Programme Archive

What if by 2050 the Cape Town city-region created a major, integrated multi-modal logistics hub connecting people, goods, information, knowledge and culture?

This workshop aims to bring parties from different sectors together to explore a long-term strategic vision for the Western Cape as a major, integrated multi-modal hub. During the workshop, participants will engage in sketching a vision for the Western Cape, drawing on Dutch expertise and lessons with multi-modal hubs, as well as the most recent developments at the major ports and airports in the Cape Town city-region.

The workshop will include, amongst others, presentations by the Airports Company of South Africa, Transnet and the Port of Amsterdam.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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What if farmers as innovative food producers could sustainably feed the growing population of our cities?

To feed its growing urban population, South Africa needs efficient farms close to its cities, which minimise the impact on the natural environment while increasing their yield and providing secure employment for farmers and farm workers. The sustainable production of nutritious and affordable foods, both for home use and for international export, calls for new farming models, involving innovative technologies and new forms of collaboration within the sector.

The workshop includes a keynote by Mzokhona Mvemve (East London Industrial Development Zone) and will bring together the foremost Dutch and South African experts on food security, encouraging collaboration between the two countries in this sector. Local farmers will also be in attendance to add to the depth of this exploration for a sustainable and viable solution to our food security challenges.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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Our current food system is facing major challenges. How will we feed our growing cities? How can we combat food waste and how do we involve more people in modern farming? To address these challenges we need a new perspective.

Agri meets Design is a platform that enables farmers, designers and professionals to rethink agriculture and co-create solutions for our future food system. During this three hour design session we will co-create new ideas and concepts for urban food production in Cape Town. Together with local designers, creative agencies and other food-professionals we will look for new solutions to address current issues.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Professor Mark Swilling is Division Head: Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership at the University of Stellenbosch and academic director of the Sustainability Institute. He is also project leader of Stellenbosch University’s Centre for Transdisciplinary Studies (known as the TsamaHub) which coordinates a transdisciplinary doctoral programme. Swilling has contributed extensively to public debate in the popular press on issues related to development, democratisation, governance, sustainability, energy, green economy and social movements and delivered many keynote addresses at South African and international events.

His most recent book is co-authored with Eve Annecke entitled Just Transitions: Explorations of Sustainability in an Unfair World published in 2012.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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Time-consuming, ineffective or excessive red tape impacts on the efficiency of organisations and ultimately cost the South African economy R79 billion each year. In the Department of Design, SIRA Consulting and the Western Cape Government collaborate to provide best practices that are applicable for the South African situation in order to reduce administrative burdens and to improve public services.

The workshop will include discussions with governments and businesses about opportunities to overcome trade barriers caused by red tape and the support they need to cut red tape. Together we can create an enabling environment that will grow the economy of the Western Cape and create jobs. The Western Cape Government supports municipalities and businesses to making it easier, cheaper and faster to do business in the Western Cape.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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The PlastOil technology transfers plastic waste into valuable fuel. PlastOil South Africa has the rights to South Africa for a technology owned by the Dutch company Petrogas, enabling the production of SANS 342 specification low sulphur diesel from plastic. PlastOil South Africa and Petrogas are looking to set-up projects that benefit the Polyolefin plastic fraction which can be found in municipal solid waste (MSW). Through the setup of such projects and working collectively with municipalities, controlling bodies, industry organistions, the long term vision is to reduce the volume of plastic making its way to landfill.

In Department of Design, PlastOil will showcase innovative technologies and present alternatives to landfilling waste plastic. PlastOil will be introduced through the viewing of a video and then engagement on the various benefits of the PlastOil system and it being implemented in South Africa. It will also be an opportunity to engage and interact with the attendees with regards to the challenges that PlastOil face in securing feedstock within the Western Cape and South Africa.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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At Department of Design, Claire Janisch and Jandirk Hoekstra will present a keynote lecture framing the discussion for the Healthy Rivers workshop to follow at 14:30. Hoekstra’s lecture entitled Room for rivers: The Dutch approach, will present a review of ways to deal with growing river discharge together with strengthening the condition for spatial quality. Janisch will present a keynote lecture entitled Nature as model, measure & mentor for healthy rivers,  outlining what biomimicry is and how biomimicry can and has been used to support healthy rivers, with a focus on a case study relating to the Berg River.

Claire Janisch is a Biomimicry Professional and sustainability & innovation advisor. She is a graduate of and has been a co-trainer for the international 2-year biomimicry Professionals Program (BPCP). She is the Founder and Director of BiomimicrySA and is the leading presenter, trainer and consultant for biomimicry in South Africa. Claire works in the areas of strategy, technology & education. She researches, translates and shares the genius of nature for product, process & systems innovations. Claire was selected in the Mail & Guardian’s 200 young South Africans in 2010 and 2011. She was a finalist in the Most Influential Women in Business & Government awards in 2012.

Jandirk Hoekstra is the co-director of H+N+S Landscape Architects and is on the Two Rivers Urban Park team of the Density Syndicate. He is also senior designer and  advisor for a wide range of projects in regional landscape design, city plans and events with a mix of culture and design. Recently he was the leader of the design studio for the Rhine-Meuse Delta in the southwestern part of the Netherlands and the leader of the studio for coastal quality that combined safety- research with possibilities to strengthen Dutch coastal quality. Jandirk Hoekstra is now supervisor for regional spatial quality issues in the Province of Noord-Holland.

There is limited space so please RSVP to rsvp@departmentofdesign.nl to secure your seat

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SUN Energy Group invites real estate developers, investors and others from the field to share knowledge and experience regarding sustainable energy solutions for the building sector through 2015-2020, as well as regulator changes regarding energy efficiency (i.e. min 50% renewable energy for Hot Domestic Water in SA). Also addressed will be Green Star building rating and other rating tools, lowering total costs for developers and customers and the relationship between real estate investors and project developers.

Focus will be on the what role SUN Energy can perform with its ESCo concepts from developers in this changing market. The goal is to spark a discussion and achieve a greater understanding of the challenges in the building sector.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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The Sport & Job Centre South Africa brings new worlds together with the ultimate goal of creating an active environment where unemployed youth can show their talents in effective ways.

