This video, entitled Africa’s Urban Future, is based on an extended interview with me about my understanding of the dynamics of African urbanization, what incrementalism means and the role that transdisciplinary research should play to support the process of incrementalism in African cities. The video is part of series of videos compiled by the Sustainability Institute for its Food Revolution programme. These reflections are based on five years of transdisciplinary research in Enkanini funded by the NRF, an informal settlement in Stellenbosch.
Thank you for sharing this: it is an extremely unsettling provocation that somehow is also extremely comforting to me right now. my key takeaways were:
“The real test of validity is building up of knowledge and capabilities in the community itself” and “Transdisciplinary research is high risk”.