The Social Field
Episodes
Teaser: Season Two (Six Part Season)
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Social Field is a podcast that showcases stories about what it means to be a social performance practitioner. Designed for people from a range of ...
Ep 1 Introduction: The case for storytelling as a frame for the season
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
This episode introduces you to The Social Field season two,defending the value of spaces like this and presenting storytelling as the structuring devi...
Ep 2 Pace: Starts, pace, ends and planning horizons
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mpinane Mmahlatji, a facilitator of complex multi-stakeholder processes shares her rich experience of how important it is to start our interventions b...
Ep 3 Characters/ Location: Defining a fuller appreciation of the system
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karien Lotter, a social scientist with experience in the work of land access, displacement and resettlement, shares with us the learnings from her stu...
Ep 4 Narrator: Exploring the challenges and opportunities for co-creation
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Queen B (or Bianca Jordan) is a socio-economicdevelopment manager in the renewable energy sector. She explores with us who is narrating our socio-econ...
Ep 5 Plot: Structural forces and underlying (hidden) assumptions
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mariam January, a sustainability consultant and partowner of her family’s taxi business, shares with us some of the ways in which the different worl...
Ep 6 Storytelling: The skills, tips and tricks
08 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We explore the skills, tips and tricks of how storytellingpractices can be used more effectively to enhance our work as social performance practitione...
The Landscape Lens (Long-form episode)
07 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Karien Lotter, Andy Booth and Rob Gerrits participate in this long form and standalone podcast episode where they discuss the launch of the The Landsc...
Season one extra: Full interview with Nomfundo Mogapi
15 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Due to popular response, we have decided to offer the full length interview between Alison McCallum and Nomfundo Mogapi as a SEASON ONE EXTRA.Those of...
Ep 1 What is social performance?
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this inaugural episode, we introduce The Social Field podcast and unpack more on what a social performance practice entails. We learn more about th...
Ep 2 The challenges of socio-economic development in communities
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Chulumanco Mdingi, a community relations manager in the renewable energy sector, shares his extensive practical and theoretical knowledge of socio-eco...
Ep 3 Working on oneself is part of the job
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you want to maximise your impact in the work you do, psychologist Nomfundo Mogapi argues the most important thing you can do is invest in therapy. ...
Ep 4 Successful social performance teams
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A social performance manager supporting renewable energy projects in the mining sector, Sindiswa Gaven speaks to us of her experiences of what makes c...
Ep 5 Collaborating in the face of conflict
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
This episode was inspired by a question asked by Olebogeng Koatlhai, a Social performance specialist supporting Major Capital Projects. She challenges...
Ep 6.1 The evolution of the social performance discipline (Part One)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The season concludes with a reflection on how the discipline has evolved in the past 20 years or so from when the term ‘social performance’ was fi...
Ep 6.2 The future of the social performance discipline (Part Two)
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Episode six (part two) continues to explore ideas about the future of the discipline by shifting focus to the global and local trends and themes that ...
Teaser: The Social Field podcast
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Social Field is a podcast that showcases stories about what it means to be a social performance practitioner. Designed for people from a range of ...