Produced for Adengo Architecture
Unit15x University Of Johannesburg And Makerere Students
A team of students from the University of Johannesburg travelled to Kampala, Uganda to explore the urban wetlands where the delicate balance between nature and human settlements is most poignant. Unit 15(x) derived its motivation from the cultural belief that the wetlands of Kampala where once seen as a scared place of replenishment and renewal by the Baganda, before being devalued as ‘waste lands’ by the British colonial rulers. Wetlands serve a natural purpose of controlling floods, biodiversity conservation and removal of pollutants by filtering runoff water as it heads towards the Lake Victoria. However wetlands are under threat due to urban expansion and unregulated activates as they are currently viewed as the last place to build. The current Ugandan government realizes the importance of conserving and protecting wetlands with a vision that favours exploring sustainable benefits of wetlands for the people of Uganda. This Short Documentary highlights there stay, sessions and brief outline of students initial thoughts and responses to the sites they worked on. This video showcases what was documented in a period of 6days and cut together to best tell a story of how Students from two universities, merged, learnt and explored Kampala.
- Immersive/Spatial Video Capture