This triangular exchange has developed with the University of Salerno in Italy, such as a visit by students and staff from TUT to Salerno in 2015. A visit from professors of Salerno University to conduct lectures and a workshop at TUT took place as described in the introduction of this report, resulting in a MMOU being signed between the two universities, enabling TUT students to study at Salerno. In 2017, this engagement continued through an NRF and Embassy of Italy in South Africa funded Joint Mobility project titled ‘A Social and Spatial Investigation at the Moxomatsi Village, Mpumalanga (SSIMM)’ at the Call ISARP, Italy – South Africa Joint Research Project 2018-2020 (thematic area ‘New Technologies for Social Science’). This project was concluded in 2021.

Twenty BArch1 students, accompanied by lecturers, presented the TUT Archifashion Project at the 30th Sophia Gray Memorial Lecture presented by Prof. Ora Joubert at the Department of Architecture, University of Free State, Bloemfontein (30 August 2018).

Table 61 Intra-university external examining

Year Arch+ID staff Institution

2018 Prof. Amira Osman University of the Witwatersrand Dr Emmanuel Nkambule University of Cape Town; University of Pretoria; University of Johannesburg; University of the Witwatersrand Mr Gopolang Motswai University of Pretoria Mr Nicho van der Line University of the Witwatersrand Mr Pieter Greyvensteyn University of Pretoria Mr Victor Mokaba University of Johannesburg; University of the Free State 2019 Prof. Amira Osman University of the Witwatersrand PhD thesis (Film), this project-based process entailed attending an exhibition opening and meeting with the other external examiners in 2018 and submission of a report in Sept 2019; MArch theses at University of KwaZulu-Natal, 18 to 21 Nov 2019 Dr Emmanuel Nkambule MArch(Prof) at University of Pretoria Mr Gopolang Motswai Third-year Design University of Pretoria; fourth-year Design at University of Johannesburg Ms Sushma Patel MArch(Prof) at University of the Witwatersrand Mr Victor Mokaba MArch(Prof) at University of Free State 2020 Dr Emmanuel Nkambule MArch(Prof) at University of Pretoria Mr Stephen Steyn MArch(Prof) at University of Johannesburg; third-year Design at University of Pretoria Mr Tebogo Ramatlo Fourth-year Design at University of Johannesburg; second-year Construction University of Pretoria Mr Victor Mokaba MArch(Prof) at University of the Free State; MArch(Prof) at University of Cape Town

2021 Dr Emmanuel Nkambule MPhil Conservation of the Built Environment, University of Cape Town; MTech Architectural Technology, University of Johannesburg; MArch(Prof), University of Pretoria; MArch(Prof), University of Free State; BAS(Hons) Advanced Building Technology, University of Cape Town; BAS(Hons) Design Studio II, University of Cape Town; BArch History and Theory of Architecture 3, University of Johannesburg Mr Stephen Steyn Visiting critic – A4 Arts Foundation, Cape Town; Advanced History and Theory (Honours: Architecture) University of Cape Town; MArch(Prof) at University of Johannesburg Ms Sushma Patel MArch(Prof), University of Cape Town Mr Tebogo Ramatlo Second-year BArch – Construction at University of Pretoria; second-year Diploma – Construction at University of Johannesburg Mr Victor Mokaba MArch(Prof) at University of the Free State; MArch(Prof) at University of Pretoria; second-year Design at University of Johannesburg

22.7 National and international engagement

Table 62 National and international engagement

No Name Activities 1 Dr E Nkambule National

• Invited speaker: African Urban Spaces: The Narrative of an Immigrant (as part of the AZA 2018

Modernist Heritage and the Reimagining for the Inner City panel discussion). The Architecture-

ZA2018 Conference was held at 012 Central, Pretoria, South Africa

• Invited speaker: 2018 Sophia Gray

• Adjudicator for the AfriSam-SAIA Award for Sustainable Architecture and Innovation in 2018

• ENCA interview: The Afrisam-SAIA Sustainability Design Awards-2018

• Panellist (2019-2021): University of Free State, master’s with Design and doctorate with Design programmes, 2 x symposiums annually

