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The overlaps, slippages and mis-appropriations of scale undermine the programme, façades, spaces, forms and patterns of the Town Hall, leading to new and unexpected spaces and uses. Scale is, indeed, everything. As is language. Supervisors: Lesley Lokko and Sumayya Vally https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1555682740894-F3OVGK2MOS66LKUNOCL5/U12_Surgery_poster-02.png News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1555682804897-WOQ75NAXI7NQU3EYU8KY/sumayya_cover_poster_new.PNG News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1593163629180-NI0RV772URWIR8VYPFJC/Seeing+South News Seeing South: Masterclass Programme Hosted by Sumayya Vally of Unit 12R, GSA UJ 3rd July - 15th July 2020 Open Call to Architecture Students on the African Continent Application Closing Date: Monday 29th June 2020 @ midnight. "He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories and truths activated, sowing themselves.” Dear Readers, In this project, looking South, we propose a gathering of myths from across the world. Through a documentation and overlaying of urban legends, city superstitions, folklore and mythologies. Inspired by the form of the Alf Laylah wa Laylah, this project proposes to construct collections of archives, fables, maps, scripts, transcripts - a traffic* of ideas mutated between places, politics, relations, distances and approximations. *traffic Etymology from “trade and commerce” - to rub across - friction of things. For this first phase of the project, hosted by us at Unit 12R, we are inviting you to tell us a story. Kicking off on the third day of July, with a story-telling circle, we are hosting mystics and story-tellers from across the world - Ainslee M Robson, Maxwell Mutunda, Joris Komen and Ilze Wolff. Over a week of intense dialogue, discussion, secrets, magic and madness; we will work closely with each of you, tutorialling and workshopping to find a design language appropriate for your story. You will learn a new design language, and your myth will contribute to a greater atlas of tales that we are developing. In the second leg of the project, hosted by Sumayya Vally, Thandi Loeweson and Tonia Murray; we will work with invited collaborators from across the world, to document and produce a set of fables, alternative tellings of histories, politics and futures. Rendezvous: Be available between 3/07 and 15/07 for this special winter-school programme. Together, we will produce illustrated urban myths (A5 format - as many sheets as necessary - may be used as a booklet, a quilt, or as story-teller sees fit) accompanied by audio narrations for exhibition and publication. If you are interested in making myth and magic with us: Please send us a little teaser - tell us why we need to hear your burning tale - send a short (half-page) motivation to tonia@counterspace-studio.com in the form of text, a spell, a tale, an anecdote, or a small drawing, by midnight on the evening of Monday 29th June 2020. The workshop is open to all students - but space is limited - we will make a selection based on the motivations received. "the ants?" asked Tahir. "Do not be fooled. They look very small, so harm you don't think of then at all. Then years. 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In this crossing, we work directly with theatre and performance practitioners to realise a new hybrid form of drawing. this will be the first of several collaborations with Heeten Bhagat and Caryn Katz in anticipation of a GSA performance, culminating at the end of the year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1587462156408-GK448CML823UNXJRM74T/69361252_1129934570534060_2144970920333148160_o.jpg News Conversation Rooms unfolds as a set of spaces for the prompting and recording of conversations about architecture – used in different contexts – one to one, a group discussion, a sharing circle, a solitary moment, a date. The project is conceived through a set of purpose-designed furniture pieces and choreographic movement design to foster collision, intimacy, facing toward and facing away – alternative forms for terms of engagement, in space. “What does it mean to engage with the existing archive and canon of the architect-architecture-architectural? How can we rethink the canon, in a world defined by racial capitalism, profound ecological crisis and extreme violence? How do we engage with global economies of higher education and architectural institutional frameworks from the southern tip of Africa? We take the GSA’s institutional imaginary as our starting point to question the architectural canon, curriculum and institutional imaginaries”. – Except from Insitutional Imaginaries press release, September 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1555682851691-U7NGQSHV204BJDPWRMWV/B97B3814-7F43-48E4-9D31-60F300A57C1A.JPG News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1587465683592-6PJLCA1C59YNE75MS18Z/The-Funambulist-28-Samples-11-864x576.jpg News THE FUNAMBULIST Nº28: OUR BATTLES The Border Bureau: Terrence Mkhwanazi This sixth and last contribution to Our Battles, addresses a crucial moment of Black struggle against the apartheid in what Tshepo Madlingozi calls “the country with no name”. Terrence associates here a short text to one of his brilliant cartography of the 1976 Soweto Uprising explored in his Major Design Project, The Border Bureau, that aims to understand contradictions and complexities in systems of border control to produce new, subversive readings and configurations of border forms. Supervisors: Sumayya Vally https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1587467137137-5BVCHPS3IMI4VFWZQOKC/85029569_1280986172095565_4646662612883341312_o.jpg News PALOMA TORRES IN CONVERSATION WITH NOLAN OSWALD DENNIS MODERATED BY SUMAYYA VALLY In the making of form with clay, as handled, moulded and shaped, the sculpted and drawn object is a design and archive of its production and place. On the 24th February we invite you to join us for a masterclass with Mexican artist Paloma Torres, whose work is located in the territory between architecture and sculpture. The masterclass consists of a morning roundtable and evening artist talk. We understand this event as a platform for facilitating a dialogue on questions of local histories and epistemologies in relation to land, earth, architecture and the city across the global south, where the south is understood as a position, location and place. For the roundtable, Torres will be joined by South African artist Nolan Oswald Dennis in a conversation moderated by architect Sumayya Vally (Counterspace/ GSA). The conversation will engage with questions of memory, archiving and history through the material of the earth, land, roots and the planetary body in spatial, material and speculative terms https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5c45b4022487fd474f61e5e3/1587465312175-L4UYUVTQQMX1DOJ2URGM/The-Funambulist-28-Samples-05-864x576.jpg News THE FUNAMBULIST Nº28: OUR BATTLES Funambulist in collaboration with Roanne Moodley For the 28th issue, the Funambulist commissioned the brilliant Durban-based Unit 12 graduate from the GSA, Roanne Moodley to produce drawings for five of the six “battles” featured in it. 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