Coastal Architectures of False Bay: Relational Inquiries into Repair is a collaborative research and teaching initiative within the Repairative Architectures platform at the University of Cape Town. It approaches False Bay as a web of relationships between people, water, land, infrastructure, and livelihood, and asks how repair is understood, practised, and contested along South Africa’s coast.
Treating repair as relational work, the project builds sustained, reciprocal engagements with residents, organisations, and practitioners who already care for and depend on the coast. It does not assume repair is always possible or neutral; instead it asks what repair means in different contexts, who it serves, and what architectural practices might emerge from paying attention over time.
False Bay is read as an interconnected and uneven territory, held together by ecological flows and social histories, including dispossession, and strained by climate instability, inequality, and competing claims to use. Repair here is less about fixing things than tending to these relationships.