2 Prof. Jacques Laubscher 2018 International

• Co-editor of a published book resulting from a special double issue of the Building Research and Information journal published by Routledge 44 / 5-6 ‘Building Governance and Climate

Change: Regulations and Related Policies’

2019 CHE conference

• Presentation on the Kgotla as a spatial mediator on South African university campuses at CHE conference on 31 July 2019

No Name Activities

3 Prof. Amira Osman • Joint Coordinator: International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction; CIB W104 – Open Building Implementation; an international network of researchers and practitioners in Open Building. 2017 till present International • Keynote speaker: Facilitating experimentation in urban infrastructure delivery through innovative urban governance and ‘open’ regulatory frameworks, International Conference on Infrastructure Development and Investment Strategies for Africa; 30 August – 1 September 2017, Livingstone, Zambia; Infrastructure and Sustainable Development – Impact of Regulatory and Institutional Framework

• Scientific Committee: Open Building for Resilient Cities; Conference hosted by CIB W104 – Open Building

Implementation and Council on Open Building, USA; Los Angeles, December 2018

• Author and country expert: Centre for Affordable Housing Finance (CAHF), Sudan Chapter on Housing in the Sudan

• Keynote speaker: International Conference Resilient and Responsible Architecture and Urbanism, 10-12

April 2018, Groningen, the Netherlands: Resilience and responsibility: unique challenges and opportunities in the South African built environment.

• Architectural Consultant: Illovo Sugar Malawi, a housing project, travel to Dwangwa in Malawi on 31

October – 2 November 2018.

National

• Keynote speaker: Secondary Cities Symposium, 29 November 2018, Durban, Ethekwini Municipality,

SALGA, MILE; Title: The Urban Future

• Invited speaker in a plenary session: National Scholarly Editors’ Forum (NSEF) ASSAf Scholarly Publishing Programme, Discipline-grouped evaluation of South African scholarly journals: ABEE journals, 20

November 2018, Southern Sun Hotel, OR Tambo, Johannesburg

• Invited speaker in a plenary session: The Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), Unpacking the Challenges and Opportunities of the Social Housing sector in South Africa, 22 November 2018

• Invited speaker: University of Venda, Planning Department, Introduction to Housing Studies @ Leadership Institute, Pretoria, 14 November 2018

• Invited speaker: ‘The race to zero, Green Building Council South Africa’, Cape Town, 3-4 October 2018; ‘Building inclusive and resilient cities is hard, but we can do it, creating inclusive urban environments’

• Scientific Committee as reviewer: ‘Out of the Box’ 2018 Human Settlements conference, CSIR, 24-25

October 2018

• Keynote speaker: PE keynote for NMU 2018 student awards. 8 April 2019,

• Keynote speaker: Resilience thinking for the next generation of designers available at http://futurecapetown.com/2019/04/how-to-design-more-resilience-communities/; Resilient communities and citizen-led solutions of 25 – 26 February 2019, V&A Waterfront, Cape Town #cocreate Design Festival 2019; Resilience Contribution thinking for the next generation of designers

• Invited Commentator: Pandemic-City-3.0 SACN and the Wits School of Governance.

• Invited speaker in the open plenary: Urban Research Agendas 2020 and Beyond.

• Speaker: Southern Africa City Studies Virtual Conference, hosted by the Centre for Urbanism and Built

Environment Studies, the Gauteng City-Region Observatory and the SA Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning, WITS

5 Mr V Mokaba

6 National Moderator: ArchitectureZA2018 Conference, 012 Central, Pretoria, South Africa

Moderator: Moderates and hosts session at UIA community Architecture conference in JHB, 1-2 Aug 2019. National

TV Interview: Live television interview on Expresso breakfast programme, Caesarstone competition with national winner Dean Smuts, 11 May 2019.

