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Human Settlements Review, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010 Foreword Human Settlements Review aims to contribute to a critical debate on appropriate responses to the challenge of providing adequate shelter for the poor, the impact of rapid urbanisation, the development of a single residential property market, sustainable planning and many other issues related to human settlements. More importantly it aims to provide a mechanism for the Department of Human Settlements to harvest and disseminate studies on various aspects in pursuance of developing sustainable human settlements. This inaugural edition is devoted to innovation and alternative building technologies. It looks at how innovation and alternative building technologies should best be utilised in the provision of shelter while taking into consideration issues of environmental and economic sustainability. Papers contributed by scholars and practitioners explore the role of innovation and alternative building technologies in the development of sustainable human settlements. Issues examined include understanding the sustainable development paradigm, sustainable architecture and culture. The policy development and implementation discourse is introduced through substantive theory and case studies. While the publication is not peer reviewed it is the intention of the Department of Human Settlements to develop it as a platform for new and established researchers to share new knowledge, review policy and deliberate on all matters related to human settlements. There is no doubt that in the next few years it will mature into a widely recognised and highly respected publication. i
Human Settlements Review, Volume 1, Number 1, 2010 Design instrumentation in Participatory Practice – The case of the Training for Self Reliance Project (TSRP), Lesotho. Iain Low School of Architecture, Planning & Geomatics African Centre for Cities University of Cape Town 1 The prospect of development in any situation is fundamentally linked to that of social justice. In a country such as South Africa this must necessarily be linked to service delivery. Given the legacy of apartheid and its spatial agenda, delivery in the built environment remains an abiding priority. Recent policy evolution has shifted this imperative from a quantitative to a qualitative concern. The challenge to built environment professionals, and designers in particular, is to interpret this policy through the creation of new approaches to both design and delivery. By engaging the breadth and depth of new policy, one should reconfigure the arrangements that inform spatial production to provoke new spatial conditions that links quantitative and qualitative dimensions to radically transform the lives of the marginalised. Participatory Practice is an instrument that is often deployed in engaging with communities. Its interpretation is however frequently a reductive one that seeks to gain concensus from user groups in relation to their needs and wants. Failure in this realm is more frequent than is generally supposed and maybe ascribed to the failure of process to genuinely interface with communities. On the one hand facilitators abrogate professional responsibility to the detriment of higher order concerns, and on the other designers lack the capacity to interpret competing community needs and/ ipp integrated participatory practice [ipp] poe post occupancy evaluation dbr design build research tsrp training for self reliance project or to translate them through the application of speculative design imagination. The potential of design is to engage Participatory Practice as an open representation in responding to society’s challenge. When responsibly applied, design can mediate between policy/planning, community needs, spatial transformation, local economic and sustainable development. One productive domain for sponsoring such a design dialogue is the realm of technological innovation. Mediating between modernity and tradition this approach permits the development of situated approaches to tectonic problems that entail tremendous possibility to capacitate local communities. This principled approach to design making is not necessarily sector of project based, but is capable of interpretive replication across multiple sectors and sites giving added meaning to participatory practice. In his seminal publication, ‘The Coloniser and the Colonised’ Albert Memmi [1965] proposes the loss of original language as an explanation to the seeming chaos that accompanies
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