The workshop consisted of a comparative research by design on two locations: the historical town of Bagamoyo and the Mwenge area in Dar-Es-Salaam. Bagamoyo was the most important harbour of the East-African mainland during the 19^th and early 20^th century. Famous before for trade in ivory and slaves, the town briefly became the colonial capital of German East-Africa, until it moved to Dar-Es-Salaam. The town today consists of informal settlements while the historic stone town along the coast line is largely abandoned with most of its historical buildings in a poor state of conservation. Mwenge is located in the outskirts of Dar-Es-Salaam. In 1968 the government under president Nyerere turned the former farmland into a low-income residential area. Contrary to the slumbering Bagamoyo, Mwenge will become a bustling city quarter of Dar-Es-Salaam in the near future.

The students investigated the conceptual transformation of specific neighbourhood sites on both locations, including the design of a housing block, the public space and other functions in connection to it. The aim of the workshop was to build further on or strengthen the existing identity of each site. Through comparison of the design proposals for Bagamoyo and Mwenge, they were to develop a layered and diverse approach to urban regeneration.

The intermediate workshop ran in collaboration with Studio Tanzania, 1^st Master in Architecture at Hasselt University.