Their presence at sport complexes shows positive outcomes for everybody: higher quality of sport complexes, highly satisfied users, functional work experience, best chances to show their talent and finally a successful to show employers. Ultimately these results lead employment.

In one of our recent projects in the Netherlands, 140 unemployed youth took part from September 2011 till March 2013 in the Veenendaal Municipality. About 70% werre successfully placed in a job. This works for us and we are confident this will work for South Africa.

This programme will boost the candidates’ confidence and will give the employers the opportunity to groom their future employees with good discipline, correct attitude and mind-set change needed for successful careers in corporate employment.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Smart Highway is an innovative concept for smart roads of tomorrow. A programme of innovation that links a different way of looking at things with innovative ideas that apply new technologies in smart ways.

Smart Highway is the result of an intensive collaboration between builder and developer Heijmans and designer Daan Roosegaarde. The themes sustainability, safety and perception are key to the concept and are manifested in the form of the newest technologies in energy and light.

During their first visit of Joziene van de Linde (Managing Director) and Bart Willems (project manager) to Cape Town in February 2014, they had a lot of interesting discussions with experts on the subject of Smart Highway. They want to use this opportunity to catch up and to hear about new developments as well as to talk about new opportunities for collaborating on the application of Smart Highway within the South African Landscape.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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At Department of Design, Renny Ramakers will present a keynote entitled, What waste is worth: Designing the pavilion of the Department of Design. She will talk about re-discovering the hidden value of waste in relation to the World Design Capital pavilion. Local waste is used with the involvement of the local community. Many good reasons will be presented to make things out of waste.

Renny Ramakers is the co-founder and creative director of Amsterdam-based design company Droog. She initiates projects, curates exhibitions, and lectures worldwide. Educated as an art historian at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, Ramakers has since been more interested in making history by stretching the borders of design thinking. Her aim is to deliver cutting edge content and unexpected perspectives in an interdisciplinary and a down-to-earth way.Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to rsvp@departmentofdesign.nl.

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Professor Edgar Pieterse is an urban scholar, writer and creative agent whose interests include the theory and practice of policy discourses and interventions to make cities more just, open, fun and accessible. He holds the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy at the University of Cape Town and is founding director of the African Centre for Cities. Formerly a special policy advisor to the premier of the Western Cape, he is the author of City Futures: Confronting the Crisis of Urban Development, co-editor of Africa’s Urban Revolution (2014) and Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities (2013) and Consulting Editor of Cityscapes.

Dr. Michelle Provoost  is an architectural historian, curator and consultant on urban planning and architecture affairs. She is a partner in Crimson Architectural Historians (est. 1994, Rotterdam) with whom she engaged in a large number of research and design projects, publications and articles in national and international magazines. From 2009 on she is the director of the International New Town Institute in Almere, the Netherlands, a non profit think-and-do-tank, aiming to contribute to the quality of new cities worldwide.

At Department of Design, Dr. Provoost will present a keynote lecture entitled Density of what? The Problem with New Towns. The case of Atlantis and Wescape confronts us with the question: Can two wrongs make a right? While the unprecedented urbanization worldwide seems to ask for many new cities and they are on the drawing boards, we can ask ourselves if New Towns are always the solution. Is it possible to make a good city from scratch? The outdated modernist principles of zoning and efficiency have given way to more urban dense concepts of the good city, but if we talk about density we should ask: Density of what?

Professor Edgar Pieterse will present a keynote lecture entitled, The Relevance of Densification in the Context of the Integrated Urban Development Framework. President Zuma announced in his recent State of the National Address that the government will publish the draft Integrated Urban Development Framework by the end of July for public review. The talk will explore the significance of densification imperatives in the context of this policy agenda.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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DASUDA’s Wingfield case study demonstration: Integral Approach on Urban Planning and Design, the Wingfield Case

The Dutch Alliance for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa (DASUDA) presents a case study on the former airbase Wingfield to show the ability of its digital interactive tools on water and mobility, how these give a better understanding of the opportunities and various criteria that are decisive for an urban scheme in Cape Town. In the DoD workshop session we will work together with invited key persons from the Cape region on these tools, show best practice and discuss possible variations.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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SolarWorks! shows that solar products can also be specifically designed for emerging markets. SolarWorks! provides the answer to people in need of good electricity supply, by offering affordable solar products. A significant percentage of South Africans are still without power, a far larger part of the population has access to power but is depending an unreliable supply. With good product design in terms of functionality as well as local support this can be solved with solar products. 

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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The basic principle of shading did not change since the stone age. SolarSwing developed a new type of shading system that can save a lot of energy for office buildings. It is an interior system with transparent blinds that keep the heat and glare outside, but let in plenty of daylight for a healthy and productive working environment. Because the heat is reflected outside, office buildings can save significantly on airconditioning systems, resulting in payback periods typically between 1-3 years. The blinds automatically follow the sun and can be controlled with an app. The product is compatible with building control systems and is not connected to the grid; it powers itself. Join our pitch and see how shading can be a solution

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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What if we could design our cities to become more integrated and more sustainable? 

Twenty years after democracy, South African cities remain divided, fragmented, inconvenient for the poor and uninspiring. It is uncontested that the current situation is socially, economically and ecologically unsustainable.

The Density Syndicate emerged as a think-tank initiative by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) and International New Town Institute (INTI) with the support of the City of Cape Town and in partnership with VPUU. Its aims is to explore how to achieve densification for three sites in Cape Town, using the combined design intelligence of Dutch and South African designers and urbanists.

During the workshop at Department of Design, an esteemed panel will act as critics for the outcomes and proposals of the initial investigations, with a local audience also present to engage in the discussion. The speculative designs will be included in ACC’s exhibition entitled City Divided | City Desired.

