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Day One:
Thursday,
24 September
Morning
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Debate #1
Join UJ Student Moderators Nthati Makgalemela
& Sanjay Jeevan to kick off the SAF 2015 Parallel
Sessions with a controversial opening debate.
AZA MAIN HALL:
AZA15 Presents International Speaker
Alfredo Brillembourg
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Film #1
Watch RIBA award-winning Bartlett
architecture student Kibwe Tavares’ thesis
film, ‘Robots of Brixton’, followed by his
first short film, ‘Jonah.’ UJ Student
Moderators and Commentators to host.
Lunchtime
AZA MAIN HALL [EXHIBITION ROW B]:
UJ Student Exhibition Formal Opening
with Dr Finzi Saidi & Prof Lesley Lokko
AZA
15
Registration opens 14h00
Live music performance: FOODHALL
Exhibition opening: Gifa Awards
GIFA Awards for Architecture Gala evening (Invite only)
23
Wednesday
Afternoon
Evening
Day Two:
Friday,
25 September
All-day
SAF Presents Workshop #2
Alex Opper, Lorenzo Nassimbeni and Rhett
Martyn. Join local practitioners/artists in the
second of our intensive one- and two-day
workshops.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Film #3
Watch the Sundance Awardwinning
documentary, ‘The Internet’s Own Boy:
The Story of Aaron Swartz’, a ‘spellbinding’
portrait of Internet ‘hacktivist’ Aaron
Swatz’s life and convictions.’ UJ Student
Moderators to host.
Afternoon
Afternoon
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Debate #2
‘Tomorrow’s Architects Today’: Dr Finzi Saidi
chairs this nation-wide debate on what the
future holds for architects, for architecture
students and for Africa at large. With UJ
Student Moderators.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Workshop #1
Studio A-formal Terrain Denver Join local
practitioners/teachers Eric Wright, Claudia
Morgado and Jhono Bennett in the first of
our intensive one- and two-day workshops.
Full details of the Workshop Themes,
Programme and Prices to follow.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Film #2
Watch Rem Koolhaas’ documentary, ‘Lagos
Wide & Close’, a challenging film about one of
the continent’s most vibrant and dense cities.
Evening
MAIN COURTYARD:
SAF Presents The Competition: The Film
Join Prof Lesley Lokko and Spanish director
Angel Cubero Borrego in a special African
premiere of the documentary, ‘The Competition’.
The director will host a Q&A session directly after
the film. For those students who don’t manage
to get tickets for this event, please note that
the film will be shown again during AZA 2015.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Social Scene #1
Join UJ Student Moderators in a lively, informal
‘meet ‘n’ greet’ for the nation’s architecture
students in the Parallel Sessions Room.
A Breakaway Troupe will head to nearby
Kitchener’s afterwards.
Day Three:
Saturday,
26 September
Morning
AZA MAIN HALL:
AZA15 Presents International Speakers
Suad Amiry & Julia King
PARALLEL SESSION ROOM:
SAF Presents Debate #3
Join Fuchs & Corobrik Prizewinners as
they present their prize-winning schemes.
UJ Student Moderators to host.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Debate #4
Join the UJ Student Moderators and
Commentators in the conclusion of
the student debates and the drafting
of the SAF Student Charter 2015.
AZA MAIN HALL [EXHIBITION ROW B]:
Des Baker Architectural Student Awards 2015
Join the DBAS2015 Jury Members as they
present the top three prizes for the 2015
Des Baker Student Award.
SAF Presents Workshop #3
Counterspace. Join local up-and-coming
practice Counterspace in the third of our
intensive one- and two-day workshops.
SAF Presents Workshop #4
Open Spaces Jo’burg Walking Tour. Join UJ’s
Head of Department, Dr Finzi Saidi, on a walking
tour of Jo’burg’s most interesting and hidden
open spaces.
SAF Presents Workshop #5
Hidden Chinatown. Join Samantha Sun on a
walk-and-talk historical tour of neighbouring
Chinatown.
Nighttime
SAF Presents Student Festival
Party-To-End-All-Parties
Join your UJ Hosts in celebrating
the end of SAF 2015!
Full details of all workshops, prices, booking
info, materials and exact times will be
published online, closer to the event.
For bookings, please visit the architectureza.org
website. A pdf version of this programme is also
available online, or via our facebook pages.
AZA MAIN HALL:
AZA15 Presents International Speaker
Beatriz Colomina
Evening
AZA15 & SAF Present Rooftop Performance
and Wrap Party
Join Off-Plan International and Counterspace
for an unforgettable roof-top performance,
followed by the SAF 2015 Wrap Party.
Tickets available online shortly.
AZA15
Student Architecture Festival
2015 Programme*
The SAF (Student Architecture Festival) 2015
is hosted by University of Johannesburg
*This programme refers only to those events hosted by the Student Architecture Festival committee (UJ). It also
includes key international speakers brought to you by AZA15 , which no one should miss! Exact times and venues
will be announced in the programme (available as a pdf online) closer to the event.
Students, practitioners and the public
are welcome at all events!
