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You are invited to attend the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) Information Session at the University of Jo...
29/09/2026

You are invited to attend the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA) Information Session at the University of Johannesburg.

This session is a great opportunity to learn more about our programmes, facilities, and creative community.

Please note that attendance is NOT compulsory and is intended for prospective students and parents who would like additional information about studying at FADA.


Event Details:

📅 Date: Friday, 02 October 2026

🕛 Time: 12:00 to 15:00

📍 Venue: Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (FADA), UJ Bunting Road Campus


Registration Link: https://forms.gle/SM###NCZ61HsQirS7

MULTIVERSE 2047: THE FINAL FORM.A physical multiverse.Separate possibilities, interlocked into architecture. Disparate v...
17/09/2026

MULTIVERSE 2047: THE FINAL FORM.

A physical multiverse.

Separate possibilities, interlocked into architecture. Disparate visions brought into a quiet, physical dialogue; contradictory yet connected, varied yet bound by a single moment in time.

Each piece holds its own identity, while leaning into something much larger than itself.

The future is not a destination waiting to be found. It is a collective form we imagine, shape, and build together.

The Future. Reimagined.

Contributors: 2026 First-Year Degree Architecture Cohort. With assistance from Lecturers Tasmiya Chandlay, Lloyd Bussio and Zubair Meeah.

VISION BY VISION. PIECE BY PIECE.The future was not only imagined. It was built.The individual visions of the 2026 first...
17/09/2026

VISION BY VISION. PIECE BY PIECE.

The future was not only imagined. It was built.

The individual visions of the 2026 first-year degree Architecture cohort were brought together through a modular system of interlocking pieces, allowing students to physically construct a collective form from their many imagined futures.

There is a quiet poetry in the process: future architects imagining the future, then building it together.

Each piece remains its own perspective, but becomes part of something larger.
Individual perspectives become collective structure.

Separate possibilities become architecture.





#2047

Next Monday, our 2nd year Design Studies module welcomes guest lecturer Naadira Patel.We are excited to engage her exper...
17/09/2026

Next Monday, our 2nd year Design Studies module welcomes guest lecturer Naadira Patel.

We are excited to engage her experience in exhibition design, exploring how spatial environments can shape the way we encounter, interpret, and experience objects, ideas, and stories.

Through the lecture, students will be introduced to the thinking and processes behind exhibition-making, from spatial narrative and curation to the design of immersive public experiences.

17/09/2026

MULTIVERSE 2047
Many futures. One beginning.

What does the future look like from the perspective of a first-year Architecture student?

For UJ:2047, the 2026 first-year degree Architecture cohort were invited to look 21 years ahead and imagine the world they might inhabit in 2047.

Each student was given a laser-cut modular piece and an open invitation to imagine. They could respond in any medium or style they chose, literal or abstract, hopeful or uneasy, technological or human.

Each piece became a window into a possible 2047.

Some futures coexist. Others contradict one another. Together, they form a collection of perspectives on what might come.

The Future. Reimagined.


🧡🖤 DOA ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT HOODIE DESIGN COMPETITION 🤍**Calling all DOA students!** ✏️📐Here’s your chance to help de...
31/08/2026

🧡🖤 DOA ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT HOODIE DESIGN COMPETITION 🤍

**Calling all DOA students!** ✏️📐

Here’s your chance to help design the **official Architecture Department hoodie**. Create a design that represents our department, our identity and our architectural creativity.

# # # SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

▪️ Submit **3 different hoodie designs**
▪️ Submit **sketches** — hand-drawn or digital
▪️ Designs should adhere to the **UJ standard colours: Orange, Black & White** *(optional but recommended)*
▪️ All designs must be **original**

📅 **Deadline:** 28 September 2026
👥 **Who can enter:** All DOA students
🏆 **Prize:** Lunch for two at **STH Restaurant**

Your design could become part of the identity of the **Department of Architecture**. 🏗️

**DESIGN. THINK. BUILD.**

👇 Quick Question
Would you by a DOA branded Hoodie?✨️

31/08/2026

INDLELA IBUZWA KWABA PHAMBILI | THE DESIGN DEFENCE

And that’s a wrap on Quarter 3!

Our 2nd Year BArch students concluded their site analysis with the first iteration of The Design Defence, presenting and defending the propositions emerging from their collective readings of Siyabuswa Industrial Park.

The format opened up some wonderful moments of debate and negotiation, including two groups arriving at similar propositions and having to quite literally defend their positions.

A huge thank you to the GSA MArch students from Living Narratives II: The Artifact, The Artifice & The Afterlife and Unit 26 who joined us for Unit 26ning. The alignment between their own research interests and the students’ research lenses made for an incredibly valuable exchange. Thank you for your generous questions, critique and insight, we hope the exchange was just as useful as you move towards concluding your own Master’s projects.

We can’t wait to see where our student take their projects in Quarter 4

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Don‘ miss this fine, and FINAL, opportunity, to be a part of a critical public discussion about the future of the , …...
28/08/2026

Don‘ miss this fine, and FINAL, opportunity, to be a part of a critical public discussion about the future of the , … See you there! Saturday, 29 August, 11 am, KEYES ART MILE. With Alexander Opper and a panel of experts and UJ architecture students. Department of Architecture UJ FADA.

Next Monday, the DOA is delighted to host Lecturer and Miss South Africa Top 19 finalist, Sunshine Dlangamandla, for a b...
21/08/2026

Next Monday, the DOA is delighted to host Lecturer and Miss South Africa Top 19 finalist, Sunshine Dlangamandla, for a brown bag school talk exploring the intersection of research, architecture, education and advocacy.
Sunshine will share how her research into language, culture and space has continued to shape the way she understands education — and how these ideas are now finding new expression through her advocacy platform with Miss South Africa.
At the heart of the conversation is a question that sits deeply within architectural education: How can the knowledge we produce in our classrooms, studios and research spaces travel beyond the university and create meaningful change in the world?

Next Monday, our 2nd year Design Studies module welcomes guest lecturer Njabulo Hlophe. Njabulo Hlophe We are excited to...
13/08/2026

Next Monday, our 2nd year Design Studies module welcomes guest lecturer Njabulo Hlophe. Njabulo Hlophe

We are excited to engage his body of work, which reimagines form through fragmentation, layered perspective, and a dynamic exploration of identity and structure.

Following the lecture, our guest will host a portraiture workshop, offering students the opportunity to translate these ideas into their own drawing and making practice.

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