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resolve environmental issues beyond the four walls of the
directly. Its aim was to foster academy. This inspired the ISCIA
cohesion among diverse people Chair to create a “heterotopia,”
guided by the hypothesis that which is, following Foucault, an
cohesive communities are realised if “othered” space, where people may
individuals are bound by a shared temporarily lay aside ordinary
concern, which is rich enough to habits and experiment with
encompass diverse passions and “otherness.” The third event that
multidisciplinary interests, and to flowed into this growing river was
inspire the re-imagination of human Prof Hurst’s desire, having walked
identity at a species level. In view of part of the life-changing Camino de
the global water crisis (very evident Santiago, to create a local
in a drought-stricken region), as well pilgrimage. A pilgrimage is a journey
as the shared identity of the Nelson to a sacred place, usually for
Mandela University and the City of religious reasons. But for religious
Port Elizabeth (beside the ocean), and non-religious alike, undertaking
“water” was selected as a fitting a ritualised journey – each pilgrim
theme. The art-meets-science travelling differently along the
project laid the basis for cross- “same” pathway – is a paradoxical
disciplinary engagement activities combination of isolation and
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