October is urban month. The calendar is filled with webinars where speakers will tell you about how rapidly the world is urbanizing (and pandemically suburbanising); the threats of inequality, climate change and the opportunities of placemaking, green transit, new technologies and the importance of engagement and gender and considering vulnerability.
An intricate entanglement of “éclat and somberness, light and darkness, surface and underneath, metropolis intertwined with necropolis, then and now”. This was Nutall and Mbembe's description of Joburg, and its been somewhat a rude awakening or me in learning to embrace the city. I guess, if we are to imagine a future for our city or rather confront the real Cape Town, we are to accept the paradoxes and complexities and embrace the context of the city as our imaginings and aspirations. And to shift our moral assumptions of what is good and normal and abandon the neoliberal ideals of what it is to are move forward to something better. But ya, we are collectively traumatized. I really loved reading this, it made me cry a little:)
An intricate entanglement of “éclat and somberness, light and darkness, surface and underneath, metropolis intertwined with necropolis, then and now”. This was Nutall and Mbembe's description of Joburg, and its been somewhat a rude awakening or me in learning to embrace the city. I guess, if we are to imagine a future for our city or rather confront the real Cape Town, we are to accept the paradoxes and complexities and embrace the context of the city as our imaginings and aspirations. And to shift our moral assumptions of what is good and normal and abandon the neoliberal ideals of what it is to are move forward to something better. But ya, we are collectively traumatized. I really loved reading this, it made me cry a little:)
An intricate entanglement of “éclat and somberness, light and darkness, surface and underneath, metropolis intertwined with necropolis, then and now”. This was Nutall and Mbembe's description of Joburg, and its been somewhat a rude awakening or me in learning to embrace the city. I guess, if we are to imagine a future for our city or rather confront the real Cape Town, we are to accept the paradoxes and complexities and embrace the context of the city as our imaginings and aspirations. And to shift our moral assumptions of what is good and normal and abandon the neoliberal ideals of what it is to are move forward to something better. But ya, we are collectively traumatized. I really loved reading this, it made me cry a little:)
An intricate entanglement of “éclat and somberness, light and darkness, surface and underneath, metropolis intertwined with necropolis, then and now”. This was Nutall and Mbembe's description of Joburg, and its been somewhat a rude awakening or me in learning to embrace the city. I guess, if we are to imagine a future for our city or rather confront the real Cape Town, we are to accept the paradoxes and complexities and embrace the context of the city as our imaginings and aspirations. And to shift our moral assumptions of what is good and normal and abandon the neoliberal ideals of what it is to are move forward to something better. But ya, we are collectively traumatized. I really loved reading this, it made me cry a little:)