Architect | Augmentor | Sound Builder
Sound is the matter in which I build, focusing on Virtual [envisioned] spaces as the means to Realise [empathised] places. A building might merely start as an 'extraction' yet architecture is about inception of how we build together.
My practice pivots between 'seeing' and 'hearing', working within different institutions, on-lining Youth to AR/C-technologies, tethering to Theory & History of Design whilst critically constructing worlds within the planet with the continued asking of 'WhY'?
I facilitate workshops, classrooms and events positioning art alongside architecture to create accessible tools for citizens of cities to express 'ownership' within Spaces, Sites and Sounds.
Drawing and 3-dimensional thinking is my tool to communicate ideas from a place of imagination to a space of realisation — bringing together over 100 people online to facilitate the development of a full-scale housing project for over 1000 students.
From Barnato Hall to Umongo Msindo, 3271 provides robust, simple and conscience products for everyday and special uses.
Who } What } Why
A week-long intensive workshop exploring the architecture of discarded things — Hyperopic Pragmatogonies of Waste. Working with Interior Design students at one of Belgium's leading arts institutions to build new spatial languages from waste materials, perception theory, and Latourian thinking.
A selection of major creative projects, exhibitions, and collaborative works that explore the intersection of art, architecture, sound, and social practice.
Goethe Institute, TMRW Gallery & Counterparts, JHB
Co-Creator. Awarded Goethe Institute Spaces Project funding to develop a movement, create a manifesto and marginal response team to the wasted futures of Women and Bodies in danger of cultural exclusion by violence — specifically responding to the South African GBV crisis. Through 6 workshops, 3 exhibitions, and 1 publication we launched our movement and have since hosted a series of smaller events in Soweto and Troyeville.
Panel Discussion Facilitator & FUSSMUTT Exhibition
Invited to facilitate the Panel Discussion funded by the Austrian Cultural Embassy of the Wom{b}_anifesto Team during the 16 days of Activism against Gender Based Violence. Exhibition at the Brixton Breezeblock.
Commissioned Artist
Awarded the honourable BAG Factory Artist Commission fund for the design, installation and facilitation of the PLANT PLAZA PLATFORM as part of the BAG BEACONS conceptual architecture for a transformative steel iteration for a community garden to sustain the streets of New Town Fordsburg, Johannesburg.
iSupport & Music in Africa, Durban
Exhibition Architect. Designed, produced, manufactured and installed the AR Steel & Sound Exhibition at the Luthuli Museum in Durban, Groutville to provide an archival research foundation for Indigenous musical instruments of the Northern KZN region. Facilitated the transportation and second installation at the Poetry Festival at University of Johannesburg.
The Makers Valley Collective
Online Collaborative Artwork Facilitator. Designed and guided the ice-breaking opening event for the yearly online research conference using digital modeling tools and storytelling facilitation techniques with Tumi Moroeng. Created through conversation a constructed 'universe' of ideas aligned to themes of Fairness.
Design Architect & Collaborator, Durban
Commissioned to create and manufacture a series of exhibition installation works for Russel Hlongwane from Substance Point/Third Space Reader to be installed at various sites in France and Johannesburg. Renders, drawings, technical drawings, structural manufacture facilitation.
Architectural Arts Creator
Design and planned a series of artworks for public spaces including murals, gazebos and posters for various areas around the site in Mabopane, Pretoria aimed at informing young girls about the programs focused on their development within the space.
Virtual Artist & Designer
Developed conceptual brand identity and conceptualisation of installations for exhibition of mine heritage in Johannesburg.
Waste Virtualisation & Realisation Workshop
Collaborated with African Reclaimers Organisation & FUNDA Centre separately to validate the prototype of the virtualising & realising 'waste' space around Johannesburg to advocate for spatial change.
Greenside Design Center & Corobrik
Project Architect for Decorex 'Future Talks' in collaboration with Greenside Design Center and Corobrik — exploring the future of sustainable material practice in South African design.
Sound Curator & Producer
Sound Curator & Producer of 4-episode series 'Signs of Life' for Lilies Radio — exploring sonic narratives at the intersection of architecture, memory and place.
DJ & Noise Artist — Saliva / New Noise / P_ssy Party / Raving in JHB
Performing as Xissara across Johannesburg's underground sound and noise scenes — Saliva, New Noise, P_ssy Party and beyond. Sound practice as spatial intervention.
Architectural Collaborations
Collaborative work across In Praise of Billboards, Slipway, Who needs content?, Affected Shed, Caged Flower, and Next Step — architectural investigations into the boundaries of structure and space.
Pinhole Photography Workshop & Exhibition
Facilitator & Curator of a Pinhole Photography Workshop and Exhibition at DokuFest in Kosovo — one of the leading documentary and short film festivals in the Balkans.
Student Housing: Waste Brick Facade Concept
Design research into waste brick facade systems for the Barnato Hall student housing project, exploring circular material economies within formal architectural practice.
Digital Residency & Sound Works
Developed artworks from lockdown dialogues, iterating previous #14vases work into landmarks of memory. Digital work became prints, Zoom calls became e-flux articles, and ideas became NFTs exploring new economies for creative practice.
Digital Maker
Collaborative 3D printing installation exchanging design ideas for collaborative outputs. Explored creative economies through open-source fabrication and maker culture.
Urban intervention and collaborative exhibition exploring embodiment in public space.
![MOVE[ME]NT Exhibition](https://i.imgur.com/XlAitLY.jpeg)
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