This report outlines the findings of a two-week participatory design workshop undertaken by Architecture Sans Frontières-UK (ASF-UK) in partnership with Development Action Group (DAG) in Cape Town, South Africa, from April 7 to 17, 2015.
The workshop explored a projective diagnosis of how various stakeholders could act to create opportunities for inner-city affordable housing, and the reasons why this was not currently happening. The district of Woodstock was the main focus as an area where the effects of gentrification have been particularly damaging, with extortionate rents and land evictions being fairly commonplace.
The team of international participants, local experts and facilitators worked across four scales: Policy and Planning, Dwelling, Community and City, to unpack the complexities of the exclusion felt by the urban poor in Cape Town, and to start to build links towards collective action for change.