Karien Lotter, a social scientist with experience in the work of land access, displacement and resettlement, shares with us the learnings from her studies in regenerative systems around the importance of adopting different perspectives as we seek to understand and then intervene into the range of systems at play influencing communities. Bongani Baloyi shares his experiences of how cross-continent knowledge exchanges can support shared learnings. Here the storytelling devices of ‘characters’ and ‘location’ underscore the importance of zooming our focus both in and out to different scales in order to help us make sense of the different elements of the system at play. If we do not do this, we risk creating large blind spots in our work.

Contact:

To learn more about the work Karien is involved in, followher at https://www.linkedin.com/in/karien-lotter-804a011a/.You can also read more about her thinking at the Landscape Lens platform on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-landscape-lens/posts/?feedView=all.

To learn more about Bongani’s work follow him at https://www.linkedin.com/in/bongani-baloyi-506402105or go to the MG5 Holdings website at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mg5-holdings-36257392.

Credits

Presented by: Lisa van Dongen

Co-producers: Mzamo Moloi and Lisa van Dongen

Sound design and engineering: Audiodacious

Special thanks to all contributors.