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The Home
An Object Appropriated for Multiple Purposes as a Resistant to Land Acts
Mfundo Rarane
BArch Hons 2022
Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Craig McClenaghan
Unit Tutor: Ruby Mungoshi
Unit Assistant: Azraa Gabru
UNIT 21
Phantom Cartographies
Award
Great Leap Forward Prize
The project questions notions around the idea of home, how landscape influences the home and the home influences its residents.
The research is situated in cultural events from maternal and paternal backgrounds. The events’ modification of their respective landscapes is mapped out. While some of these events and rituals can be performed and appropriated in other landscapes, some cannot be appropriated.
The project documents how residents in townships and rural areas have resisted Land Acts through rituals and the appropriation of the objects used in these rituals. It is observed that there is a mutual imprinting of the ritual on landscape and landscape on ritual.
The research is situated in cultural events from maternal and paternal backgrounds. The events’ modification of their respective landscapes is mapped out. While some of these events and rituals can be performed and appropriated in other landscapes, some cannot be appropriated.
The project documents how residents in townships and rural areas have resisted Land Acts through rituals and the appropriation of the objects used in these rituals. It is observed that there is a mutual imprinting of the ritual on landscape and landscape on ritual.
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