Movie scripts are hardly the first thing that comes to mind when one thinks about studying architecture.

However, the two married together well in an exciting Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) this week.

CPUT offers a number of ECPs where students can enrol for an introductory course and gain easier access to the programme the following year.

On Wednesday 32 Architecture students visited the Castle in Cape Town and, after exploring the open courtyard and buildings, were given scripts from popular movies like The Matrix, American Beauty, Moulin Rouge and Vampire Diaries and asked to find appropriate settings for a scene of their choice.

The excited students, many of whom have never visited the Castle before, relished the task and quickly spread out across the grounds looking for unique settings.

Architecture Lecturer Heidi Boise has been teaching the ECP for five years and says it is a vital step for students who often come from disadvantaged backgrounds.

“Before you can design spaces you need to experience buildings,” she explains.

“You need to see space making in action, for example how floors, walls and roofs get put together.”

The students have already visited the Artscape and Green Point Urban Park so far and Boise says they have many more exciting visits planned including one to Grabouw soon.

Senior Architecture Lecturer Jolanda de Villiers Morkel says this is the first year the Extended Curriculum Programme is being run from CPUT’s Thomas Patulo Building.

This is a joint programme of the departments of architectural technology and interior design.

By LAUREN KANSLEY

Written by CPUT News
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The Faculty of Informatics and Design celebrated the success of their Master’s and Doctoral graduates during a robing ceremony on graduation day.

Four Master’s graduates and three Doctoral graduates were honoured during the event where they and their supervisors shared the journey they undertook to graduation day.

Loved ones were given the opportunity to symbolically robe the graduate.

The Information Technology Department’s Prof Johannes Cronjé, said the event also gave the graduates the opportunity to thank their loved ones who supported them during their studies.

Dean of the Faculty of Informatics and Design, Prof Tembisa Ngqondi, encouraged the graduates to continue on the journey of lifelong learning.

The three doctoral graduates were:

Jolanda De Villiers Morkel (Doctor Technologiae: Design), who was supervised by Cronjé. Her study is titled: An Exploration of the student-tutor interaction in the live online architectural design critique.

Emmanuel Udekwe (Doctor of Philosophy: Informatics), who was supervised by Prof Chux Gervase Iwu, Adjunct Prof Andrè Charles de la Harpe and Prof Justine Olawande Daramola. His study is titled: Effective utilisation of human resource information systems in the South African health sector

Ernest Etim (Doctor of Philosophy: Informatics), who was also supervised by Daramola. His study is titled: e-Readiness of the South African informal sector for electronic portal technology support.

Written by Ilse Fredericks
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