The last few weeks have been probably the most intense of this project, with our Empatheatre partners and Andrew Buckland doing a tremendous job bringing a story to life – from our extensive research of various kinds, through the careful crafting of a script, to the final staging by an incredibly skilled actor. The showContinue reading “Preparing for a tour!”
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Experience “Unruly”: A Theatrical Exploration of Human-Baboon Relations
We’re excited to extend a public invite to Unruly, a theatre play produced by Empatheatre as part of the Unruly Natures project. The show delves into the experiences of residents living alongside urban baboons on the Cape Peninsula, starring internationally renowned performer Andrew Buckland. During 1-7 June we will tour Ocean View, Kommetjie, Constantia, Simon’s Town,Continue reading “Experience “Unruly”: A Theatrical Exploration of Human-Baboon Relations”
Communications grant – and PhD for Kinga!
Yesterday the Unruly Natures team received some good news: our Swedish funder Formas approved our application to their Communications call. This means that we will receive some additional funds to “communicate and popularise research results regarding sustainable development for knowledge to be used and create benefit in society.” In our case, this means that weContinue reading “Communications grant – and PhD for Kinga!”
Empatheatre updates
As announced in a previous post, we are currently working with Empatheatre to hold a series of community meetings including a theatre performance and a facilitated dialogue. We are excited to announce that we will work with award-winning South African actor and playwright Andrew Buckland. He will star in what will be a small production thatContinue reading “Empatheatre updates”
A first look at some findings
Today is a big day for the Unruly Natures project: We are finally ready to share some of the findings from the survey that was conducted last year! Academic research moves slowly, and we are still analysing the bulk of the data and expect to submit multiple articles to peer-reviewed journals. However, some of theContinue reading “A first look at some findings”
New year, new phase of the project
2023 ended with some dramatic scenes playing out in parts of our study area, as wildfires threatened both people’s and baboons’ homes around Simon’s Town. We hope everyone has stayed safe, and had an otherwise calm and restful summer holiday. The focus for 2024 will be a bit different for Unruly Natures than for 2023.Continue reading “New year, new phase of the project”
Third Advisory Board meeting
On the last day of November and before Kinga had to go back to Sweden, we met once more with our Advisory Board for some updates and to plan activities in 2024. The maybe most exciting thing was a first look at some preliminary results from our survey, and discussions about how to best shareContinue reading “Third Advisory Board meeting”
Complementary data collection
Here we go again! In the upcoming few weeks (starting from 22 September), we will be visiting Kommetjie, Constantia, and Simons Town to collect more survey responses. The reason is that when reviewing all the data collected so far, we noticed a few areas that we could not access and include in the survey. ThisContinue reading “Complementary data collection “
International interest in the Cape Town case
You are probably wondering why this blog has been so quiet for the past two months. Here is why! After Claire, Rubin, Akhona, and Jason, together with Johan and Luke collected the over 500 survey responses, we need time to analyse the data to make sure that what is later reported is accurate. With thatContinue reading “International interest in the Cape Town case”
Fieldwork completed!
Today, we finally reached the goal of collecting 500 survey responses. It took a few weeks longer than planned, mainly because of the rains, but we are super happy to have reached this far! We have completed data collection in Ocean View, Da Gama Park, Constantia, Murdock Valley, Imhoff’s Gift, Zwaanswyk and Tokai, and haveContinue reading “Fieldwork completed!”
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