Seapoint Narratives

Matri-Archi(tecture)

This MA episode is accompanied by a photomontage visual that compliments and evokes a greater understanding of the spoken/written content and so we urge you to visit the original post to gain a full understanding of the episode. With great reference to Landscape Architecture Professor Blake Belengar’s Situating Eidetic Photomontage in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, this episode speaks about the potential of using photomontages as a language that can enable maximum access to reading space by people who are not experts in the formal spatial industry. The accompanying image speaks to the political conflict of land tenure and evictions in Seapoint, Cape Town and is used as an evocative tool to give an example of the power of photomontage as a medium to articulate the lived, social, political and spatial dynamic of the contested site. This episode is narrated by the thoughts of MA researcher, Khensani de Klerk and was originally published on March 26th 2017.