Keynote presentations by Edgar Pieterse & Michelle Provoost will build up to opening the workshop session.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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SolarSwing is a Dutch clean-tech start-up that developed interior shadings that help companies save substantially on their energy bill, whilst creating a healthy and productive inner climate for their employees. The SolarSwing transparent window blinds reflect heat but let in light, keeping buildings cool and bright. The SolarSwing might offer an applicable energy saving solution to South Africa, especially since regions like Cape Town and Johannesburg are focussing on the security of their energy supplies and the retrofitting of existing buildings with energy-efficient technologies.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Ekim Tan and Jeroen Warmerdam will present on the power of serious gaming to make planning and design of cities and communities more inclusive and accessible. Warmerdam will present a keynote entitled Using Serious Gaming for Collaborative Urban Planning which will illustrate the potential impact that designing and playing Serious Gaming can have on consensus building in urban (re)development.

Ekim Tan is an experienced researcher and designer in international urban design projects and founder of the Amsterdam and Istanbul-based city design and research network ‘Play the City.’ Born in Istanbul, Tan graduated as an architect from the Middle East Technical University (METU) with the Archiprix Award. Play the City focuses on strategic urban development in emerging countries, consisting of young and ambitious professionals from Cairo to Istanbul to Amsterdam.

Jeroen Warmerdam founded Tygron straight out of the Delft University of Technology. Since 2009 Tygron has grown into one of the Netherlands most succesful Serious Gaming companies. Tygron focusses on using Serious Gaming to create consensus among stakeholders in urban planning. Over years Jeroen has codeveloped some of Tygron’s most succesfull spatial Serious Games, including Simport (on Strategic Port Planning) and the Climategame (on Climateproof Urban Development). Tygron has finished urban gaming projects around the world, including the United States, Vietnam and Myanmar. The last year Jeroen has focussed on bringing Tygron’s innovative Engine to the South African market.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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In this workshop, participants will observe how Serious Gaming can impact planning, idea generation and collaboration with key stakeholders before any concrete decisions or actions are taken. Three separate developers will be showcasing their work throughout the course of the afternoon, ranging from urban planning to career development.

KEYNOTE:

13:00 – 14:00 Ekim Tan & Jeroen Warmerdam

SERIOUS GAMING WORKSHOP SESSIONS:

14:30 – 16:30 Play Khayelitsha

Gaming the future of the Khayelitsha Business District

17:00 – 19:00 Tygron

Urban game development: Rhodesfield vs. Delft

KEYNOTE:

19:30 – 20:00 Marcus Vlaar of RANJ

The Ancient Learning Method of the Future.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION:

20:00 – 21:00 Playing the future – Serious Gaming design in Africa

Roundtable exchange between South African and Dutch Serious Gaming experts.

How can we solve more socio-economic problems by focusing on revenue models and market-based activities in the (re)development of areas?

Market-based activities are now recognised as potential solutions to major sustainable development challenges – reducing poverty, enhancing livelihoods, protecting ecosystems, and tackling climate change.

In Department of Design, Matthew Marshall will showcase the Green Business Hub Rwanda as an example of private sector investment and business development as a driver for food security, long-term employment and affordable housing. With a local co-host he will discuss the opportunities and challenges of the extensive use of this approach in SA.

Witteveen+Bos offers its clients valued-added consultancy and design services with sustainable positive social and environmental impact. Their goal is to deliver reliable solutions built on knowledge, experience, intellect and social insight based on the core values of professionalism, respect and integrity. Matthew Marshall is an expert on the development and maintenance of sustainable urban areas. With a passion for the creation of resilient cities to provide safe and healthy living conditions through market-based activities and profitable business cases.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Henk Mulder is the Deputy Mayor of Almere, and will speak about the plans for the Floriade 2022 World Expo. Every ten years since 1960 a world horticultural expo has been organised: the Floriade. After Rotterdam, Amsterdam (twice), Zoetermeer, Haarlemmermeer and Venlo, it is now Almere’s turn: this is where the 7th Floriade will be staged in 2022.

A Floriade is a large international exposition demonstrating innovations in the field of horticulture. Increasingly important is the legacy of the Floriade, what remains afterwards. The core of Almere’s plans is the development of a prototype of a Green City or district, a green variation of the Cité Idéale, where the Dutch horticultural industry can present itself to the world in 2022, which will also act as the main legacy.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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THE ANCIENT LEARNING METHOD OF THE FUTURE

Game technology is bringing the ancient method of “learning by doing” to a new level: engaging, effective and evidence based. Marcus Vlaar will show how games are changing the way we learn, work and stay healthy.

Marcus Vlaar is one of the founders and Chief Creative Officer at Ranj Serious Games. Ranj Serious Games is an award winning company specialized in the development of state-of-the-art game formats used for teaching & training, recruitment & assessment, and health & remedial. Vlaar has been a pioneer in the field of digital media since 1987, and has been active as visual artist, designer, script writer, game designer and game director for over 200 games.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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At Department of Design, Kristian Koreman and Anton Cartwright will present keynote lectures to frame the discussion for the Preparing for Climate Change workshop. Cartwright will present on his research work on the impact of rising sea levels on Cape Town’s coastline. Koreman will speak on alternative and inclusive processes for city making and an integrated approach to jointly addressing a water, social and urban agenda.

Kristian Koreman co-founded ZUS [Zones Urbaines Sensibles] in 2001 with Elma van Boxel. For their cross-disciplinary approach and their constant reflection on the division between private and public space, the duo received the prestigious Maaskant Prize for Young Architects in 2007. Koreman was also recently named as one of the winning teams for  Rebuild by Design, the competition founded as a response to Superstorm Sandy’s devastation in the region of New York.

Anton Cartwright is an economist with Masters degrees in Development Economics and Environmental Change and Management respectively. His recent work has focused on the interactions between environmental degradation and human poverty, and in this context he has consulted on South Africa’s emerging green economy, climate change adaptation, bioenergy, sustainable trade and integrated water resource management. In 2010 he joined the African Centre for Cities to head their Climate Change City Lab. The lab aims to create an interdisciplinary platform that will embed climate knowledge in municipal development. He recently began a PhD exploring climate change risk and the formal and informal approaches to managing it.

