1to1 – Agency of Engagement

Supporting the positive change in how our South African cities are seen, made and managed.

Auret Street Recyclers

1to1 was invited by Counterspace to assist in the socio-technical research for the upgrading of a
an occupied building in the Maboneng Precinct.


The project co-produced a strategy to ‘evict’ the occupants into their own building by building clipon infrastructure to support the long term moving of resident into the adjacent building (as it was earmarked as a social housing project by the City of Joburg).


The project was stopped when the developers evicted the residents with a financial offer to leave. To date the building is still unoccupied and has been art washed in the interim.