JUTA STREET, BRAAMFONTEIN by HMC

OBJECT MOVEMENT

Re-appropriating Public Space in POLICY

JUTA STREET, BRAAMFONTEIN

INFORMAL WORKER

PORTFOLIO Locality: Johannesburg, South Africa Timeframe: 6 Weeks Tutor: Jhono Bennett, Beatrice De Carli Name: Mincan Huang

ACCESSIBILITY

PATICIPATION PROCESS

JUTA STREET JOHANNESBURG

OPEN SPACE

RESEARCH FROM LOCAL STUDIO

READING

BOOKS

FILMS GATHERING WEBSITES

PREFACE This is our first time -- first time to do a project in South Africa and first time to re-appropriate a remote place without visiting in person. The first day we were introduced political, economic, social aspects about Braamfontein, Johannesburg through skype from remote South Africa by Jonno, we felt quite confused about what to do and how to gather specific information that we need. Till now, we have finished a round of design process in six weeks, from research into the principles of public space in South Africa at the beginning to spatial design proposal in the final week, it is interesting to make use of a series of social media, such as Studio blog, Youtube and facebook as means of intervention and feedback for us in the information era. Besides, we thanked Local Studio for their sharing of research results.

INVESTIGATION TOPIC: INCLUSION AND EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC SPACE GROUP(4)

FILMMAKING

SITUATING (without visit) THROUGH SKYPE BY JONNO

FEEDBACK

PRECEDENTS WHO+WHY +HOW

PROJECT PROCESS STUDIO BLOG MANIFESTO

TANGIBLE PRINCIPLES

FOR INCLUSIVE PUBLIC SPACE IN JOHANNESBURG

SOCIAL MEDIA

INTANGIBLE PRINCIPLES

SPATIAL DESIGN STRATERGY GROUP WORK

VERSION

RESEARCH ......

TOOL & METHOD

BEFORE

Project with Field Trip

SITUATING

GATHERING

SURVEYING

MAPPING

PROPOSING

COMMUNICATING

SET A BASE allow people to experience and propose through a relaxed way HOLD A CHARRATTE engage the citizens who present strong interest, interact with the stakeholders more directly

WALKING visit in person take photos feel the atmosphere

CRITIQUING

FEEDBACK could get informative results from the activities or charratte, which could in turn change the previous proposal

INTERVIEW RECORDING QUESTIONAIRE FIND SPECIFIC INTEREST to gather information for second/third time

NOW

Remote Design Project (cannot visit in person)

VEDIO introduced by Jhono Bennett through Skype SEARCH ON GOOGLE GOOGLE STREET-VIEW

SOCIAL MEDIA chat with people in Joburg through facebook,twitter and instagram LANCH ONLINE VOTING ARTICLES, JOURNALS

SET UP BLOG upload and update the ideas about the site onto the blog as a process of exchanging the information about the site YOUTOBE upload and record our voice of introducing our proposal about this site

COMMENTS collect the comments from the blog and youtobe and from the colleagues and teachers SET UP GROUP DISCUSSION ONLINE invite people who show great interest to join the long-term proposal discussion

ADVANTAGES

DOING A REMOTE DESIGN PROJECT Innitially, all of us thought it was impossible to propose for a remote site within six weeks. Surprisingly, we find there are still many approaches that we did not notice before to understand a site through this experience. Doing a remote project could be quite different from our previous work, involving different tools, different feelings and allowing us to stand at different perspectives which might be neglected previously.