There is limited space so please RSVP to rsvp@departmentofdesign.nl to secure your seat

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STYLELUXX.CO.ZA is a leading online luxury fashion and design retailer. Launched in 2014 on the African continent, it has established itself as a luxury brand with high-end fashion, exclusive designers and detail focused customer care. STYLELUXX.CO.ZA works with globally renowned designers and brands in clothing, shoes and accessories.

Presented as a fashion magazine, it offers the style conscious access to the hottest looks of the season from international labels, delivered via express delivery. In Department of Design, Styleluxx aims to explore the South African market to collaborate with local South African designers as well as to introduce Dutch designers to South Africa by using the internet platform.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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During this workshop, Play the City will display the power and potential of city gaming within the context of South African cities such as Cape Town. They will demonstrate a prototype of their upcoming game Play Khayelitsha during Department of Design, as an example of a way in which serious gaming can help South African planners and developers. You will get the chance to experience how this game could create a virtual reality before final physical plans & processes are put in place to recreate a neighbourhood.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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BASIS2BUSINESS will take you through the process, zooming in on the urban development, including the birth of a design lab for public experience. Who knows, we may even take a little fashion detour.

BASIS2BUSINESS aims at supporting creative and other innovative business and enterprises in how to further their case and assess how and when they can be successful. The process design of BASIS2BUSINESS, Social Object Valuation, has been tested in a wide variety of activities, ranging from flow line bundle development for the offshore industry, to fashion, to high impact urban development with a new cultural centre as its pivot.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Shake the World, wear the bracelet. An amazing journey of social entrepreneurship, branding and partnerships.

Shake the World is a SA-NL fair fashion brand founded during the World Cup 2010 with an orange beaded fair trade bracelet sold to Dutch soccer fans. This became a massive media hit and since then we sold almost 500.000 bracelets worldwide that were proudly produced by over 1000 female crafters in KZN earning an additional income to lift them out of poverty.

All of this was accomplished in a social entrepreneurial approach and through public private partnerships with our NGO partner Africa Ignite, Government (SA-NL- CBI) , Fashion (Edgars), other corporates all adding their value to the movement. Without a marketing budget we managed to inspire millions of people around the world with our social awareness and guerilla marketing campaigns leading to massive free publicity also by our media partners like SAfm.

We believe social branding is the future and we like to tell you more on our mission to become the most likeable social brand. In our session we will look back on our turbulent and inspiring journey, but moreover we hope to go forward to explore how we can work together and can create (long term – brand) value for our organisations, women and the world! So please join our session and come to collect your collectors item bracelet!

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Ineke Hans is the CEO of INEKEHANSARNHEM, the Dutch design studio that specialises in a wide range of 3D projects: furniture, and jewelry, small batch products and mass-produced items. Since 2005 the studio’s emphasis moved to industrial design, but the studio has a broad spectrum of professional qualities. Next to that, Ineke Hans also designs exhibitions and architectural projects. Having won numerous prestigious international design awards, Ineke Hans’ work has been purchased by leading collectors and museums. With a broad experience in the creative industry, Ineke Hans will be the Dutch keynote speaker in the Crafts Connection session alongside Inga Gubeka, a rising star in the South African design and decor industry.

Inga Gubeka is a 20-something entrepreneur who is making his mark on the South African design and décor scene. Born in the Eastern Cape and raise in Durban, Gubeka established Indalo Décor in Cape Town in December 2013. Although he studied interior design, he soon realised that he enjoys the physical process of making objects and now runs a studio in Paarden Eiland, Cape Town. Here he designs and makes unique products including backpacks, clocks and lamps.Gubeka also creates wooden accessories for cellphones and tablets with friend and business partner, Gavin Ryder, under the Indalo+Ryder label.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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Integral planning on the scale of a country: 1 policy document + 10 years = 828,145 new dwellings

JAM* architects + planners is an agency for design and research. Working from region to city and from building to public space. From design to research and publications. With a special interest for strategy and the process of making spatial plans with attention for details.

In Department of Design, Jeroen Mensink from JAM* would like to invite local professionals, politicians and academics of urban and regional planning. The aim is to show a broad audience the importance of integral regional and city planning by showing the results of the last major national planning operation in the Netherlands: “The Vinex,” from 1995 until 2005. And hereby exchange knowledge and experience about the integral approach of the Vinex as a unique Dutch expertise that finds a growing demand in South Africa.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Doepel Strijkers bridges the gap between art and science with intelligent design and strategic interventions. The office works on a broad spectrum of projects ranging in scale from products to strategic urban interventions. Recent works focus on reactivating vacant office space, climate adaption, new typologies for the changing retail market, zero waste design and inner city densification strategies.

Doepel Strijkers is also a participant in the Density Syndicate, the strategic partnership between South African and Dutch architects and urban planners, initiated by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) and the International New Town Institute (INTI). In Department of Design, Doepel Strijkers will present their approach towards sustainable design, addressing topics of climate change, energy and resource depletion in relation to a circular and inclusive economy.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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How can connecting local craft traditions to contemporary markets create sustainable businesses?

This panel discussion aims to connect South African businesses to Dutch counterparts with the aim of fostering mutually beneficial long-term relationships. The need for ‘contemporary local,’ for the tangible and the specific, has inspired contemporary designers to take up and transform local crafts, in their own countries and abroad.

In the Netherlands crafts that had almost disappeared were revived by prominent designers, while in Brazil, India and China collaborations between crafts communities and contemporary designers have led to inspiring results that have created new jobs for local communities. The panel will focus on what these developments mean for South Africa, in terms of shaping and representing a specific and contemporary local South African culture, and of developing a sustainable business with international scope.

A related keynote by Ineke Hans & Inga Gubeka will commence shortly thereafter, followed by an informal drinks reception.

This workshop is a co-creation between Department of Design and the Dutch Centre for the Promotion of Imports (CBI).s.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

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NL Architects aspire to catalyse urban life. The Amsterdam-based office is on a constant hunt to find alternatives for the way we live and work. How can we intensify human interaction? We understand architecture as the speculative process of investigating, revealing and reconfiguring the wonderful complexities of the world we live in.

