Tag Archives: District Six Museum

Cities for visitors or for locals? A journey through the ‘top 200′ cities of the world

26 September 10 6 Comments

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Many of my posts this year have tended to focus on the impact of the 2010 Football World Cup in Cape Town. Well, it was considerable. But now that the big event has come and gone, I thought that it would be nice to broaden my horizons once again and…

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“Work. Learn. Share. Change the World.”

15 July 10 0 Comments

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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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First Encounters (or where is the Cape Town Museum?)

04 February 10 2 Comments

I visited the Museum of Sydney in December 2009. It is a relatively new museum (1995) in downtown Sydney on the site of the first Government House. It is architecturally inserted into the base of a large office tower building. I was curious to see how the story…

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