• allow us to search approaches that we did not notice • broaden the possibility of our development of concept • make higher-efficient use of information and improve validity of information

DISADVANTAGES • cannot feel, observe and experience as a local or visitor • difficult to engage people because some groups do not use the social software and it is difficult for people to attend activities • less oppotunities to hold participation activities and to do suveys

picture resource: http://www.bu.edu/africa/

• population: 12,272,263 (2011) • densest province • major business & trade point • produces 10% of Africa's GDP • large migratory population • 10% live below poverty line

SOUTH AFIRICA

SANDTON major business

MIDRAND new burgeoning sprawl node

RANDBURG major western city node SOWETO cultural and historic center in formal black township

JOHANNESBURG

PROJECT BACKGROUND BRAAMBONTEIN

Main roads Population:54,956,900 (2011)

founded to service the needs of the mines on the Witwatersrand

1890

a fully fledged town of permanent brickand-mortar multi-storey buildings but its payable gold deposits began to run out

1900

a lot of city facilities built, became the largest city in southern Africa as well as the country’s foremost centre for industry, commerce and finance Population: 99,022

1930

gold mines began to close down and its economy had moved firmly into secondary manufacture

1960

became a centre for international finance

1961

City became part of the Republic of South Africa

1994

City became seat of Gauteng province

2005

University of Johannesburg established. Population: 3,272,000

JOHANNESBURG

GERMISTON major easten city

International Airport

1886

GAUTENG PROVINCE

• population: 54,956,900 (2011) • ranked as an upper-middle income economy(world bank) • second largest economy in Africa(after Nigeria) • considered to be a newly industrialised country • major industries: mining, agriculture & tourism • top 10 most unequal countries in the world(world bank)

City of Johannesburg

Chronology

Joburg is a major economic focal point for Africa, while leading the province of Gauteng in producing 10% of the continent's GDP. While Joburg represents a model for growth and development, it also boasts one of the highest GINI coefficients globally and is profoundly fragmented by South Africa's racially segregated history.

Today

remains South Africa’s premier city, and Jozi, as its inhabitants affectionately call it, remains the preferred destination of career professionals and seriousminded entrepreneurs. It is an acknowledged truism that its residents make their money in Johannesburg, but play in Cape Town, Plettenberg Bay, Durban and the Lowveld.

STUDENTS GATHER IN THE STREETS BETWEEN CLASSES DOMINANCE OF COMMERCIAL LEAVES WESTERN EDGE QUIETER

HIGH AND PRIMARY SCHOOL LEARNERS GATHER BEFORE AND AFTER THE SATURDAY MARKET SCHOOL BRINGS GOOD ENERGY TO DE BEER AND MELLE CROSS-RAILWAY ACCESS POINTS IMPORTANT PEDESTRAIN SPACES

RESIDENTIAL NODES PRODUCE MORE ACTIVE STREETS BELOW

CROSS-RAILWAY ACCESS PONTS IMPORTANT PEDESTRAIN

BRAAM STATION

GAUTRAIN PARK STATION

JUTA STREET, JOHANNESBURG

BASE INTRODUCTION

POPULATION: 12,272,263 (2011) 74.1% Black African 19.1% White African 3.5% Coloured (Mixed Race/Malay African) 2.6% Asian (Indian African/Chinese African)

Juta Street has a good transportation condition as Braamfontein Station is at the west for 10 minutes' walk and Gautrain Park Station is at the south entrance of the base. The main road -- Bertha Street divides the base into west site and east site. The west one is distributed with offices, which is very quite and the east one has more vatality as more markets and more shops gather there. The cross of Betha Street and Juta Street is the busiest one and have problems of dealing with the relationship between vehicles and pedestrians. At the end of the east Juta Street, there is a large area used for open parking.

POSITION RESEARCH ON EXCLUSION OF PUBLIC SPACE IN THE HISTORY

1949 city square, Leeds

properity of public space because of largescale public sector scheme after second world war

1970s New York

fund for public space was decreased after economy crisis

1980s Camden High Street, London

public space was controlled and restricted because of the development of technology

2000s Vancouver's Granville Island

public space was commercialised and privatised in modern society

INCLUSIVE PUBLIC SPACE 'Cultures and climates differ all over the world, but people are the same. They will gather in public if you give them a good place to do it.' ---- Jan Gehl Public space mirrors the complexities of urban society, political and economic development and reflects historical social bonds between individuals in different historical periods. Inclusive public space welcomes everyone without discrimination, privatisation or deliberate occupation. It both requires accessible and safe physical conditions and equal and diverse social environment. MADANIPOUR, Ali.2010. Introduction. In: Whose Public Space? International Case Studies in Urban Design and Development, pp. 1-16. London: Routledge.

