In his new book City Futures, radical urban thinker, acclaimed academic and Director of the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town, Edgar Pieterse offers a seminal, razor-sharp deconstruction of the main thinking underlying urban development in the Global South. Central to his argument is the call for a creative process of urban change. In Jozi and the (M)other City curator Carine Zaayman answers his call with a creative experiment that attempts to offer new and disparate ways of engaging with the complex web of realities that make up our cities. For the project Zaayman has invited a selection of artists and writers to use the internet as a space to deconstruct and remap the dialectic, between myths and realities concerning South Africa’s two major metropolises. In response Sean O'Toole takes a leaf writer Ivan Vladislavić’s urban investigations, employing meta-fiction to expose the strange logic beneath the city’s surface. Johan Thom also makes literary allusions, recalling an Edgar Allen Poe’s Premature Burial in a performance that sees him literally crawl into the cities underbelly. Nathaniel Stern responds with a challenge to O'Toole to live without electricity for a day. The resulting correspondences and documentation offers fascinating, deeply witty insights of how we negotiate “power” in urban space. Zaayman herself, Ralph Borland, Stephen Hobbs, and Marcus Neustetter all employ new technologies to remap cities, while James Webb and Nicola Grobler engage with real live citizens and spaces in their documentary projects. The associated exhibition offers viewers a tactile engagement that highlights the role art can in creating new urban navigational systems that operated independently of traditional approaches.