Caron von Zeil is the new project leader for Reclaim Camissa. She calls herself “just a mother – a mother for this mother (of a) city”.
She is a holistic system thinker, open, receptive and a believer in what she calls “due process”. Caron is a Architectural and Environmental Masters graduate from the University of Cape Town (2004).
Caron, a mother of two, joined the partnership at the beginning of September. Most of the work for this project was started when she was working on her Masters degree in Environmental Planning and Landscape Architecure in 2004.
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Hello Caron,
Wonderful to hear of your exciting project, and I love the photo!
Come to London to pass on some of the new ideas. I am sure our mayor Boris Johnson would welcome you.
Hi Caron,
Please get in touch – the faith communities would love to get on board with this project. They had already had some ideas of their own before Reclaim Camissa began. The ‘mythos’ of the spring has prfound significance for all of us.
Fr John Oliver WCRLF
Hi Caron.
Just wondering if there is a link between Reclaim Camissa and Leeuwenhof, the official premiers residence? This used to be the “vergetable gardens” for Cape Town and there is still lots of water in the area. How do these link up?
Grace
Hi Caron. I was immediately captivated by this article. I have always been fascinated by the story of the waters of Table Mountain. I would love to get to know more and see some more pics. Is there anyway I can get in touch.
Regards. Richard Street, Glencairn
Thank you, Tony. Yes, Reclaim Camissa provides solutions in creating an appropriate public landscape through the restitution of the city’s ecological link between the mountain and the sea, by acting as an integrating connector for a series of urban landscape interventions that would re-unite the ocean and the mountain. Water is the key element in providing the city with access to the sea and bringing water back into the city, thus providing not only a fundamental basis for ecological sustainability and bio-diversity, but a framework for urban renewal through a restructuring of the city according to environmental principles. As such it will provide platforms for public environmental education in an interactive way, and establish integrated and flexible urban development around the natural resource of water thus enabling us to rise to meet the future environmental resource challenges; through creative and vital resource management, urban spatial planning interventions and addressing social and cultural issues around water. Simultaneously – the wonderful opportunity to provide quantum level scale solutions and new modalities for global application by functioning as a ‘laboratory’ for your thesis QxF=Y, whereby water is a flux value, derived through re-use in the myriad of creative ways that Reclaim Camissa proposes.