People@DigiSAt

DigiSAt has a core team of a Principial Investigator (PI), a post.doc-researcher, a student assistant in Copenhagen, and local assistants in Cape Town. The project benefits from an Advisory Board of leading scholars and critical friends that challenge, inspire, think with- and advice the core team to help further knowledge on everyday digital living and energy futures - in a South African township and beyond.

Team members in Alphabetical Order

Abdul Dube

Advisory Board member

Artist and Graphic facilitator Denmark/South Africa.

Anna Stub Thygesen

Assistant

Master Student in Visual Studies and Art Education, Aalborg University/Aalto University and Bachelor in Anthropology, University of Copenhagen. Student Curator at the Ethnographic Exploratory, University of Copenhagen.

Asnath Paula Kambunga

Post.doc

Postdoc in the DigiSAt project, Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.

Brit Ross Winthereik

Advisory Board member

Professor of Ethnography and Science and Technology Studies, DTU Technological University Denmark.

Fakier Vergotine

Local assistant

Former student, self-employed, and avid football player

Fazlin Bruintjies

Local assistant

Customer service agent, mom, and homemaker.

Fiona C. Ross

Advisory Board member

Professor of Anthropology, School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Cape Town.

Jannie Møller Hartley

Advisory Board member

Associate Professor in Communication and Journalism and co-leading the Centre for Big Data at Roskilde University.

Karen Waltorp

Principal Investigator

Associate professor of Anthropology and Head of Ethnographic Exploratory, University of Copenhagen.

Marianne Elisabeth Lien

Advisory Board member

Professor of Anthropology, University of Oslo.

Nafreti Schraeder

Local assistant

Waitress, mom, and homemaker

Nathalie Ortar

Advisory Board member

Senior researcher at the ENTPE-University of Lyon and co-founder of Energy Anthropology Network of European Association of Social Anthropologists.

Sarah Pink

Advisory Board member

Professor and Director of the Emerging Technologies Lab and Associate Director of Monash University Energy Institute, Australia.

Sasha Geist Rubel

Advisory Board member

Public Policy Lead Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning, Amazon Web Services, affiliate HAI: Stanford University Human Centered Artificial Intelligence

Shameerah Lambert

Local assistant

Former worker at Cape Metrorail, mom, and homemaker.

Simone Abram

Advisory Board member

Professor of Anthropology and a director of the Durham Energy Institute at the University of Durham, UK.

Digital Everyday Lives and Energy Futures
in a South African Township

Home University

Partners

Future Anthropologies Network at EASAEmerging Technologies Lab, Monash UniversityCentre for Imaginative EthnographyEmergent Futures CoLab

Funding

Independent Research Fund Denmark
– Inge Lehmann (1130-00019B)

Copyright & Citations

All content on DigiSAt’s website and social media is copyrighted. You can use our content for non-commercial, artistic or academic purposes with full credits to DigiSAt and the people involved by citing our project wherever appropriate. When referring to our recorded online talks and videos, please use the citation(s) available below each. Unless otherwise indicated, all photos on the website are by Christian Vium or Karen Waltorp.

Web-Design: Emergent Futures CoLab (EFC)