Can we compress banality into beauty; squeeze the sublime out of the obvious? How can we transform, twist, bend, stack, stretch, enhance or reassemble the components that constitute our environment into new and better configurations?

Often, projects focus on ordinary aspects of everyday life, including the unappreciated or negative, that are enhanced or twisted in order to bring to the fore the unexpected potential of the things that surround us. By sampling existing fragments of reality and recombining them, gluing bits and pieces together into new coherent arrangements, our architecture can be understood as The Remix of Reality: the architect as DJ.

Participation: For more information please email walter@nlarchitects.nl

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Agri meets Design will discuss redesigning agriculture: the role of designers in rethinking.

Our current food system is facing major challenges. How will we feed our growing cities? How can we combat food waste and how do we involve more people in modern farming?

To address these challenges we need a new perspective. Agri meets Design is a platform that enables farmers, designers and professionals to rethink agriculture and co-create solutions for our future food system. The keynote will address this topic and will elaborate on the experiences of Agri meets Design in South Africa. How can South African designers contribute to our local and global future food system?

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Common Methods was initiated to contribute towards the development of the networks between NL + ZA designers, manufacturers and the public. It aims to bring designers to uncommon territories, to stimulate new developments through collaboration and promote knowledge exchange and personal development.

In the workshop ‘Perception, Meet Reality,’ designers will be exposed to experiences and generate outcomes of a cultural, methodical and materialistic exchange. Participants will be taken through the movement, experience and unfolding of the designer’s development: new perceptions, reflecting on visual archives, juxtaposing reality, all done by materialising and expressing their personal views.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

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Many cities around the world are dealing with problems like poverty, housing and unemployment. These so called “wicked problems” cannot be dealt with by single solutions, but by starting a process of change. Remy Jansen believes that the strength of architecture today is the role of the design process as a catalyst for these complex problems, because architecture itself is wicked. With his developed skills and design method, Remy Jansen wants to engage in collaboration with stakeholders to be of use in the sustainable development of South Africa’s cities.

In this session, he will present project on which his thesis was based during his Masters of Architecture and would like to continue with local parties. The project is about a combination of a top-down and bottom-up approaches in design and development of vocational training centres in the informal settlements of South Africa.

After presenting this project, Remy Jansen would like to have a conversation/discussion with the audience to get their input on the project and to see if there are any potential parties to collaborate with to further develop this strategy/project. Remy Jansen is a Dutch architect that has recently graduated at the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam. Jansen has various experiences in studying the informal urban contexts, triggering sustainable development progress in townships.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

Parking: Information may be found here.

DASUDA’s Wingfield case study demonstration: Integral Approach on Urban Planning and Design, the Wingfield Case

The Dutch Alliance for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa (DASUDA) presents a case study on the former airbase Wingfield to show the ability of its digital interactive tools on water and mobility, how these give a better understanding of the opportunities and various criteria that are decisive for an urban scheme in Cape Town. In the session, participants we will work together with these tools, to show best practice and discuss possible variations.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

Parking: Information may be found here.

Join Creative Cape Town to learn more about the #CCTapp. Whether you’re a Cape Town-based artist, crafter, entrepreneur, writer, dancer, coder, filmmaker, designer or other kind of creative practitioner, the #CCTapp allows you to upload your portfolio, services and events to create instant visibility and connectivity.

The app’s ability to better connect local creatives and clients, as well as provide a portal to creative events in the city is unprecedented. Drop in to receive step-by-step assistance in creating your profile, or for a demo on how to use the app to help you navigate Cape Town’s creative scene.

Participation: Please email caroline@capetownpartnership.co.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

Changemakers are a group of local innovators who engage in their community in new and inspiring ways. They are thought leaders who challenge the norm and break the mould to facilitate change.

The Dutch Consul General Ms Bonnie Horbach has invited a handful of Cape Town’s leading Changemakers to her residence for an intimate dinner three times this year so far. For the first time, all of the attendees will meet each other at one exciting event at Department of Design.

Joining us will be Changemakers from Mxit, Sleek Geek, Miss Emma Jude, This Is Africa, Creative Nestlings, Chimurenga, Western Cape Government, African Arts Institute,Creative Cape Town and many more.

But the highlight of this event will be the addition of one incredible surprise South African Changemaker.

This will be an evening of thought-exchange, inspiration, networking and discovery as some of the country’s greatest minds mingle. Refreshments and light snacks will be served.

Want to take part? Join the conversation to #cocreateSA and you could win one of 10 tickets to this exclusive event. Learn more here.

Participation: By invitation only.

Parking: Information may be found here.

The Centre of Expertise wants to improve the South-African water supply and sanitation sector by introducing Dutch knowledge and technology. The Centre of Expertise is hosted in Durban by eThekwini Water & Sanitation (EWS) and will introduce innovations and best practices in the South-African water and sanitation sector.

The Centre of Expertise aims to match South African water knowledge and technology needs with Dutch water knowledge and innovations. Targets for the Centre of Expertise are to improve the performance of Southern African peer utilities and assist them in implementing these innovations, best practices and technologies. In Department of Design, the Centre of Expertise will demonstrate their model for international collaboration in the water and sanitation sector and showcase the many innovative projects that the Centre of Expertise is currently creating.

Participation: For more information  please email leo.meijer@durban.gov.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

Department of Design is officially part of the Third Thursdays Cape Town programme! The event invites guests to explore the East City and its local initiatives. Third Thursdays is the East City edition of First Thursdays Cape Town, and promises an evening of art, culture and great food.

Department of Design will be hosting walking tours of the FLOW landscape, as well as free entry to Thursday evening’s workshops:

• EY Toastmasters invite Capetonians to #cocreateSA through conversation. Using public speaking as a tool for sustainability, EY Toastmasters will focus on Department of Design’s themes Energy and City. The workshop will explore the power of energy transfer through positive human interaction in communal urban spaces.

