REPURPOSE | ARCHITECT AFRICA FILM SCREENINGS at COP17

Posted Fri, 02/12/2011 - 14:31 by alex

eThekwini Municipality and the Architects’ Collective are hosting a series of film screenings from 1-9 December alongside the Repurpose: Architecture in Public Spaces exhibition. The screenings are part of the events surrounding the United Nations seventeenth Conference of Parties, which runs from 28 November to the 9 December 2011 in Durban, South Africa.

The screenings are free of charge and take place at 14:30 and 17:30, from 1-9 December, at the Priority Zone, 77 Monty Naicker Road in Durban.

Programme

Thursday 01/12/2011
14h30 – 16h00 The Battle for Johannesburg
17h30 – 19h00 Coming to the City
Friday 02/12/2011
14h30 – 16h00
The Pruitt-Igoe Myth: An urban history
17h30 – 19h00 The Uprising of Hangberg
Saturday 03/12/2011
14h30 – 16h00 Doshi
17h30 – 19h00 Wasteland
Sunday 04/12/2011

The South African Informal City

Posted Fri, 07/10/2011 - 15:35 by alex


In celebration of World Architecture Day, the Architects’ Collective is proud to announce the South African Informal City Exhibition, to be held from 10 November 2011 at the Bus Factory in Newtown, Johannesburg.

The initiative will be a showcase of South Africa’s most relevant and innovative projects that explore informality in the modern metropolis. The aim is to open up dialogue and discussion around the critical issues of informality and urban development, in order to further cooperation, information sharing and positive action between policy makers, practitionersand academics involved in this environment.