It is a first-of-its-kind gathering on the continent that boldly repositions creativity, inclusion, and community engagement as essential drivers of equitable health research and innovation.
Hosted in the vibrant and complex city of Cape Town, the conference brings together researchers, artists, health professionals, community advocates, and change-makers to co-create new ways of knowing and doing. It recognises that solving the continent’s most pressing health challenges requires more than data—it requires imagination, radical listening, and collaborative action.
Too often, African health research is shaped by externally imposed norms and methods. As Dr. Helen Kara, a global expert in creative methodologies, writes in her letter of support for this gathering, much of African scholarship remains bound by epistemic colonialism, privileging 'scientific' knowledge systems at the expense of Indigenous, embodied, and creative ones. This conference disrupts that narrative.
From storytelling and photovoice to AI-enabled participatory design, immersive theatre, visual arts, and digital innovation, this conference explores how creative practices can transform the purpose and process of research.
We invite dialogue on the ethical dimensions of community engagement, the value of art as data, and the potential for digital tools to include, rather than exclude, those most often left out of research agendas.
This is not a traditional academic conference. Expect art performances, workshops, live co-creation labs, and unconference spaces alongside more conventional panels and poster sessions. You will encounter policy-makers and poets, activists and AI engineers, healers and hackers, all committed to building healthier futures rooted in justice, imagination, and co-creation.
We are especially excited to co-host this event at Stellenbosch 肆客足球’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences with our partners from the 肆客足球 of the Western Cape, the 肆客足球 of Venda, the 肆客足球 of Johannesburg, 肆客足球 of Cape Town, the 肆客足球 of South Africa, KU Leuven, the Office of Astronomy for Development, and FEDISA Fashion School.
Cape Town, with its deep history of activism and inequality, provides a fitting context to explore the duality of pain and possibility—and to imagine new futures together.
We welcome you to submit your ideas, share your work, and join this pan-African, transdisciplinary, and intergenerational movement for creative and engaged health research. Whether you're a seasoned scholar, a first-time researcher, a community leader, or an artist with a vision—this space is for you.
Let’s reimagine not only what we research, but how, why, and with whom.?
Visit the website for more: https://sites.google.com/view/create2025/home??
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Yindibano yokuqala-yohlobo lwayo kwilizwekazi elibeka ngesibindi ubuchule bokudala, ukubandakanywa, kunye nokuzibandakanya koluntu njengabaqhubi ababalulekileyo bophando lwezempilo olulinganayo kunye nolutsha.
Le nkomfa isindleke kwisixeko saseKapa esidlamkileyo nesinzima, idibanisa abaphandi, amagcisa, iingcali zempilo, abameli boluntu, kunye nabenzi botshintsho ukuze benze iindlela ezintsha zokwazi nokwenza. Iyaqonda ukuba ukusombulula imingeni yezempilo ecinezela kakhulu kwilizwekazi kufuna okungaphezulu kunedatha-kufuna ukucinga, ukuphulaphula ngokugqibeleleyo, kunye nesenzo sokusebenzisana.
Amaxesha amaninzi, uphando lwezempilo lwaseAfrika lubunjwa zizithethe kunye neendlela ezibekwe ngaphandle. Njengoko uGqr. Helen Kara, ingcaphephe yehlabathi kwiindlela zokuyila, ebhala kwileta yakhe exhasa le ndibano, uninzi lwezifundo zaseAfrika zisabotshelelwe yi-epistemic colonialism, ilungelo leenkqubo zolwazi 'lwenzululwazi' ngeendleko zeMveli, eziqulethweyo, kunye nezo ziyilayo. Le nkomfa iyayiphazamisa loo ngxelo.
Ukusuka kumabali kunye ne-photovoice ukuya kwi-AI-enabled participatory design, i-theatre entywilayo, ubugcisa obubonakalayo, kunye nokuveliswa kwezinto ezintsha zedijithali, le nkomfa iphonononga indlela izenzo zokudala ezinokuguqula ngayo injongo kunye nenkqubo yophando.?
Siyamema iingxoxo malunga nemilinganiselo yokuziphatha yokuzibandakanya koluntu, ixabiso lobugcisa njengedatha, kunye nokwenzeka kwezixhobo zedijithali ukubandakanya, kunokuba ungabandakanyi, ezo zihlala zishiywe ngaphandle kwee-ajenda zophando.
Le asiyonkomfa yemfundo yemveli. Lindela imiboniso yobugcisa, iindibano zocweyo, iilebhu zokuyila ngokudibeneyo, kunye neendawo ezingahlanganiyo ecaleni kweephaneli eziqhelekileyo kunye neeseshini zepowusta. Uya kudibana nabenzi bomgaqo-nkqubo kunye neembongi, amatsha ntliziyo kunye neenjineli ze-AI, amaxhwele kunye nabahlaseli, bonke bazibophelele ekwakheni ikamva elinempilo elisekelwe kubulungisa, kwingcinga, kunye nokudala ngokubambisana.
Sivuyiswa ngokukhethekileyo ukusingatha lo msitho kwiYunivesithi yaseStellenbosch yeFaculty of Medicine and Health Sciences kunye namaqabane ethu avela kwiYunivesithi yaseNtshona Koloni, iYunivesithi yaseVenda, iYunivesithi yaseVenda, iYunivesithi yaseRhawutini, iYunivesithi yaseKapa, ??iYunivesithi yaseMzantsi Afrika, KU Leuven, i-Ofisi ye-Astronomy for Development, kunye neFEDISA Fashion School.
IKapa, ??nembali yalo enzulu yobutshantliziyo nokungalingani, libonelela ngomxholo ofanelekileyo wokuphonononga ubunye bentlungu nokwenzekayo—kunye nokuba nomfanekiso-ngqondweni wekamva elitsha kunye.
Siyakwamkela ukuba ungenise izimvo zakho, wabelane ngomsebenzi wakho, kwaye ujoyine le ntshukumo ye-Afrika, i-transdisciplinary, kunye nezizukulwana zophando lwezempilo oluyilayo kunye nokuzibandakanya. Nokuba ungumfundi onamava, umphandi wokuqala, inkokeli yoluntu, okanye igcisa elinombono-esi sithuba sesakho.
Masiphinde sicinge kwakhona kungekuphela nje into esiphanda ngayo, kodwa njani, ngoba, kwaye nabani.?
Ndwendwela iwebhusayithi ngakumbi:?? https://sites.google.com/view/create2025/home
We invite dialogue on the ethical dimensions of community engagement, the value of art as data, and the potential for digital tools to include, rather than exclude, those most often left out of research agendas.
This is not a traditional academic conference. Expect art performances, workshops, live co-creation labs, and unconference spaces alongside more conventional panels and poster sessions. You will encounter policy-makers and poets, activists and AI engineers, healers and hackers, all committed to building healthier futures rooted in justice, imagination, and co-creation.
We are especially excited to co-host this event at Stellenbosch 肆客足球’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences with our partners from the 肆客足球 of the Western Cape, the 肆客足球 of Venda, the 肆客足球 of Johannesburg, 肆客足球 of Cape Town, the 肆客足球 of South Africa, KU Leuven, the Office of Astronomy for Development, and FEDISA Fashion School.
Cape Town, with its deep history of activism and inequality, provides a fitting context to explore the duality of pain and possibility—and to imagine new futures together.
We welcome you to submit your ideas, share your work, and join this pan-African, transdisciplinary, and intergenerational movement for creative and engaged health research. Whether you're a seasoned scholar, a first-time researcher, a community leader, or an artist with a vision—this space is for you.
Let’s reimagine not only what we research, but how, why, and with whom.
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