PRINCIPLES FOR JOHANNESBURG To create inclusive public space, we researched cases and summarised a series of principles that serve for inclusion of public space. They are Safety, Accessibility, Equality, Diversity, Vitality and Walkability. According to the information we collect about Johannesburg, we define 'Safety' as the most needed principle for Johannesburg and 'Walkablity' as the least needed principle in these six principles.

SAFETY The number of crime incidents in Gauteng Province(including Jonannesburg ranks third in south Africa(source: south Africa police service). Safety continues to be a major concern in Jonanesburg.

VITALITY It means flexible enough to accommodate a variety of human activities and economic exchanges and could link various types of areas. This is one of the fundamental requirement for public space but is less important for Joburg.

DIVERSITY It means to embrace individual differences and celebrate the rich dimensions, which contains both unchangeble factors such as race and other social factors such as working experiences. It is important to be tolerant in public space in Joburg as there are different races living there. ACCESSIBILITY It means to approach or enter public space without obstacles. It not only relates to public transportation, sign and parking, but also the care for different groups.

EQUALITY This means to share public space equally despite of hierarchy, gender, age, race and etc.

WALKABILITY It means to create the physical environment for walking, such as the proximity to home, schools and restaurants, the attractive degree of place-making and physical access. This is a basic principle to make public space inclusive.

separate

PRINCIPLES WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF JUTA STREET

unfold

Combining the situation of site, we put 'accessibility' as the primary focus for our design. The City was always forced to remove a number of public sculptures from public parks where they were being vandalised or stolen due to high crime rate. Additionally, recent years have witnessed profound shifts towards privatising of public space, such as shopping malls, the proliferation of gated communities and the rise of privately managed improvement districts.

"indirect access" (compatibility with assistive technology)

"direct access" (i.e. visit in person through transportation or on foot)

MAJOR PRINCIPLE:

ACCESSIBILITY PRIVATIZATION

ENERGY

TRAFFIC

SOME RESIDENTIAL SPACE IS USED FOR PUBLIC

ECONOMIC SPLIT-PAUSING/GATHERING FOR HIGHER INCOME USERS

STUDENTS SPACES ON THE WESTERN EDGE ARE BUSY SPACES BAD RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CARS AND PEOPLE

BUSIEST INTERSECTION THROUGH BRAAMFONTEIN, VERY DIFFICULT TO CROSS EVERYWHERE

JORRISON PLACE LOOKS WELCOMING BUT PRIVATE SECURITY AND NOT ALLOWED TO USE THE SPACE

5PM TRAFFIC AFFECTS DE BEER INTERSECTION BADLY

FASTEST INTERSECTION THROUGH BRAAMFONTEN

JUTA STREET, JOHANNESBURG

most users travel here on foot public space have been privatised

dangerous pedestrian crossing

restaurants occupy the street even with positive affect

handicapable access is problematic

INSPIRATION WHY WE LOOK AT SPECIFIC GROUP INFORMAL WORKERS

OUR PROJECT USERS

In the sector of 'inclusion and exclusion of public space', we understand that inclusive public space should get rid of discrimination, engage and involves all the stakehoulders in the place. Initially when we decide to narrow down our research objects to one specific group, I am thinking about the problem that is it exclusive if we focus on only one group and exclude other groups. After learning from some precedents about concentrating on old people or children, I understand that focusing on one group does not means the process would be exclusive,it is giving a demonstration about analytic methods for looking at other groups.

