This chapter will focus on the built environment dynamics of spatial design practitioners and the related discipline’s involvement in addressing spatial inequality. It draws from a series of recorded conversations between three South African socio-technical spatial design practitioners during the 2020 Covid19 Lockdown. These conversations were titled ‘Gripe Sessions’ and were held every 2 weeks between three socio-technical practitioners as a means of support, reflection, and knowledge sharing through a peer-led ‘venting’ model. The co-author’s intent lies in making tangible a series of interpersonal dynamics that are present within working from the grass-roots neighbourhood scale of socially engaged built environment work in the contemporary neo-apartheid city condition. The chapter draws from Feminist scholarly principles on concepts of positionality and offers an additional ‘partial perspective’ to this topic, in doing so it does not offer to empirical findings, rather it uses qualitive social studies technique to introduce and ground the concerns identified by the co-authors to the larger discourse around city-making practice towards spatial justice in South Africa’s built environment.
