Caryl is a National Award winning Professor, program director and Head of Architecture, Industrial Design & Planning in the School of Engineering and Built Environment. She holds a PhD in urban planning, a Bachelor of Architecture and a National Diploma in Architecture. Caryl has worked in architectural practices in South Africa, London and Australia and taught in both architectural and planning degree programs. Her research interests focus on public space, tactical urbanism and residential landscapes and in particular master planned communities. Caryl has a special interest in planning for ideas of community, age-friendly cities and placemaking discourses in tourist cities.Specialties: Studio pedagogy