Jhono Bennett is an architectural urbanist based in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a co-director and co-founder of 1to1 – Agency of Engagement, a design based social enterprise that has been developed to support the re-development of South African cities through addressing systemic spatial inequality post-Apartheid.

He is currently undertaking a Practice-Led PhD through the Pan African College on Sustainable Cities based at the Wit’s Global Change Institute. Through this study he is exploring various contested imaginaries in-action through the enforcement of urban policy in South African public space with a focus on the inter-sectional effect these  forces  have in key city-making forces.