The great space between: a service station nexus in the Soutpansberg
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2016-07-13
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James, Alistair
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This thesis aims to study the idea of non-place; a point on the line between a beginning and an end.
My site is in the Soutpansberg mountain range in the Limpopo province. There is a rich history of movement in the area, from ancient trade routes, to central African migration, the Voortrekkers, the British ideal of a Great North Road, apartheid homelands and currently, the Zimbabwean diaspora. All of these stages are examples of flux, movement, non-placeā¦
I have aimed to take a history of the area and apply its relevance to a scarred landscape that is bisected by the N1 highway. Perhaps turning a non-place into a place; perhaps just giving a non-place some relevance. By placing a large service station, a market and a place to sleep onto this site, I wish to revive what it has always been: a movement route, a point on the line; and once again bring to the Great North Road, something so general and banal, yet something fundamentally etched with its DNA. A place en route in the great space between.
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James, Alistair (2016) The great space between: a service station nexus in the Soutpansberg, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, < http://wiredspace.wits.ac.za/handle/10539/20569 >