About TRIP

The Transformative Research in Practice (TRIP) Collective aims to explore and develop methods of creating and sharing knowledge, that foreground creativity, making, inclusion, many forms of thinking, social-cohesion, communing with the more than human, and working together for social justice for all. Researchers in the TRIP project come from a wide range of disciplines in order to find ways to collectively achieve these goals. We believe that social and epistemological transformation towards critically engaged, equitable and creative communities is possible through mindfulness and experimentation with how we do and share our research; what, where and how we teach, and through finding ways to disrupt inherited boundaries that maintain hegemonic discourses. We recognize that to achieve our aims requires disobedience in Freirean and Decolonial terms. We are committed to disrobing the arbitrary disciplinary boundaries we have inherited. We work hard to challenge occidental, racist, heteronormative, patriarchal hierarchies of knowledge constructed as part of the colonial matrix.

We recognize that to achieve our aims requires disobedience in Freirean and Decolonial terms. We are committed to disrobing the arbitrary disciplinary boundaries we have inherited. We work hard to challenge occidental, racist, heteronormative, patriarchal hierarchies of knowledge constructed as part of the colonial matrix. Transformation starts when we collectively orientate our academic, creative, pedagogical and social practices towards social justice. We welcome inter-disciplinary collaboration with like-minded miscreants!

This website showcases various TRIP projects, research in progress and presents an archive of past TRIP events. As the collective and our shared activities grow, we aim to share research, and pedagogical resources with our academic community.

TRIP Members
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Prof. Alison Kearney

Associate Professor, Department of Visual Art Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture (UJ).

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Dr Louis Botha

Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Humanities, University of the Witwatersrand.

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Ann-Marie Tully

Lecturer, Fine Art & Jewellery Design, Faculty of Arts & Design (DUT)

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Dr Bernadette Judith Johnson

Director, Transformation and Employment Equity Office, University of the Witwatersrand

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Dr Kibbie Naidoo

Director of the Centre for Academic Staff Development and a Research Associate in the Faculty of Education at the (UJ).

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Dr Cameron Harris

Senior Lecturer, Wits School of Arts Music Department

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Justine Watterson

Director, IMBALI Visual Literacy Project

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Duma Mtimkulu

Artist

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Dr Katarzyna Cytlak

Art Historian

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