︎Year 4
Khensani de Klerk
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Public aGender
Cape Town, South Africa
This project focuses on the
long-standing issue of Gender-based violence (GBV). It investigates its spatial
dimensions by interrogating the relationship between public infrastructure and
urban violence experienced by women of colour (WOC) in Cape Town CBD, South
Africa. In the wake of the Covid-19 global pandemic the binary between the
public and the domestic realm has been reinforced. The concern lies in the
projection that, so long as the situation of domestic reliance remains,
domestic violence threatens the physical lives and mental well-being of women
and children living with abusers. This study explores architectural approaches
that rethink the status quo of violence maintained by public infrastructure,
speculating on a reshaping of public life that encourages safety during and
after such crises. I hope this process and its outputs can contribute to
growing Womanist scholarship in South Africa.
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