CHRIS ROPER: Inside the imaginarium of Prof Phakeng

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UCT has mooted some wild ideas for restoring its historic Jagger Library. Including, apparently, creating a space where staff and students can try to rebuild it with Lego bricks, writes ChrisRoper.

Up until a week ago, the most ridiculous thing emanating from the University of Cape I’d read this year was the description of a conference session at the launch of the university’s new design thinking school.

Though I tweeted about the launch in a mean way , I wasn’t going to write about it in an official column. After all, I too am UCT trained, which means I suffer from the same predilection to try to say things cleverly rather than clearly. It’s too easy to pick on people who do that . But after a subsequent article describing what UCT is considering doing with the rebuilding of the burnt-down Jagger Library, I’m starting to see a pattern...

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