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World Design Capital Study Tour 2 5 July 2013Programme curator Iain Harris
Programme guide and host Keith Sparks +2782 343 2372Programme coordinator Michael Letlala +2721 424 3572
Accommodation at the Cape Heritage Hotel, Heritage Square, Cape Town+2721 424 4646
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Introduction. By Iain Harris, programme curator__________________________________________________________________________
World Design Capital Cape Town 2014 needs to only get one thing right
Get us, as citizens, to think differently about our city and ourselves.And in so doing, think us out of received patterns of behaviour.
World Design Capital for Cape Town is an opportunity for citizens to engage andto collaborate, deeply, imaginatively, with our city.
Design shaped our separate development. Our collective psychology takes theshape of the built environment. The apartheid city, the apartheid mind.
How do we design a city for inclusivity?How do we design for dialogue? For democracy, for equality?What does a city designed for sharing and collaboration look, sound and feellike?
These are questions that World Design Capital can provide answers to.
And these are questions that this study tour tried to address, and sometimes,show some answers to.
Our journey explores the four themes of the WDC2014 year, threading themthrough the four days, through the breadth city:
4African Innovation. Global Conversation
1Bridging The Divide
3Today for Tomorrow
2Beautiful Spaces. Beautiful Things
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Day1. Tuesday 2 July 2013
Focus areas
History, Education, WDC2014 context
Geographic focus
Historic City Centre, Historic East of City Centre, District Six, Woostock
Threads
The original city. Design for oppression. Design and memory. Migration & forcedremovals. Economic development. Design education. Human Capital. The Fringe
/ The Nexus?
Hosts
Alayne Reesberg, CEO World Design Capital NPC, the implementationorganisation of the World Design Capital programme 2014. Alayne will addressthe rollout of the WDC programme, the trends emerging from the publicsubmissions, the signature events, the challenges they face, the legacy plans.What life does design as public intervention have after 2014?http://www.wdccapetown2014.com/
Bulelwa Makalima Ngewana, CEO Cape Town Partnership, agency behind thesuccessful bid for Cape Town to be the WDC2014. Bulelwa will provide thecontext to WDC2014, the process of successfully bidding, the elements thatwon the bid for the city, design for transformation.http://www.capetownpartnership.co.za/http://www.capetown2014.co.za/ for the bid site
Bonita Bennet, Director District Six Museum, on Memory and Design. CapeCoffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout
Town’s story is a story of the forced removals and separate development thatfundamentally shaped the psychological and physical design of the city.http://www.districtsix.co.za/
Erika Elk, CEO Cape Craft and Design Institute, on craft, creativity and theeconomy. The CCDI is an organisation funded by provincial government thatpromotes and grows craft as an economic sector in the Western Cape. Theirmodel is being applied in other provinces.http://www.ccdi.org.za/
Rashiq Fataar, MD Future Cape Town. Future Cape Town is a young urbanthinktank that plays itself out in the social media space.http://futurecapetown.com/
Bruce Snaddon, designer, Senior Lecturer & Cape Peninsula University ofTechnology coordinator for World Design Capital 2014, chair of the Cape TownDesign Network.http://www.cput.ac.za
Jan Horn, Campus Navigator, VEGA School of branding. Vega offers a range ofcourses in creating sustainable brands, from short through Bachelor of Artsdegree courses.http://www.vegaschool.com/
Francisca Gebert, director of the Cape Town Creative Academy. CTCA offersthreeyear degree courses including communication design, and interactiondesign, as well as short courses.http://www.ctca.co.za/
