Atmospheric Recipes by Natalie Harper U19

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Act/s by + on whom = Results/ed in; THROUGH WHAT

Places symbolize socially constructed identities and differences— of persons, cultures, institutions and nations. The politics of identity and difference is mediated in an arena of spatial representation and the inertia of buildings can ‘fix’ identity over time (Dovey, K, pge 8). The Major design Project (MDP) is framed around the ideas of spatial-cleansing under the violence’s of apartheid. Classification methods carried out by the apartheid government demarcated race definitions to ‘unidentifiable’ South Africans of mixed cultural heritage through humiliating standards and laws. Population Registration Act (PRA) of 1950 and Group Areas Act (GAA) of 1950, communities were split apart on the basis of those racial demarcations (De Bruyn 2007:422). This was done through the “building of apartheid” (Coetzer.N.2013. Building Apartheid). Large housing projects were built away from the city, as part of the government's larger effort to force Coloured communities out of designated whites-only areas under apartheid laws.

The work investigates the long-term effects of the historical practice of race designations and spatial-cleansing on ideas of identity and landscape. “Coloured” people today are confused and seek self- identification due to the aftermath of apartheids legacy of force-removals, racial classification and spatial-segregation. The work seeks to disrupt how those static racial categories continue to play out, also taking into account how racial allocations such as ‘coloured’ remain narratives of indenture, used as an example of anti-blackness and as a political and physical segregation influenced by cultural hegemony of apartheid.

POSITION

AGENDA

Apartheid architecture “fixed in place” (is the foundation of ) coloured spatial and political identity.

Exposing how apartheid architecture was used an appliance of spatial identity.

Atmospheric Recipe 1

SEGREGATED CITYSCAPES WITH GRATING LAWS

Prep time : (1652-1950) pre-Apartheid Era

Ingredients

Apartheid Era (1950-19940 : Cook time

Method PLANNING

Plan topography past Fixed in place Force removals Segregation physical Hierarchies Classification Scars

Origin: late 17th century: from French, from earlier plant ‘ground plan, plane surface’, influenced in sense by Italian pianta ‘plan of building’. Compare with plant.

- Old English plante ‘seedling’, plantian (verb), - from Latin planta ‘sprout, cutting’ -(later influenced by French plante ) and plantare ‘plant, fix in a place’ Definition: the control of urban development by a local government authority, from which a license must be obtained to build a new property or change an existing one.

Application: Planning through the implementation of law.

Notes Scale 1: 1000

‘FIXED IN PLACE‘ ‘CLASSIFIFICATION‘ ‘PLAN‘

LAWS

PHYSICAL SEGREGATION

TERRITORY

TOPOGRAPHY

HIERARCHIES

SCARS

Atmospheric Recipe 2

MIXED RACE COMMUNITY AND LOST IDENTITY Apartheid Era (1994- CURRENT) : Cook time

Prep time Apartheid Era (1950-1994) :

Ingredients

perceptional Future Identity Heritage Common ground Mixed race Cuts

Method PERSPECTIVES

Origin: late Middle English (in the sense ‘optics’): -from medieval Latin perspectiva (ars) ‘(science of) optics’, -from perspect- ‘looked at closely’, -from the verb perspicere, -from per- ‘through’ + specere ‘to look’

Definition: the art of representing three-dimensional objects on a twodimensional surface so as to give the right impression of their height, width, depth, and position in relation to each other. the appearance of viewed objects with regard to their relative position, distance from the viewer, etc.

Application: Put something into perspective correctly regard something in terms of relative importance. in perspective showing the right relationship between visible objects. out of perspective showing the wrong relationship between visible objects.

Notes Scale 1: 200/500

CUTS

COMMON GROUND

SOCIAL HOUSING

RAILWAY LINES

Atmospheric Recipe 3

DOMESTICITY AND HOMEMAKING

Apartheid Era (1994- CURRENT) : Cook time

Prep time Apartheid Era (1950-1994) :

Ingredients

Present Section Hidden (hyper- absence) appliance Domestication .

The Server The Served Exposed(Hyper-presence)

Method SECTIONING

Origin: late Middle English (as a noun): from French section or Latin sectio(n- ), from secare ‘to cut’.

The verb dates from the early 19th century.

Definition: any of the more or less distinct parts into which something is or may be divided or from which it is made up.

Application: to cut through so as to reveal a section

Notes Scale 1: 50

FENCES,GATES & BOUNDARYS

SURVILIANCE

HIDDEN

APPILANCE

EXPOSED

SERVICE

ORDER

OPPRESSION

BACK YARD