• A Conversation with Dr Alex Apsan Frediani, he will share some of his work on the potential of urban games to address injustices in the city, especially when applied in contexts of informal settlement upgrading. He will draw on lessons and debates from the field of participatory design and planning and reflect on the series of participatory design workshops run by Architecture Sans Frontières – UK, entitled ‘Change by Design’ which he has been involved with.
• Lady Skollie hosts an interactive paint by numbers that will make you blush. If that doesn’t do the trick, banana installation running in tandem will. Expect to leave empowered, sexually aware and perhaps a little hot and bothered.

Participation: All events and tours are open to the public free of charge.

Parking: Information may be found here.

Critical gaming practices: Alex Apsan Frediani in conversation with Liza Cirolia

Alexandre Apsan Frediani is co-director of the masters programme in Social Development Practice at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London (UCL). He has worked extensively in various parts of the world, in-part exploring the potential of urban games to address injustices in the city — especially when applied in contexts of informal settlement upgrading.

In a wide ranging conversation with Liza Cirolia, a housing policy specialist who co-convenes the Human Settlements CityLab at African Centre for Cities, Frediani will discuss the capacity of urban games to creatively engage with social diversity and power relations and foster cross-scalar thinking. He will also share some of his experiences working with Architecture Sans Frontières in Salvador (Brazil), Nairobi (Kenya) and Quito (Ecuador) with local collectives who embedded participatory design initiatives within their wider agenda of deepening democratic practices in the city.

The conversation forms part of ACC’s Serious Fun initiative — a strand of a forthcoming exhibition on Cape Town.

Participation: Please email marcela@openstreets.co.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

My life has been spent trying to find a context in which to explore art, sex, sexuality and gender restrictions.  In a country where sexual education is really a matter of life and death, we still perceive sex as a taboo subject.

Through the persona of Lady Skollie, I want to consolidate the perceptions of youth, sex and art.  I paint slightly offensive watercolours of genitals and fruits, have sex parties in the name of ‘sexual awareness’ and host a weekly sex talk show on Assembly Radio called Kiss and Tell with Lady Skollie.

Twitter : @LadySkollie

Website: www.ladyskollie.tumblr.com

Radio Show podcasts: www.mixcloud.com/ladyskollie

EY Toastmasters invite Capetonians to #cocreateSA through conversation.

Using public speaking as a tool for sustainability, EY Toastmasters will focus on Department of Design’s themes Energy and City. The workshop will explore the power of energy transfer through positive human interaction in communal urban spaces.

Participation: For more inforrmation, please email: president@toastmasters.co.za or www.toastmasters.co.za.

Parking: Information may be found here.

Mxit Reach invites you to the announcement of the winners of the Ibali Lami writing competition.

The exciting announcement follows submissions from over 5,000 learners, 24 short-listed finalists and thousands of public votes.

Ibali Lami (My Story), is a national writing competition open to learners in Grade 8-12 and is designed to encourage young South Africans to develop their writing skills. Learners have to write a short 300 word story in which they imagine themselves as 25.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

Parking: Information may be found here.

From problem to profit: Energy production from industrial waste water combined with re-use of treated effluent. In this presentation Aquest Colsen will discuss the state of the art of current available technology to treat effluent from industrial plants with an organic pollution. Innovative waste water treatment technologies focused on energy production and nutrient recovery. Aquest Colsen will explain the possibilities of converting the organic fraction in effluent to sustainable energy in the form of biogas. The presentation provides the theoretical background and shows multiple examples of this type of projects which have been realised.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

Parking: Information may be found here.

Innovative waste water treatment technologies focused on energy production and nutrient recovery.

In this presentation Aquest Colsen will present the latest developments in municipal waste water treatment, focused around energy production through efficient conversion of organic matter to biogas.

Can waste water treatment works be energy neutral or a net energy producer? Aquest will provide our attendees with the latest developments in this field, both from a theoretical background and from experiences with pilot research and full-scale installations from the Netherlands. In addition, the workshop will focus on the latest developments in the treatment of sludge which is released in waste water treatment installations, such as new trends and possibilities in anaerobic digestion of sludge. Aquest will demonstrate the advantages of treating waste water sludge at thermophilic conditions, resulting in higher energy production and less residual sludge.

Aquest will also demonstrate the technologies which have been developed in the Netherlands around recovery of fertilisers from urine. Instead of being only a waste product, urine can be seen as a source of nutrients which have residual value. In the presentation, Aquest will provide the theoretical background and show pilot and full-scale results of these technologies.

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

Parking: Information may be found here.

In commemoration of Mandela day the Consulate General of the Netherlands in Conjunction with Heal the Hood Project are hosting a #cocreate workshop. Thirty keen youth from Art Vibrations II Incorporated, an NPO based in Ocean View, will be part of a collaborative Graffiti Mural workshop hosted by Heal the Hood Project in collaboration with one of Cape Town’s rising Graffiti Artists Nardstar*.

Nard honed her wall painting technique by concentrating on basic letter fills, line and colour work. In addition to being an experienced graffiti writer, Nard has a background in graphic design that adds to her artwork. Vivid portraits, caricatures of animals or abstract shapes are all staples of Nard’s style. Nard’s work has appeared on walls throughout South Africa and America most recently at The Bushwick Collective in Brooklyn.

Participating youth will work on a commemorative mural to honour the late honorable Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela together with Nardstar* to create a co-created mural which will later be mounted for display. During the course of the day youth will also be entertained by Emile YX? and Mixed Mense, who will be performing a talented fusion of endemic South African dance styles such as Zulu,Gumboots, S’bujwa mixed with Breakdance. They will also host a B-Boy and Popping workshop with the youth.

By working with youth from the Cape Flats in a space such as Department of Design. the aim is to show youth that by harnessing art and collaboration, they can make a sustainable career for themselves as visual and performance artists and that gangsterism, crime and poverty are obstacles that can be overcome through hard work, creativity and perseverance.

Participation: This event is open to the public.

Parking: Information may be found here.

