http://hdl.handle.net/11189/4646 2026-08-12T15:49:44Z 2026-08-12T15:49:44Z Bozalek, Vivienne Shefer, Tamara Romano, Nike http://hdl.handle.net/11189/10286 2025-11-05T20:46:30Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Wild sea swimming as a slow intimacy: towards reconfiguring scholarship Authors: Bozalek, Vivienne; Shefer, Tamara; Romano, Nike Abstract: Our oceanic swimming-writing-reading together practice coincided with the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak and subsequent lockdown in South Africa. Awash with vulnerability, precarity, and isolation, oceanic swimming-writing-reading became one of the few ways in which we, as three academics from different higher education institutions, found respite in a practice of care for ourselves and others. Curious as to whether swimming and free writing could materialise alternative creative scholarly practices, we began to meet regularly to swim, write, read and think together with theoretical perspectives that subscribe to a feminist relational ontology. This article turns to visual and written narratives generated during this period and building on them, considers health and wellbeing at both subjective and planetary levels. Our global southern location articulates with these themes in very particular ways − access, risk and embodiment in relation to seas, beaches and littoral zones. South Africa remains haunted by the continuing geopolitical effects of its slave, colonial, apartheid, and neoliberal past and current contexts of global capitalism that seep into encounters with the ocean. Our swimming-writing-thinking is a reminder of our relationalities with and response-abilities for the hydrocommons as the measure of human, other species and the planet's capacity to survive and flourish.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Venter, Anja http://hdl.handle.net/11189/10284 2025-11-06T20:45:25Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Jamming to map creative scenes and practices Authors: Venter, Anja Abstract: In this paper I detail my experiences undertaking an ICT4D project that aimed to better understand how under-resourced visual creatives used mobile technologies to participate in creative 'scenes' in Cape Town, South Africa. The project was focused on developing novel digital applications to better support localized practices. From a post-qualitative perspective, I could map the scenes of 'jamming' together with participants. In describing these scenes, a better understanding is formed of how technologies could be re-designed to support situated creative activities as constellations of creative practices, social imaginaries and materialities. I offer provocations for the future of Digital Development within the creative and cultural industries, namely that creative scenes are about social imaginary and the imminent participations of people; That creative participation is about more than just economic participation; That doing inquiry is about imagining different material realities together with participants; And that 'development' implies dynamic change.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Romano, Nike http://hdl.handle.net/11189/10282 2025-11-06T20:45:31Z 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Collaging together-apart: building trust and hope in social innovation and design pedagogies Authors: Romano, Nike Abstract: This article explores how relationships of care, trust and hope might be fostered in a social innovation design course at a South African university of technology. Rather than shy away from the challenges of our uncertain world, the paper proposes feminist pedagogical strategies that seek to nurture students' capacity for trust and hope, rather than overwhelm and despair, through carefully curated collaborative-collage-making processes. By interweaving Bracha Ettinger's theory of matrixial trans-subjectivity and Karen Barad's agential realism, the generative role that arts-based practices offer social innovation design pedagogies is made explicit. The paper will show how collaborative artworking activated a co-affective encounter in which students and myself, rather than drowning in overwhelm, discovered new educational imaginaries and Hope-full renewals.

2024-01-01T00:00:00Z Manzini, Ezio M'Rithaa, Mugendi K. http://hdl.handle.net/11189/5685 2020-08-03T11:35:41Z 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

Title: Distributed Systems and cosmopolitan localism: an emerging design scenario for resilient societies Authors: Manzini, Ezio; M'Rithaa, Mugendi K. Abstract: Until now the discussion on resilience has mainly adopted technical, economic, functional points of view. This paper assumes that, even though these approaches are important and necessary, they are not enough. If resilience must be a characterizing feature of every potential future society, its cultural dimension must be considered too. In order to make a contribution in this direction, the paper introduces the notions of distributed systems and cosmopolitan localism and discusses the possibility of using design tools to connect and reinforce them. It also observes that both distributed systems and cosmopolitan localism can be recognized in the growing wave of social innovations we are witnessing worldwide. Building on them, the paper concludes outlining an emerging design scenario, the SLOC scenario, and the new cultural fabric needed to implement it. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd and ERP Environment

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