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METZPROJECTS Portfolio 2018 METZPROJECTS EXAMPLES OF WORK Our team specialises in the research, scripting, design, production, packag- ing and promotion of meaningful engagements in the form of interpreta- tion centres, heritage trails, exhibitions, films and interactive audio-visual experiences, and particularly for local and international visitors and tour- ists. We have successfully pioneered an approach and methodology which enables communities, as well as public and corporate entities to leverage their associated institutional memory so as to better advance their social, economic and business imperatives. INTERACTIVE KNOWLEDGE & INTERPRETATION CENTRE AT THE METROPOLITAN CENTRE Braamfontein, Johannesburg May 2017 – April 2018 The City of Johannesburg Brief The City of Johannesburg’s lnnovation and Knowledge Management Unit identified the establishment of an Interactive Knowledge Centre as a key mechanism for widening its reach among internal and exter- nal stakeholders and ensuring effective dissemination of information about what the city is currently doing and what its strategic objectives, priorities and key initiatives are. The brief was to create a technology- based centre to this end to be housed in a purpose-built space in the reception area of the Metropolitan Centre in Braamfontein, which is home to the City’s administration. Execution MONEY WALKS BUT PEOPLE TALK 1991 - 2000 Research, design, curate and install an interactive exhibition on cutting-edge digital displays telling the story of Johannesburg past, present and future. These consisted of the following: • Joburg Past: a touchscreen table with an interactive, illustrated timeline narrating the rich and contested history of Johannesburg. • Joburg Present: an interactive map table profiling key contempo- 10 APRIL 1993 28 MARCH 1994 27 APRIL 1994 1990s rary projects within the City of Joburg using video and text. CHRIS HANI ASSASSINATED SHELL HOUSE EVERYBODY VOTE NOW KWAITO MK veteran and leader of the South African Communist Originally home to the Batswana people who smelted iron With great elation, the country’s first democratic elections As always, there is a South African soundtrack to accom- • Joburg Future: eight interactive thematic kiosks consisting of text, Party (SACP), Chris Hani, is gunned down in the driveway and copper, and occupied areas in the west and south of are held on 27 April. Nelson Mandela becomes the first pany the changes brought about with the release of Man- of his Boksburg home by Janusz Walus, a far-right, what would become the Witwatersrand, the area attracts president of the carefully negotiated Government of dela and the transition to democracy. This is “kwaito”, a anti-communist Polish immigrant. Hani’s death sends the interest of white settlers when gold is discovered here National Unity. sound produced in the townships and made popular in image and city soundscapes casting forward to the future of the shock waves through the country, and violence threatens in 1886. From its almost overnight expansion from a the nightclubs of Johannesburg’s inner city by artists to erupt and destroy any hopes of a negotiated settle- mining camp of 3 000 people a year after the discovery of such as Oskido, Arthur Mofakate, Boom Shaka, Mdu Ma- ment. Nelson Mandela appears on television and suc- gold, to its official recognition as a city in 1928, early silela and later, Mandoza, whose hit "Nkalakatha" Johannesburg using the City of Joburg’s strategic 2040 plan as a cessfully appeals for calm. Johannesburg was a place where people from all over the becomes the first crossover kwaito anthem. country and the world came, hoping to make their for- launching pad. tunes in the City of Gold. • Joburg Life Wall: a lively and epic 6.5-metre-wide video wall show- VIEW casing Johannesburg through the eyes of its residents, using stories VIEW IMAGE VIEW IMAGE VIEW IMAGE VIEW IMAGE gathered on the streets of Johannesburg, and footage curated by five different cinematographers on a quest to depict their Joburg on INTERNATIONAL SOUTH AFRICA HOME 1600 – 1928 1929 – 1948 1948 – 1990 1991 – 2000 2001 – PRESENT FULL TIMELINE this multiscreen display. JOHANNESBURG CULTURE Joburg Past Joburg Present 10 Joburg Future 30px px 30px 30 px A WELL-GOVERNED & TRANSPARENT CITY 30 px The City of Johannesburg is committed to making Johannesburg a pre-eminent, globally connected city – an outstanding place to live, work and play. Achieving this requires an honest, transparent and responsive local government administration dedicated to service excellence, sound financial management and innovative urban planning. The City administration regards residents – the ultimate beneficiaries of our development initiatives – as joint custodi- ans in making Johannesburg a thriving and prosperous city. Strengthening