ENGINEERING FOR PEOPLE DESIGN CHALLENGE DESIGN BRIEF 2019/20 MAKERS VALLEY SOUTH AFRICA Produced by a partnership of Engineers Without Borders South Africa, UK and USA Engineering for People Design Challenge: Design Brief 2019/20 Page 1 CONTENTS Welcome Page 1 About the Engineering for People Design Challenge Page 2 Welcome to Makers Valley Page 3 Johannesburg: Overview and history Page 6 The Challenge Areas • Overview Page 8 • Built Environment Page 10 • Water Page 13 • Sanitation Page 16 • Energy Page 19 • Waste Page 22 • Housing Page 25 • Transport Page 28 • Digital Page 31 Case Studies • Overview Page 34 • Community Street Gardens Page 35 • East Jozi and Sneakers4Change Page 36 • Impi Brewery Page 37 • Livingstone Creche Page 38 • Luella Page 39 • Primal Spirits Distillery Page 40 • Richard Page 41 • Skills Village Page 42 • Smelt Page 43 • Sobae Page 44 • Umphakathi Development and Training Centre Page 45 • Victoria Yards Page 46 • Water for the Future Page 47 Guidance on getting started Page 48 www.engineering-for-people.org This initiative has been delivered in the UK and Ireland for eight years. It is based on a concept developed originally by Engineers Without Borders Australia. This document has been produced by Engineers Without Borders South Africa, UK and USA. August 2019. The content has been created in partnership with Makers Valley. To learn more or support the ongoing efforts of Makers Valle.y, please visit their site. Disclaimer: Makers Valley Partnership is a third-party organisation and Engineers Without Borders is not responsible for ensuring content on this site. This document is licensed under Creative Commons license CC-BY-SA 4.0. Should you wish to reuse it for commercial purposes we recommend you consider making a donation towards the non-profits involved in its production, in particular Makers Valley who support the community that feature in this design brief. To find out more: • Engineers Without Borders South Africa: ewbsa.org • Engineers Without Borders UK: www.ewb-uk.org • Engineers Without Borders USA: www.ewb-usa.org • Makers Valley: www.facebook.com/makersvalley.joburg/ Engineering for People Design Challenge: Design Brief 2019/20 Page 2 ENGINEERING FOR PEOPLE DESIGN CHALLENGE WELCOME Both on a global and local scale, we are facing challenges that require urgent action. Engineering plays a key role in everyday life and our response to address the future challenges. Participating in the Engineering for People Design Challenge is the beginning of your journey to prepare you to invest your skills and talent to benefit all people and our planet. You have an opportunity to join thousands of university students from across the world taking part in this ‘Engineers Without Borders’ initiative. This year, students in South Africa, the UK, Ireland and the USA are participating in the Engineering for People Design Challenge. Over 35,000 students have participated over the last eight years with a different design brief each year. This year we have the most students participating to date. This is more than a theoretical exercise. In this document, the challenges described are real issues in ‘Makers Valley’, an area of Johannesburg, South Africa. The opportunities for improvement are identified by those people who live there. They have offered their perspectives to help form this design brief and to enhance your educational experience and to share challenges faced in day to day life. This is not about doing what you are told or finding a ‘right’ answer. This is about ensuring you are designing for people to improve livelihoods. You’ll have the freedom to lead the direction of your project. There is plenty of guidance and resources available (in addition to this document) to help you achieve this, including: • An online portal (with videos, photographs, a forum and lots more information) available at www.engineering-for-people.org • Other online information about local businesses (their websites, news articles or social media sites) Engineering for People Design Challenge: Design Brief 2019/20 Page 1 ENGINEERING FOR PEOPLE DESIGN CHALLENGE ABOUT Within this design brief you’ll find information about Makers Valley, the city of Johannesburg, each of our eight challenge areas as well as case studies of the local people and businesses. Finally, there is some guidance on the design process to get you started. Find out more at www.engineering-for-people.org. Built Water Sanitation Energy Waste Housing Transport Digital Environment The design brief is written so you may focus on one challenge area e.g. Water or Digital, or have a solution that addresses multiple. You are not trying to tackle everything within all the challenge areas, you are in charge of defining the problem that you aim to solve and deciding how broad or how focused to make it. The Engineering for People Design Challenge is about understanding the context and adopting a reasoned approach to end up with an appropriate idea. Just as in real life, there is no predetermined ‘right’ answer and there is likely to be multiple possible solutions. THE COMPETITION By participating in this programme you’ll also be eligible to enter into a competition where we’ll be looking for the teams who have best understood the social, environmental and economic factors present in Makers Valley and can clearly demonstrate the application of this understanding into their engineering design. Participate Review & 7,000+ students Feedback participate across Top five teams 37 universities in from each South Africa, the university receives UK, the USA and feedback from Ireland. professional engineers Grand Final Entry Universities select their top five teams for entry into the Grand Final Grand Finals The highest ranking teams (including a minimum of one per university) showcase their design ideas and compete at the Grand Finals Engineering for People Design Challenge: Design Brief 2019/20 Page 2 MAKERS VALLEY Makers Valley is both an informal name of a neighbourhood in Johannesburg and the name of a set of partnerships represented by a steering committee. It is the location of this year’s Engineering for People Design Challenge. THE AREA Makers Valley is the unofficial name referring to an area creatives, and small scale crafts and producers building very close to the inner city of Johannesburg, including on the embedded culture of making. New developments parts of New Doornfontein, Bertrams, Lorentzville, such as Victoria Yards are building on this by bringing Judith’s Paarl, Bez Valley and Troyeville. investment into the area. In the western part of Makers Valley are mainly light Almost 50% of the residents of Makers Valley are from industrial units and in the north small commercial units other African countries including Senegal, Mozambique, and residential area. Makers Valley is reasonably central Nigeria, Malawi, Zimbabwe and the Democratic Republic within a 15 minute drive or 30 minute by bus ride (traffic of Congo and some believe this diverse demographic dependent) to the central business district. contributes significantly to the entrepreneurial spirit of the area. The name Makers Valley is derived from the fact that making (of various types) has been a part of this area’s Makers Valley has been described in a news article as; key activities for many decades. In more recent times, “in Joburg’s eastern suburbs, developers, residents and making has begun to grow strongly in the area once craftspeople are forging a new sense of neighbourliness again. and trying to do business in ways that do not exclude or marginalise people.” [1] This whole area has long been home to industrial businesses and manufacturers such as car panel beaters Watch this video that introduces Makers Valley, the place and furniture makers. In recent times, the name Makers and the partnerships. [2] Valley has been used to describe the area due to the emergence of a new generation of ‘makers’ in the [1] www.newframe.com/a-valley-grows-hope-against- area, broader in scope than the traditional industrial urban-decay/ manufacturers to now include artisans, gardeners, [2] vimeo.com/274591974 Imagery ©2019 Google. Imagery ©2019 CNES/Airbus, Maxar Technologies. Map data ©2019 AfriGIS (Pty) Ltd, Google. Engineering for People Design Challenge: Design Brief 2019/20 Page 3 THE PARTNERSHIPS • Held youth expositions within the community to bring together opportunities for young people and As well as being the name of the neighbourhood, Makers entrepreneurs Valley [1] also refers to a set of partnerships represented • Hosting a makers Market, held on the first Sunday of by a neighbourhood steering committee. The Makers every month from 10am till late. Valley committee aims to co-create a well-being economy based around making and ensuring opportunities exist In particular, the market helps build partnerships for all residents and people who travel to the area for between residents, various local makers and maker work or to visit. They aim to create a clean and safe, spaces in the area. The focus and unique nature of the productive and inclusive inner city so that everyone makers Market is co-creation and advocacy for volunteers benefits from the emerging success of the area and local to participate in the various making activities on the residents are not priced out. day. Visitors can expect to participate in workshops, networking, live product launches and performances, Organisations in the neighbourhood, such as Makers exhibitions and tours to other Maker Hubs in the area. Valley Partnership, Skills Village [2] and Victoria Yards [3] have begun to drive collaboration within Makers Valley Delivering positive urban renewal brings its own with the support and guidance of the Makers Valley challenges, as residents are vulnerable to gentrification steering committee. The Coloured Cube [4], a local and escalating property prices. Part of Makers Valley’s business, connects Makers Valley to other ‘makerspaces’ work includes having local makers work to build and within the Johannesburg area.