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Sustainable Rural Development Through Generative Design
South African apartheid laws between the 1940s to the late 1980s kept black families in poor rural areas, formally known as Bantustans, which weren’t considered part of South Africa. Only young men were allowed to move to cities, where they were used as valuable labor. After the end of apartheid in the mid-1990s urbanization increased rapidly. This led to further poverty in rural areas as very little development took place, limiting economic opportunity. We will look at how this lack of action impacted the Rural Eastern Cape and what sustainable development solutions can be applied to provide more inclusive development solutions. We analyze the current development conditions in the Rural Eastern Cape and learn from them; we look at the current sustainable development conditions in urban areas and how design interventions can be extrapolated for improved development methods in rural areas using existing data to provide generative design solutions in the long term. Generative design is an iterative design process involving a program that will generate a certain number of outputs that meet certain constraints. It will assist in refining feasible solutions that are contextually relevant and achieve the following: Provide sustainable design solutions to reduce a need for retrofitting in future developments, improve quality of life and minimize rural migration by providing a comprehensive method of producing easily interpreted sustainability guidelines that can be applied in various conditions for the best possible design development strategy.
Sustainable Rural Development Through Generative Design
South African apartheid laws between the 1940s to the late 1980s kept black families in poor rural areas, formally known as Bantustans, which weren’t considered part of South Africa. Only young men were allowed to move to cities, where they were used as valuable labor. After the end of apartheid in the mid-1990s urbanization increased rapidly. This led to further poverty in rural areas as very little development took place, limiting economic opportunity. We will look at how this lack of action impacted the Rural Eastern Cape and what sustainable development solutions can be applied to provide more inclusive development solutions. We analyze the current development conditions in the Rural Eastern Cape and learn from them; we look at the current sustainable development conditions in urban areas and how design interventions can be extrapolated for improved development methods in rural areas using existing data to provide generative design solutions in the long term. Generative design is an iterative design process involving a program that will generate a certain number of outputs that meet certain constraints. It will assist in refining feasible solutions that are contextually relevant and achieve the following: Provide sustainable design solutions to reduce a need for retrofitting in future developments, improve quality of life and minimize rural migration by providing a comprehensive method of producing easily interpreted sustainability guidelines that can be applied in various conditions for the best possible design development strategy.
Sustainable Rural Development Through Generative Design
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Mostafa, Magda (editor) / Baumeister, Ruth (editor) / Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard (editor) / Tamke, Martin (editor) / Hempe, Mlondolozi (author) / Mafukuzela, Cebisa (author)
World Congress of Architects ; 2023 ; Copenhagen, Denmark
2023-09-03
18 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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