SKATEPARKliptown
1955 partners with local skaters, Johannesburg based Afreetecture, UN Habitat Global Public Spaces Programme and Block by Block for a community-based collaboration to design a skatepark and maker-space project in Kliptown, Soweto, South Africa
Kliptown
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1955 is collaborating with Crutchfield Engineering to create a polymer concrete skate surface using 20% local waste plastic
design process
Dreams, rivers, snakes and people: recovering the gathering table through design proecess
Who is invited to the design table? A question towards power structures of white supremacy and justice of knowledge systems.
Thabang Nkwanyana sets the stage for the design process. Bafana Gumede's riverside drawings showing the Klip River, Ancestors, and colonial lineage as well as ourselves in conversation around the skatepark design. Kristen Kornienko's graphic novel inset digests her own white privilege and humility.
project information:
images from our ongoing project…
december 2024 workshops - empowering change to the built environment through art
december 2023 workshops - skatepark design through Minecraft and ChatGPT platforms
SKATEPARKliptown
Watch the video: local skaters and Kliptown youth developing skatepark elements in Minecraft with Block by Block
local skaters in collaboration with Block by Block use Minecraft to design their own skate space
Kliptown skaters collaborating with local architect: learning to use generative AI as a design tool
as Kliptown recovers from catastrophic flooding, we respond with beauty: cleaning up waste plastic and creating community murals with bottle caps
1,100 bottle caps = 1 square meter of mural
partnering economic development with the skatepark: collaborating to make waste plastic stateboard decks through local youth entrepreneurship
images from RPSD and 1955
