This book provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, practice, and as a process/project today. Part one studies decolonisation conceptually; part two studies decolonisation as a process; and part three studies the products of decolonisation.
Decolonising the Built Environment: Process, Product, and Pedagogy provides an important and much-needed comprehensive overview of how decolonisation is shaping the built environment in theory, in practice, and as a process/project today. The contributors provide an inclusive and trans-national conversation between a diverse set of academics, design practitioners and thinkers, and activists. This book is structured around three thematic and practical categories: Part 1 studies decolonisation conceptually; Part 2 studies decolonisation as a process; and Part 3 studies the products of decolonisation as materialised in the form of buildings, urban design, planning, policy, and social practices.
Essential reading for students, teachers, and practitioners, this book presents the project of decolonisation as a pedagogy and an ongoing process.
1. Towards a Decolonial Turn in the Built Environment Part 1 From
Paradigm to Process
2. Performing Space: Thoughts on Colonising,
Decolonising, and the Concert Hall
3. Settler Colonial Critique and
Indigenous Urbanisation
4. Place-Based Indigenous Knowledge Systems and Their
Relevance to the Decolonisation of Urban Planning Practice in Namibia: The
Olupale and the Omuvanda: Two Cultural Open Spaces
5. Place-Based Strategies
for Transforming South African Urban Nature Places
6. An African Landscape
Design Approach for Rural Development Part 2 From Process to Product and
Pedagogy
7. Decolonising the Built Environment in and around a University
Campus: The Incongruence between Intellectual Discourse and Lived
(Institutional) Practices
8. Visual Redress at Stellenbosch University: Staff
Reactions to the Decolonisation of Campus Spaces
9. The Invisible Users of
the Street
10. Ubuntu Design Aesthetics and the Built Environment in South
Africa
11. An Inquiry into Visual Art as a Critical Disruptor to Reveal
Emergent Narratives and Authorship in Architecture
12. Kamrth: An
Architecture for Decolonisation Part 3 Reflections on the Decolonial Turn in
the Built Environment
13. Spaces of Erasure
14. Can the Master Speak?
15.
Conclusion: Reconsidering the Decolonisation of the Built Environment
Kundani Makakavhule is a senior lecturer in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria, specialising in the transformation of urban public open spaces at neighbourhood and precinct scales. Her research focuses on democracy, spatial appropriation, diversity, and active citizenship, exploring how these micro-scale dynamics influence broader urban planning processes. Drawing on theories from politics, sociology, and geography, her work addresses the social and political factors shaping planning in the developing world. By emphasising multidisciplinary approaches, she contributes to solving contemporary challenges in African urban spaces.
Karina Landman is a professor in the Department of Town and Regional Planning at the University of Pretoria with a background in urban design and architecture. Her work focuses on spatial transformation, including research on gated communities and safer and sustainable neighbourhoods, regenerative and resilient cities, and public space. Her work on public space revolves around issues of inclusivity, regeneration, and resilience. Her research on sustainable development focuses on urban resilience and regenerative development and design. She has published a book, Evolving Public Space in South Africa (2019).
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