RESEARCH PROJECTS

Co-creating Wellness and Human Dignity Research Project

2023 - 2025

Stitching The City With A New Collaborative Data Library

2021 - 2022

Moreleta Park Integration Project

2020 - 2022

MASTERS DISSERTATIONS

MArch (Prof) mini-dissertations that have been developed within the themes of the Unit for Urban Citizenship

2023

Learning from eKASI : lessons derived from Guga S’thebe and VPUU in South Africa to inform future PID interventions

Bila, Khulukani (2023)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Marginal praxis : facilitating the integration of migrants within the City of Tshwane

Haese, Megan (2023)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Understanding public interest design as an architectural tool in Post-Apartheid South Africa : case study of Warwick Junction

Haese, Megan (2023)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

How are the principles of community engagement in architecture, within public Interest Design, relevant to and applied in our South African informal context?

Kotze, Andelle (2023)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The climate change adaptation potential of the historic Burgers Park in Tshwane and its effect on the use of the space

Mnguni, Nombuso (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo

Recycling for resilience : a proposed recycling buy back, upcycling and community centre for social and ecological resilience through green infrastructure design principles

Read, Michael John Ellis (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo

The climate change adaptation potential of public spaces in Tshwane : Muckleneuk commons communal garden

Smit, Kyla (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo

Decoding urban narratives: Unveiling landscape design informants through place stories in the City of Tshwane

du Plessis, Alice (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Dayle Shand

Exclusionary spatial measures and devices in public urban spaces : investigating Prinshof 349-JR

Kruger, Louis (2023)
Supervisor: Dr Nico Botes

2022

Bridging the digital divide: an ethnographic investigation to develop a digitalised interface to educate learners within vulnerable communities

Creighton, Brendon (2022)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Plasti(city): Urban Waste as Ephemeral Building Blocks

Goga, Naseera (2022)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

School as a creative incubator : facilitating storytelling through creating a expanded and safer school typology

Niebuhr, Kirstin Sieglinde (2022)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

An Innovative Learning Facility towards basic service provision within informal settlements

Schmutz, Ingrid (2022)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

2021

The Art of Urban Generativity : an analytical case study documenting the process and impact of a-formality in Mamelodi East, Gauteng

Levy, Maxine (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Going Circular: Uncovering the Spatial Potential of Circular Economic Theories Inspired by Urban Vernacular Environments

Mbedzi, Alexander Ifeanyi Nweke (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Anticipated informality: The incremental development of resilience in the marginalised community of Plastic View

Ramsey, Nicholas (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Collective emergence: An architecture for cultivating entrepreneurial growth in the isolated community of Khalambazo

Rosser, Dale (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

City Circular

Gouws, Brentan (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Catalyc nexus : architecture as an interconnected resilience hub towards independence and self-efficiency in a complex socio-ecological landscape

Greeff, Jua (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Indexicality & Interiority: addressing the role of interior architecture in informal settlements through a semiotic approach to meaning-making.

Herbst, Dhane (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The architecture of scarcity : towards spatial healing in polarising contexts of gated communities and informal settlements in Pretoria East

Katranas, Alexia (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Designing with emergence : learning from the contemporary urban vernacular of informal settlements towards regenerative design strategies

Achi, Juliana Owot (2021)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Nurturing Mamelodi

Van Staden, Jade Tamarin (2021)
Supervisor: Dr Anika van Aswegen

2020

Towards an Architecture of Civil Disobedience to Reclaim Informal Settlements Right to the City

Du Bois, Morné (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Upscaling resilience: Waste as a resource

Khoswe, Vitumbiko (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The Music-Maker: An Architectural Network for Exploration of Self and Expression

Konstantinou, Lauren Mary (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Assembling the socio-educational spheres within contested urban environments: The Role of a Community Learning Hub in a Contested Urban Environment

Matena, Dipuo (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Realizing the right to housing

Mulder, Idelette (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Redefining South African Government School Typologies to Encourage Lifelong Learning Potential

Naidoo, Purll (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The role of architecture in rehabilitating food sovereignty and nutritional education within secondary schools through collaborative participation

Smith, Kelsey (2020)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Seeking Identity Through Space: Sheltered

Masuku, Boineelo (2020)
Supervisor: Dr Nico Botes

Between seeing and living : a series of landscape interventions for enhancing the living heritage of Arniston/Waenhuiskrans

Williams, Jill Anastacia (2020)
Supervisor: Dr Karen Botes

2019

Environmental Sustainability of Construction Practices used in Informal Settlements : a Case of Swaziland

Ndlangamandla, Musawenkosi G. (2019)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The [Art]isan of Architecture

Porter, Caitlin Jane (2019)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The Knowledge Economy : An Outward Looking School for Social Entrepreneurship

Veldsman, Simoni (2019)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

black grey white : to pimp a butterfly

Waleng, Katlego David (2019)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Hedges against extinction : An Inner City Regional Riverine Botanical Park

Potgieter, Josias (2019)
Supervisor: Dr Karen Botes

Finding Common Ground

Naidoo, Vishanka (2019)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Associated typologies - modes of engagement in collective urban environments

Grootboom, Kevin (2019)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

2018

Stitches and Exchanges : connecting health and social exchange through architecture as facilitator in Mamelodi East

Senekal, Simoné (2018)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Distil - Liminal Architecture

Van der Hoven, Marni (2018)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

Activating the Edge : a Centre for Urban Citizenship

Nortje, Timme-Loise (2018)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The following mini-dissertations predate the Unit of Urban Citizenship, however, have added to the development of the unit

Child-centred Communities : Architectural Intervention as Catalyst for Early Childhood Development

Oberholster, Jason (2017)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

An Economic Enablement hub : an exploration through architecture as an enabling device

Hofman, Mia (2017)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The Eventuality of Space : Adaptability and Incrementality in the Suburban Hinterland of Mamelodi

Cochrane, Megan (2017)
Supervisor: Dr Jan Hugo

Re[growth] : a development of social capital through food network accessibility

McLagan, Toni Lisa (2016)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

A public parliament : a study in politics, public space and people in the capital city

Van der Walt, Suzette (2016)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck

The application of architectural indicators to compare residential quality of life: A case study of Zimbabwean families currently residing in South Africa and the UK

Dube, Tinashe H. (2016)
Supervisor: Prof Carin Combrinck