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Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa
This dissertation discusses the origin, development and implementation of the design project - a reconciliation memorial in the Schotschekloof quarry in Cape Town. The project aims to illuminate the opportunity for architecture to engender reconciliation, and therefore contribute, however subtly, to...
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| author | Gevers, Katja Barros |
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| description | This dissertation discusses the origin, development and implementation of the design project - a reconciliation memorial in the Schotschekloof quarry in Cape Town. The project aims to illuminate the opportunity for architecture to engender reconciliation, and therefore contribute, however subtly, towards the transformation of a society. It is applied to the South African post-Apartheid context through the lens of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but deals with universal themes of memory, loss and forgiveness. The project critically explores reconciliation resulting from the interplay of memory and forgetting within the spatial confines of the memorial. It explores the functional aspects of both processes expanding on the traditional definition of commemorative space in art and architecture. |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/7530 Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa Gevers, Katja Barros Noero, Jo Coetzer, Nic De Jager, Rob Carter, Francis This dissertation discusses the origin, development and implementation of the design project - a reconciliation memorial in the Schotschekloof quarry in Cape Town. The project aims to illuminate the opportunity for architecture to engender reconciliation, and therefore contribute, however subtly, towards the transformation of a society. It is applied to the South African post-Apartheid context through the lens of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but deals with universal themes of memory, loss and forgiveness. The project critically explores reconciliation resulting from the interplay of memory and forgetting within the spatial confines of the memorial. It explores the functional aspects of both processes expanding on the traditional definition of commemorative space in art and architecture. 2014-09-17T12:16:40Z 2014-09-17T12:16:40Z 2013 Master Thesis Masters MArch (Prof) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7530 eng application/pdf School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Gevers, Katja Barros Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa |
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| title | Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full | Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_fullStr | Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_full_unstemmed | Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_short | Forgetting To Remember : Remembering To Forget: a space for reconciliation and transformation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| title_sort | forgetting to remember remembering to forget a space for reconciliation and transformation in post apartheid south africa |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/7530 |
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