Atlas of Uncertainty

Uncertain about your weekend plans? We've got you! Join us this May & June at @WitsUniversity for walkabouts, sound baths, conversation, and a closing celebration at @OriginsCentre. See you there 🗺️ Exhibition closes 3 July. Graphic: Fred Swart, Naadira Patel

The Atlas of Uncertainty, up close and personal. Walk through the exhibition with one of its contributors — Carina Tenewaa Kanbi. Free entrance on 9 May. Exhibition closes 3 July. Click here for more info: atlasofuncertainty.com Graphic: @fredswart5, @naadirapatel_

Come experience the Atlas of Uncertainty exhibition at the Origins Centre, @WitsUniversity! All tickets include full museum access — don't miss out! 🌍 Visit the Atlas website for more info: atlasofuncertainty.com Exhibition ends 3 July.

Read all about the Atlas of Uncertainty on @BDliveSA: businessday.co.za/lifestyle/arts… Exhibition closes 3 July 2026. Come see it!

The Atlas has landed. Thank you to every collaborator who made the public launch of the Atlas of Uncertainty what it was. And thank you to the over 400 people who attended the opening. The exhibition runs until 3 July. 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com Image credits: Jst Aura

Final touches before it all begins. One day to go. See you tomorrow. RSVP: info@atlasofuncertainty.com Free entry on 18 April! 📍 @OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 18 Apr – 3 Jul 2026 🔗atlasofuncertainty.com Image credits: 1. @lorenlandau 2. @naadirapatel_ 3. @naadirapatel_

The exhibition is taking shape, one piece at a time. This is @billie_mack's 'A Map of Dreams and Realities' See you on the 18th! RSVP: info@atlasofuncertainty.com 📍 @OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 18 Apr – 3 Jul 2026 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com Image credits: @lorenlandau

The Atlas of Uncertainty is a travelling exhibition that brings together voices from Accra, Joburg, & Nairobi to trace migration, urban life & belonging across the continent. 📍 @OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 18 Apr – 3 Jul 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com Graphic: @fredswart5

Six artists. Six ways of seeing what others overlook – maps redrawn, beads rewoven, streets reframed, roots remembered. Meet the makers behind Uncertain Ways of Seeing. 📍@OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 18 April – 3 July 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com

Read about the Atlas of Uncertainty exhibition on @e_flux! “The Atlas is neither ‘complete’ nor absolute, but a politicised, reimagined tool for remapping & centring the informal, the ephemeral, the rogue, & the collective.” - Thembinkosi Goniwe e-flux.com/announcements/…

✨ WHAT DOES A CITY LOOK LIKE WHEN YOU LOOK UNDER THE MAP? ✨ The Atlas of Uncertainty is a new kind of knowledge project. It combines data with essay, poetry, soundscape, artwork, and new forms of cartography to reshape how we understand and interpret migration and African cities. 📍 The exhibition opens on 18 April at the University of the Witwatersrand’s Origins Centre. 📩 RSVP: info@atlasofuncertainty.com 🔗 More Info: ohttps://atlas-of-uncertainty.vercel.app/ Image credits: Manjahi Njoroge, Kawangware, 2024. Photo Courtesy and copyright the artist Heather Mason Loren Landau Graphics: Fred Swart #WitsForGood #AtlasOfUncertainty #AfricanCities

Image credits: 1. Olasumbo Olaniyi, “Figure 1: Domestic migrant” 2. @lorenlandau 3. @lorenlandau Graphics: @naadirapatel_

31 scholars and writers. 1 shared conviction: that African cities demand a different kind of knowledge. We're proud to introduce them. 📍 @OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity Johannesburg 18 April – 3 July 2026 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com

Every scratch, scribble, and stain of red ink is the city’s score. This artwork emerged from @WindybrowCentre, and forms part of the ‘Atlas of Uncertainty: Transforming African Cityscapes’ book. 📍 @OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 18 Apr – 3 Jul atlasofuncertainty.com

Hanging on. Moving through. Manjahi Njoroge follows two figures through Nairobi, where space is not fixed, but constantly remade through encounter, movement, & presence. 🖼️ Part of the Atlas of Uncertainty 📍@OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 18 Apr – 3 Jul atlasofuncertainty.com

@OriginsCentre @WitsUniversity 3. ASK, “Ink Trails” 4. Alice Raymond, “Atlas of the Future Accra” All images courtesy and copyright the authors and artists Graphics: Fred Swart, Naadira Patel

The Atlas of Uncertainty brings together artists from Accra, Johannesburg and Nairobi to move beyond surveys and into feeling. These are the creators who brought the project to life. 📍 @OriginsCentre, @WitsUniversity 📅 18 April - 3 July 2026 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com

@OriginsCentre @WitsUniversity Image credits: 1. Columbia Centre for Spatial Research, Laura Kurgan, Dare Brawley, Adeline Chum, “People interviewed in Nairobi described their birthplaces as village, town, or city.” 2. Bongiwe Phakathi, “Invisible Landscapes”

Image credits: 1. @ManjahiNjoroge, Kawangware, 2024. Photo Courtesy and copyright the artist 2. Heather Mason 5. @lorenlandau Graphics: Fred Swart

What does a city look like when you look under the map? The Atlas of Uncertainty is a new kind of knowledge project. Public opening: 18 April RSVP: info@atlasofuncertainty.com 📍 Origins Centre, @WitsUniversity 18 Apr – 3 Jul 2026 🔗 atlasofuncertainty.com