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Corobrik Landscape Architecture
Award celebrates ideas on
transformative water use
This year’s winner of Corobrik Landscape
Architecture Award was a thesis entitled ‘A River
Remembered: reconnecting to landscape, memory
and resource through water routes’. It investigates
the possibility of re-routing an existing concrete
water channel, or leiwater, allowing residents from
a disadvantaged community to access water for
food gardens and the greening of their environment.
The awards are for graduating students in the UCT
Master of Landscape Architecture programme.
“The concept focuses on the historical relationships between
people and the landscape,” explains Dalberg. “Having always
had an interest in the Cederberg area, I decided to focus on
Clanwilliam which is the area’s oldest town and the gateway
to the region,” says Dalberg.
The existing water channel currently bypasses an RDP
community situated on the periphery of the town. This water,
from the Jan Dissels River, is instead piped into the town
centre where it is revealed in an open leiwater. Through her
dissertation, Dalberg seeks to re-route this water to include
the RDP community, democratising this important resource.
“This will create the opportunity for developing both
household and community gardens, as well as sites of social
engagement between the RDP community and the town
centre,” says Dalberg.
April 2020 Volume 26 I Number 02
This year, Corobrik’s Most Innovative Final Year Landscape
Architecture Award went to Josephine Dalberg with Amber
Myers taking the second-place prize at the awards ceremony
held on 22 November 2019.
Josephine Dalberg is this year’s winner of the Corobrik’s Landscape Architecture Award.
Her thesis is entitled ‘A River Remembered: reconnecting to landscape, memory and
resource through water routes’. It investigates the possibility of re-routing an existing
concrete water channel, or leiwater, allowing residents from a disadvantaged community
to access water for food gardens and the greening of their environment.
The runner-up, Amber Myers, titled her thesis ‘Perceiving
Landscape: Designing for the Contemplation of Material
Culture through Time’. For this interesting concept, Myers
suggested constructing a coastal park and archaeological
museum on the Point of Mossel Bay, using materials
harvested from buildings which will be submerged by the
rising ocean over time. PA
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