World Design Capital Study Tour 2 ­ 5 July 2013 Programme curator Iain Harris Programme guide and host Keith Sparks +2782 343 2372 Programme co­ordinator Michael Letlala +2721 424 3572 Accommodation at the Cape Heritage Hotel, Heritage Square, Cape Town +2721 424 4646 ­­­­ Coffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout 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 and to collaborate, deeply, imaginatively, with our city. Design shaped our separate development. Our collective psychology takes the shape 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 feel like? 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 them through the four days, through the breadth city: 4 African Innovation. Global Conversation 1 Bridging The Divide 3 Today for Tomorrow 2 Beautiful Spaces. Beautiful Things Coffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout 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 & forced removals. Economic development. Design education. Human Capital. The Fringe / The Nexus? Hosts Alayne Reesberg, CEO World Design Capital NPC, the implementation organisation of the World Design Capital programme 2014. Alayne will address the rollout of the WDC programme, the trends emerging from the public submissions, 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 the successful bid for Cape Town to be the WDC2014. Bulelwa will provide the context to WDC2014, the process of successfully bidding, the elements that won 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. Cape Coffeebeans 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 that fundamentally 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 the economy. The CCDI is an organisation funded by provincial government that promotes and grows craft as an economic sector in the Western Cape. Their model is being applied in other provinces. http://www.ccdi.org.za/ Rashiq Fataar, MD Future Cape Town. Future Cape Town is a young urban think­tank that plays itself out in the social media space. http://futurecapetown.com/ Bruce Snaddon, designer, Senior Lecturer & Cape Peninsula University of Technology coordinator for World Design Capital 2014, chair of the Cape Town Design Network. http://www.cput.ac.za Jan Horn, Campus Navigator, VEGA School of branding. Vega offers a range of courses in creating sustainable brands, from short through Bachelor of Arts degree courses. http://www.vegaschool.com/ Francisca Gebert, director of the Cape Town Creative Academy. CTCA offers three­year degree courses including communication design, and interaction design, as well as short courses. http://www.ctca.co.za/ Alan Grant, raconteur and dinner host, owner of Paradise Grey. Alan spent most of his adult life in Jamaica as the director of a range of businesses from coconut growing and rice farming to supermarkets and shipping. http://www.supperlounge.com/index.php?view=9 Michael Letlala, Coffeebeans Routes operations manager, he will host with Alan. http://coffeebeansroutes.com/ Cynthia Mgogodlo, chef, she cooks beautifully. Dinner will be a traditional isiXhosa menu, including an umleqwa ­ or Running Chicken ­ casserole, with umfino, and roasted sweet butternut. https://plus.google.com/photos/104935278925303133583/albums/5430634222 Coffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout 777808961/5439711421356789874?banner=pwa&pid=543971142135678987 4&oid=104935278925303133583 0800 Breakfast Briefing with Consul General Hotel 0830 Breakfast briefing with Alayne Reesberg Hotel 0930 Briefing with Bulelwa Makalima Ngewana CTP Boardroom 10th floor The Towers 34 Bree Street 1030 Memory and Design with Bonita Bennet District Six Museum 1200 LUNCH with guest speaker Rashiq Fataar Field Office, 37 Barrack Street 1300 Erika Elk CCDI CCDI, 75 Harrington Street 1400 Bruce Snaddon and colleagues CPUT, Faculty of Informatics and Design 1530 Jan Horn and colleagues VEGA, 3rd floor, 11 Adderley 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, 51 Constantia Road, Higgovale, Tamboerskloof Day2. Wednesday 3 July 2013 Focus areas Coffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout 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, in between the lines Hosts Edgar Pieterse, Director African Centre for Cities. Edgar will present on future urban outlook for Cape Town, challenges the city faces in terms of legacy design, possibilities for future city http://africancentreforcities.net/ Vusumzi Mamile, Vuyile Msaku and Wongama Baleni, owners of The Department of Coffee, the first coffee shop in a township in Cape Town, together with Charite Volkwyn of the Ministry of Service Delivery, the agency that incubated the team. On entrepreneurship and business opportunities in townships. http://www.elle.co.za/department­of­coffee­khayelitsha/ Alistair Graham Violence Prevention through Urban Upgrade (VPUU), on designing 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. The project was launched in October 2012. http://blogs.sun.ac.za/news/2012/11/01/su­and­partners­launch­stellenbosch­inn ovation­district­project/ Coffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout 0815 Breakfast briefing with Label Orange Jonathan and Hotel Choi Mi Chung http://labelorange.com/ 0930 Edgar Pieterse African Centre for Cities UCT 1145 Vusumzi Mamile, Vuyile Msaku and Wongama Baleni Dept of Coffee, Illitha Park, Department of Coffee, and Charite Volkwyn 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 Institute Lyndoch, Stellenbosch http://www.sustainabilityinstitute.net/newsdocs/video/ly nedoch­ecovillage 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 focus Franschoek, Tyberburg, the Northern corridor Threads Design in urban agriculture, design for informal trade, connecting the apartheid city, city future Coffeebeans Routes. 70 Wale St Cape Town 8001. Ph +27214243572. [email protected]. @coffeebeansrout 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, on plans 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 the Western Cape. The project aims to provide the space for careful, theoretically informed scholarship as a way to rethink some of the foundational aspects of knowledge 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, from Designscapes 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 Voortrekker Bellpark