The Cape Argus, as part of the Lead SA campaign, in conjunction with the Cape Town for World Design Capital 2014 Bid, has been running a series of imaginative articles on redesigning the city. Here’s one by my colleague, Iain Harris, of Coffeebeans Routes, who argues for new …
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Bidding for City cultural awards – learning from Donostia-San Sebastian
I’ve just spent three days in the Basque city of Donostia-San Sebastian, where I was a speaker at the World Urban Development Congress (INTA 34). I was interested to discover that San Sebastian is a candidate city for the European Capital of Culture 2016. Given Cape Town’s current bid …
A year of blogging dangerously
I see that I have written 148 posts on ‘Cities for People’ since I started blogging in October 2009. That’s more than a post every three days, which I’m told is the least one must do to keep one’s readers vaguely interested. Blogging has been a great opportunity to get back into the art of …
Creativity alive and well and living in Cape Town
If you are interested in design trends, you need to get the new Creative Cape Town Annual, produced by Bell Roberts Publishing in conjunction with Creative Cape Town. You can flip through the pages here, or get hold of a hard copy from the Cape Town Partnership offices in Bree Street (call …
Can greater connectivity help address poverty and inequality in the city?
Improving access and mobility for all citizens through the citywide implementation of the Integrated Rapid Transit System (IRTS) is a major priority for Cape Town in the next 15-20 years. In parallel, and perhaps as important, is promoting greater connectivity through the roll out of Cape Town’s Broadband Infrastructure Network.
Can greater connectivity …
Designing solutions for people and the planet, not just more beautiful stuff
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 information on …
Transforming the city through redesigning public spaces for people
Here is another great article published in yesterday’s Cape Argus (Sept 9, 2010) by my colleagues, Lorelle Bell and Alexandra Jongens, in support of Cape Town’s bid for the title of World Design Capital 2014. Through the WDC bid process, we are asking the question: how do we use design …
Why Cape Town is bidding for World Design Capital 2014
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. …
We’re on the road to nowhere…
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 …
“Work. Learn. Share. Change the World.”
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 …
Sm(art) opening
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 opening:
“The …
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Find out more about Cape Town's bid to win the title of World Design Capital in 2014
