Building a Matjieshuis : Indigenous Knowledge System of the Built Environment UNIT- IKSBEU скачать в хорошем качестве

Building a Matjieshuis : Indigenous Knowledge System of the Built Environment UNIT- IKSBEU

Department of Architecture Course of History of Architecture 3 students, Workshop Building A Matjieshut- |Haru Oms, Building a Village organised by: Indigenous Knowledge System of the Built Environment UNIT- IKSBEU This short video done by a group of students from the Department of Architecture, speaks about a practical workshop organised at the Nelson Mandela University School of Architecture, by the Indigenous Knowledge Systems of the Built Environment Unit-IKSBEU, in partnership with Chief Jean Burgess, Ghonaqua Peoples and Jason Jacobs as community facilitator. It narrates three days of workshop and a touching experience, where Nelson Mandela University staff and students, along with First Nations leaders and youth based in Mandela Bay and its surroundings, worked along with Elders and Knowledge Holders from Namaqualand, who came to teach them the ancient Indigenous knowledge of how to built a First Nations traditional dwellings: the Matjieshut. The participants gaining first-hand experience of Indigenous heritage and knowledge that cannot be found in books. This traditional dwelling is still in use only in limited part of South Africa and the know how on how to build it is fading away in most of South Africa. This is the result of the long history of segregation and repression started from the arrival of the settler colonists in the country. The Matjieshut was beautifully constructed, with common patience and cooperation, deep respect for each other and gratitude for the generosity of the Elders and Knowledge holders from Namaqualand. This documentary speaks about the life changing experience that everyone involved was exposed to.