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Encounters
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Historical Narratives
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Therapeutic Resources
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The Commons
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The Environment
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Making
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Home Practice
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Healing Historical Narratives
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Healing Historical Narratives
Khanya Tshabalala. Johannesburg, South Africa
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Name of work in English
Healing Historical Narratives
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Name of work in original language
Brokering Therapeutic Resources for Alternative Healing Practices
Prize year
Young Talent 2023
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Work Location
Johannesburg, South Africa
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Author/s
Khanya Tshabalala
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School
School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics - University of Cape Town.
Cape Town, South Africa
Young Talent 2023 YT Open Nominees
Healing Historical Narratives
Brokering Therapeutic Resources for Alternative Healing Practices
Program
Religion
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Labels
Religious Centre
The dissertation explores architecture’s relationship with healing and hybridity in order to challenge ways in which the indigenous practices of traditional healing, can find a place, in our modern urban environment. The design proposition supports the transition of the subjugated practices of traditional healing into the modern city.
The dissertation project, through brokering elements of a therapeutic landscape, has strategically negotiated place for this indigenous practice on new terrain - The modern urban environment.\r\nWhilst this research does not attempt to solve the lack of access to these sacred sites now either privately owned or under conservation protection, it has engaged with topics of hybridity and phenomenology to negotiate encounters between traditional healing and its possible relationship with its new urban surrounds.\r\nHybrid technologies that mediate the relations between needs of the modern environment and indigenous practices also serve to rehabilitate the natural environment in which both elements can exist without being displaced in the dialogue of post-apartheid spatiality’s.