Hendricks, Denver

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Denver Hendricks is a lecturer at the Department of Architecture and the founder of the fabrication lab at the Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture, at the University of Johannesburg. He is also the previous head of department for Architecture. He completed studies in architectural technology at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), before going on to complete his BArch at UCT. He served on the voluntary bodies like SABTACO, Gauteng GIFA. He has 20 years of practice experience in private and public projects. He was a director multiple firms.

His work is noteworthy and reflective because critically publishes both public and conference papers of his work as a mode of practice. He presented a TED Talk on an energy efficiency home and was invited to talk at tertiary intuitions in Leicester, New York, Pescara, and Port Elizabeth about his work.

His academic themes are in community design, socio-economic effects of apartheid spatial planning, design, education, decolonisation technology and curriculum development. He is currently writing a proposal for his PHD on Emerging Technology in Architectural Education.

Denver Hendricks

Developing an educational strategy for emerging technology in design: A case study of the FabLab at FADA, UJ

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Design Education Strategy

Emerging technology is developing at an exponential rate and has a direct impact on design education. This boom in innovation has been dubbed the fourth industrial revolution (4IR). This economic initiative was framed at the 2015 World Economic Forum by Klaus Schwab and has been echoed since 2016 by South African politicians as a government and education policy transformation catalyst to South Africa’s struggling economy. Academic scholars are critical about these objectives against the face of high unemployment, poor education and developing foundational skills in South Africa. Educators are confronted with very little support to address this technological development, often leaving design educators with scepticism.

DEFSA conferences

DEFSA promotes relevant research with the focus on design + education through its biennial conferences, to promote professionalism, accountability and ethics in the education of young designers. Our next conference is a hybrid event. See above for details.

Critical skills endorsement

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