Figure 8: Belonging

2.8. Primary Concept The driving concept that defines this research and the architecture that is formed from it, is belonging. The reintegration and affirmation of indigenous identities and the knowledge systems they have, a place in which they can belong, needs to be designed. This designed place requires being a place for belonging and a place for healing from trauma that comes about from the trauma that the apartheid system inflicted on today’s post-apartheid South African city. Today’s indigenous African is a victim of the traumatised city. Figure 8: Belonging