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The African Landscape Architectures conference brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. This two-day hybrid event highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will explore innovative strategies through frameworks such as ecology, adaptation, and materiality that offer alternative futures for African landscapes.
Panel 4: Pedagogies
How landscape architecture is currently taught across the African continent, and what future directions might it take.
Moderated by Gareth Doherty (DDes ’10), Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Affiliate of the Department of African and African American Studies
Finzi Saidi, University of Johannesburg
Sechaba Maape, University of the Witwatersrand
Carey Duncan, Past President IFLA Africa, Rabat, Morocco
0:00 Panel 2 Introduction by Gareth Doherty
04:15 Presentation by Finzi Saidi
23:27 Presentation by Sechaba Maape
37:45 Presentation by Carey Duncan
53:39 Panel Discussion
01:11:00 Q+A
The African Landscape Architectures conference brings together a wide range of landscape practices from across the continent. This two-day hybrid event highlights the transformative potential of decolonizing design to address social injustices and prepare African cities for the impacts of climate change. Speakers will explore innovative strategies through frameworks such as ecology, adaptation, and materiality that offer alternative futures for African landscapes.
Panel 4: Pedagogies
How landscape architecture is currently taught across the African continent, and what future directions might it take.
Moderated by Gareth Doherty (DDes ’10), Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Affiliate of the Department of African and African American Studies
Finzi Saidi, University of Johannesburg
Sechaba Maape, University of the Witwatersrand
Carey Duncan, Past President IFLA Africa, Rabat, Morocco
0:00 Panel 2 Introduction by Gareth Doherty
04:15 Presentation by Finzi Saidi
23:27 Presentation by Sechaba Maape
37:45 Presentation by Carey Duncan
53:39 Panel Discussion
01:11:00 Q+A
