The RETREKS project has aimed at tracking the emerging post-apartheid condition in metropolitan Johannesburg through four social viewpoints - yuppie suburbanites, cowboy calvinists, anglo-tribal aristocrats, and afro-immigrants. The programme has led to many smaller projects, including performance pieces, a pilot newspaper, and the conversion of a nine-storey car park into an 'urban opera'. Rodney Place's presentation focuses on the inner-coty projects of 2000 which culminated in African Bowl in Newtown. This work explores Johannesburg as a site of modernism revisited by Africa, and proposes a cultural and programmatic approach to design and architecture - as an alternative, perhaps, to the political symbolism of the ideologues and the Disneyification of commercial developments. Rodney Place is the founder of ZAR Works, a studio specializing in public sculpture, installation and performance.NB: Audience questions are difficult to hear during Q & A.