Alan Grant, raconteur and dinner host, owner of Paradise Grey. Alan spent mostof his adult life in Jamaica as the director of a range of businesses from coconutgrowing and rice farming to supermarkets and shipping.http://www.supperlounge.com/index.php?view=9
Michael Letlala, Coffeebeans Routes operations manager, he will host withAlan.http://coffeebeansroutes.com/
Cynthia Mgogodlo, chef, she cooks beautifully. Dinner will be a traditionalisiXhosa menu, including an umleqwa or Running Chicken casserole, withumfino, and roasted sweet butternut.https://plus.google.com/photos/104935278925303133583/albums/5430634222
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0800 Breakfast Briefing with Consul General Hotel
0830 Breakfast briefing with Alayne Reesberg Hotel
0930 Briefing with Bulelwa Makalima Ngewana CTP Boardroom10th floor The Towers34 Bree Street
1030 Memory and Design with Bonita Bennet District Six Museum
1200 LUNCH with guest speaker Rashiq Fataar Field Office, 37 BarrackStreet
1300 Erika Elk CCDI CCDI, 75 Harrington Street
1400 Bruce Snaddon and colleagues CPUT, Faculty ofInformatics and Design
1530 Jan Horn and colleagues VEGA, 3rd floor, 11Adderley St
1700 Francisca Gebert and colleagues CTCA, the Old Biscuit Mill,Woodstock
1800 Rest and reflection Hotel
2000 Welcome Dinner with invited guests Paradise Grey, 51Constantia Road,Higgovale, Tamboerskloof
Day2. Wednesday 3 July 2013
Focus areas
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The Present, Urban Transformation, Social Cohesion
Geographic focus
New City East, Khayelitsha, Rondebosch, Stellenbosch
Threads
The Binary city vs the nuanced city, the new centres, innovation corridor, inbetween the lines
Hosts
Edgar Pieterse, Director African Centre for Cities. Edgar will present on futureurban outlook for Cape Town, challenges the city faces in terms of legacydesign, possibilities for future cityhttp://africancentreforcities.net/
Vusumzi Mamile, Vuyile Msaku and Wongama Baleni, owners of TheDepartment of Coffee, the first coffee shop in a township in Cape Town, togetherwith Charite Volkwyn of the Ministry of Service Delivery, the agency thatincubated the team. On entrepreneurship and business opportunities intownships.http://www.elle.co.za/departmentofcoffeekhayelitsha/
Alistair Graham Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrade (VPUU), ondesigning for urban and social transformation in Khayelitsha.http://www.vpuu.org.za/
Pieter van Heyningen, project manager of the Stellenbosch Innovation District,an initiative of the University of Stellenbosch’s School of Public Leadership. Theproject was launched in October 2012.http://blogs.sun.ac.za/news/2012/11/01/suandpartnerslaunchstellenboschinnovationdistrictproject/
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0815 Breakfast briefing with Label Orange Jonathan andChoi Mi Chunghttp://labelorange.com/
Hotel
0930 Edgar Pieterse African Centre for CitiesUCT
1145 Vusumzi Mamile, Vuyile Msaku and Wongama BaleniDepartment of Coffee, and Charite Volkwyn
Dept of Coffee, Illitha Park,Khayelitsha
1230 Walking tour, with light lunch on the go Khayelitsha CBD
1330 Tour of VPUU Corridor, with Alistair Graham Ilitha Park, Harare,Khayelitsha
1445 Tour of Lyndoch ecovillage & Sustainability Institutehttp://www.sustainabilityinstitute.net/newsdocs/video/lynedochecovillage
Lyndoch, Stellenbosch
1600 Pieter van Heyningen, chief of SID The Antique Warehouse,Stellenbosch
1800 Hotel, free evening
Day3. Thursday 4 July 2013
Focus areas
Economic Hubs, Housing Solutions, Building the Imagined City of Cape Town
Geographic focusFranschoek, Tyberburg, the Northern corridor
Threads
Design in urban agriculture, design for informal trade, connecting the apartheidcity, city future
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Hosts:
Gundula Deutchlander, chief gardener Babylonstoren, Charl Coetzee,winemaker and director of the estate, on design for agriculture and experience.http://www.babylonstoren.com/
Shahid Solomons, urban planner for the Greater Tygerburg Partnership, onplans for redevelopment of the key Voortrekker corridor, a nexus in the city,connecting to historic centre, and the Cape Flats, the western suburbs.http://www.gtp.org.za/
