What happens when you get designers and developers, community-minded people and coders together for two days around a good cause? Cape Town Science Hack Day will unite participants for 48 hours to explore how science and new technology can empower communities.
What’s your wish for 2012? Five design insiders share theirs
As one year ends and another approaches, many people stop and take stock of their lives. On the eve of 2012 (and World Design Capital 2012 in Helsinki) five design insiders share their resolution for the coming year and wish for World Design Capital 2014 in Cape Town. “Come together” Y Tsai, an architect living…
The Loeries come home to roost in (creative) Cape Town
Cape Town has won the bid to host the Loerie Awards for a further three years, and is celebrating the opportunity to showcase its creative talent as it journeys towards World Design Capital 2014.
Design inspired by nature, and applied to The Fringe
What inspires a number of design students at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology? Quite simply: nature’s genius.
Designing information technology to tackle health challenges
Care and support isn’t something that you would readily associate with MXit, the largest mobile social network in Africa. But hundreds of thousands already do.
Communication for innovation: Conversations Cape Town needs to have
The global population has passed the 7-billion threshhold, and over 50% of us are living in cities. By 2030, this percentage in South Africa is estimated to be as high as 70 to 75%. In this context, Professor Ivan Turok, an expert on global urban economies and the principal author of the 2011 state of…
Designing a climate smart city
COP17, the 2011 United Nations Climate Change Conference, might be in Durban, but Cape Town representatives are there in force, showcasing how the city is adapting to the challenges of climate change and making the city more sustainable through design.
Does your project improve your neighbourhood?
Are you based in the Cape Town metropole, working on a grassroots project that transforms lives in fundamental ways? Yes? Then you stand to win R750 000 as part of the Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award.
TEDxStellenbosch: How to design African cities
How are African cities growing and being designed to ensure that tomorrow is a better day than today? Three notable speakers confront the topic of Africa as one mega-city as part of TEDxStellenbosch.
Talking design at TEDxMfuleni
In September 2011 a small group of people got to hear some pretty big ideas at the TEDxMfuleni event: About developing an enabling attitude for school-leavers, the link between design and democracy, as well as a restaurant’s lesson in integration.
