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About The Tributaries Project
The Tributaries Project, which was discussion. Simultaneously, at the
initiated at the beginning of 2019, suggestion of Dr Belinda Du Plooy of
grew out of the ISCIA Chair’s the Nelson Mandela University
mandate to engage with the Engagement Office, Prof Hurst
dilemma of the relation between collaborated with Prof Mary Duker
identities and social cohesion, not of Visual Arts to complete the third
only through philosophical and year of an existing multi-disciplinary
theoretical research but also art-meets-science engagement
through experiment and project. This collaboration, among
experiential learning in aesthetic other things, highlighted the
wisdom. The Tributaries Project intrinsic link between social and
began to take shape when three ecological issues, with the reminder
main events chanced to flow that social cohesion must be
together at around the same time. achieved in the context of a
Prof Andrea Hurst, the ISCIA Chair, contemporary global condition of
together with Prof Vulindlela Nyoni, urgent environmental crisis.
Head of the Department of Visual Although contributing to the
Arts, proposed to set up a seminar development of an “environmental
series for the year where art and humanities” is central to this
philosophy could meet for creative project, it did not propose to
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