Noeleen Murray, Cities in Transition Research Project, University of theWestern Cape. The project aims to provide the space for careful, theoreticallyinformed scholarship as a way to rethink some of the foundational aspects ofknowledge production invested in spatial disciplines such as geography,environmental science, urban planning architecture and others.http://www.uwc.ac.za/Faculties/ART/Pages/CitiesinTransition.aspx
Lucie Demoyencourt, architect, and Aamena Desai, urban planner, fromDesignscapes Africa, the firm behind the 10x10 low cost housing solution.http://designspaceafrica.com/projects/10x10housingproject/
0800 Transfer to Babylonstoren Old Paarl Road,Paarl
0900 Gundula and Charl, tour of Babylonstoren Babylonstoren
1100 Shahid Solomons presentation & tour of sites VoortrekkerCorridor
Bellpark Building
Corner of De Lange
Street & Durban Road
Bellville
1300 LUNCH with guest speaker Noeleen Murray Bellville / Goodwood
1500 Lucie Demoyencourt, architect, and Aamena Desai,Designscapes Urban Planners, together with Dale Cupido,Design Indaba designindaba.com
Freedom Park,Mitchells Plain
1700 Reception at Freeworld Design Centrehttp://www.plascondesigncentre.co.za/
71 Buitenkant St,Opp Fan Walk
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Bridge
2100 Return to hotel on foot or by cab(it’s about three short blocks away, a 5 min walk)
Day4. Friday 5 July 2013
Focus areas
Regeneration and design, commerce, memory, water, designersGeographic focus: Woodstock, Historic city centre, Table Mountain
Threads
Gentrification and urban planning, full circle, tying up loose ends, meetingdesigners, design for inclusivity, water and the city future and past.
Hosts:
Caron von Zeil, founder Reclaim Camissa. Camissa is the reclamation andrestoration of the ‘lost spaces’ associated with the waters that once gave rise to asettlement at the tip of Africa.nThe city was shaped by water, and into the futurehow we manage water is crucial. Caron hosts the team on a water walk, touchingon history and the future, and how design of water infrastructure and politicalsystems is strangling water security.http://www.reclaimcamissa.org/
Roelf Mulder, founder and CEO ...xyz Design, South Africa’s premier industrialdesign firms. Roelf is one of the grandfathers of design in South Africahttp://www.dddxyz.com/
Vanessa Watson, urban planner, she runs the City and Regional PlanningProgramme (School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics) at the University of
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Cape Town.http://africancentreforcities.net/about/people/31/
Daniel Sullivan and Lindsay Bush, City of Cape Town World Design Capitaldepartment ward projects, design thinking in city structures.http://www.wdccapetown2014.com/
Various designers
0900 Following the Camissa with Caron von Zeil Meet at Deer Park
1100 Roelf Mulder ...XYZ 5th floor, Block B,Woodstock Exchange,66 Albert Road,Woodstock
1130 Exploring Woodstock, with focus on the WoodstockExchange & the Biscuit Mill, a pop in at the BromwellMall
Woodstock
1300 Lindsay and Daniel, City of Cape Town WDCdepartment
14th floor StandardBank towers,Heerengracht St
1430 Vanessa Watson 6th floor,Menzies buildingUpper CampusUCT
1530 1830 Meet designers at their studios Porky Hefer Animal Farm animalfarm.co.zaHeath Nash Heath Nash heathnash.comChristo Maritz Infestation infestation.co.za
1900 over supper or drinks, a debrief with Alayne Reesbergand the Consul General
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ADDITIONAL WDC2014 MATERIAL_____________________________________________________________
THEMES
African Innovation. Global Conversation
Any innovative, designled project, policy, product or event that originated in Africa and that has global
relevance.
Unique solutions from a unique continent.
African ideas that have been exported beyond the continent.
Bridging The Divide
Projects that use design to bridge the historical divide between communities, across borders,
between first and third worlds, north and south, town and township, advantaged and disadvantaged.
