charrette 2: house of

SEMESTER 2 CHARRETTE 2

HOUSE OF...

Based on the clips from Pose and Paris is Burning, `house“ may also be none heteronormative. That is, family may be chosen therefore a house and the composition thereof may take nuanced interpretations.The clips introduced you to the definition of house within the queer communities and some of the rituals that exists in some of those houses.

You are tasked through collage making to construct images from print media cuttings (photographs, newspaper clips, magazine etc.) that recreate the special qualities of the house you have been assigned based on the films (pose and Paris is burning)

Create at least 3 interior collages of different rooms inspired by the films and superimposed these collages on your home model, each image (collage) must be made of at least 10 cut out/frgments from multiple images. For an example, a chair from image 1, light fixture from another, table from another etc. maay be arranged to form a new image. These new images must capture the essence of the house you are ssigned.

Ensure that each of the interior collages is superimposed on a similar space within your model (kitchen or your kitchen wall, bedroom, lounge, bathroom etc.)

Virgina Omari- House of Libeija

Raymond Mathabatha- House of Abundance

Tshepiso Makgethla- House of Ninja

“QUEERING THE CITY, HERE, MEANS CONSTRUCTING A PLACE “WHERE PEOPLE WITNESS AND APPRECIATE DIVERSE

CULTURAL EXPRESSIONS THAT THEY DO NOT SHARE OR FULLY UNDERSTAND… CITY LIFE AND URBAN KNOWING, IN THIS

SCHEMA, DOES NOT ASPIRE TO COMMUNITY BUT TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF CITY LIFE WHEREIN THE TENSIONS BETWEEN

DIFFERENT GROUPS AND THEIR VARIED UNDERSTANDINGS OF SITES MAKE COMPLEX POLITICS OF PLACE VISIBLE. AS

KATH BROWNE NOTES, QUEER “SEEKS TO RECONSIDER HOW WE THINK [OF] OUR MODES OF BEING AND OUR CONCEPTUALI-

ZATIONS OF POLITICS.” IN THIS WAY A QUEER DESIGN METHODOLOGY IS A MEANS BY WHICH CULTURE IS SEEN AS A

PROCESS, NOT PRODUCT, THAT DERIVES FROM THE ENACTION OF SPACE, NOT PRIORI TO IT.” (WORTHAM-GALVIN, B.D, 2016. TOWARDS A QUEER URBAN DESIGN METHODOLOGY)

PUBLIC THEATER ... (CHARRETTE 3), IN PHOTOGRAPH IS LUTHENDO AND NTSAKO IMAGE BY JABU MAKHUBU