STAKEHOLDERS • Glasgow City Council • Clyde Gateway Development Corporation • Creative Scotland

university student

outdoor formal worker

informal street worker

The lower income retailer

primary school learner residents

Coffee shop worker high school learner

older persons stay indoor, feel lonely

visitor

PRECEDENTS 2 -- Research BACKGORUND public space furniture design in Hong Kong seldom carefully considers the specific needs of older persons, and then easily imposes their opinions METHODS • observation, direct interviews, indepth interviews • focus on extensive observations to reveal the needs and preferences of city users

LOCATION: Dalmarnock, Glasgow OBJECT: children from 6 to12 years

AGENTS • The Art and Architecture Collective Assemble • The Arts Organisation Create

office worker

homeless resident

OBJECT: older people in Hong Kong

PRECEDENTS 1 -- Real Project BACKGROUND • children growing up in a relatively scarce and barren urban environment where around 54% of children live below the poverty line • lack of play space and out of school provision for community of children and families in Dalmarnock.

HAVE MORE FREE TIME TO SPEND OUTDOOR

OPERATION • child-lead. • they can get involved in everything from the day-to-day management to development of the site. • specially trained playworkers keep children safe, and support them to pursue their own play, from make-belive to construction projects.

FROM: MICHAEL SIU, K. W, 'Pleasurable Products: Public Space Furniture with Userfitness', Journal of Engineering Design, 16 (2005), 545-555

OPERATIONS:

we need public space for interaction

like facing outwards to 'discover' topics for chatting

Picture Source: http://travel.cnn.com/hong-kong/none/hong-kong-best-worstpublic-art-074692/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2558403/Hong-Kongscaged-dogs-Poverty-stricken-people-forced-live-like-animals-oneworlds-wealthiest-densely-populated-cities.html

RE-APPROPRIATE

SOURCE: http://www.balticstreetadventureplay.co.uk/ http://assemblestudio.co.uk/ Arvid Bengtsson (1979). ‘Children’s play is more than physical education’, Prospects, 9(4):450-457

children are free to enter, free to children could realize their come and go, and free to play projects here

clothes, boots and under professional food are prepared guidance of staff

challenge themselves and take risks

recyclers

beggar

street trader

trolly pusher

street trader

car guard

1/3 people unemployed in Gauteng in 2007 (UN Habitat 2011)

10% of Africa's GDP is generated in Gauteng

Figure 1: Proportions of entrepreneurs in the formal and informal sectors, by municipality, 2013 (%)

Figure 2: Type of informal business by municipality, 2013 (%)

LOOKING AT INFORMAL WORKER IN JOHANNESBURG Figure 3: Where informal sector haentrepreneurs sourced supplies for their businesses, 2013 (%)

According to UN Habitat 2011, 1 in 3 were unemployed in Gauteng, which means this part of people are facing with unemployment or working in informal sector. This also means that there was still potential to develop informal market to both solve the unemployment and boost the local economy. In 2013, informal setor occupied 65% of all the entrepreneurs in Gauteng, which constituted a large proportion of local source of finance. In the informal sector, 38% of business was selling food including fresh, cooked and groceries. Regarding the place informal sector has entreprenurs sourced supplies for their business, 8% were street.

source from gcro.ac.za http://www.gcro.ac.za/media/reports/gcro_data_brief_

SPATIAL DESIGN STRATEGY

ECONOMIC

Tangible Elements

SPATIAL

Intangible Elements

INFRASTRUCTURE

DIRECT ACCESS

SAFETY

POLICY Kieren

INDIRECT ACCESS SEMINAR

OBJECTS Mincan Huang (me)

TRANSPORTATION

SOCIAL MEDIA

TOUR

GROUP STRATEGY PATICIPATION PROCESS Pan Li

PROTEST

BYCICLE OPEN SPACE Koukou GREEN PARK

PUBLIC PLAZA

SQUARE

MOVEMENT Rouqi Meng TRAIN

PEDESTRAIN

Based on the Walkable Braamfontein concept by Local Studio and sociospatial mapping by 1 to 1 Agency of Engagement, we focus on informal street worker following the main principle of accessibility.We proposed both tangible and intangible elements for reappropriating Juta Street, including five specific strategies: Participation Process, Open Space, Movement, Objects and Policy. Participation Process as the major strategy throughout our whole process is strongly supported by other four strategies.

