Street names carry stories with them. What they tell us about Gauteng in South Africa

As a design researcher working in urban graphic heritage, I explore how everyday graphic objects communicate in public spaces. I have started to think of the city as a kind of living, dispersed archive. It is not an archive that replaces formal institutions, but one that exists alongside them.

In a recent mapping project that I led for…

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