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Dossier

The research methodologies used include photography, model making, 3D virtual modeling, videography and narration. Thus,  uncovering the socio-political hauntings in the city that follow the female form.

Edendale Mining site materiality assemblage

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Apparatus:
Edendale Mining site - Soil ; Surface ; Contaminants

Experiments

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Plant sample

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Soil sample

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Steel sample

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Soil sample

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Apparatus:
Ecological Device - Water ; Mezzo scale ; Body contact

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Apparatus:
Ecological Device - Water ; Mezzo scale ; Body contact

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Apparatus:
Ecological Device - Water ; Mezzo scale ; Body contact

Decomposition
/di:kampe’zin/

Decomposition is a phenomenon common in the sciences of biology and chemistry.
In biology, decomposition refers to the reduction of the body of a formerly living
organism into simpler forms of matter.

Converter
/ken’ve:te/

noun
1. A person or thing that converts something.
2. A device for altering the nature of an electric current or signal, especially from AC
to DC or vice versa, or from analogue to digital or vice versa.

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Apparatus:
Decomposition - Materialtiy ; Transformation; Break Down

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Apparatus:
Plough lens- Materiality ; Spatial tactic ; Land placement

Prototype Devices

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Apparatus:
Edendale Mining site Contaminated water stream

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New developments in ecology make it possible to think quite differently by introducing cross-species interactions and disturbance histories. In this time of diminished expectations, I look for disturbance-based ecologies in which many species sometimes live together without either harmony or conquest.
Anna Tsing (2015 : 20)
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Socio-political Issues

Focal points of research
An investigation of the challenges the female body encounters in public urban space, with a deeper focus on the violations experienced by some of these women as they navigate through urban spaces such as the street and the alley..

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Safe spaces of Cairo

An analysis of safety and control devices/spaces present in the city of Cairo.

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Wax Tapestry Process

An analysis of the process involved in producing the experiential situational map of the violations some women experience when moving through dangerous parts of the city.

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Figures of Safety

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The Male Household Authority

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Corridor of Narratives of safety

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Colonnade of justice

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The Female Caregiver
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Archetypes of safety

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Domestic door of authority

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