On Saturday 29 August, a group of third year students from the Department of Visual Arts visited Freedom Park, a heritage and legacy site situated on Salvokop in Pretoria. Mr Graham Young, a senior lecturer at the Department of Architecture at UP, and a landscape architect involved in the design of Freedom Park, conducted the walkabout and provided insightful background into the symbolic meanings associated with the various design elements chosen to engender the specific vision and mission of Freedom Park. As part of their Visual Culture Studies module entitled, Visual and Virtual Spaces, their lecturer, Dr Jenni Lauwrens encouraged the students to critically reflect on the ways in which the various spaces constructed in the park work to foster “reconciliation and nation building” by “emancipat[ing] the African voice”, which are its key aims as indicated on the Park’s website. The walkabout was an opportunity for students from different social and cultural backgrounds to express their experiences of and responses to a monument and memorial designed to celebrate the people who sacrificed their lives in the pursuit of a free and democratic South Africa.