‘service a/s critical lens / the act of service'
In this episode Patti Anahory speaks with Tuliza Sindi, a lecturer of Architecture at the University of Johannesburg’s Graduate School of Architecture (GSA) and is the founder and CEO of South African-based experimental firm BRNWSH. She obtained her qualifications at the University of Pretoria (South Africa). She has taught at the University of the Witwatersrand as well as Tshwane University of Technology and is regularly invited to examine student work across several schools of architecture in South Africa. Her firm explores the socio-political construct of ‘service’ as a concept on which coloniality is both built upon and functions from; with service (as both verb and noun) being a condition that has and continues to function as a tool of permission, participation, legitimization, influence, dehumanization, exceptionalism, nobility and absolution. Service, and its many iterations, occupies 0.1% of the bible’s teachings as it remains framed as one of the most significant pillars on the spectrum of virtues that constitute healthy social practice and construction. Service has, however, provided the vehicle for the continued creation and abuse of power. The firm explores the implications of this construct and consequence of service on the make-up of societies and their corresponding spatial practices. BRNWSH borrows from and creates language for various disciplines, including media, linguistics, economics, sociology and psychology. https://www.brnwsh.co.za/ Soundtrack: Construction next door! Mentioned: Graduate School of Architecture - University of Johannesburg, South Africa http://www.gsa.ac.za Christina Sharpe's book In the Wake: On Blackness and Being https://www.dukeupress.edu/in-the-wake https://www.dukeupress.edu/Assets/PubMaterials/978-0-8223-6294-4_601.pdf