Registration opens 14h00
Live music performance: FOODHALL
Exhibition opening: Gifa Awards
GIFA Awards for Architecture Gala evening (Invite only)
24
Thursday
Registrations +Exhibition opening
Refreshments served Unit System Africa/UJ Exhibition
07:30 – 09:00
Registrations +Exhibition opening
Refreshments served Unit System Africa/UJ Exhibition
Welcome & Introduction: Chair confirm Hannah le Roux
Future City #1:Khalied Jacobs. SA
Future City #2: Thorsten Deckler. SA
09:00 - 09:10
09:10 – 09:45
09:45 – 10:15
TEA
Future City#3:Steffen Lemmerzahl.Zürich
Future City: Panel Discussion Q&A
(Khalied Jacobs , Thorsten Deckler, Steffen Lemmerzahl)
LUNCH
UJ Exhibition opening: Lesley Lokko/Finzi Saidi
Tami Dance Company + Dance Umbrella #1: Peep Show
Future City#4:Prof Lesley Lokko. UJ. Ghana
Future City#5:Zahira Asmal. Design ZA. SA
10:15 – 10:45
10:45 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:45
Welcome & introduction
SAF Debate #1: Nthati Makgalemela & Sanjay Jeevan
SAF Film Festival Film #1: RIBA award-winning Bartlett
architecture student Kibwe Tavares’ thesis film, ‘Robots of
Brixton’, followed by his first short film, ‘Jonah.
TEA
Future City#3:Steffen Lemmerzahl.Zürich
Future City: Panel Discussion Q&A
(Khalied Jacobs , Thorsten Deckler, Steffen Lemmerzahl)
LUNCH
UJ Exhibition opening: Lesley Lokko/Finzi Saidi
Tami Dance Company + Dance Umbrella #1: Peep Show
SAF Debate #2: ‘Tomorrow’s Architects Today’.What the
future holds for architects, for architecture students and for
Africa at large Moderator: Dr Finzi Saidi
TEA
SAF Film Festival#2: Rem Koolhaas’ documentary, ‘Lagos
Wide & Close’, a challenging film about one of the continent’s
most vibrant and dense cities.
SAF Debate#3: Fuchs/Corobrik Prizewinners Summary/
Presentation. Moderator: Nthati Makgalemela
DRINKS + NETWORKING
Life Music + Tami Dance performance
African Premiere of ‘The Competition’ film Q&A with Director
SOCIAL EVENING: Kitcheners, Braamfontein
12:45 – 14:00
14:00 – 14:35
14:35 – 15:10
TEA
Future City#6: Alfredo & Arturo Brillembourg.Urban Think
Tank.USA
15:10 - 15:30
15:30 – 16:30
Future City#7:Daniel Silke. Analyst. Author. SA
16:30 – 17:00
DRINKS + NETWORKING
Life Music + Tami Dance performance
African Premiere of ‘The Competition’ film Q&A with Director
SOCIAL EVENING: Kitcheners, Braamfontein
17:00 – 18:00
18:00-19:00
19:00- late
AZA
15
Day One:
Thursday,
24 September
Morning
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Debate #1
Join UJ Student Moderators Nthati Makgalemela
& Sanjay Jeevan to kick off the SAF 2015 Parallel
Sessions with a controversial opening debate.
AZA MAIN HALL:
AZA15 Presents International Speaker
Alfredo Brillembourg
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Film #1
Watch RIBA award-winning Bartlett
architecture student Kibwe Tavares’ thesis
film, ‘Robots of Brixton’, followed by his
first short film, ‘Jonah.’ UJ Student
Moderators and Commentators to host.
Lunchtime
AZA MAIN HALL [EXHIBITION ROW B]:
UJ Student Exhibition Formal Opening
with Dr Finzi Saidi & Prof Lesley Lokko
Afternoon
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Workshop #1
Studio A-formal Terrain Denver Join local
practitioners/teachers Eric Wright, Claudia
Morgado and Jhono Bennett in the first of
our intensive one- and two-day workshops.
Full details of the Workshop Themes,
Programme and Prices to follow.
MAIN COURTYARD:
SAF Presents The Competition: The Film
Join Prof Lesley Lokko and Spanish director
Angel Cubero Borrego in a special African
premiere of the documentary, ‘The Competition’.
The director will host a Q&A session directly after
the film. For those students who don’t manage
to get tickets for this event, please note that
the film will be shown again during AZA 2015.
25
15
All-day
SAF Presents Workshop #2
Alex Opper, Lorenzo Nassimbeni and Rhett
Martyn. Join local practitioners/artists in the
second of our intensive one- and two-day
workshops.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Film #3
Watch the Sundance Awardwinning
documentary, ‘The Internet’s Own Boy:
The Story of Aaron Swartz’, a ‘spellbinding’
portrait of Internet ‘hacktivist’ Aaron
Swatz’s life and convictions.’ UJ Student
Moderators to host.
Afternoon
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Film #2
Watch Rem Koolhaas’ documentary, ‘Lagos
Wide & Close’, a challenging film about one of
the continent’s most vibrant and dense cities.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Social Scene #1
Join UJ Student Moderators in a lively, informal
‘meet ‘n’ greet’ for the nation’s architecture
students in the Parallel Sessions Room.
