Slide 20_ The final presentation

During The last presentation, we went to Denver's community hall at the Men's Hostel, the whole community was there to listen to our ideas and to see our work for the past 7 weeks which was displayed on the walls of the Community Hall. 

Image taken in the Denver Commnity Hall

Slide 19_ The Tool

The tool, a pamphlet that folds up into seven steps, which share our experience in Denver, the lessons we learnt. This goes back to the point of mutual benefits; we wanted the community to learn from our experience and start their own experience of finding information that would lead to an intervention that benefits the whole community. 

The top part of the pamphlet is about our experience in Denver, The bottom part is a space where the community members would right their own experiences in relation to our experience on site. 

 

Slide 18_ CAP

CAP- Community Action Plan

Our Community Action Plan was a tool in the form of a pamphlet that would help the community take the same steps we took during the seven weeks to find an intervention that would benefit the community and present it to the NGO's and Government Officials. 

The "Tool"

Slide 17_ Feedback

With our site model and intervention ideas in hand; we went to speak to our clients about the information we had and ask for their input. This turned out to be very productive and it gave group an idea of where the community was standing with regards to our ideas. 

image showing our site feedback

Slide 16_ Social space

Kholokazi Ngoma (me), Aisha Balde and Kgoa Mashego designed an intervention that address social activity which would then promote a sense of community. We did that by designing an intervention that would enhance the existing social space which we found out is a space where people would meet and socialize around because it had a resource that the whole community needed.

A diagram explaining our intentions

Slide 15_ Identity

The first intervention proposal; was done by Binaica Morar and Rudelle Buzuidenhout. The concept addressed both ownership and identity which are both lacking on our site. As we talked to people on site, we found that they did not view Denver as a home rather a temporary space and that affected how some of the spaces looked because when something is of no importance to you, you do not have the desire to take care of it. 

Color coded stoeps to created a sense of ownership and belonging

The mp on plan

Slide 14_ Identifying sites

We came up with five sites for our four interventions; the interventions were all unique but each of 

them were loyal to the group's overall intentions.