ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on an attempt to respond to the call for critical citizenship through a series of experiential and experimental projects implemented with Extended Curriculum Programme (ECP) Architectural Technology and Interior Design students in the first semester of the 2017 academic year. Since the end of apartheid, South African higher education has undergone major transformations. The 2008 Report of the Minis-terial Committee on Transformation and Social Cohesion and the Elimination of Discrimination in Public Higher Education Institutions, called for the production of “enlightened, responsible and constructively critical citizens”. The ECP in the Department of Architectural Technology and Interior Design aims to increase access into the disciplines for students who have recognized potential but whose secondary schooling did not prepare them sufficiently for university. The high school curriculum does not adequately address enduring post-apartheid inequality, lending additional urgency to the need for architecture schools to develop a more critical curriculum.
