The project “Informal River-Beings: A landscape biography of the informal urban riverine pockets in the City of Cape Town, South Africa” builds on her graduation project “Untold Waters: The integration of landscape experiences, public space, landscape qualities, and existing non-human functions”. In her thesis, Nicola explored how fragile urban landscapes can be strengthened through the rehabilitation of urban river systems. This project, supported by the Talent grant, aims to extend the graduation work by broadening its scope including other informal areas sharing similar contextual conditions by developing and applying a research methodology. The aim is to make obscured informal riverine landscapes visible as dynamic, inhabited systems shaped by water, urbanisation, and adaptation.