Angelinah Maponya is PhD researcher in the project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes (CEDEL). She earned her bachelor's degree at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and her master's degree in dramaturgy at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 2024. In the years 2022-2025 she worked as a tutor at UCT and from 2023-2025 served as lecturer at Rhodes University in Makhanda/Grahamstown. Her master's thesis dealt intensively with questions of staging landscapes and representing the environment – and perceptions of the environment – in areas threatened by climate change. After completing her studies, Angelinah worked in several cultural and social science projects in a South African mining town (Outstad), In her doctoral thesis, she wants to research the ecological, social and psychological consequences of mining in her home region. Her transdisciplinary approach, which combines artistic practice with social and historical science methods and theory, allows her not only to document complex processes of destruction and repair, which are central to the research project Curated Escapes and Derelict Landscapes (CEDEL), but also to open up new perspectives on global environmental and sustainability issues.