This seminar aims to explore how socially-constructed notions of space, time, and the city inform contemporary urban design and creative practice in South Africa. By exploring a rich collection of cultural artifacts spanning architecture, archaeology, film, photography, and visual art, students will learn what South African material and visual culture teaches us about past, present, and future African stories. Readings in postcolonial and decolonial theory will be used to challenge concepts of how space and time have been theorized in major disciplines throughout the social sciences and humanities. The physicist concept of “spacetime” will serve as a conceptual starting point to explore how South Africa’s colonial and apartheid legacies have been visually and materially inscribed into South Africa’s built environment. Students are encouraged to explore African-centered concepts of spacetime that practically decolonize and rehabilitate marginalized histories for the country's diverse communities of color.