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Uct Legacy Society UCT LEGACY SOCIETY to discuss all student and worker demands and to keep talking to December 2015 Newsletter everybody until such time as an agreement could be signed about the This has been a challenging year were the headline demands that, way forward on a particular issue made for South African universities. starting with Rhodes? statue at UCT, a huge difference. Thus, apart from # rhodesmustfall; # feesmustfall; students at a widening network of one small scuffle, exams at UCT were # outsourcingmustend. These universities around the country used to written and completed without incident articulate a deeper sense of grievance by the 70% of students who had chosen and anger not only against their to write at the end of 2015. The other universities but also, in the case of fees, 30% are scheduled to write, as agreed, to challenge government with a early in the New Year. vehemence not seen amongst the Beyond that there is a serious journey student generation since the fall of ahead as the various generations (who Apartheid. meet perhaps more directly at university UCT has been one of the epi-centres of than anywhere else in society) continue this upheaval which has placed to grapple with how most effectively to enormous strain on both students and transform a society still so badly staff? wherever they found themselves disfigured by the racially biased in the raging debate about inequality of both power and wealth transformation? but the university?s generated by its colonial and apartheid willingness, led by the Vice Chancellor, history. UCT clearly has an important page 1 Newsletter | December 2015 role to play in facilitating this vital process on the long Silent Spring; the 1970s bumpy road to a just and sustainable society. It needs threat of nuclear all the support? moral, intellectual and financial? that annihilation; followed by it can get. the 1990s and fears of With 2015 speeding to a rapid end I would like to take irreversible climate this opportunity to wish you all a wonderful and change, the Golden Age deserving break over the festive season. of the profession began In the words of T S Eliot: ?For last year's words belong to tarnish. to last year's language. And next year's words await another voice.? However, we are now at Francis Wilson, President UCT Legacy Society a point where engineers and professionals of the built environment have Word From the Dean of EBE the opportunity to be Talent for the 21st Century heroes again, as (however unlikely it Photograph: Michael Hammond To be an engineer before 1950, or any time between seems now) they were in 1750 and 1950, was to be a leader; a participant in a the novels and short Dean of Engineering, Professor Alison Lewis great adventure; a hero of society. Even Walt Whitman stories of the late 1800s. With our wrote: abilities to rise to complex and undefined challenges, ?Singing my days, wicked problems, and the innovation and creativity Singing the great achievements of the present, inherent in the training and the profession, we are ideally Singing the strong light works of engineers.? placed. With 1952 and the exploding of the first H bomb; the This supplement highlights the true awesomeness of the 1960s and the sobering predictions of Rachel Carson's talent and potential held in the Faculty of Engineering & page 2 Newsletter | December 2015 the Built Environment, from our 3 000 undergraduate ingenuity and creativity; a focus on good communication, students to 1 200 postgraduate students (of which 208 and high ethical standards and professionalism, as well are PhD students) spread across six departments; to our as the ability to be lifelong learners. In addition, one of seven SARChI Chairs and two endowed chairs (the Anglo the core aspects of our vision as a faculty is to: "develop Platinum Chair in Mineral Processing and the SANRAL outstanding graduates and scholars ... who contribute to Chair in Transport Engineering). society and address socioeconomic challenges through their work." Our 4 200 students are looked after by 232 academic and 199 PASS staff housed in nine different buildings on As the new Dean, I am very proud to be part of a faculty the Upper Campus. Our faculty hosts 51 NRF-rated that not only has the skills, the abilities and the ambition researchers and 15 URC-accredited research groupings, to tackle the challenging global problems of the 21st including the interdisciplinary signature theme African century, but is also living out its vision. Centre for Cities and the newly accredited UCT-Nedbank To find out more about the Faculty of Engineering & the Urban Real Estate Research Unit. Built Environment, visit www.ebe.uct.ac.za. The common threads in our faculty and its six Alternatively, get in touch directly on 021 650 2699, or departments of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, send an email to [email protected]. the four basic engineering disciplines (Chemical, Civil, Electrical and Mechanical) and Construction Economics Enjoy the read. and Management are their focus on the key attributes of Taken from Monday Paper, Volume 34.07 - 28 September 2015 EBE professionals: strong analytical skills; practical page 3 Newsletter | December 2015 S L In many ways, the names we have completely erasing the Old Fort L for buildings, places and streets Prison and its brutal and A F reflect a particular aspect of our oppressive history, it has been T complex history. So for us, as UCT integrated into the Constitutional I and the country in general, the Court. And what this signals is a P issue ought not be that we just continual dialogue between the replace the names of what are present and the past. & now considered unfashionable or Dr Neville Alexander would have S unheroic people, but [that been very uncomfortable with E renaming forms] part of an I ongoing process to transform the having a building named after him T because it would be contrary to his I institutional culture of the radical politics. So the politics of N university and society. renaming aren?t simply a repetition U This renaming is already under or replacement of what we?re T way at UCT, and indications are trying to change. R that in the wake of recent events Photograph: Michael Hammond on campus, it has gained It?s important that we address O momentum. How we do that is symbols of the past, but with a P part of the current and ongoing different politics of P Dr Maanda Mulaudzi, a UCT historian and commemoration. Leavings things member of the university?s Naming of debate. For some it might simply O as they are is not an option either. mean the replacing of one name : Building?s Committee, shared his views with Monday Monthly about the politics, with another. For others it forms G part of a critical engagement with opportunities and potential pitfalls of names in How does the Naming of Buildings N that history, and recontextualising Committee come to the decision I heritage. it and saying, ?Well, what does of naming a building after a M this mean?? How does renaming a building or place fit particular person? A into our idea of heritage in a I?m persuaded by the model In renaming buildings and spaces, N post-apartheid South Africa? adopted on Constitution Hill in it is tempting to take the easy E Johannesburg; instead of option. We don?t want to simply R page 4 Newsletter | December 2015 R E N do that: just name a building after version, or do we want something ideas. some hero, but if you?re not really more radical? Renaming ought not A thinking about the more important to be an event, but a process by On competing nationalisms, some M argue that renaming is merely issues, [like the] visions that these which we commit to critically engage I people represent, I?m not sure that with their ideas rather than foreclose throwing out someone?s history and N that process will necessarily replacing it with another group?s. G advance transformation. : I suppose it?s possible to think that if the politics of O Is there a risk of deifying a person in naming a building after renaming are not rethought. P them, but not critically engaging For me, it?s a process that P with their ideas? begins to rethink Cecil John O Exactly. That?s the other thing. Rhodes, for example, and R The conventional politics of recontextualise his presence T memorialisation is canonisation. The Constitutional Court, where the old prison was among us now. His history is not U integrated into the space as a way of remembering the Done in this way, though, you just of one group, nor even of N past. Photo by Andre-Pierre from Wikimedia Commons. just one country. His statue was a effectively tame their ideas while I elevating them in some fashion. celebration of imperialism, of his T that process. ?achievements? and of the I Can we live up to their ideas? Can continued dominance of that E we critically engage with their ideas I?m not sure building monuments is legacy. That?s the narrow history of S the best way to do that, either. That and see how they fit our changing some people. & becomes a quick way to domesticate situations? To what extent are we realising their vision? That to me is the radical politics with which they It?s not so much that you are P are associated, but without fully replacing or re- writing other I how you truly live up to somebody?s T embracing them at the same time.
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