Frameworks of representation: A design History of the district six museum in Cape Town

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2020

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University of Western Cape

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Since 1994, the District Six Museum, in constructing histories of forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, commenced as a post-apartheid memory project which evolved into a memorial museum. Design has been a central strategy claimed by the museum in its process of making memory work visible to its attendant publics evolving into a South African cultural brand. Co-design within the museum is aesthetically infused with sensitively curated exhibitions and a form of museumisation, across two tangible sites of engagement, which imparts a unique visual language

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Philosophiae Doctor - PhD

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Cape Town, District six museum, Archiving, Post-apartheid memory project, Memorial museum

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