The Bow Exchange Project is an engagement of folklore inclined Nguni and KhoiSan musicians/artist/performers, who play the traditional bows – uHadi, uGubhu and umrhube and others – and draws on the astounding range of vocal sounds used in traditional music which are then aligned in confrontational situation with western equivalent instruments – violin, cello, guitar, double bass.

The idea is that bow instruments from different cultures use the platform as an exchange and cultural exploration. Each instrument plays a simple line, but each line is carefully placed in relation to the other, and the effect of the repetitive rhythmic and melodic figures is hypnotic. And the make-up of the band, young and old musicians and all from diverse cultural groups showing a bridging of knowledge and generational gaps that move past the cultural stereotypes that are part of our Apartheid heritage. The project is the initiative of Azanian Oasis Group.

Participation: This event is open to the public.

Parking: Information may be found here.

“MINERS SHOT DOWN” FILM & DISCUSSION: The role of business, government and society in contemporary South Africa

The African Arts Institute is a Cape Town-based NGO.  Its overall objective is to promote participatory democracy, respect for fundamental human rights and freedoms and equitable social and human development in African countries by affirming the cultural dimension of development.

As part of the Marikana Solidarity Campaign and as a means to contribute to discussions around co-creating a South Africa in which something like this is never to happen again, Department of Design, in collaboration with the African Arts Institute, will be hosting a film screening and discussion evening.

Hosted by the African Arts Institute. Panellists: Terry Bell (Journalist, critic and analyst) & Professor Ralph Hamman (UCT, GSB lecturer).

Please join us for what is sure to be an intense but stimulating night.

Participation: Please email katleho@afai.org.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

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Speakers brief bios:

Terry Bell

Writer, broadcaster, sometime teacher and social activist.  For the past 18 years has produced a regular, syndicated Inside Labour column.  Has written and commented extensively on mining conditions both before and after the massacre at Marikana. Winner of the Nat Nakasa Award and of the Labour Media Award.

Professor Ralph Hamann

Professor at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town. Teaches on business sustainability, especially in the MBA core course on ‘Business, Government and Society’. Researches organisational responses to complex social and environmental problems, including mining company-community relations.

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Synposis of MINERS SHOT DOWN:

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.

What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country’s first post-apartheid massacre. South Africa will never be the same again.

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NOTE: If you are unable to make it tonight screening, do note that a screening  will be held in Nyanga next weekend:

WHAT: “MINERS SHOT DOWN” FILM & DISCUSSION

WHEN: 26 July, 2014 @ 14:30 – 17:00

WHERE: “Zolani Sport and Recreation Centre”,  No 6, Sithandathu Avenue, Zolani Thusong Centre, Nyanga East

WHO: Hosted by the African Arts Institute. Speaker: Terry Bell (Journalist, critic and analyst)

TOPIC: “The role of business, government and society in contemporary South Africa”

Cape Town’s Student heartland creates a powerful geometry of opportunity around Cape Town’s planned Second Metropolitan Node at Tygerberg. With more than 100000 students, five higher learning institutions of national significance and excellent logistics and infrastructural linkages, the Student City opportunity will be a major driver of urban regeneration.

The seminar explores the meaning and implications of design-driven planning, the experience thus far on the Voortrekker Road Corridor and the potentials and possibilities for weaving together an integrated matrix of learning, living, working and cultural opportunities. Place making is seen as a central discipline in the process of developing Student City.

Questions will be explored as to the nature, location and conceptual drivers of the Student City to guide on-going work by the Greater Tygerberg Partnership, the City of Cape Town and universities and colleges.

Speakers: Shahid Solomon, Greater Tygerberg Partnership & Larry Pokpas, University of the Western Cape

Participation: This event is open to the public. Please email jonita.pasjar@gtp.org.za.

Parking: Information may be found here.

Cape Town’s streets could be much more than they are…

Safe and cohesive communities.

Platforms for creative expression of local cultures and values.

Places for recreation and social interaction.

Contributors to job creation and local economic activity.

Providers of choice in how we move around the city.

Join us for a fun event at the DEPARTMENT OF DESIGN to discuss, challenge and propose ideas for Open Streets. We will be announcing the programme for the remainder of 2014, and running breakaway sessions around each of the above-mentioned themes with ‘street’ movers and shakers. Together we can co-create shared places that embody respect for all and help bridge the social and spatial divides of our city.

Participation: Please email info@openstreets.co.za by 21st July 2014

Parking: Information may be found here.

GEM is a mobile reward system for social volunteers, backed by the Dutch Social Trade Organisation- STRO. Corporate sponsors that wish to support social volunteers can donate goods, services or money. These resources are then converted into GEMs and are earned by doing community work, separating waste, planting trees etc.

GEMs can then be spent on airtime, pre-paid electricity, movie tickets and groceries. One of the main goals of GEM is to stimulate corporate counterparts to apply their Corporate Social Responsibility Investments through the GEM model. In Department of Design, the Dutch Social Trade Organisation and GEM aim to show the value that GEM can add to CSR strategies and activities, not to mention the incredible impact they will have in #cocreating an engaging and productive society

Participation: Limited space available; please enquire to RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl

Parking: Information may be found here.

Hands of Honour would like to explain how up-cycling obsolete stock collected from corporate partners has improved our standard of living and enhanced our urban environment. We have also collaborated with four established artists to have their works featured on garden benches made from wood destined for landfill, which we will also exhibit.

Hands of Honour brings together three best-practices: While ‘up-cycling’ or reusing waste materials has been done informally by waste pickers scouring the dumps, the organisation works directly with the waste generators to formalise this process, representing something new in South Africa. Corporations are the main ‘donors’ of waste to the organisation, donating rather than disposing of their waste.  Hands of Honour’s Job Training Programme provides skills and confidence to those members of society who have ‘checked out’. This both increases employment and rehabilitates the workers.

This process funds urban renewal initiatives, focusing on those areas that are identified by the community as being flash points for crime. Taken together, these elements result in a programme that can sustain itself and contribute to a greener city, job creation and reclaiming derelict urban spaces.

Hands of Honour and their Regeneration of City and Soul (#WDC368) project is a WDC recognised project.