BASE ANALYSIS The analysis looks at the daily activities of informal street workers, such as how the trolly pushers move throughout the day, where street traders set up their temporary stall, where beggars stay in the evening, how car washers move to make living and what is the route of recyclers. Also, we examine open space in Juta Street standing at the perspective of informal workers. It is found that this site is lack of green space and plaza which means that there could be no adequate space for interaction and activities. In the land-use map, there are some vacant buildings and exclusive public space which could be potentially converted into public space but need support of policy and need further research.

STRATEGIES IN THE MAP

SPATIAL

For these five elements, sub-strategies are proposed and developed respectively. Combing possible place of participation activies, potential space which could be reappropriated, potential transportation condition, potential objects that could be improved and support of policies, we choose three sites which would be applied with all the strategies finally.

POLICY

-Economic -Spatial -Human Development -Housing -Infrastructure and Basic Service -Environmental Sustainability -Transportation -Safety

SAFETY

12th St.

INFORMAL WORKERS - Street Trader - Trolley Pusher - Recycler - Beggar - Carwasher - Car Guard

11th St.

13th St.

BRIDGE

Tour

PARTICIPATION - Tour - Seminar - Social Media - Protest

SHELTER

SEATING SPACE

POLICY

DEDICATED MARKETS

2. Street trading in dedicated markets A dedicated market means a special site set aside for street traders. Traders in a particular area stop trading from the streets and move to a dedicated market. This is what is planned as a private-public sector partnership for the Johannesburg Central Business District. A private company will be established to manage these markets. A certain number of the company’s shares will be allocated to street traders.

Audi Centre

Street trader

MOVEMENT

DE BEER STREET

10th St.

- Train - Pedestrian - Bicycle

Loveday St.

1. For Protest Some street traders’ organization can lead informal workers to do some protests which can help them protect their rights. e.g: One Voice of All Hawkers Association (OVOAHA) is a section 21 company which was created in 2007. The issues that this organization addresses are mainly focused on JMPD harassment and confiscation of traders’ goods who are trying to make a living. The organization became most notable in 2008 when it convened a march and handed the memorandum of grievances to Amos Masondo, the executive mayor at the time.

STA TION STREET

Making the public space to be free from harm and danger. Which can attract more people and improve the accessibility of public space.

Strategies

OBJECTS

- Bench - Idea Box - Street lamp - Temporary structure - Ramps - Shelter - Landscape objects

OBJECTS

ERSITY

PLAZA

STREET

positive and nurturto make the area e.

PARK

The informal trading forum meetings take place at the Metro Centre Building, 158 Loveday Street Braamfontein which is where the municipal offices are located. The form meetings consists of a number of stakeholders theoretically including representatives of street traders associations; street or block leaders; market committees; MTC officials; JMPD By-law Enforcement; The City regions urban management law enforcement units; representatives of stadium management entities; representatives of City Improvement Districts, environmental health officials; Johannesburg Development Agent; formal business bodies.

HENRI

SIBILITY

Actions -- Tour -- Seminar -- Social Media -- Protest

: any open piece of land that is undeveloped (has no buildings or other built structures) and is accessible to the public.

The proposal for this space is a publc plaza or square, which can attract some students and office workers for the informal workers to sell goods and open their markets.

: Green space Public seating areas Public plazas Schoolyards Playgrounds Vacant lots or land

Green space (land

Gree

SEMINAR

PUBLIC SPACE -Green Park -Public Plaza -Square

Accessibility

MOVEMENT

ccessibility of y making a friendly o walk.

Recycler

Decision Making

Loveday St.

Government

Hull St.

PUBLIC SPACE ACCESSIBILITY FOR INFORMAL WORKERS

Informal Workers

OPEN SPACE

ABILITY

SEMINAR

PROTEST

PATICIPATION

Trolley Pusher

Recycler

SOCIAL MEDIA

Loveday St.

