CONFERENCE | Imagining South African landscape: Three centuries of landscape and society in Cape Town

The presentation is an inter-disciplinary study of the making of race, landscape and the South African city.  Spanning three centuries, it reveals key historical moments where ‘landscape’ was radically reimagined. It argues that a similar radical imagining is necessary today, to transform an untransformed city and social landscape.

The paper was delivered at the conference, "In whose place? Confronting vestiges of the colonial landscape in Africa" (20-21 May 2021) (Session 2 - "Re-imaginings"). The conference was a collaboration between the 'History Workshop' and the 'School of Architecture & Planning' at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The full conference is available on the History Workshop channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS7H...).