Heritage Guest Lecture Acknowledging the land in architecture

Dr Sechaba Maape, PhD is the founder of Afreetekture, an experimental design practice that aims at establishing a practice based on indigenous knowledge systems. He is also a Senior Lecturer at the Wits School of Architecture and Planning and focuses on teaching design and history of architecture through the lens of indigenous knowledge systems and decolonisation

Kristen Kornienko, PhD is the coordinator of the Global Studio at the  RAIC Centre for Architecture at Athabasca University in Canada and the co-founder of 1955 an experimental collaborative in Kliptown, Soweto South Africa. She is a creative practitioner of transformative spatial justice through design and is actively self-reflective on the power dynamics within our social constructs that impact cultural and racial identities and everyday lives as we work to decolonize our minds, institutions, and places.

Acknowledging the land in architecture

“I think the question you should be asking is what you can do…