Building the Public City Open Digital Design Workshop

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Building the Public City Open Digital Design Workshop

The City of Johannesburg, represented by Johannesburg Development Agency, Johannesburg City Parks and Zoo, Public Safety and Development Planning departments, together with UN-Habitat and the University of the Witwatersrand will be kicking off a project called Building the Public City wich first step will coincide with the Fak’Ugesi Festival in Braamfontein, from September 6th to 16th.

During the Festival’s ‘Making Weekend,’ UN-Habitat’s Block by Block programme will host an open digital design workshop on September 8th and 9th.

Students and public will use Minecraft, an easy-to-use 3D modelling programme, to develop actual designs for a public space around the Eland sculpture at Stiemens Street, between Bertha and De Beer streets.

The best designs from the Minecraft will be used to develop the final design and the results will be presented on September 16th, during which users can experience the proposed design within the real space using cuttingedge
mixed reality technologies.

Citizens and students are invited to participate in the digital design workshop as part of UN-Habitat’s Block by Block programme on September 8 th and 9 th, and mixed-reality design presentation on Septmber 16ht.

The workshop will have several 2-hour slots, from 9.30 to alternating team sessions and individual sessions. We are reserving the team sessions to Students from Rosebank College and Wits University, but indiviual sessions up to 10 people per sessions are open fo rbooking to anyone interested.

You can book your slot here!
 

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