This is a Cape Town inspired cap in hand synaptic, left of center fringe design conceptualisation of Africa fauvistic design ideas. WHAAAT the hay ho!!!!!!!!
So with a very wide wry smile - this Cape Town Muizenberg designer punts unique wildetecture ideas tirelessly. To the moguls at the local design institutions. And to SA's design elite.
The erxell concept is one such unique design concept that will go down as a very workable concept when the future finally integrates with the present. Not exactly sure why this concept has been completely passed over by design moguls. But we have a meeting with informal settlement dwellers this friday and some city planners. straight to the people. If it works out great of not we tried a left of center idea and struck out.
Informal settlements are meant to be halfway houses between absolute urban living poverty and eventual promised formal urban living spaces. However they have now become the living normal arena for the destitute and a poor misplaced people. With absolutely no upgrades in sight for these destitute masses. The structures are very temporary at best. However they have no proper, fire, structural, ventilation and urban living specifications attached. If a fire breaks out, people die on mass. Thats a fact that is an everyday hazard. With some irresponsible dwellers making bonfires for fun, its a real nightmate situation. A tinder box in the hands of a few mad insane pyromaniacs with a match. Ive seen how a tiked up loon is feeding a fire in the middle of a small pathway between tin shacks. Everyone just walks around and waits for the firewall. This is taken as a very normal hazard of the lived in informal settlement environment. Nobody has the full power to regularizes the space safely. Its a hodge podge of very badly built tinder box tin shacks. What is really happening to my mind is that unscrupulous land expriopriation landlords are gaining more land for free. Then unregulated renting out this expriopriation land space to poor families for premium rent prices. The poor masses are put infront of these unscrupulous own people characters by a system completely ripping off the poor. Not a cent that im aware of goes back into upgrading the informal settlement communities. All rates roads and land taxes are paid for by the formal sector. While the informal sectors huge rent flow cash lands and stays in private hands only. Private hands that do not pass on a red cent to better the informal settlement community. Why? because the formal sector must pay for the infrastructure, roads, electricity, etc etc through huge additional formal sector rates.
Who does this system completely crush? The poor informal settlement family being run rough shod over by unscrupulous land expriopriation unregulerised owners who take absolutely no responcibility for the community. These landowners who got land for nothing now milking the poor and the system hand over fist.
So to my mind using the informal settlement roof space as a blank canvas for advertising is not a bad idea really. Create the erxell of trade and sell off well tendered signage. Give money back to the person living in the informal settlement dwellings.
Regularize each informal settlement dwelling and find put who is getting rent and has several dwellings in several SA informal settlement areas. These slum lords renting to poor families? Wont ever happen because to many hands are grabbing the spoils and taking from the poor. (Robbing the poor) The poor intern burn the roads out of utter frustration for nothing being done. From my vantage point, and i might be wrong. Its a cycle that has no end and no planned solution in sight. Other than making a few invested in the current informal system very, very rich.
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