Tiisetso Mofokeng

Research Interests

• Gender Urbanism
• Public Spaces & Interior Urbanism
• Exploring interior spaces as an abstraction of the city

Brief Bio

I studied Architecture at the Tshwane University of Technology and City and Regional Planning at the University of Cape Town. My masters research focused on an investigation into the safety of public spaces from a gender-sensitive perspective. I am particularly interested in women empowerment and I use both architecture and urban planning to help bridge the gap of gender inequality and promote safety in cities through placemaking, spatial planning and design especially those of public spaces.

I am also interested in spatial design education where I again use my skills obtained from architecture and urban planning to explore interior spaces as an abstraction of the city, adding new knowledge and probing new ways of thinking within the educational space of spatial design and the built environment addressing city-scale issues through the lens of urban interiors and contributing to the remodeling and reimagining concepts of the spatial design curricular.

I am a former committee member of the Young Urbanists South Africa, former student member of the Royal Town Planning Institute (UK), former member of the Young Professional Forum of the Gauteng Institute for Architecture, instructor at the Architecture is Free Foundation, contributor to the Interior Editorial and Make Space For Girls blogging, committee member of Girls Make the City (GMTC), researcher for the Public Space Global (PSG) forum, a spatial design full-time lecturer within the interior design department at Vega School Cape Town, have facilitated and guest lectured urban planning techniques and studio tutored local area planning (honours) at the University of Cape Town and lastly I am the founder of a knowledge storehouse named THE HUE.