contestedspaces's profile picture. Urban Designer. Part Wolf. Maker of safe spaces. TedX. My opinions are my own. 🇿🇦#type3fun

Kirsten Wilkins

@contestedspaces

Urban Designer. Part Wolf. Maker of safe spaces. TedX. My opinions are my own. 🇿🇦#type3fun

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Cape Town development is both cement and lament. Either way, reach out so we can help you navigate this complex ecosystem.

contestedspaces's tweet image. Cape Town development is both cement and lament. Either way, reach out so we can help you navigate this complex ecosystem.

Not everything makes sense. Top down view of existing balconies. Under construction, new apartments..with their balconies looking straight into existing building. 3.8m between them (a street) Yes. What about fire regulations. Not a thing apparently.

contestedspaces's tweet image. Not everything makes sense.

Top down view of existing balconies. Under construction, new apartments..with their balconies looking straight into existing building.
3.8m between them (a street)
Yes. What about fire regulations. 
Not a thing apparently.

Cape Town. Joy lekker ding. •People ran anyway. •OTT event infrastructure was dangerous to everyone, not just runners. •Event organizers should have 24hr monitoring of infrastructure until the event begins. Things can get set down, tied down and deconstructed before collapse.


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All the best to those taking on @CTMarathon Looking forward to seeing •recycled cardboard• taking centre stage! #springcleanCT #motivation #recycle

RIA_recycle's tweet image. All the best to those taking on @CTMarathon 
Looking forward to seeing •recycled cardboard• taking centre stage! 
#springcleanCT #motivation #recycle

What a spectacular facility. Visited the Coastal Park Recycling Facility today with @RIAfrica_KMRF Well done @CityofCT @geordinhl #zerowaste #recycle

contestedspaces's tweet image. What a spectacular facility. 
Visited the Coastal Park Recycling Facility today with @RIAfrica_KMRF 
Well done @CityofCT @geordinhl 
#zerowaste #recycle

Bittersweet not posting to celebrate #WorldCarFreeDay yesterday. I hope for more accessible city. No amount of instagram awareness shares of rides on bike or train actually move the needle. Sorry. It’s transport budgets and contractual conditions. Not sexy. Not transparent.


Another copy paste cycling safety convo on @CapeTalk today. Nothing has changed, and the only accurate gauge is the continuing drop in numbers in cycle tour entries as training becomes untenable for casual riders.


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Kirsten Wilkins from ContestedSpaces writes about empowering CT communities/developers through 'Objection_Able' - an approach born from a study of 135+ Municipal Planning Tribunal cases showing that communities often lack the knowledge to navigate planning laws and submit…

PropertyWheel's tweet image. Kirsten Wilkins from ContestedSpaces writes about empowering CT communities/developers through 'Objection_Able' - an approach born from a study of 135+ Municipal Planning Tribunal cases showing that communities often lack the knowledge to navigate planning laws and submit…

The anger and frustration over tariff increases in CCT is real. Community WhatsApp groups I am on have evolved in the past few days. I haven’t seen this before. Cape Town has been touched on its studio.


When can we expect @CityofCT website to be available again? Problematic outage for anyone wanting to access public participation information.


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Maintaining #sustainability of the social constructs by Kirsten Wilkins, founder of @contestedspaces at #WCPDF2025 #builtenvironment #construction #architecture #propertydevelopment

PropertyWheel's tweet image. Maintaining #sustainability of the social constructs by Kirsten Wilkins, founder of @contestedspaces at #WCPDF2025 #builtenvironment #construction #architecture #propertydevelopment

The process of hand drawing a concept with a sharpened pencil that will directly impact the lives of 50k people. Humble. Focused. #UrbanDevelopment #peoplematter #urbandesign


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Good day everyone. It's been a tough couple of months. Work has dried up and I need help. I am available for photoshoots and open to any offers of admin related work. Send me a message, Call me. Send me an email. I would love to chat and be of service. #Photography

PeterHerring's tweet image. Good day everyone. 
It's been a tough couple of months. Work has dried up and I need help. 
I am available for photoshoots and open to any offers of admin related work. 
Send me a message, Call me. Send me an email. 
I would love to chat and be of service. 

#Photography
PeterHerring's tweet image. Good day everyone. 
It's been a tough couple of months. Work has dried up and I need help. 
I am available for photoshoots and open to any offers of admin related work. 
Send me a message, Call me. Send me an email. 
I would love to chat and be of service. 

#Photography

“It’s unthinkable to expect someone who is not a expert in land use planning to simply navigate the complexities and compliance..” #urbanism #ngos @CommChestWC @sangonet @NdifunaUkwazi @PropertyWheel contestedspaces.co.za/f/by-the-law


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Monet posing with his Water Lilies

allontanarsio's tweet image. Monet posing with his Water Lilies

Is this an advert for @canva Ironically the characters are more to the left. Just saying.

Think ahead!



The one gender that needs policing is men. Educate men so that anyone can go into a bathroom, walk down a street, live in their house and feel safe.

It was Helen Zille who often said “if you’re explaining yourself you’re losing”. Surely not… Helen Zille explaining her tweets that transgender is a contagion worse than Covid. She claims that men pretend to be trans in order to gain access to women’s bathrooms? And that…

brettherron's tweet image. It was Helen Zille who often said “if you’re explaining yourself you’re losing”.

Surely not…

Helen Zille explaining her tweets that transgender is a contagion worse than Covid. 

She claims that men pretend to be trans in order to gain access to women’s bathrooms? And that…
brettherron's tweet image. It was Helen Zille who often said “if you’re explaining yourself you’re losing”.

Surely not…

Helen Zille explaining her tweets that transgender is a contagion worse than Covid. 

She claims that men pretend to be trans in order to gain access to women’s bathrooms? And that…


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The school's zipper crossing


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