The Westbury Park was designed by IYER Urban Design Studio in association with Local Studio Architecture and Urban Design. The brief for this mural encouraged the inclusion of the community of Westbury in the process of the creation of the mural. As such, I decided to engage members of the Westbury Youth Centre in the design process leading up to the implementation of the mural, in which they also played a significant part. I understood that the idea of physical and historical boundaries in the context of Westbury was important. The design strategy was to harness the site analysis skills of the members of the Westbury Youth Centre. In a guided process, the members ventured into the suburb of Westbury with cameras and the brief to document their understanding of and insight into the idea of ‘boundary’ with respect to Westbury past and present. The physical boundaries between Westbury and Sophiatown, Westbury and Newclare and Westbury and Coronationville were all included in the documentation. I then took the photographic information and used it to generate a collaged geometric which would pay homage to both the composition and narrative of the photographs taken by the Westbury Youth Centre members. Seeing the park as a physical microcosm of Westbury, the collaged geometries were painted onto the walls which refer spatially to the actual boundaries which the collage depicts. In this way, an image derived from contextual analysis refers in turn to context.
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