What designs have governed our use of water in the past, and what does that mean for our civilisation? We decided to highlight three talks from TEDxCapeTown 2011, on how we can, and indeed have to, redesign our approach to this life-giving asset as a city and a species.
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South Africa 2030: Design and the National Planning Commission (Video)
The National Planning Commission (NPC) has released their 444-page report outlining how they believe we should take the country into a brighter, more sustainable future by 2030. To our eyes, the wording of the National Development Plan is surprisingly close to that of Cape Town’s World Design Capital bid. See for yourself.
What World Design Capital 2014 isn’t
Cape Town has just been named World Design Capital in 2014 and there’s been much celebration in the Mother City. There’s also been a lot of debate about what this means. Creative Cape Town explored this further and released: A beginner’s guide to what World Design Capital 2014 isn’t.
Beyond 2014: A design legacy for Cape Town
Bulelwa Makalima-Ngewana is managing director of the Cape Town Partnership, the coordinator of Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 bid. Here are a few of her thoughts on what World Design Capital could mean for Cape Town and the continent.
What can design do for Cape Town?
Cape Town has won World Design Capital 2014 – and there has been much celebrating, congratulating and well-wishing going on in the streets. But what does being World Design Capital mean, and what can design do for Cape Town? Here’s the design brief.
Design for real life
Four separate incidents cause VISI managing editor Alma Viviers to re-examine the nature of design and the roles of designers.
Tsai supports Cape Town for World Design Capital 2014
What makes Cape Town a great design city? Cape Town has many faces. On the one hand, it is one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Our status as a top-ten city that tourists like to visit is a testimony to that. One the other hand, the legacy of the past created many…
