Recognising the opportunities arts-based research practices provide processes of co-imagining more resilient and sustainable futures, this SARA working group on Arts-Based Co-Imagining investigates the challenges of ensuring that these processes are informed by local priorities and knowledge systems. We aim to identify best practices for more inclusive and equitable processes to co-imagine multiple pathways to possible Southern African ocean and urban futures. We believe this can be achieved by bringing together a group of collaborators from different contexts (Mozambique, Kenya, South Africa and Malawi), with experiences in arts-based research practices, futures thinking, and science-to-policy knowledge brokering. Our work recognizes the multiple ways of knowing and doing, and how this differs from various Southern African contexts and how these pathways can be integrated into the science-policy-practice nexus.
Names of group members:
- Liebrecht Fick, Stellenbosch University (lead)
- Dr Mia Strand, Nelson Mandela University (lead)
- Yara Costa, YC Creative Platform
- Prof. Laura Pereira, University of the Witwatersrand
- Sarah Ater, Technical University of Mombasa
- Prof. Jacqueline Uku, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute
- Susana Wachia, Stellenbosch University
- Merin Jacob, Stellenbosch University