our relationship with residents while building intergovernmental partnerships for effective service delivery 1236 x 700 will enable us to deliver on this mandate. To achieve the support and participation of diverse governmental and non-governmental stakeholders, including the private sector and global partners, demands that we pursue exemplary administrative practices that inspire confidence in the City’s management of all its resources – natural, financial, human and infrastructural. Located at the heart of South Africa’s economy, one of the major economic centres on the African continent, the City of Johannesburg has the potential to benefit the people of South Africa and the continent in the lead-up to 2040 and beyond. Futuristic impression of Johannesburg by artist Name Surname. BACK NEXT + IMAGE DISPLAY & FILM TO COMMEMORATE Execution THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF SOUTH Research, script and produce a 30-minute documentary AFRICA’S DEMOCRATIC CONSTITUTION telling the story of the making of South Africa’s democratic constitution, including: Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, • Filmed interviews with key role-players as well as 1910 – 1990 1910 – 1990 Cape Town SILWA NEZIKHUNGO SILWA NEZIKHUNGO representatives of all political parties in Parliament; ZENGCINDEZELO NOBANDLULULO ZENGCINDEZELO NOBANDLULULO May 2017 – July 2017 • Archival research for relevant film material, images Parliament of the Republic of South Africa and documents; • Brief Editing for presentation in Parliament To produce: Research, script, design, manufacture & install a • A broadcast-quality film to commemorate the 20th permanent & virtual (touchscreen & website) exhibition anniversary of South Africa’s democratic Constitution consisting of: • An exhibition describing the key milestones in the • A timeline, with framing texts and captions, 1902 1910 1914 1948 1952 1955 1956 1961 1973 1983 1985 1986 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 2016 1902 1910 1914 1948 1952 1955 1956 1961 1973 1983 1985 1986 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 2016 making of South Africa’s democratic Constitution describing key historical epochs, people and events in • the making of the Constitution; 31 KUNHLABA 1910 NHLANGULANA 1914 The design of the exhibition, translated into all of INingizimu Afrika iba umbuso ozimele/owodwa Abendulela i-ANC bakhalazela ukungenelela kwamazwe ehlukene I-Union of South Afrika ihlanganisa ama-Colonies of the Cape angawamaBrithani, iNatali, iTransvaal kanye Amanxusa avela ku-South African Native National Congress (emva kwesikhathi aqanjwa kabusha kwaba ne-Orange River, ibafake ngaphansi komthethosisekelo owodwa ozoba mkhulu kunephalamende elikhulu. i-African National Congress) bahamba eNgilandi, beyofuna ukuthi iBrithani ingenelele eMthethweni woMhlaba South Africa’s official languages, for placement on • Ku-Cape Colony endala, ivoti elinomkhawulo lezinhlanga ezihlanganisile (yabase-Afrika namaKhaladi acebile) we-1913. UMthetho uvimbela abalimi abamnyama ukuthi bathenge noma baqashe umhlaba emhlabeni Printing and installation of the exhibition in the ekugcineni azonyamalala/azophela. Okwamanje, iGazette kaHulumeni yokuqala yeNyunyana imemezela ongama-93% eNingizimu Afrika – kodwa iBrithani yangenza lutho ngalokhu kwenza okungenabulungiswa. isikhathi esisha – kodwa sedlanzana labamhlophe. Phakathi nendawo ngumongameli wokuqala we-Congress, uMfu. Hohn Dube. Parliament’s touchscreens Parliament Precinct; © Museum Africa © Drum Social Histories / Baileys African History Archive / Africa Media Online • The design of the exhibition, translated into all of • Translation, design and installation of the exhibition South Africa’s official languages, for placement on on the Parliament touchscreens, as well as website. INDLELA EYA KUMTHETHOSISEKELO WENTANDO YENINGI INDLELA EYA KUMTHETHOSISEKELO WENTANDO YENINGI Parliament’s website 1910–1990 RESISTING COLONIAL & APARTHEID CONSTITUTIONS 1910–1990 RESISTING COLONIAL & APARTHEID CONSTITUTIONS South Africa became a single state in 1910, In 1961, and again in 1983, new Apartheid state eight years after the end of the Anglo-Boer constitutions further eroded the legal status of War. The British colonies of the Cape and the disenfranchised. Offsetting these pseudo- Natal, and the former Afrikaner territories democratic constitutions was an “alternative of the Transvaal and Orange Free State, came constitution” that bypassed the state: the together as the Union of South Africa. The Freedom Charter, adopted in Kliptown on Union’s first constitution came into force 26 June 1955 by the Congress of the People – on 31 May 1910. Both the British and the a vast gathering of progressive democrats from Afrikaners had centuries-old legal codes that across the country. 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