What is WDC2014?

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.

World Design Capital 2014 in the news

Opinion and editorial

  • 21 Oct, Cape Argus: Countdown starts: Mayor on way to Taipei (Read more)
  • 25 Oct, Cape Argus: Design a tool for change and reform (Read more)
  • 28 Oct, Mail&Guardian: Designer city ‘just window-dressing’ (Read more)
  • 30 Oct, Sunday Weekend Argus: Function, form and our history (Read more)
  • 30 Oct, City Press: World design capital (Read more)
  • 31 Oct, Cape Times (Mokena Mokeka and Rory Williams), Cape Town’s win is an opportunity to design our own lives (Read more)
  • 1 Nov, Peoples Post: Design destiny (Read more)
  • 2 Nov, Cape Argus: Inequality takes shine of city’s golden time (Read more)
  • 2 Nov, Cape Argus: Designing communities that work (Read more)
  • 2 Nov, Visi.co.za, Looking ahead (we won… so now what?) (Read more)
  • 3 Nov, Cape Argus: Bridging our divides (Read more)
  • 3 Nov, Business Day: Cities should be capitals for more than a year (Read more)
  • 6 Nov, Sunday Times, Design Crown (Read more)
  • 11 Nov, Mail & Guardian: By design, a city for the poor (Read more)
  • 24 Nov 2011, Cape Times: A new way to think about our city (Read more)

 News articles

  • 28 Oct, Fairlady.com: Cape Town wins World Design Capital 2014 (Read more)
  • 28 Oct, CapeTownAlive.com: Cape Town is 2014 Design Capital of the world (Read more)
  • 1 Nov, Bizcommunity.com: Design Capital status will improve events industry (Read more)
  • 2 Nov, The New Age: Design capital bid cost R1m but city ‘will benefit’ (Read more)
  • 3 Nov Cape Argus, Cape Town vows to help poor by design (Read more)
  • 3 Nov, The Capetowner, How Cape Town won the bid (Read more)
  • 3 Nov, Cape Town conference industry expects major boost from Design Capital status
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  • 3 Nov, The Property Mag, CT Celebrates World Design Capital win (Read more)
  • 4 Nov, Business Day, A time for the city’s design to shine (Read more)
  • 4 Nov, Supernews, Cape Town is World Design Capital (Read more)
  • 4 Nov, Cape Times, Cities need a little faith, De Lille says from New York (Read more)
  • 4 Nov, My Property, Cape Town – Design Capital (Read more)
  • 8 Nov, SA Commercial Prop News, Will the World Design Capital 2014 Award give Cape Town property a boost? (Read more)