Lessons from place: Architecture as agency for spatial transformation Prof. Yashaen Luckan raises a critical conversation about the potentiality of architectural thinking and making in the evolution of cities, specifically related to resilience and spatial transformation. He refers to his previous works on the Grey Street precinct, in Durban, as a case study to analyse the various pressures – legislative, and socio-spatial – that led to places of incidental urban revitalisation and an anticolonial counter-position facilitated by the built form and architecture. His presentation concludes with a critical discussion on agency and architecture in urban revitalisation and progressive spatial transformation
