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Department Architecture
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Architecture Building
Congress paper (peer-reviewed)
Van der Merwe, D & Auret, H, 2021. Architecture as an art of care in historically marginalized communities: the case of Heidedal, South Africa. In: UIA 2021 RIO, All the worlds. Just one world. Architecture 21. Rio March-July 2021. Washington DC, ACSA press, pp 512-519.
David has been serving as a member of the Free State Provincial Heritage Resources Authority Permit Committee from 2021 to present
David also facilitates the annual architectural Winter School
Service Learning
David was part of the research team who In June 2021, made up of the Earth Unit and the Center for Development Support, conducted three tours to farms in the eastern Free State. Forty-two CONS2600 students (in five groups) visited and participated for three days on different parts of an assignment that included organizations tasks, collection of raw material, measuring up of existing homes stead houses and the preparation of wall surfaces and plaster panel (to form part of a future exhibition).The focus was on a shared experience in which 36 women and six men were asked to teach the art of traditional Basotho litema and marela wall decoration to 42 second-year construction students.