Tag Archives: World Design Capital 2014

Why Cape Town is bidding for World Design Capital 2014

05 September 10 3 Comments

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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…

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We’re on the road to nowhere…

30 August 10 5 Comments

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Update: There was a good response to my original post on Cape Town’s unfinished freeways. Ella Smook wrote a follow up article in the Cape Argus on 01 September (see full story below), following which John Maytham picked up the debate on Cape Talk radio.

What do you think? Should the Foreshore Freeways be:…

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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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Creating Spaces for Creatives

02 May 10 0 Comments

Given our commitment in Cape Town to supporting and developing creative industries, I was interested to see what Toronto is doing when I visited there two weeks ago. After all, it’s where Richard Florida, influential writer on the role of the creative classes in cities, now directs the Martin Prosperity Institute,…

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Sm(art) opening

14 March 10 0 Comments

I thoroughly enjoyed taking part in the opening of the Spier Contemporary 2010 Exhibition at the Cape Town City Hall last night. The event was well attended and a great success. Well done to Tanner Methvin and the Africa Centre for pulling it off.

This is what I said at the…

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Alejandro Aravena: design for social change

10 March 10 0 Comments

Many delegates to the recent Design Indaba conference in Cape Town have told me how impressed they were with the presentation by Alejandro Aravena, a Chilean architect, on the design and financing of affordable housing. I unfortunately missed the presentation, but here are two views worth reading: one by

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Cape Town World Design Capital 2014?

21 February 10 1 Comment

As we head into the last 100 days to the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, a bunch of creative Capetonians have been looking at ways to sustain the momentum beyond 2010. One idea is a campaign to bid for Cape Town as World Design Capital in 2014 to be

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