Cassim, Fatima2025-03-072025-03-072024Cassim, F. 2024, 'Visiting Hannah Arendt : reflections on the civic affordances of storytelling in design education', Image and Text, no. 38, pp. 1-15. http://dx.DOI.org/10.17159/2617-3255/2024/n38a6.1021-1497 (print)2617-3255 (online)10.17159/2617-3255/2024/n38a6http://hdl.handle.net/2263/101384In this article, I consider the role of storytelling as a civic act, which is made visible through a reflection on the storytelling processes that informed the underpinning of a curriculum project showcased during the Stories Worth Telling exhibition (2023). To this end, I focus on how the stories worth telling are shaped, archived, and celebrated through participatory engagements and experiences by fourth-year Information Design students at the University of Pretoria. Underscored by Hannah Arendt’s notion that storytelling serves as a bridge between the private and public realms, I highlight the civic affordances of the storytelling process that may ultimately augment the students’ critical thinking and not only their technical design capabilities.en© 2024 University of Pretoria. Article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.StorytellingDesign educationCitizenshipCivic engagementHigher educationSouth Africa (SA)SDG-04: Quality educationArticle