Strategies For Seminar The informal trading forum is a ‘representative and output focused team’ and a ‘platform for dialogue between all the role players in the informal sector field within the City of Johannesburg’ with the main functions being to ‘assist in overseeing the implementation of the informal trading policy, review process and programmes including by-law enforcement’.This platform of engagement was established in 2009 by the Department of Economic Development as a platform where issues of traders are discussed with the aim of coming with responsive implementation of policy. The informal trading forum meetings take place at the Metro Centre Building, 158 Loveday Street Braamfontein which is where the municipal offices are located. The form meetings consists of a number of stakeholders theoretically including representatives of street traders associations; street or block leaders; market committees; MTC officials; JMPD By-law Enforcement; The City regions urban management law enforcement units; representatives of stadium management entities; representatives of City Improvement Districts, environmental health officials; Johannesburg Development Agent; formal business bodies.

Metro Centre Building

TOUR

Strategies

Seminar

SQUARE

For Social Media A strategy that SANTRA (South African National Traders Retail Aliance) uses is forging close relations with the media so that they can update what is happening and alert society through press release. There is a media strategy that this organization leadership uses which is sending a collective email to different categories of recipients to gamer support and lobby for informal trading policy change. The strategy is focused on establishing relations with key newspaper and journalists who are constantly hunting for ‘scoope’.

Loveday St.

ON IS RR HA

Green Park Since there are a lot of restaurants and some apartments nearby, i think having a park or some green space would be nice, not only for the local residents & tourists, but also for the informal workers, to have a place to rest & relax.

: Green space Public seating areas Public plazas Schoolyards Playgrounds Vacant lots or land Green space (land that is partly or completely covered with grass, trees, shrubs, or other vegetation). Existing Public seating space & Informal Trading Area

Green space includes parks, community gardens, and cemeteries.

BICYCLE

PEDESTRIAN

ET RE ST

MELLE STREET

Street trader

BICCARD STREET

s space is a re, which can ts and office mal s and open

ris

DE BEER STREET

STA TION STREET Audi Centre

The Grove

SOCIAL MEDIA Trolley Pusher

Car Guard

Beggar

MULTIFUNCTION

INDIVIDUAL STRATEGY --- OBJECTS

OBJECTS TRACE

Through google earth and google street-view, we trace and analyse from the exsiting objects in Juta Street. It is showed that there are a series of objects unrepaired, lack of seating space and shelter for informal workers, bad lighting for car guard in the night and temporary construction that occupies the public space, making space exclusive and unaccessible.

TIME LINE

According to the hour that business opens and closes and research by 1 to 1 Agency of Engagement, we divide time into prebusiness, business open, AM, lunch, PM, business close and deep night. Through tracing their routes on the Google Map and research by 1 to 1 studio, we find evidence such as street traders do trade on the street for up to 15 hours a day. During the lunch break, they have meals and socialize in small groups at the streets and sit on the street furniture.

JUTA ST

RE-APPROPRIATION OF OBJECTS ACCORDING TO TIMELINE Objects are the stationary urban furniture arranged in public space,different groups would appear and use the same objects at different time period a day, so do the groups of informal workers. Besides, combining these three specific sites with propositions and potential events, possible objects are proposed for informal street workers. To support strategies of other four elements, participation events such as protests and participation room, carbin, aid boxes and message boards are proposed in the strategy of objects.

JUTA ST

D: multi-functional .......

13:00 engage informal workers to be trained to protect their rights

C: add practical function to 'tree sculpture' 13:00 allows street traders to have more seating space for lunch time and rest

OBJECTS

A: transparent, open and movable room

B: sustainable temporary shelter

21:00 provide car guard with a shelter and better environment

14:00 landscape create a better physical environment 13:00 participative activities and interaction

2:00 temporary warm space for beggars and homeless to sleep 22:00 warm shelter for recyclers who always work in night

8:00 for street traders or trolly pushers to rest

MULTI-FUNCTIONAL OBJECTS

To make public space in Juta Street more inclusive, objects should embrace the diversity of groups, activities and events throughout the day. Objects becomes more productive and inclusive when considering to combine these functions that needed at different time. This sort of objects could also be an efficient strategy to link people and closer the relationship between different groups. Most importantly, by re-appropriating the objects in public space, it is hopefully to see process from providing better physical environment for informal workers to their active actions to protect their own rights.

