Description
Infrastructures of Freedom sheds light on the impact of inadequate public lighting in self-built communities in Cape Town. In democratic South Africa, where infrastructure provision still reflects deeply embedded notions of citizenship, informal neighborhoods with minimal infrastructure provision face challenges beyond access to basic services and opportunities. Fear, the feeling of being forgotten, and living in undignified conditions are among the powerful experiences darkness brings about in these neighborhoods. The book not only reveals these experiences of everynight life, but takes a step further: it considers how the co-production of a solar public lighting project within a community improved everynight life and suggests ways for infrastructure to more successfully articulate citizenship.
With a foreword by Christian Schmid and Sophie Oldfield
About the Author
Stephanie Briers ist eine sudafrikanische Architektin und Stadtplanerin. Sie promovierte am Institut fur Landschaft und Stadtebau und am Institut fur Wissenschaft, Technologie und Politik der ETH Zurich. Ihre Arbeit konzentriert sich auf Burgerbeteiligung und die Einbeziehung von Interessengruppen mit einem Hoechstmass an Kreativitat, um nachhaltig resiliente urbane Umgebungen zu schaffen und bei jedem Projekt ein Hoechstmass an Inklusivitat und Vielfalt zu gewahrleisten.
Book Information
ISBN 9783868597769
Author Stephanie Briers
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint JOVIS Verlag
Publisher JOVIS Verlag
Weight(grams) 606g