I had the privilege of working with colleagues in CS on two projects, one with Gary and Edwin in 2004, and the other being Ilda Ladeira’s PhD (2012) which I co-supervised under Gary’s leadership. Both projects were a delight and characterised by immense creativity and collegiality, notwithstanding the tall order of learning how to trust another disciplinary mode of constructing an evidentiary, and working out how to respond to different kinds of disciplinary concerns. Gary’s collegiality continues to be a benchmark for me in trans-disciplinary work.
Besides his great strengths in his fields of work, Gary’s ability to understand how science could put people first was a major contribution to working out what form transdisciplinarity could take at UCT, and his loss for UCT and indeed the continent, is incalculable. I wish my colleagues in CS and the Faculty strength and clarity of heart and mind in the months ahead as you grieve and work out how to regroup and find a road ahead to memorialise this extraordinary colleague, and continue to develop the ethical, grounded, scholarly imaginaries that he brought to CS, and the University as a whole.
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