A Breakaway Troupe will head to nearby
Kitchener’s afterwards.
Day Three:
Saturday,
26 September
Morning
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Debate #4
Join the UJ Student Moderators and
Commentators in the conclusion of
the student debates and the drafting
of the SAF Student Charter 2015.
SAF HALL STAGE:
SAF Presents Debate #2
‘Tomorrow’s Architects Today’: Dr Finzi Saidi
chairs this nation-wide debate on what the
future holds for architects, for architecture
students and for Africa at large. With UJ
Student Moderators.
Evening
AZA
Day Two:
Friday,
25 September
AZA MAIN HALL:
AZA15 Presents International Speakers
Suad Amiry & Julia King
PARALLEL SESSION ROOM:
SAF Presents Debate #3
Join Fuchs & Corobrik Prizewinners as
they present their prize-winning schemes.
UJ Student Moderators to host.
AZA MAIN HALL [EXHIBITION ROW B]:
Des Baker Architectural Student Awards 2015
Join the DBAS2015 Jury Members as they
present the top three prizes for the 2015
Des Baker Student Award.
SAF Presents Workshop #3
Counterspace. Join local up-and-coming
practice Counterspace in the third of our
intensive one- and two-day workshops.
SAF Presents Workshop #4
Open Spaces Jo’burg Walking Tour. Join UJ’s
Head of Department, Dr Finzi Saidi, on a walking
tour of Jo’burg’s most interesting and hidden
open spaces.
SAF Presents Workshop #5
Hidden Chinatown. Join Samantha Sun on a
walk-and-talk historical tour of neighbouring
Chinatown.
Nighttime
SAF Presents Student Festival
Party-To-End-All-Parties
Join your UJ Hosts in celebrating
the end of SAF 2015!
Full details of all workshops, prices, booking
info, materials and exact times will be
published online, closer to the event.
For bookings, please visit the architectureza.org
website. A pdf version of this programme is also
available online, or via our facebook pages.
AZA MAIN HALL:
AZA15 Presents International Speaker
Beatriz Colomina
Evening
AZA15 & SAF Present Rooftop Performance
and Wrap Party
Join Off-Plan International and Counterspace
for an unforgettable roof-top performance,
followed by the SAF 2015 Wrap Party.
Tickets available online shortly.
AZA15
Student Architecture Festival
2015 Programme*
The SAF (Student Architecture Festival) 2015
is hosted by University of Johannesburg
*This programme refers only to those events hosted by the Student Architecture Festival committee (UJ). It also
includes key international speakers brought to you by AZA15 , which no one should miss! Exact times and venues
will be announced in the programme (available as a pdf online) closer to the event.
Friday
Students, practitioners and the public
are welcome at all events!
Tea & Refreshments
08:00 – 09:00
Tea & Refreshments
Future City#8:Yara Sharif.Riwaq.UK
Future City #9:Julia King.UK
TEA + MUSIC PERFORMANCE
Future City #10: Dr Hannah Le Roux.Wits.SA
Future City: Panel Discussion Q&A
(Suad Amiry+ Julia King+ Hannah Le Roux.Moderator
confirm Lesley Lokko)
LUNCH + MOVEMENT BOOK LAUNCH
Future City #11:Beatriz Colomina.USA
Future SAIA ConventionSAIA President,
Sandile Ngonyama
Des Baker Award Ceremony
ROOFTOP PERFORMANCE & WRAP PARTY
OPI/COUNTERSPACE
09:00 – 10:00
10:00 – 10:35
10:35 – 11:10
11:10 – 11:45
11:45 – 12:45
Future City#8:Yara Sharif.Riwaq.UK
Future City #9:Julia King.UK
TEA + MUSIC PERFORMANCE
SAF Film Festival Film #3: Sundance Award-winning
Documentary, ‘The Internet’s Own Boy
12:30 – 14:00
14:00 - 15:00
15:00 - 17h00
LUNCH + MOVEMENT BOOK LAUNCH
Future City #11:Beatriz Colomina.USA
SAF Workshop #1: Studio AT Denver
(Julia King, Eric Wright, Claudia Morgado)
Des Baker Award Ceremony
ROOFTOP PERFORMANCE & WRAP PARTY
OPI/COUNTERSPACE
17h00
17:30 till late
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Saturday
URBAN TOURS
MASTER CLASSES
Open Spaces Walking Tour
Hosts: Dr Finzi Saidi
A
SAF Workshop #2: Moving Mountains
Hosts: Alex Opper, Lorenzo Nassimbeni; UJ FADA
Chinatown Walking Tour
Hosts: Samantha Sun
B
SAF Workshop #3: Counterspace; UJ FADA
JHB Heritage Tour: Brian McKechnie
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CPD International master classes: Maboneng
Soweto-Apartheidmuseum-Concourt : Clara d’almeida
D
CPD Parametric Design Two day master class by Steffen
Lemmerzahl, Germany : GIfa
Liliesleaf-Freedom Park: Jeremy Rose
E
CPD Prof Prac Worskop: Ian Alexander : Gifa
3 architecture packed days!
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