Mobility, Voice and View: Unpacking the Future of Cape Town’s District Six
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Cape Town's District Six stands as a site representative of the physical and social erasure and racial division seen in the spatial politics of apartheid South Africa. From 1966-1978, residents were forcibly removed from the area. Then and now, infrastructures have marginalized and isolated these past residents from the city. In response to this complex history, this project explores the role of agency in architecture. This thesis argues that architecture when conceived through the agencies of mobility, voice and view, can empower people to regain control of their physical, cultural and socio-political identities. Exploring these agencies, this project endeavours to make visible and empower the residents by re-conceptualizing the infrastructure of the train under the following lens: the train line as a spatial connector and claim to city (mobility); train stations as township cultural centers (voice); and the train car as a mobile vessel for public programming (view).
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