The City of Cape Town's successful bid for World Design Capital 2014 was coordinated by the Cape Town Partnership, in collaboration with a wide range of stakeholders and supporters.
Design can do anything, from reshaping the structure of a typical workday to making it easier for women in heels to navigate city pavements, reports Bronwynne Jooste from the Cape Argus, recently back from a three-day visit to World Design Capital 2012 Helsinki. Read on for her observations on what else design can do.
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How can Africa have enough, for all her residents, forever? Organisers of the Sustain our Africa summit, to be held at the V&A Waterfront from 22 to 28 October 2012, don't claim to have all the answers, but they are gathering together thought leaders from a variety of disciplines - from government and built environment officials through to eco-entrepreneurs and design educators - to start generating some workable, sustainable solutions.
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A low-cost post carbon house built from tyres, cement, recycled wooden pallets, tin cans and cardboard boxes was unveiled on Monday 21 May 2012, at the Rocklands Urban Abundance Centre on the Rocklands Primary School grounds on the Cape Flats.
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Is it time to radically rethink and redesign food production and the urban ecosystem? Mokena Makeka and Rory Williams recommend that Cape Town gets serious about urban farming; not in the futuristic sense of grand vertical farms, but in the form of realistic low-barrier-to-entry subsistence farming that we can all participate in.
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During the bidding phase of Cape Town's World Design Capital 2014 campaign, we often emphasised that the design Cape Town needed was not high-end stuff and pretty objects, but creative problem solving. But what role can beautiful objects play in transforming lives?
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Around the time of municipal elections last year, open toilets in the Western Cape and Free State hit the national agenda in a big way - resulting in the formation of a sanitation task team under Winnie Madikizela-Mandela to investigate the situation.
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This prestigious status is designated biennially by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) to cities that are dedicated to using design for social, cultural and economic development.
This title will give Cape Town a chance to showcase its achievements and aspirations through a year-long programme of design-led events and activities as World Design Capital designees Seoul (2010) and Helsinki (2012) have done. The official World Design Capital logo is strictly prohibited from appearing on any platforms besides those used by the official World Design Capital. For more information, please visit www.worlddesigncapital.com.
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