Projects that use design as a tool for reconciliation.
Memory projects.
Creative crosssector partnerships.
Collaborative projects that connect high and low tech, mass and bespoke, artisanal and
technological, thinkers and makers.
Urban and periurban renewal projects.
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Today for Tomorrow
Green, brown and blue sustainability projects.
Projects that focus on human development, skills training and entrepreneurship.
Education and job creation initiatives.
Legacy projects.
Beautiful Spaces. Beautiful Things
All the beautiful things from our beautiful continent.
Inspiring and original architecture, interiors, landscaping, food, furniture, fashion, jewellery, craft, art,
publications, illustration, film, photography and creativity.
Beautiful items that are sold commercially.
Published on 01 Sep 2011
The City of Cape Town's successful bid tobe World Design Capital 2014Cape Town was designated World Design Capital for 2014 at the International Design Alliance
(IDA) Congress in Taipei, ahead of fellow shortlisted cities, Dublin and Bilbao.
What is World Design Capital?
The World Design Capital title is awarded biannually by the International Council for Societies of
Industrial Design (ICSID) to give global prominence to cities that use design for their social, economic
and cultural development. Founded in 1957 and active in 50 countries, ICSID has awarded the World
Design Capital designation three times – to Torino, Italy (2008); Seoul, South Korea (2010) and Helsinki,
Finland (2012).
The World Design Capital title is awarded in advance, allowing winning cities sufficient time to plan,
develop and promote a yearlong programme of World Design Capitalthemed events for their
designated year.
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Cape Town was designated World Design Capital for 2014 in October 2011.
Who is coordinating Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 programme?
The City of Cape Town is in the process of setting up the necessary structures and positions to ensure
the yearlong World Design Capital 2014 programme lives up to our bid promise. Already, a vital network
of partners from local and provincial government, the creative industries, academia and the media, as
well as local design leaders and citizens from all walks of life, have pledged their support.
Why did Cape Town bid for World Design Capital 2014?
Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 bid concept “Live Design. Transform Life” focused strongly on
socially responsive design. Our bid recognised and mobilised Cape Town’s considerable design
resources towards addressing the legacies of our city’s apartheid past. It is aimed specifically at dealing
with the vast imbalances that exist in our society and was organised into three broad themes: rebuild
Cape Town through community cohesion; reconnect Cape Town through infrastructural enhancement;
and reposition Cape Town for the knowledge economy.
The global landscape has changed irrevocably in recent years. Devastating economic and natural
disasters have had a sobering effect on all aspects of life, including design. There is a growing need for
practical design thinking, participatory methods and peoplecentred solutions to real problems. In this
context, Cape Town has much to inspire the world. Ours was – and is – a proudly African bid, with the
ultimate goal of achieving a sustainable, inclusive and more liveable African city, rooted in the strengths
of our people and communities – to “Live Design. Transform Life.”
Cape Town’s design legacy
The year 2014 represents a significant milestone for Cape Town and South Africa, marking 20 years
since we embraced freedom in 1994. For this reason, 2014 will be a momentous year, as we take stock
of the challenges and gains of our transformation, and celebrate the achievements of the past two
decades, both as a city and as a country.
Since the advent of democracy in 1994, Cape Town has undergone a process of reconstructing and
reconnecting a city that had been physically, socially, economically, culturally and emotionally divided for
many decades. As part of this cityled process of reunification and transformation, a large number of
public and private programmes and projects have, since 1994, been geared towards delivering the type
of innovative thinking, entrepreneurial spirit and successful implementation that will ultimately transcend
boundaries to reconnect Cape Town in structure and spirit, for the benefit of all citizens.
In 2010, we proved that we as a city (and a country) are able to compete on a world stage, hosting one of
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the most successful World Cups in recent years and the first on African soil. The World Cup has
provided Cape Town with the backbone of significant infrastructural enhancements and a renewed sense
of civic pride. Our aim was to build on this legacy through our World Design Capital 2014 bid, to
celebrate our successes and showcase them on a world stage.
