A SELECTION OF POSTGRADUATE STUDIOS, RESEARCH & STUDENT WORK
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The process and poetics of landscape design (Honours year: Q2 2025)
This project aimed to cultivate the students' ability to develop a landscape form language (morphology and syntax), and
introduced them to the design methods and theories of some contemporary (and a few older) landscape
architects.
Zoo Sauvage: Nature-based planning and design (Honours year: Q1 2025)
The studio considers the National Zoological Gardens’ history and the altered natural
systems that they currently contain. The focus was on master planning and the potential for habitat restoration in terms of green infrastructure networks inside and outside the zoo.
City Wild: Animal-aided design in the City of Tshwane (Honours year: Q2 2024)
This project provided the opportunity to challenge the current status quo of animals and nature in an urban environment, while simultaneously developing more humane, just and biodiverse urban nature networks and green infrastructure.
Plant Lab: Towards a sustainable Hatfield Campus (Honours year: Q1 2024)
The Plant Laboratory was a collaboration between students in the fine arts, consumer sciences, agriculture, architecture, and interior and landscape architecture initiated by the Javett Art Centre at the University of Pretoria (Javett-UP), which aimed to create an experimental research platform for agroecology.
Storying the landscape (Honours year: Q2 - Q4 2024)
By centring concepts of ‘Afrocentricism’, ‘Indigenization’, and ‘Kinship’, this research project asks ‘How, as designers of urban spaces, we can bring about more representative and meaningful design of public spaces for urban residents?’
Opportunities and challenges of living walls with African vegetables in Melusi (Honours year: Q2 - Q4 2024)
This project aims to understand the opportunities and challenges of community facilities such as youth centres and Early Childhood Development Centres (ECDs) regarding the construction and maintenance of LWSs with AV and the use of AV for food security and nutrition.
A SELECTION OF MASTER'S MINI DISSERTATION & DESIGN REPORTS
Design report: High-rise harvests: Cultivating community on Sandton's Terrain
Mini Dissertation: An exploratory study on barriers to implementing household-scale vertical food production in Plastic View, Pretoria East
Close, Jordan (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Karen Botes
Design report: Ways of remembering: The restoration of an urban landscape and community in Mapobane
Mini Dissertation: The relations between people and urban nature in the City of Tshwane, through the lenses of place identity and therapeutic value
Konile, Phumzile (2023)
Supervisor: Prof Ida Breed
Design report: Evolving Knowledge Landscapes: Reviving from ghost town to ecological campus, fostering alternative knowledge production in the City of Tshwane
Mini Dissertation: Decoding urban narratives: Unveiling landscape design informants through place stories in the City of Tshwane
du Plessis, Alice (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Dayle Shand
Mini Dissertation: Coromandel Boutique Hotel - developing an authentic language for design
Jooste, Ben (2022)
Supervisor: Dr Johan N. Prinsloo
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