A special thanks to Deans of Faculties who identified the ‘big stories’, and to all UP researchers who contributed their research narratives to this publication.
Project manager, writer and editor: Hanlie Griesel, with John Butler-Adam and Leti Kleyn, and colleagues in the Department of Research and Innovation Support, Ntsatsi Mantsho, Sandla Mbawu and Fundie Nsibande.
Critical readers and editorial team: Don Cowan, Robin Crewe, Michael Pepper and Bernard Slippers
Publishing: Words’Worth
Design and layout: Words’Worth
Printing: Montyprint
Photography: Images sourced from researchers and several photographers acknowledged in the text, and from the Department of University Relations
Jan Fiskaal – Charcoal dust drawing 2014 by Diane Victor
This artwork forms part of a series of three works made on
the pages of a discarded Afrikaans language atlas. It was
exhibited in Antwerp in 2014 as part of a curated show, Nomad Bodies.
Over this maze of symbols float the fragmented charcoal
dust drawings of a man and a woman carrying large burdens;
migrants perhaps, informal traders, refugees, urban walkers
moving through a city and its places. The work responds
to the idea of a transient society, flexible identities and of
belonging.
