Education and CPD
The current committee member responsible for Education and CPD is Fanuel Motsepe
Education and CPD Convener
Having lectured at Wits University, Johannesburg, Fanuel Motsepe is now Director of Motsepe Architects (M Arch) (Pty) LTD where he practices as an architect and urban designer. Fanuel heads significant inner city rejuvenation projects in Johannesburg’s CBD and South Africa’s capital city, Tshwane. He also works on M Arch’s non-profiting social projects in tribal villages and historically black townships.
Fanuel is Vice-President of the South African Institute of Architects and has since 2000 been serving as a heritage conservation architect at the South African Heritage Resources Agency – Gauteng as well as on the board of the Social Housing Focus Trust.
Fanuel’s architectural philosophy focuses on cultural adequacy through the concept of Botho/Ubuntu, ‘said to reflect a deep-rooted African maxim, "A person is a person through other persons" - "Umuntu ngumuntu ngabantu".’ (David Olivier, Faith and Earthkeeping, 1998). Fanuel belongs to a school of thought, which promotes a multi-culture-inclusive design philosophy, to address the culture-exclusive built environment doctrines and practices in South Africa.
As part of furthering and advancing knowledge ingrained in multi-culture-inclusive and multi-culture-receptive doctrines and practices, M Arch set up a research unit called Motsepe Architects Research Unit (M.A.R.U.). MARU is fully equipped with a library, a computer room, an audio visual room, and a model making laboratory. MARU recruits and engages local and international researchers where outcomes include publications of research findings.
The GIfA’s Ed-Com serves to provide amongst others the following:
- a) Organize informational CPD sessions for members about the background, need and value of CPD courses.
- b) Promote CPD courses, tours and attendance thereof.
- c) Accredit, administer, develop and monitor CPD courses, tours and programmes.
- d) Assist the SAIA and SACAP in their Architectural Learning Sites (ALS) related operations such as accreditation and transformation of curriculum as well as staff and student demographics
- e) Promote the province’s ALS in conjunction with the SAIA and SACAP.
- f) Organize outreach programmes to primary and secondary schools to create awareness about architecture as well as awaken latent or unrealized architectural talents so as to encourage scholars to enter the fraternity.
- g) Engage students at ALS’s in the province to encourage them to get involved in GIfA operations and to join the GIfA as students and enroll when graduated.
Education and CPD Portfolio:
Since the 2009-10 GIfA’s Education Convener is an Education Committee member on the SAIA committee, the latter has tasked regional committees to fulfill the national institute’s agenda. The 2009/10 GIfA’s Ed-Co anticipates achieving all its mandated operations by completing its projects for the 2009/10 period.
Education and CPD Projects for 2009/10 are:
- a) Collaboration with Jean Pierre Dela Porte to develop a research programme for architects.
- b) Initiate scholarly Committee’s for Architectural Academia.
- c) By way of an outreach programme visits selected primary and secondary schools to encourage enrolment into Gauteng’s ALS.
- d) Encourage academia to join the GIfA for mutually benefiting services.
- e) Provide assistance to the GIfA in its operations for the SAIA’s 2010 Biennial Convention.
Gauteng Institute for Architecture CPD Activities for 2009
Gauteng Province
Date |
Time |
Activity |
Venue |
Speaker |
Points |
Costs |
Accreditation by: |
15,16 Aug > 28 Aug 2009 |
18h00 |
The Burbs, The Walls |
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Stephen Hobbs and Marcus Neustetter The Trinity Session- Public Art Makers and Strategists |
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19.08.09 |
16h00-17h00 |
Sustainability and Concrete |
UJ Art Centre Kingsway Auckland Park |
Daniel van der Merwe |
0.2 |
Free |
SAIA |
12,13 Sept > 25 Sept 2009 |
18h00 |
Re-Imagining Sandton:Exclusions |
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Pierre Swanepoel Studiomas Architects |
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10,11 Oct > 23 Oct 2009 |
18h00 |
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Andrew Makin and Janina Masojada Design Workshop:SA |
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14.10.09 |
16h00-17h00 |
Concrete and Glass – a symbiotic debate |
Still to be confirmed |
Hugh Fraser and
Daniel van der Merwe |
0.3 |
Free |
SAIA |
14,15 Nov > 27 Nov 2009 |
18h00 |
Strange Line |
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Alex Opper |
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For more CPD workshops please follow the under mentioned links:
www.saiat.org.za
www.saia.org.za
www.sacap.com
National and International Conferences:
Green Star SA Simulations and Submissions Seminar 19 and 25 Aug 2009 www.gbcsa.org.za
Toward Architecture for All Florence 31 Aug- 2 Sept 2009 www.aaate2009.eu
Minsk Architecture Biennial Belarus 17-19 Sept 2009 leonardo2009@tut.by
African Perspectives 2009 : University of Pretoria 24-28 Sept 2009 www.africanperpectives.info
4th International Architecture Biennial Rotterdam 24 Sept 2009-10 Jan 2010 http://www.iabr.nl/
Buenos Aires Seminar 2-6 Nov 2009 www.uia-public-health-group.org
Urban Age Istanbul Conference 4-6 November 2009 urban.age@ise.ac.uk
