{"id":756,"date":"2020-09-12T20:01:27","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T20:01:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/?p=756"},"modified":"2025-01-27T14:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T14:38:46","slug":"freespace-provoking-different-notions-of-public-space-cape-town-curated-by-caroline-sohie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/2020\/09\/12\/freespace-provoking-different-notions-of-public-space-cape-town-curated-by-caroline-sohie\/","title":{"rendered":"#FREESPACE: provoking different notions of public space, Cape Town, curated by Caroline Sohie"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"header_category_container\" class=\"single_left\">\n<p>Engagement unfolds around an immersive container installation; a programme of talks, debate and performance, hosted at the Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) from 17 January 2019. The month-long event, titled #FREESPACE, offers a South African and international audience the opportunity to discuss and engage with the concept of space from a cultural, architectural, urban and personal perspective \u2013 space as a resource, and space as a binding medium between people.<\/p>\n<p>Discussion around space is critical within a South African context.\u00a0 Like other cities, Cape Town is marked by inevitable contradictions and tensions. Contemporary urban dynamics still tend to perpetuate the patterns of a dissented city, with its class, race and cultural characteristics marking the built fabric.\u00a0 The urban debate around the resource of space is profound as the post-apartheid city struggles with valuing space, in terms of its sustainable use, ownership, shared meaning, and how it can express the multiplicity of evolving contemporary identities.\u00a0 In response, #FREESPACE aims to create a temporary space of meaningful engagement, disentangling some of the aspects informing the production of space.<\/p>\n<p>Curated by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuleuven.be\/wieiswie\/nl\/person\/00113110\">Caroline Sohie<\/a><\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freespace.events\/\">https:\/\/www.freespace.events\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Engagement unfolds around an immersive container installation; a programme of talks, debate and performance, hosted at the Zeitz Museum Of Contemporary African Art (MOCAA) from 17 January 2019. The month-long event, titled #FREESPACE, offers a South African and international audience the opportunity to discuss and engage with the concept of space from a cultural, architectural, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[188,1,277],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":758,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/masterofarchitecture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}