Being towards [Death]scapes: Exploring the liminal as a space for counter-poetics to re-emerge in Avalon Cemetery
| dc.contributor.author | Kock, Melissa Patricia | |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Bahmann, Dirk | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-07-01T08:12:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024 | |
| dc.description | A research report submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Architecture, In the Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment , School of Architecture and Planning, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2024 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Avalon Cemetery. A buffer zone that possesses substantial political agency alongside cultural significance. Its liminality withholds the spatial practices of individuals across the diaspora, revealing to us how individuals construct what some may consider un- conventional “counter cartographies of sociality, imagination and liberation”. (Matsipa, 2020) By delving into the multi-layered relationships between surface-level terrains and underlying subterranean structures using visual art, light is shed on the hidden inscriptions of past legacies duly rooted in the urban fabric as well as its people. Seeking to chal- lenge these structures, “Being towards [Death]scapes” aims to reimagine how individuals navigate physical spaces within the liminal realm of death, resulting in a reignition of one’s sense of self through the use of counter-poetics. By reconstructing the divide with the understanding of counter-time, between Black African, Coloured, and Indian territories, a structural backbone is formed, allowing new counter-spaces to emerge in a post-apartheid context | |
| dc.description.submitter | MM2025 | |
| dc.faculty | Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Kock, Melissa Patricia. (2024). Being towards [Death]scapes: Exploring the liminal as a space for counter-poetics to re-emerge in Avalon Cemetery [Masters dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg]. WIReDSpace. https://hdl.handle.net/10539/45296 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/10539/45296 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.rights | © 2024 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. | |
| dc.rights.holder | University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg | |
| dc.school | School of Architecture and Planning | |
| dc.subject | Avalon Cemetery | |
| dc.subject | counter-poetics | |
| dc.subject | UCTD | |
| dc.subject.primarysdg | SDG-17: Partnerships for the goals | |
| dc.title | Being towards [Death]scapes: Exploring the liminal as a space for counter-poetics to re-emerge in Avalon Cemetery | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |