Dr. Temba Middelmann

Originating in Johannesburg, South Africa, Temba is an experienced multidisciplinary researcher, writer, and artist. His passion for understanding the ways people use space and interact with their natural surroundings has driven his art practice, research, and advocacy. Trained at the Universities of Witwatersrand and Oxford, he has published extensively on public space in relation to history and heritage, homelessness and urban marginalization, management and use in the context of inequalities, and the potential for social cohesion. His work builds in historical processes that have shaped structural and cultural realities which inform his research on urban processes, cycles of marginalization, public space and health, and energy transitions. He has also exhibited paintings, drawings, photography, GIFs and land art across South and southern Africa. Increasingly finding resonance between his art practice, research, and advocacy, he is currently exploring the links between arts, healing, and community wellbeing.