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From Froebel and the constructivists's early educational theories to more recent posthumanist thinking, early childhood development (ECD) has been understood to be optimal when it occurs at the level of senses and bodies. 'Integration' discourses prevalent in ECD educational policy and curriculum debates have pointed towards sensing bodies in space. But efforts to bring sensing bodies and space to the centre of ECD practice has remained incomplete. With research-creation's more open lens, we use the project upon which this article is based to gesture towards how curricula might be spacialised with sensing bodies in mind. We do this by designing, constructing, and studying a prototype ECD learning environment in South Africa at the level of material objects and spaces with curricular and policy imperatives imbricated into the building structure itself.

This article considers affect in historical and contemporary architectural practice. This takes shape through a consideration of a 2012–2015 historic preservation project involving one of the famed rock-hewn churches in Lalibela, Ethiopia, which sits in a complex of churches designated a world heritage site by UNESCO in 1978. Using theory, interviews, and speculative and projective diffractive drawings, we suggest how envisaging the affective unsettles "normal" architectural practice. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As the United States (US) financial sector experienced 'meltdown' in 2008, a different but not unrelated 'meltdown' continued its decades-long impact on art and design education in the US. Seemingly [...]

The bounds of permissible hate in post-apartheid broadcasting in South Africa are formed by the state's withdrawal from certain regulatory processes, and the emerging regulation by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA). The BCCSA, founded, funded and operated by South Africa's broadcasting industry, filled the void by governing post-apartheid hate and it has also sought to govern the racial constructs upon which hate depends.

Migration professionals characterized the 2008 exodus of Zimbabweans into South Africa as a 'massive refugee situation' (MRS). In response, and at the request of senior cabinet officials in the central government, South African state architects developed plans for a 'model' camp along the Mozambique-South Africa border in the event of another MRS. We use the article to understand implications of the 'model' on the proposed site. This requires playing with notions of the border. Play, here, occurs in a context where Mozambique is parsed from South Africa and where much of the South African side encompasses Kruger National Park. Using transdisciplinary speculative design, the article's proposed intervention is a design intervention. Specifically, without naïvete, we gesture towards a return to a decolonized site more proximate to a spacetime without mobile matter monitored with devices, before electrified fences shocked the mobile into an organic order, and when matter across difference could go undetected because it was too wicked, too microscopic, or too subaltern while airborne, surface, subterranean, or interstitial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article is used to assert that tort is not necessarily the least problematic space for people of color to right racist wrongs. While race and tort scholars have problematized tort by looking at tort outcomes, tort concepts, and cognition-motivation, tort scholars have not considered how tort (as) structure constructs race in ways that are static and ultimately reiterate the constructs of modern racism. As presented in the article, more fluid racial constructs in a regulatory state practice like tort enable such a practice to change with a postindustrial United States where identities and supremacist forms like racism and sexism are in flux. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]