The Youth Futures project was a collaboration between staff at the University of Sheffield, University of Cardiff, Hawassa University and University of the Witwatersrand. The project engaged with a group of Youth Representatives (YRs) from Ekangala and recorded their experiences of unemployment and housing. Them Again was recruited to provide media skills workshops to the Youth Representatives (YRs) in order to empower them to develop media that reflected their findings.
Following the workshops and media-development stages, the research team recruited Them Again to develop two events: an exhibition of the developed materials in Ekangala and at Wits University. The exhibition offered insight "into the lives of young adults living in Ekangala, near Bronkhorstpruit in eastern Tshwane. [The] main focus is on understanding their housing situations and their work. Through photographs, videos, songs, stories, poems and interviews we also get a glimpse into their everyday lives, their dreams and frustrations."
This video was developed by Them Again for Mark Burke's PhD (LINK Centre, SLLM, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg) in Interdisciplinary Digital Knowledge Economy Studies "Rethinking identity, privacy and citizenship in public service digitalisation in South Africa".
Experimental collaboration with Madonsela (fashion house). Deconstructing uniformity, sameness and conformity by creating forms and patterns which break down in favour of distinctive individualistic expression. We must not be same same, but we are not different.
