This project stems out of the need to improve the quality of life for both animals and humans, and facilitate the interaction between both environments into one habitat. The design will serve as a framework for the co-habitation and interaction of humans and animals in one habitat. At the core of this dissertation lies the concept of an animan habitat. This term embodies the concept of an intergrated habitat for all species. In arriving at the final design, a sequential thought process was applied. The logic behind this process will now be outlined (each corresponding section will be addressed in this document). Exploring the diversity of Architectural habitats and products has made it evident that involving Architects and Interior Architects into projects concerning animal space design can benefit wild animals and humans alike. Research into South African recreational nature spaces show the importance of the conservation of these existing spaces to different parties on local, national and international levels. The investigation of the importance of experiential nature spaces in Tshwane and the Tshwane CBDs (section 2.2.2) shows the importance and location of an establishment (the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa) with great human experiential, and animal conservation opportunities. The study of the contributions of global zoos to the world (section 2.3) confirms that any designs need to consider the principles and ethics followed by these zoos-conservation, recreation, education, experience, research, and community values. Behavioural enrichment (section 2.4) as a conservation contribution of zoos is an aspect that can be reinterpreted and incorporated into animal enclosures to enrich their environments, and further educate visitors. Studies about zoo evolutions (section 2.5) through the ages show how thoughts about captive environments are evolving. The subsequent study of exhibit design (section 2.6) makes clear the importance of considering the needs of the environment, animals, zoo occupants and visitors alike. Furthermore, research into design styles and illusions (section2.6) prove that designs (using whichever approach) should consider the wellbeing of animals before educating or entertaining humans. Design illusions could instead be used to change mans’ negative perceptions about zoos and other conserving environments. A study into design elements and principles (as studied by Ching and Miller) are currently used at the Zoo (section 2.7) to claim human and animal spaces. A variety of precedent investigations (section 3) make it clear that other institutions, zoos, reserves, bird parks, discovery centres, playgrounds, and an amphitheater, individuals (the work of Frei Otto) or companies (lightweight structure experts) offer products and techniques that could well suit animan space design. The result of the above is the cohabitation and respect for humans, animal and the environment in a bidirectional habitat. This forms the core of the animan concept and approach for the design of the Parrot Animan Precinct at the National Zoological Gardens of South Africa (Zoo). This development is a turnkey solution comprising of Site Selection and Study (section 4); Design Discourse (section 5); Technical Investigation (section 6) and Design Drawings (section 7). / Dissertation (MInt(Prof))--University of Pretoria, 2006. / Architecture / unrestricted

Listen. If I ask you to listen, what is it that I ask of you—that you will understand, or perhaps obey? Or is it some sort of readiness that is requested? What occurs with a body in the act of listening? How do sound and voice structure audio-visual-spatial relations in concrete situations? This doctoral thesis in fine arts consists of six artworks and an essay that documents the research process, or rather, acts as a travelogue as it stages and narrates a series of journeys into a predominantly sonic ecology. One entry into this field is offered by the animal “voice” and attempts to teach animals to speak human language. The first journey concerns a specific case where humanoid sounds were found to emanate from an unlikely source—the blowhole of a dolphin. Another point of entry is offered by the acousmatic voice, a voice split from its body, and more specifically, my encounter with the disembodied voice of Steve Buscemi in a prison in Philadelphia. This listening experience triggered a fascination with, and an inquiry into, the voices that exist alongside us, the parasitic relation that audio technology makes possible, and the way an accompanying voice changes one’s perceptions and even one’s behavior. In the case of both the animal and the acousmatic, the seemingly trivial act of attending to a voice quickly opens up a complex space of embodied entanglements with the potential to challenge much of what we take for granted. At the heart of my inquiry is a series of artworks made between 2012 and 2016, which constitute a third journey: the performance Limit-Cruisers (#1 Sphere), the praxis session Limit-Cruisers (#2 Crowd), the installations Therapy in Junkspace, Fluorescent You, and “Then, ere the bark above their shoulders grew,” and the lecture performance Articulations from the Orifice (The Dry and the Wet). The relationship between what is seen and heard