SASUF Sustainability Forum 2024

This workshop will share the experiences and gained knowledge of our seed grant collaboration
concerning the development of mutual programs in animation and visualization in higher
education in both Sweden and South Africa. The intended outcomes were to establish a
foundation and structure for future cooperation in animation education and curricula
development, expand the horizon from an east-west perspective to incorporate north-south, and
decolonize animation as a subject in both Sweden and South Africa. This collaboration will even
focus on the 2030 sustainability goals, primarily SDG 4 and 5.
The primary goal of this proposed workshop is to share the challenges, opportunites, and
preliminary results from our workshop in South Afria regarding the development of mutual
programs in visualization and animation, as well as find other academic institutions that are
interested in sharing similar experiences or possibly joining in future collaborations
This workshop can also be of interest for all academics who are interested in co-developing
curricula in both South Africa and Sweden regardless of their primary subject.

The first hour will be used for the South African and Swedish teams to share the preliminary
results including the discovered pitfalls and opportunites of designing mutual programs in
animation in visualization in higher education. The second hour will be used for comments and
questions with the primary goal of finding other higher education institutions in South Africa and
Sweden that would like to collaborate in this or similar projects regarding developing mutual
curricula.

Keywords: Animation, Vizualization, Work-Integrated-Learnining, decolonization of
education