Cape Town's design vision
Cape Town will use the World Design Capital 2014 opportunity to transform our city into one of the most
inclusive, sustainable, liveable and productive on the African continent.
By harnessing the problemsolving powers of design and designers, and the creativity and
resourcefulness of communities across our city, we will find innovative solutions to our most pressing
ontheground challenges.
We will identify, nurture and promote projects that offer tangible evidence of how design can improve
lives, bridge historic divides, reconnect our city in structure and in spirit, rebuild social and economic
inclusion, and reposition Cape Town for a truly sustainable future within our uniquely South African and
African context.
Through World Design Capital 2014 we will strengthen partnerships throughout our city – between
government, business, NGO’s, academia, designers and communities.
Working together, we will ensure that design is understood as a key driver of sustainable social and
economic development; that design is embedded in city development processes; that design skills and
excellence are developed in Cape Town, South Africa and the continent; and that citizens are
empowered to embrace design as a tool for transformation.
As the first developing nation city to be awarded World Design Capital 2014, we will use the designation
as a catalyst for collaboration, knowledge sharing and networking across the African continent, and with
other developing nation cities.
Our World Design Capital 2014 events will be leveraged to celebrate and showcase the tangible
successes and transformative vision that earned Cape Town the designation, and to share our
challenges and lessons more widely.
Globally, Cape Town will gain a reputation as a leading producer of creative design solutions to the
complex challenges of our time – an African city of designled innovation and inspiration.
Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 countdown
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Cape Town’s 465page World Design Capital 2014 bid book was officially handed over to City of Cape
Town Executive Mayor, Alderman Dan Plato, on 30 March 2011, a day before the formal ICSID
submission deadline of 31 March 2011.
In July 2011, three shortlisted cities for the World Design Capital 2014 title were announced, followed by
an ICSID site visit to each of these cities in July 2011 and the announcement of the winning city in
October 2011.
Keep up to date with the next phase, as we gear up towards 2014, by joining our Facebook fan page and
following us on Twitter (@CapeTown2014).
THE BID BOOK. EXTRACTS
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The Introduction motivates why Cape Town should be World Design Capital 2014 by highlighting where
we’ve come from pre and post Democracy in 1994; where we are today and where we are going, 2014
and beyond. It explains the story of how we’re using design to Rebuild Cape Town through community
cohesion; Reconnect Cape Town through infrastructural enhancement, and Reposition Cape Town in
the knowledge economy.
REBUILDING COMMUNITIES: CASE STUDY 1
How does a city like Cape Town, once torn apart by the legacies of colonialism and apartheid, and still in
the relative infancy of a new democracy, approach its vastly different peoples with a view to inclusivity,
reconnection and creating a city for all? First and foremost, it must rebuild its communities. This case
study looks at three examples of how rebuilding is taking place in lowincome communities in particular,
and how we are using design to alleviate the problems around social housing.
RECONNECTING INFRASTRUCTURE: CASE STUDY 2
Apartheid not only caused ideological disconnects in the City of Cape Town, it also disconnected entire
communities in terms of the supply of infrastructure and services, and in turn disconnected them from
employment opportunities and other resources. In the second of our case study sections, we outline
three projects that illustrate just how the “reconnection” is starting to take place – reconnecting people to
the places they must have access to in order to experience economic opportunities and quality of life.
REPOSITIONING FOR THE FUTURE: CASE STUDY 3
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Sustainability, densification and the knowledge economy are all key phrases in Cape Town’s plans for the
future, not only in terms of developing its local skills base and economy, but also in terms of becoming a
significant contributor to and player in the international landscape. Part of the City of Cape Town’s vision
is to become “… one of the greatest cities in the world to live, work, invest and discover.” This final case
study considers diverse ways people are starting to realise this vision – from innovative technologies
developed in Cape Town and a design showcase to rival the best in the world, to the development of a
model for a sustainable future.
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