Title & Author:

Decolonising the built environment : process, product, and pedagogy / edited by Kundani Makakavhule and Karina Landman.

Publication:

New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2025.
©2025

Description:

xvi, 241 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Towards a decolonial turn in the built environment / Kundani Makakavhule and Karina Landman -- From paradigm to process. Performing space : thoughts on colonising, decolonising, and the concert hall / Margaret E. Walker -- Settler colonial critique and indigenous urbanisation / James Miller and Natalie J.K. Baloy -- Place-based Indigenous knowledge systems and their relevance to the decolonisation of urban planning practice in Namibia : the olupale and the omuvanda : two cultural open spaces / Wilson Billawer and Verna Nel -- Place-based strategies for transforming South African urban nature places / Dayle Shand and Christina Breed -- An African landscape design approach for rural development / Molwantwa Leonard Sebotsi, Dayle Shand, and Christina Breed -- From process to product and pedagogy. Decolonising the built environment in and around a university campus : the incongruence between intellectual discourse and lived (institutional) practices / Stephan de Beer -- Visual redress at Stellenbosch University : staff reactions to the decolonisation of campus spaces / Gera de Villiers, Leslie van Rooi, and Elmarie Costandius -- The invisible users of the street / Dario Schoulund -- Ubuntu design aesthetics and the built environment in South Africa / Pfunzo Sidogi -- An inquiry into visual art as a critical disruptor to reveal emergent narratives and authorship in architecture / Anika van Aswegen -- Kamĩrĩĩthũ : an architecture for decolonisation / Kenny Cupers and Makau Kitata -- Reflections on the decolonial turn in the built environment. Spaces of erasure / Siona O'Connell -- Can the master speak? / Jackson Sebola-Samanyanga -- Conclusion. Reconsidering the decolonisation of the built environment / Karina Landman and Kundani Makakavhule.

Summary:

"Decolonizing the Built Environment: Pedagogy and Process provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, practice, and as a process/project today. Chapters provide an inclusive and trans-national conversation between a diverse set of academics, design practitioners and thinkers, and activists. This book is structured around three thematic and practical categories: part one studies decolonization conceptually; part two studies decolonisation as a process; and part three studies the products of decolonisation - as materialized in the form of buildings, urban design, planning, policy, and social practices. Essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners, this book presents the project of decolonisation as a pedagogy and an ongoing process"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781032352435 hardcover
1032352434 hardcover
9781032352442 paperback
1032352442 paperback
electronic book
9781003326014

Subject:

City planning.
Postcolonialism.

Added entries:

Makakavhule, Kundani, editor.
Landman, Karina, 1972- editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 321509
Call No.: 321509
Copy: 1
Status: Available