JUTA ST

CRITICAL REFLECTION INDIVIDUAL & GROUP WORK

INDIVIDUAL STRATEGY & GROUP STUDIES

UNDERSTANDING OF INCLUSION

As an individual, I can always adapt to the group work as I would be tired of conflicts in the team. But I always leave others impressions of shyness and I should behave more actively in the future team work. In my team, there is a problem existing throughout the process, that is, we lack of exchange of information that we collected. Some of us are often informed of decisions that discussed among other people, making the process exclusive. For example, each time we gather in the library, we chat and talk about things irrelevant. As our five elements are all in the framework, linking each other closely, such as the transformation of land use should be supported by policy. It could be more productive if members could cooperate to discuss things and put forward advice together.

My individual strategy for objects is to repair the destroyed existing ones, add essential objects and design multi-functional objects as objects are the stationary urban furniture arranged in public space, different groups would appear and use the same objects at different time period a day. ‘Participation process’, as the major element in our team develops substrategies such as protest and training after learning from some precedents. To support the main strategies, I have to adjust strategies of objects, such as setting up participatory rooms, aid box, information board.

In the process of provisional manifesto for inclusive public spaces, I am responsible for the principle of ‘Diversity’. Combing the research materials and my own perspective, ‘Diversity’ in public space means to embrace everyone regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, age or socio-economic status and to make public space be attractive enough to engage other groups. In that case, ‘inclusion’ public space might never be created as many groups would never come here for reasons of location or religion belief. Then inclusive public space might be aimed at the regular user of the public space, in other words, the real stakeholders of the public space.

SUPPORT

OBJECTS SUPPORT

MOVEMENT PARTICIPATION PROCESS

POLICY

OPEN SPACE

SOCIAL MEDIA This is my first time trying to make full use of social media to gather information and engage local as it is a remote design project which we can not experience and collect data in person in the site. It is a pity but is also a surprise because we begin to pay attention to many surveying approaches that close to us but never cared before. Even though agenda is a bit compact for six weeks and it is very hard to obtain trust from a remote place through social media in such a short time, it is a new beginning for us to try new ways for design process. Nevertheless, we got a little feedback from the blog and Youtube which is helpful when we are considering the next version of spatial design strategies. SPATIAL DESIGN STRATEGY SHARE PROPOSALS

STUDIO BLOG

https://walkbraamfontein. wordpress.com

FEEDBACK

YOUTUBE

TWITTER

homeless resident university student

primary school learner

Research objects

outdoor formal worker The lower income retailer

office worker

informal street worker

visitor

LONG FORM GRAPHIC

Coffee shop worker

It is a challenge for us to finish group work on a long-form graphic comprised with 5 A1 and distribute tasks to individuals. There is always issues about software, file size or laying out when we put individual work together every week. Different from other teams, our team seemed to make use of the long-form to show the street plan. The major feedback from our tutor is to put all the analysis and strategies onto the map but to be honest, this requires good cooperation. In terms of objects, I tried to designate directly on the map while the seating space or the tree sculpture becomes so tiny that it shows only dots finally but it is still worth to do as it is visual and clear.

high school learner residents

RESEARCH OBJECT The strategies in our team is a bit different from other teams as we focus on one specific group of stakeholder—informal street workers, while other teams are aiming at all the stakeholders, trying to cover different groups to make public space inclusive. Arguably, it is too difficult to take all the stakeholders into consideration when making decisions but we have to face with it in real projects. Then narrowing the research object is a clever way when we do academic projects as this allows us to concentrate and avoid to deal with the complicated benefit and relationship (compromise or conflict) among the stakeholders. However, it is true that narrowing the scope is a good way to research and makes it easier for us to have a close look at this aspect. If we cover all the stakeholders, we would stop at the shallow level of other aspects.

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