1) Conference presentation: Van Tonder, F & Rwelamila, PMD, 2021, Use of Automation and Artificial Intelligence as a Sub-set of Knowledge Management Domain in Architectural Organisations in South Africa, Design Education / Afrika / Fourth Industrial Revolution, 16th DEFSA Conference. Presented at the Visual Design Education Conference 5-7 October 2021

2) Panel member: December 2021, MArch Thesis examination panel member at Nelson Mandela University Department of Architecture

International

3) Conference presentation: Van Tonder, F & Osman, AOS, 2021, South African Cities Redesigned: The Production of Space to Achieve Environmental and Mental Well-being, Cities in a Changing World: Questions of Culture, Climate and Design, A conference on architecture, urbanism, planning, sociology, health, environments, infrastructure and economies. Presented at conference 16-18 June 2021

4) Conference presentation: Osman, AOS, Van Tonder, F, 2021, ‘Healing from the trauma of divisive spatial geographies: Resilience and anti-fragility at a global, national, local, and personal level’, ‘Cities in a changing world: Questions of culture, climate and design, A conference on architecture, urbanism, planning, sociology, health, environments, infrastructure and economies’, presented at conference 16-18 June 2021

5) Guest Lecturer: October 2021, Guest lecture series to the University of Oregon in the USA, for Dr Grace Aaraj. Topic: ‘Trauma-informed design: Can architecture heal, a South African perspective’ with Tlhologello Sesana, Godmire Mufuka, Luthando Thomas, and Bongane Zulu. We prepared four hours of zoom presentations and discussions, which were well received

6) Conference presentation: Van Tonder, F & Stander, M, 2022, A practical method to guide the architectural design process, ‘A focus on pedagogy: Teaching, learning and research in the modern academy’, presented at conference 20-22 April 2022

7) Conference presentation: Van Tonder, F, 2022, Specification writing as a design process tool, ‘A focus on pedagogy: Teaching, learning and research in the modern academy’, presented at conference 20-22 April 2022

8) Conference presentation: Van Tonder, F, Thomas, L, 2022, Womxn as Agents of Change to Transform the Post-Apartheid City, ICGR, 5th International Conference on Gender Research, 28-29 April 2022, University of Aveiro, Portugal

9) Conference presentation: Sesana, T, Thomas, L, & Van Tonder, F, 2022, Culture Consumption Shift to Mitigate the Climate Crisis, ICGR, 5th International Conference on Tourism Research, 19-20 May 2022, Vila do Conde, Portugal

10) Invited contributor: May 2022, Workshop on Spatial Equity and Inclusiveness. For the Architectural Research Centers Consortium (ARCC) and European Association for Architectural Education (EAAE) and the CIB working commission on Architectural Design and Management. Within ARCC-EAAE 2022 International Conference ‘Resilient city: Physical, social, and economic perspectives’.

• Toffa, T. Public space and spaces of publics: questions from decolonial southern urbanisms. ASAA 2022 Conference – 4th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa, 11 – 16 April 2022.

• Toffa, T. Panellist for a core session on ‘Urgency: Realising human rights in African cities’. Rise Africa 2022 Action

Festival, hosted by ICLEI Africa, Dullah Omar Institute, University of Western Cape and the Centre for Human

Rights, University of Pretoria, 23-25 May 2022.

• Guest lecture: Toffa, T. Making modernism in Africa, making Africans in modernism: Le Corbusier and the colonial modern in South Africa. Guest lecture, Department of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, 18 May 2022. 8 National invited talks

• 2021-South African Institute of Architects ‘Many Voices’ transformation webinar series #2 decolonising architectural education. SAIA. ‘Unsettling’ (presenter and panellist)

• 2021- African Construction Expo. Soaring, The SACAP Stakeholder Convention. ‘Where are we: Harnessing the creative potential of the youth’ (presenter and panellist)

• 2021- African Construction Expo. African Smart Cities Summit (panellist)

• 2021- A Seat at the Table. Pretoria Institute of Architects (panellists). 9 ISM auction at Weylandts Brooklyn Mall, Pretoria: The department, following an art competition, conducted a public auction of artworks by TUT architecture students on 27 Aug 2019.

Image 36 BArch4(Tech) students during their online sessions