Susan Myburgh

Susan Myburgh, watching creativity and capability in motion

Susan Myburgh reads as a retired academic who kept the habits of inquiry and widened their purpose. Her current work is led by Afrodizziak, a substantial, active record of contemporary African design and cultural production, alongside a pragmatic topic on skills for a changing workplace. Behind those living threads sit earlier bodies of work on ageing well and digital collaboration, both shaped by the same question: how do people remain capable, connected and alive to possibility?

A retirement turned outward

Retirement did not narrow Susan’s field of vision. Her bio frames later life as something to be enjoyed and examined, and her Revalued work followed health, confidence, support networks and the pleasures of staying intellectually active.

An art-world sensibility

Afrodizziak shows an eye for contemporary African creativity as a serious global field. Fashion, galleries, design weeks, artists’ profiles and cultural policy sit together, giving the topic both colour and structure.

The academic afterlife

Her employability and older digital collaboration topics reveal a continuing concern with knowledge systems. She has tracked how work, libraries, museums and scholarship respond to digital change, and how people can adapt without losing access or agency.

What defines this work

Long attention

Across the analysed topics, Susan Myburgh gathered more than 19,000 posts. The scale suggests a long habit of watching fields over time rather than dipping into them occasionally.

Beauty with context

Her strongest current topic, Afrodizziak, joins artistic enthusiasm with attention to museums, residencies, markets and restitution. The result is celebratory but not superficial.

Life transitions as a lens

The work moves between culture, employability, ageing and digital knowledge. That range reflects an academic mind interested in how people keep learning, working, making and belonging through change.

Quiet editorial authority

Most posts are shared without added commentary. The editorial voice comes through in selection: practical, research-aware, upbeat, and drawn to institutions as much as individuals.

Deep dives

African design as a living contemporary field

Afrodizziak is Susan Myburgh’s most vivid current field: a wide, pan-African scan of contemporary African art, design, fashion, interiors and creative enterprise. The emphasis is on living practice, not frozen heritage, with young artists, designers and makers treated as participants in a global cultural conversation.

The topic also has an institutional intelligence. Museum culture in Benin, artists’ residencies across Africa, art-market structures and restitution debates place creativity inside systems of funding, display, ownership and memory.

Its distinctive force is balance: celebration without naivety. The selections spotlight beauty and ambition, while keeping colonial legacies, market differences and professional infrastructure in view.

A practical map of the skills economy

The employability topic tracks skills as a moving target. Susan’s selections read the labour market through reports, business journalism and workplace commentary, with AI and data literacy sitting beside critical thinking and creative problem solving.

A recurring idea is that technical change does not reduce the value of human capacity. Soft skills become power skills: communication, judgement, adaptation and the ability to keep learning matter because work itself keeps changing.

The topic’s practical edge comes from its attention to reskilling, unlearning and future job architectures. It is less interested in hype than in the question an anxious student or worker might ask: what will still count?