FADA Joint Community Project: Design For and With Local Communities

Three Phase Development Intervention For The Westbury Community

The departments of Architecture, Multimedia Design, Industrial Design and Communication Design visited the Westbury area to investigate the possibility of creating a greater positive impact for their residents. In collaboration with the ongoing local community programmes that are already in existence within the area as well as the students and lecturers at the University of Johannesburg, the project aims to formulate a design intervention through in-depth research that could be brought forward and developed over a five year period.

Please see the following link to the video:
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whe3kMUSQQ8&feature=youtu.be

Concept: Working with the Transformation and Development Centre in Westbury, the group formulated a short, medium and long term strategy to motivate students participating in the existing courses that the centre provides and help lower the unemployment level within the precinct. The short and medium term solution includes campaigns and facilities that would advertise the module and where students would sell their products to generate income as they are learning the set skills. The group focused on the catering program, in particular, with a medium term goal of assembling pop-up stores around Johannesburg to generate income and awareness in order to set up a facility within Westbury, as a long term goal, where the students would run, work and manage the establishment, thus, setting an example within the community residing in Westbury as well as bringing in visitors into the area.

For more information on site mapping and analysis as well as the group's initial ideas on the intervention, please refer to the following link:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/812707485516058/