Accelerate Cape Town

Accelerate Cape Town is a business-led initiative aimed at bringing together stakeholders in the Cape Town region to develop and implement a long-term vision for sustainable, inclusive economic growth.

African Centre for Cities (UCT)

The ACC seeks to facilitate critical urban research and policy discourses for the promotion of vibrant, democratic and sustainable urban development in the global South from an African perspective.

Cape Craft and Design Institute

The Cape Craft & Design Institute (CCDI) was set up in 2001 to promote and grow craft as an economic sector in the Western Cape province of South Africa. A Section 21 not-for-profit company, the CCDI is a joint initiative of the Provincial Government of the Western Cape and the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. The CCDI has also been adopted by the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) as a model Craft Hub, to serve as a template for the establishment of other similar craft institutes in the other provinces of South Africa.

Cape Film Commission

The Cape Film Commission is the official representative of the City of Cape Town and the Province of the Western Cape, for the economic development, marketing and promotion of the film industry through a strategy of Growth, Integration and Transformation.

Cape Peninsula University of Technology (Department of Informatics and Design)

The Faculty of Informatics & Design has departments spread over three campuses (the Cape Town Campus, Bellville Campus and Foreshore Campus) of the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT). Its offerings include Diploma, Bachelors, Masters and Doctoral qualifications in informatics and design-related disciplines. Qualifications are offered in the following specific disciplines: ARCHITECTURAL TECHNOLOGY; FASHION & SURFACE DESIGN; FILM AND VIDEO; GRAPHIC DESIGN; INDUSTRIAL DESIGN; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; INTERIOR DESIGN; JEWELLERY DESIGN AND MANUFACTURE; JOURNALISM; MULTIMEDIA; PUBLIC RELATIONS MANAGEMENT; PHOTOGRAPHY; and TOWN AND REGIONAL PLANNING.

Cape Town International Convention Centre

The idea of the centre was first conceived in the late 1990s when it was recognised that a truly international convention centre would fill an obvious gap in the city of Cape Town’s tourism infrastructure, and have the potential to deliver a phenomenal impact on the local, provincial and national economy.

As a result, the CTICC was born, with the City of Cape Town and the Provincial Government of the Western Cape as its largest shareholders – effectively putting ownership of the centre in the hands of the people of the city. And in a few short years, this exceptional centre has grown into a shining example of the power of effective partnerships.

Cape Town Tourism

Cape Town Tourism is the City of Cape Town’s Official Regional Tourism Organisation, responsible for destination marketing, visitor and industry services.

Cape Town Tourism is guided by the clear vision of positioning Cape Town as one of the world’s top 10 tourism destinations in terms of economic yield, and developing tourism’s role in:

• Establishing Cape Town as one of the world’s greatest cities to visit, live, work and invest in.
• Driving economic and social transformation.
• Promoting and helping to achieve the wider city vision of being celebrated globally for “creative freedom”.

City of Cape Town

The City of Cape Town is fully behind the World Design Capital bid for 2014. Mayor Dan Plato recently endorsed a senior delegation to the World Design Cities’ Summit in Seoul for the purposes of presenting Cape Town as a design city and announcing the intention to bid for the World Design Capital in 2014.

ESP Afrika/Cape Town Jazz Festival

ESP Afrika is the company behind the annual internationally acclaimed Cape Town Jazz Festival. They aim to be a leading player – globally – in the field of event management, while offering a ONE STOP SHOP SOLUTION for music festivals and concerts, sports, television and corporate events. Another mission is to establish South Africa as a player of note on the global entertainment circuit. This goal will be achieved by effectively utilising and enhancing available knowledge and resources internally, forming strategic alliances and partnerships with relevant roleplayers from Government to Corporate and Private Sectors through to the broader relevant local Communities, thereby establishing South Africa as a player of note on the global entertainment circuit.

Interactive Africa

Interactive Africa is the company behind Design Indaba. an unconventional business born to the new South Africa. They are not prisoners to a model or conscripts to the norm even if it means morphing from being venture capitalists and idea starters to marketing, project managers and creative consultants. Bespoke solutions to what are often landmark undertakings draw on their strategy, creativity, logistics, production and communications tools.

Makeka Design Lab

he philosophy behind Makeka Design Lab is pursuing an architectural model of production that uses a theoretical basis for accelerating cultural richness and diversity, fostering more substantial dialogues between ‘urban actors’ and the built environment. The broader purpose is to also advance new understandings about how cultural specificity in design can interact with the everyday and the universal.

MMA Architects

MMA architects have a vision to become one of the leading architectural practices spearheading South Africa and Africa’s socio-spatial and cultural transformations. Founded in 1995 as Mphethi Morojele architects the practice became MMA architects cc in 1998 with four members and offices in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Berlin, Germany. They currently have a staff complement of 40 including architects, technologists and support personnel.

MMA Architects are responsible for the internationally acclaimed “10×10” low cost housing project (See “Ten Projects”).

Tsai Design Studio

Tsai Design Studio are the creators of the internationally acclaimed and award-winning “Nested Bunkbeds” (See ‘Ten Projects’).

Wesgro

Wesgro is an agency mandated to attract and facilitate foreign and domestic direct investment into the Western Cape, to grow exports of products and services of the Western Cape and to market the Western Cape as a competitive business destination within the national and international arenas.

CITI (Cape IT Initiative)

CITI was founded in June 1998 by a group of business people who saw the potential to create an ICT (Information & Communications Technologies) networking and cluster development agency that brings together people, ideas and capital to create a strong ICT community, increase the attractiveness of the Cape as an IT location, stem the loss of professional skills to Gauteng and overseas, and attract inward investment.

CAPE TOWN FASHION COUNCIL

Industry body in South Africa and was formally established in November 2006. Its aim is to play a key role in being the representative mouth piece and common platform for the industry. The Council’s is to represent the diverse views of the fashion design industry, marketing the capacity to the rest of the world and ensuring that key interventions grow and promote this industry. Furthermore it will create strong linkages with other regions to support a national platform.

CAPE HIGHER EDUCATION CONSORTIUM

The main purpose of the company is to facilitate regional co-operation between participating Public Higher Education Institutions in the Western Cape; and to promote the spirit or partnership and shared values with a view to achieving operational efficiencies and rationalization of resources, including the establishment of integrated systems and planning; the development of common infrastructure, including shared facilities and equipment; and the coordination of administrative process and academic programs

Cape Town Partnership

Creative Cape Town