Participation: Please email handsofhonour@gmail.com

Parking: Information may be found here.

Sematsatsa Library encourages everyone to take part in a journey to discover lives – female lives – black and proud who imagine an enlightened world through their work. From East to west, North to South, we’re involving arts organisations, businesses and civil society to give names of women who, through their work, propose Africanism and womanism.

We will also be unpacking certain activities we’re already having and also sharing some of the people we think do not find a space in the world for their work to be seen and be honored, whilst they’re still in our midst. Our expectation is to have 100 names by the end of August 2014, during the women’s month and launch Sematsatsa Library during the month of September with some of our ladies in attendance. We’re also calling on individuals to be part of our Board of Advisors, should anyone be interested in unpacking and documenting the historical , economic and social impact of women on our continent.

Participation: Please email palesa.motsumi@sematsatsa.co.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

We invite you to join us at the Department of Design in 6 Vrede Street on Thursday, 24. July 2014 from 13:00 to 14:00 for a presentation on changes in the South African immigration regulations and legislation, and what to expect moving forward. The event is hosted by the Dutch Consulate in Cape Town in cooperation with Intergate Immigration Service.

Intergate Immigration’s Senior Immigration Consultant Marcia Heidsieck will happily answer your immigration-related questions in addition to sharing new information and insights about visa options available to you, your employees, and your family.

Attendees qualify for a FREE initial consultation We look forward to seeing you there!

Participation: Please email marcia@integrate-immigration.com

Parking: Information may be found here.

In the Netherlands, we designed a game for older persons suffering from dementia in collaboration with two universities, a game design company and several elderly care providers. The game is called the ‘Active Cues’ and stimulates physical activity and social interaction for moderate-to severe dementia patients.

The Active Cues consist of six games which all stimulate dementia patients to physically interact with light projections on the dining table. For example, they can play with fish that swim around, sweep away leaves or throw a ball to each other. During our evaluation study, we found significant improvement in physical activity and happiness from the games. Players actively engaged in the game and happily chatted about the games with each other.

Currently we are taking two next steps, for which we are looking for new partners and expertise: (1) the Active Cues will be produced for the European market and we want to explore whether we can produce and market it also in South Africa. (2) we are setting up a new consortium to redesign the Active Cues for children with autism. This project will take place from January until July 2015 in Cape Town and we are looking for organisations, schools and companies that are interested in participation. The aim for this workshop is to share knowledge in both fields: design for dementia care and education for autism, and explore the opportunities for new collaborations.

Participation: Please email h.anderiesen@tudelft.nl

Parking: Information may be found here.

Weaverlution is an online marketplace that enables NPOs, government, corporates, entrepreneurs and citizens to connect, collaborate and coordinate their efforts around needs. Users find or create projects on Weaverlution, specify custom needs and source support (venue, volunteers, skills) from the local community.

Weaverlution is launching its pilot in October 2014 and this workshop will prepare pilot participants for that launch. We plan to share the platform prototype, answer questions around how the platform will work and capture project details so that projects are pre-loaded in anticipation of launch. We plan to share best practices around garnering support for projects and will mentor users around project creation and marketing channels.

Participation: Please email anne@weaverlution.com

Parking: Information may be found here.

Join Sera Holland for the launch of her new textile range of fabrics and interior products. The event will include the premier of her new DIY custom design option to create your own cushion covers on my website. The debut features the work of several designers/illustrators/photographers whose work has been transformed into cushion covers.

Participation: Please email sera@handmadebyme.co.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

Join us for a presentation by Karin Benjamin and Luuk Kemperman of Play to Learn. Play to Learn is a project initiated by Industrial Design Engineering students from the HAN University in The Netherlands, emphasising user-centred innovative design in the Theewaterskloof municipality.

The educational toys of Play to Learn are designed based on the needs of the children in Theewaterskloof school. Interdisciplinary research showed that toys could help to improve the fine motor skills of children. The aesthetic toys that were designed and made improve the fine motor skills as well as the hand-eye coordination and concentration activities of the 5- and 6-year-olds.

By improving the fine motor skills and social competences the children’s learning abilities, future job opportunities and quality of life will increase. Additionally, Play to Learn seeks to stimulate transfer of skills both in designing and producing as well as in business skills by collaborating with local craftsmen.

Participation: Please email RSVP@departmentofdesign.nl.

Parking: Information may be found here.

Join Creative Cape Town this Friday 25 July to learn more about taking part in Creative Week 2014.

Find out how you can start where you are, use what you have and make what you can to celebrate everyday creativity during the fifth annual Creative Week happening from 13 to 21 September. Past and future participants will talk about how to maximise the opportunity and will unveil the new website.

Participation: Please email caroline@capetownpartnership.co.za

Parking: Information may be found here.

Consul General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands will host the farewell reception of the Dutch Ambassador to South Africa, Mr. André Haspels and celebration of the conclusion of Department of Design.

The reception will be preceded by a panel discussion from 4 to 5 pm, in which Ambassador Haspels, Fanie du Toit (Institute for Justice and Reconciliation) and Judith February (Institute for Security Studies) reflect on the important events in South Africa over the past three years. The discussion will be moderated by Dutch correspondent Bram Vermeulen.

Participation: This is a closed event.

Parking: Information may be found here.

InnovateSA is a high school innovation competition asking high school learners to come up with bright ideas to solving local challenges. The best ideas receive funding and support through mentorship and workshops. This event will be the introductory workshop with our finalists. They will present their ideas and then do a workshop with invited advisors from the public to help them prepare for the prototyping phase of the competition.

Participation: Please email stefan@innovatesa.org

Parking: Information may be found here.

The Native Drums are inspired by an African aesthetic and the ability to share it through music; communicating with people across disciplines through music that comes from distinctly African rhythm and beats. This event is a celebration of not only African music, but African design culture, with a focus on sharing a space with designers and entrepreneurs that would like to network with like-minded people. It will present a mix of people and disciplines, in a venue that promotes South African and Dutch Collaboration.

Participation: This event is open to the public.

Parking: Information may be found here.