Committed to Environmental Sustainability
Darkroom garden teaches students about sustainable photography practices
26 October 2023 | Videography Carbon Visuals and Supplied. Video Edit Ruairi Abrahams. Photo Lerato Maduna. VP Team Roxanne Harris, Ruairi Abrahams, Boikhutso Ntsoko and Rozanne Engel.The sustainable darkroom project is an initiative that was started in August 2021 at the University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Michaelis School of Fine Art. Under the guidance of UCT lecturers Svea Josephy and Vanessa Cowling, the project aims to teach students ways to make darkroom practices in photography more sustainable.
Students involved in the project helped to plant a garden in the Rosedale parking lot at Michaelis. The plants from the garden are used to make anthotypes, sustainable photographic prints made from plant pigments. Students also use the plants to experiment with making sustainable darkroom chemicals and to do research into sustainable darkroom practices.
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Committed to Environmental Sustainability
The University of Cape Town’s (UCT) Vision 2030 strategy’s goal is to unleash human potential in pursuing a just and equitable society. This vision rests on three fundamental pillars: sustainability, excellence, and transformation. In line with this strategy, the university has developed different initiatives, including a sustainability strategy, to provide direction for UCT’s environmental sustainability. This strengthens the university’s ambitions of being a net-zero carbon/energy, water, and waste-to-landfill campus by or before 2050.
UCT Sustainability and the SDGs 2022
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“We learnt some valuable lessons during [COVID-19] lockdown that we will take into the future, many of them contributing to more efficient and environmentally sustainable digital methods for doing certain things.”
– Manfred Braune, the director for environmental sustainability at UCT
