Abstract
Over the past two decades, the inner city of Johannesburg (JHB) has reclaimed economic activity and stimulated inner-city renewal through regeneration efforts led by the private sector. These entrepreneurial projects introduced community cantered activities that commenced with small- and medium-scale projects and developed into vibrant creative cultural nodes in JHB. In this study, one of these cultural creative nodes in JHB city centre is the Maboneng Precinct. The study explores how this urban node as a targeted acupuncture point has expanded over time from the original node and beyond its defined boundaries. The study maps and identifies how the growth of the Maboneng Precinct has influenced the immediate and adjacent areas by focusing on the development of retail stores within and beyond the boundaries of the original acupuncture node. The study is conducted through the lens of interior design and focuses on retail interiors as a transformative instrument in the inner-city regeneration process of the Maboneng Precinct. A critical analysis of current literature and appropriate theoretical paradigms such as urban acupuncture, placemaking and interiority are included within this disciplinary research focus...
M.A. (Interior Design)