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Boukunde Public Lecture Series presents Lone Poulsen -

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Lone Poulsen

Lone Poulsen graduated from the University of Natal, Durban with a Bachelor of Architecture (1979) and a Masters in Town and Regional Planning (1991). She practiced and taught in Durban until 1991 when she moved to Johannesburg and joined the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University as a lecturer. Lone played an academic and leadership role at Wits where she was promoted to adjunct professor, and served as Assistant Dean for the Built Environment disciplines and Director of the Architecture Programme. In 2013, Lone was appointed Programme Director for the SAIA initiated OpenArchitecture programme which was conceptualised as an alternative to the existing full time study route to becoming an architectural professional. Lone has published widely and has been a consultant to the City of Johannesburg, the Gauteng and National Department of Human Settlements, the National Association of Social Housing Organisations (NASHO) and various residents association. She has served on the judging panels of architectural and urban design competitions and adjudicated the Institute of Architects Merit Awards in RSA and in Zimbabwe. She has acted as external examiner and external critic for architectural, urban design, housing and planning courses at a number of universities.

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.