Join us on Wednesday 07 Aug at 12:30

Boukunde Public Lecture Series presents Skumbuzo Mtshali, Injogo – Ijongo edivusayo, edivus’ekseni.

The Lecture series is a Hybrid series. CPD Registration and Lecture Link in Bio.

CPD Registration Link: https://forms.gle/YLYTRhGsMxBqWNY3A

Event Zoom Link:https://zoom.us/j/97421954451?pwd=CSMBiwL3U483nYjbduPIUQstEmRr6n.1

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Skhumbuzo Mtshali

An Urban Planner and Designer with a Master's Degree in Urban Design, as well as Bachelor of Science and Honours Degrees in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of the Witwatersrand. Currently serving as a Senior Specialist in Urban Design, Strategic Urban Planning, and Architecture at the City of Joburg: City Transformation and Spatial Planning Directorate, he also imparts knowledge as a third-year Urban Design Sessional Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. 

He currently specializes in the development of city-wide urban design strategies, principles, policies and guidelines. His work includes design and providing oversight and management of strategic urban design projects from the conceptual through to the implementation phase. Providing urban planning and specialized urban design guidance and inputs to a variety of strategic projects and programmes in the City to enable the creation of new quality spaces and places and high-quality urban environments. He has worked on various projects at different scales across 5 provinces – Gauteng, Northern Cape, Eastern Cape, Limpopo and Mpumalanga. He chairs the City of Joburg’s Urban Design Advisory Committee.

Boukunde Public Lecture Series

The lecture series explores the possibility that architecture, urban design and urbanism is not only a technical project but also an imaginative and cultural project. The cultural project of shaping a ‘new’ South African urban culture asks that imaginative and urban understanding and tools are extended to new programmatic and contextual themes, challenges and possibilities. This includes speaking to architectural questions of hybridity and diverse publics and spaces, as well to larger questions of urbanisation, the roles of human settlements, social tensions and conflict, and new kinds of collectivities and communities. In this series, architecture is explored as the making of a diverse piece of a city, socially and architecturally.