is being explored and renegotiated in the arts and beyond. We are increasingly addressed by prerecorded and synthetic voices in both public and private spaces. Simultaneously, our notions of human communication are challenged and complicated by recent research in animal communication. My work attempts to address the shifts and complexities embodied in these developments. The three journeys are deeply entwined with theoretical inquiries into human-animal relationships, technology, and the philosophy of sound. In the essay, I consider as well how other artistic practices are exploring this same complex space. What I put forward is a materialist and concrete approach to listening understood as a situated practice. Listening is both a form of co-habitation and an ecology. In and through listening, I claim, one could be said to perform in concert with the things heard while at the same time being changed by them. / <p>Avhandlingen är även utgiven i serien: Malmö Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts, Lund University: DoctoralStudies and Research in Fine and Performing Arts, 16. ISSN: 1653-8617</p>

This article put the focus in a very new field of research, that of the Hispanic-Moroccan Literature and Culture, which is interpreted as a special, complex and highly interesting case for Nomadic Places of Cultures and Literatures in the frame of ‘Performative-Hybrid Diaspora’. In the first part offers the article an extensive bibliography of novels, essay and literary and cultural criticism; the second part is exposing the theory of ‘performative-hybrid Diaspora’; and in the last part focuses on some the works of El Hachmi. The article provides “foundational concepts” and introduces new concept of integration, identity and co-habitation, understood as new, ‘performative-hybrid diaspora’ and ‘performative-hybrid identities,’ based on ‘situational disposi-tive’ such as ‘situational imperatives.’ It describes and explains a practice of hospitality and belonging in which the concept ‘emotion’ is at the center of his socio-political endeavors, exemplified by a novel and an essay by the Catalan author, El Hachmi, who originates from Morocco. The analysis leads to the concept of ‘Hispano-Maghreb/Moroccan’ literature and culture, and following an introduction to the current primary research body and studies in this area, he introduces a set of criteria for the scholarly treatment of this new field of research. / Dieser Artikel legt den Fokus auf ein sehr neues Forschungsgebiet, nämlich auf die der spanisch-marokkanischen-Literatur und Kultur, die als einen speziellen, komplexen und hochinteressanten Fall für nomadische Orte von Kulturen und Literaturen im Rahmen der ‚performativ-hybriden Diaspora‘ interpretiert wird. Im ersten Teil bietet der Artikel eine umfangreiche Bibliographie von Romanen, Essays und Literatur- und Kulturkritiken; im zweiten Teil wird die Theorie der ‚performativ-hybriden Diaspora‘ dargelegt; und im letzten Teil konzentriert sich der Artikel auf einige Werke von El Hachmi. Der Beitrag liefert ‚prinzipielle Konzepte‘ und führt ein neues Konzept von Integration, Identität und Zusammenleben ein, das als neue ‚performativ-hybride Diaspora‘ und ‚performativ-hybride Identitäten‘ verstanden wird und auf ‚situativen Dispositiven‘ wie ‚situativen Imperativen‘ basiert. Es wird eine Praxis der Gastfreundschaft und Zugehörigkeit beschrieben und erläutert, in denen das Konzept ‚Emotion‘ im Mittelpunkt soziopolitischer Bemühungen steht, exemplifiziert durch einen Roman und ein Essay der aus Marokko stammenden katalanischen Autorin, El Hachmi. Die Analyse führt zum Begriff der ‚hispano-maghrebinischen/marokkanischen‘ Literatur und Kultur, und nach einer Einführung in die aktuelle Primärforschung und die Studien in diesem Bereich wird eine Reihe von Kriterien für die wissenschaftliche Behandlung dieses neuen Forschungsgebiets vorgestellt. / Este artículo pone el foco en un campo de investigación muy nuevo, aquél de la literatura y la cultura hispano-marroquí, que se interpreta como un caso especial, complejo y de gran interés para los lugares nómadas de las culturas y las literaturas en el marco de las ‘diásporas-performativas-híbridas’. En la primera parte, el artículo ofrece una amplia bibliografía de novelas, ensayos y crítica literaria y cultural; en la segunda parte se expone la teoría de las ‘diásporas-performativas-híbridas’; y en la última parte se centra en algunas de las obras de El Hachmi. El artículo proporciona ‘conceptos fundacionales’ e introduce un nuevo concepto de integración, identidad y convivencia, entendidos como una nueva ‘diáspora performativa-híbrida’ e ‘identidades performativas-híbridas’, basadas en ‘dispositivos situacionales’ como ‘imperativos situacionales’. Describe y explica una práctica de hospitalidad y pertenencia en la que el concepto ‘emoción’ está en el centro de sus esfuerzos socio-políticos, exemplificados por una novela y un ensayo de la autora catalana, El Hachmi, originaria de Marruecos. El análisis desemboca en el concepto de literatura y cultura ‘hispano-magrebí/marroquí’ y, tras una introducción al conjunto de investi-gaciones y estudios primarios actuales en este ámbito, se introduce un conjunto de criterios para el tratamiento académico de este nuevo campo de investigación.