Exhibitions, Interventions and a Conversation about Curating
African Architecture .
Continuing its focus on informality in the context of
architecture and urban spaces, the Goethe-Institut South Africa presented an
extensive side programme accompanying the International Union of Architects
World Congress (UIA) which took place from August 3 to 7 2014 in Durban.
The intervention Rush Hour – Acknowledging everyday
practices transforms a plot of land besides the M3 highway into a temporary
station for hitchhikers, who have been using the space as part of an informal
pedestrian route between the periphery and the centre of Durban. As a
collaboration between Durban-based collective dala and raumlabor, an experimental
practice from Berlin, a construction of used car bodies will be built, both
serving as a shelter and a landmark acknowledging (informal) everyday
practices.
As part of the Interface2012-14 project, a series of
installations and performances, as well as a photography exhibition and a
colloquium will be realized in Durban, exploring alternative bottom-up ways of
better understanding public spaces.
Two outstanding architecture exhibitions will be hosted at
the Beerhall in Durban: Informal Studio: Marlboro South documents a
collaborative project between students, community planners and residents from
the informally settled warehouses and open plots in Marlboro South bordering
Alexandra Township, developed by the architectural practice 26'10 South Architects
as part of an architecture course at the University of Johannesburg.
The exhibition will also be presented in Cape Town later
this year, as part of Open Design at the City Hall in Cape Town. Ecology.Design. Synergy is an exhibition
that presents solutions for a sustainable and responsible architecture with a
lower consumption rate of natural resources.
For more information visit www.uia2014durban.org
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