Di Caelers in Nature:
I originally came to South Africa from Sweden for a postdoctoral project with the University of Cape Town during the city’s Day Zero water crisis in 2018. As households faced the possibility of taps running dry, I studied how people adapted to sudden environmental constraints. That experience shaped my interest in how urban residents relate to nature under pressure, when it is no longer something distant, but something that directly shapes everyday life.
Cities are often seen as separate from nature, but I wanted to know what happens when that assumption doesn’t hold true.
Baboons make this relationship visible. Highly intelligent and remarkably adaptable, they move easily between mountain and suburb. In Cape Town, they cross roads, enter homes and forage in urban spaces, disrupting routines, sometimes interacting in ways that feel strikingly human but also revealing how closely city life is entangled with the natural world.
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