Is Sound Architectures
Architect | Augmentor | Sound Builder
Sound is the matter in which I build, focusing on Virtual [envisioned] spaces as the means to Realise [empathised] places. A building might merely start as an 'extraction' yet architecture is about inception of how we build together.
My practice pivots between 'seeing' and 'hearing', working within different institutions, on-lining Youth to AR/C-technologies, tethering to Theory & History of Design whilst critically constructing worlds within the planet with the continued asking of 'WhY'?
I facilitate workshops, classrooms and events positioning art alongside architecture to create accessible tools for citizens of cities to express 'ownership' within Spaces, Sites and Sounds.
Academic Augmentations
Creative Collaborations
A selection of major creative projects, exhibitions, and collaborative works that explore the intersection of art, architecture, sound, and social practice.
Wom{b}_anifesto
Goethe Institute, TMRW Gallery & Counterparts, JHB
Co-Creator. Awarded Goethe Institute Spaces Project funding to develop a movement, create a manifesto and marginal response team to the wasted futures of Women and Bodies in danger of cultural exclusion by violence — specifically responding to the South African GBV crisis. Through 6 workshops, 3 exhibitions, and 1 publication we launched our movement and have since hosted a series of smaller events in Soweto and Troyeville.
Biggies Block
Panel Discussion Facilitator & FUSSMUTT Exhibition
Invited to facilitate the Panel Discussion funded by the Austrian Cultural Embassy of the Wom{b}_anifesto Team during the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. Exhibition at the Brixton Breezeblock.
BAG FACTORY: Plant Plaza Platform
Commissioned Artist
Awarded the honourable BAG Factory Artist Commission fund for the design, installation and facilitation of the PLANT PLAZA PLATFORM as part of the BAG BEACONS conceptual architecture for a transformative steel iteration for a community garden to sustain the streets of New Town Fordsburg, Johannesburg.
UMONGO MSINDO
iSupport & Music in Africa, Durban
Exhibition Architect. Designed, produced, manufactured and installed the AR Steel & Sound Exhibition at the Luthuli Museum in Durban, Groutville to provide an archival research foundation for Indigenous musical instruments of the Northern KZN region. Facilitated the transportation and second installation at the Poetry Festival at University of Johannesburg.
D.A.A.D Online Collaborative
The Makers Valley Collective
Online Collaborative Artwork Facilitator. Designed and guided the ice-breaking opening event for the yearly online research conference using digital modeling tools and storytelling facilitation techniques with Tumi Moroeng. Created through conversation a constructed 'universe' of ideas aligned to themes of Fairness.
Substance Point
Design Architect & Collaborator, Durban
Commissioned to create and manufacture a series of exhibition installation works for Russel Hlongwane from Substance Point/Third Space Reader to be installed at various sites in France and Johannesburg. Renders, drawings, technical drawings, structural manufacture facilitation.
Childline
Architectural Arts Creator
Design and planned a series of artworks for public spaces including murals, gazebos and posters for various areas around the site in Mabopane, Pretoria aimed at informing young girls about the programs focused on their development within the space.
Fanakalo Tours
Virtual Artist & Designer
Developed conceptual brand identity and conceptualisation of installations for exhibition of mine heritage in Johannesburg.
A.R.O
Waste Virtualisation & Realisation Workshop
Collaborated with African Reclaimers Organisation & FUNDA Centre separately to validate the prototype of the virtualising & realising 'waste' space around Johannesburg to advocate for spatial change.
Digital Creative Economies & Entrepreneurship
The Floating Reverie: NFT Fundraiser
Digital Residency & Sound Works
Developed artworks from lockdown dialogues, iterating previous #14vases work into landmarks of memory. Digital work became prints, Zoom calls became e-flux articles, and ideas became NFTs exploring new economies for creative practice.
Fakugesi Digital Arts Festival
Digital Maker
Collaborative 3D printing installation exchanging design ideas for collaborative outputs. Explored creative economies through open-source fabrication and maker culture.
Exhibitions & Research
Urban intervention and collaborative exhibition exploring embodiment in public space.
![MOVE[ME]NT Exhibition](https://i.imgur.com/XlAitLY.jpeg)
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