A team of design researchers at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom in collaboration with Celeste Mckenzie, creative industries practitioners and heritage specialists in South Africa used graphic heritage as a lens to find out how much or how little information there is about Madiba in six locations named after him in the Gauteng Province. Through graphic heritage, the exhibition reveals as much about absence as it does about presence. It straddles the established but contested domain of heritage interpretation, presentation, and representation.
The exhibition is designed to inspire public engagement with its content and encourage visitors to contribute their thoughts, feelings, and observations to eventually shape the exhibition's public image. The case study locations are colour-coded to match the unique colours of the South African national flag.
The International Conference on Audio-Visual Archiving and Preservation - Africa held at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg. The theme was: “Focus On Saving And Preserving Africa’s Audio-Visual Heritage”.
Nelson Mandela continues to be memorialised in different ways all over the world. For this reason, the workshop shared new insights from the Memorialising Mandela in the Metropolis project at Loughborough University that explores the relationship between toponymy, graphic images, cultural heritage, and place making, in locations named after Madiba. Perspectives from academia, Nelson Mandela Foundation, creative industries, and delegate participation, were synthesised in the context of research undertaken in South Africa, Brazil, and United Kingdom. The workshop ended with a session on knowledge exchange and research opportunities for future collaboration.
Visit by West Papua to the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF), receives a guided tour of the Life and Times of Nelson Mandela exhibition, his post presidential office and the archive.
Mandela Day Tree Planting outside the premises of the Nelson Mandela Foundation with Green Development Foundation and the staff of the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
Nelson Mandela Foundation staff gathered for Yase Godlo's farewell. Yase Godlo served at the Nelson Mandela Foundation as Director of Mandela Day and Special Projects.
The opening of the exhibition with NMF and Gallery staff as well as visitors (Fuji files) and photographs of the exhibition without people (IMG files).
Nelson Mandela Debating Challenge. Six days event with students from schools in South Africa. This event is the result of a partnership between the Nelson Mandela Foundation and Tshimong, a social enterprise that trains high-schoolers in debating.
Signing of the MoU between the Nelson Mandela Foundation (NMF) and the Market Theatre Foundation (MTF) for the handover of the exhibition 'Between States of Emergency' with NMF staff, MTF staff and Photo Workshop students.
Liliesleaf, in Rivonia, was the underground farm used secretly by prominent African National Congress activists in the 1960s where the top of the ANC was arrested, leading to the Rivonia Trial.