Andrew Boraine » Creative Cape Town http://www.andrewboraine.com Cities for People Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:23:09 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Look east for innovation (that’s Cape Town’s East City!) http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/06/look-east-for-innovation-thats-cape-towns-east-city/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/06/look-east-for-innovation-thats-cape-towns-east-city/#comments Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:16:27 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3968

Here is a great article on The Fringe – Cape Town’s Innovation District in Cape Town’s East City by Richard Holmes in the latest edition of Indwe Magazine, just in time for the announcement on Tuesday about the World Design Capital 2014 shortlist:

Mother City looks East

“The…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/06/look-east-for-innovation-thats-cape-towns-east-city/feed/ 2 Next Cape Town Design Network event on 19 May to focus on World Design Capital 2014 Bid – all welcome http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/next-cape-town-design-network-event-on-19-may-to-focus-on-world-design-capital-2014-bid-all-welcome/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/next-cape-town-design-network-event-on-19-may-to-focus-on-world-design-capital-2014-bid-all-welcome/#comments Tue, 17 May 2011 02:42:35 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3846 Details of venue and speakers here

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]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/05/people-centred-design-and-innovation-new-research-in-cape-town-shows-ways-in-which-the-urban-poor-can-get-better-access-to-the-internet-through-mobile-phones/feed/ 0 Cape Town World Design Capital 2014 Bid Book unveiled at City Council meeting http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/03/cape-town-world-design-capital-2014-bid-book-unveiled-at-city-council-meeting/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/03/cape-town-world-design-capital-2014-bid-book-unveiled-at-city-council-meeting/#comments Wed, 30 Mar 2011 21:37:13 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3521 City of Cape Town WDC 2014 media statement

Cape Town has officially submitted its bid to be World Design Capital in 2014, an occasion marked today by the handing over of a copy of the 465-page bid book to the Executive Mayor of Cape Town, Alderman Dan Plato, by the…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2011/03/cape-town-world-design-capital-2014-bid-book-unveiled-at-city-council-meeting/feed/ 0 Design South Africa, Design Cape Town http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/11/design-south-africa-design-cape-town/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/11/design-south-africa-design-cape-town/#comments Sat, 13 Nov 2010 13:47:14 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=3085 Creative Cape Town is hosting a design networking event on Tuesday 16 November. You’re invited to come listen to Zahira Asmal talk about her Designing South Africa project that captures and documents the legacy of the World Cup in terms of design aesthetics. Cape Town Tourism’s Mariette Du Toit Helmbold speaks about…

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]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/10/a-year-of-blogging-dangerously/feed/ 2 Designing solutions for people and the planet, not just more beautiful stuff http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/designing-solutions-for-people-and-the-planet-not-just-more-beautiful-stuff/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/designing-solutions-for-people-and-the-planet-not-just-more-beautiful-stuff/#comments Mon, 13 Sep 2010 14:50:20 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2747 Why is Cape Town bidding for the title of World Design Capital 2014? Because there are a whole bunch of Capetonians designing socially useful things. For example, check out Uncontained Living, proposals for environmentally friendly housing by Justin Beswick.

Go to World Design Capital 2014 for more…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/designing-solutions-for-people-and-the-planet-not-just-more-beautiful-stuff/feed/ 1 No African cities feature in the top 100 cities of the 2010 global innovation economy index http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/no-african-cities-feature-in-the-top-100-cities-of-the-2010-global-innovation-economy-index/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/no-african-cities-feature-in-the-top-100-cities-of-the-2010-global-innovation-economy-index/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:23:17 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2560 No African cities feature in the top 100 cities of the 2010 global innovative economy index, published by the Melbourne-based 2thinknow Innovation Cities™ Program. Cape Town is ranked third in the emerging cities innovation index, after Abu Dhabi and Dubai.

Top 100 innovative cities

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]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/no-african-cities-feature-in-the-top-100-cities-of-the-2010-global-innovation-economy-index/feed/ 3 Why Cape Town is bidding for World Design Capital 2014 http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/why-cape-town-is-bidding-for-world-design-capital-2014/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/why-cape-town-is-bidding-for-world-design-capital-2014/#comments Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:53:14 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=2528 For an overview as to why Cape Town is currently bidding for the title of World Design Capital 2014, and changing the name of the design game in the process, read the excellent article by my colleague, Lorelle Bell, followed by the editorial by the Cape Argus, which gets it spot on. Then…

]]> http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/09/why-cape-town-is-bidding-for-world-design-capital-2014/feed/ 4 “Work. Learn. Share. Change the World.” http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/work-learn-share-change-the-world/ http://www.andrewboraine.com/2010/07/work-learn-share-change-the-world/#comments Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:19:48 +0000 Andrew http://www.andrewboraine.com/?p=1764 One Saturday morning, a few weeks ago, I took my youngest son, Angelo, for a robotics lesson in the East City. Hidden behind a pair of small red doors in Buitenkant Street, we stumbled upon a magical world of creativity at the Open Innovation Studio.

“Work. Learn. Share. Change the World.” This is the…

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