[in] Process 2022: All Third Year Portfolio Document

2022 marks the third edition of the All-Third Year Portfolio Document: [in] Process 2022, showcasing the work of the third year architecture and planning graduating classes.  The work of the students responds to issues faced in Johannesburg, and in South Africa, at a local level, but also has a resonance with the challenges faced by global society. This uniquely positions the disciplines of architecture and planning in relation to questions of design innovation and the upholding of sociocultural and ecological values.

From its launch in 2020, the theme of ‘In Process’, has been retained in recognition of design and planning work as a process of exploration, that involves iteration and refinement of thinking through a project. The third year students in architecture and planning have presented both a concise statement of their interests, and a project that they felt best expressed their approach to the discipline. Several research areas are emerging in the undergraduate programmes; and for the purposes of this portfolio document, we have grouped the work according to the following themes:

• Society + Transformation
• Embodiment + Phenomenology
• Nature, Ecology + Sustainability
• City, Metro + Urban Territories
• History, Memory + Tradition
• Aesthetics, Pleasure + Excess
• Materiality + Poetics of Place
• #BraamNgomso: Narrating and Envisioning Braam Tomorrows

This document thus represents the collective participation of the third year cohort in 2022. This graduating class would be looking for opportunities to continue learning in their professions, and we invite members of the professional networks to refer to this online collection as a resource.