Apartheid Heritages: A Spatial History of South Africa's Townships

Apartheid Heritages: A Spatial History of South Africa’s Township’s website is part of a larger analogue and digital book project currently under development by Dr. Angel David Nieves. This “book” is in the very early phases of discussion and development with a university press.

The building of a multi-modal information environment to discuss Soweto’s past, present, and future redevelopment is part of a new series of cultural practices of remembrance, reconciliation, and empowerment, with a view towards an integrative approach to social justice and the practice of digital humanities scholarship. As it stands today, “virtual heritage” projects require multidisciplinary teams of historians, writers, designers, software developers, cultural heritage managers, and local community informants who would collaborate in the design, development and management of an immersive 3D virtual heritage landscape. In particular, Nieves’s projects would not be possible without a team of scholars, practitioners, and student researchers from Hamilton’s Digital Humanities Initiative (DHi).