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Cape Town World Design Capital 2014

The “Live Design, Transform Life” tour, Cape Town

A seven day package (with optional five day Johannesburg add­on)

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“The World Design Capital Cape Town 2014 is an opportunity to understand how integral design isin our everyday lives and how we can use it as a tool to support the changes we would like to see inour homes, schools, neighbourhoods, city and country... Design is the enabler through which wecan re­imagine our city, and improve the lives of its citizens.“

With design as the guide, this seven day World Design Capital travel package journeys deeply intothe multiplicity of facets the make up the city of Cape Town, and explores how design has shapedour city and our lives, and how it can and is shaping our future.

The journey is built, loosely, around the four key themes of the World Design Capital bid, with arange of experiences bringing them to life:

African innovationGlobal conversation ­ African ideas that speak to the world

Beautiful thingsInspiring architecture, interiors, food, fashion, jewellery, craft, art and creativity

Today for tomorrowSustainable solutions for people and planet

Bridging the dividesDesign that connects our city and communities

Across the World Design Capital Cape Town 2014 year there will be six signature events. Theseare the events that each WDC designate is required to stage. These are

Design Week Forum, 30 November 2013Programme Launch, 1 December 2013Design Gala, 26 February 2014Design House Exhibition, 21 ­ 29 November 2014Design Policy Conference: 26 ­ 28 November 2014Convocation Ceremony, 30 November 2014

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This package can be adapted and adjusted, for example, to tie in with the Design PolicyConference, so that a group visiting the city to attend can have a deep off­conference experience.The other signature events can easily be included in the package.

There will be official events coming out of the citizen submission phase, events either officiallyendorsed by or funded by, the World Design Capital programme. These take place between Marchand December 2014. These will be announced in the final quarter of the year.

Additionally, there will be many unofficial events, tapping into the buzz around the World DesignCapital.

The World Design Capital travel programme detailed in this document is to designed to be run overany period of the year, adjusting to whatever programming is available at the time.

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Day1. Arrival dayAirport transfer, check in to hotel, relax!

Afternoon OR evening trip up Table Mountain by cablecar, a lovely way to welcome a guest to thecity.

1900 Welcome African Music DinnerAn African Music Dinner, a private affair at the villa of Alan Grant, on the slopes of Table Mountain,with a four course traditional local spread, a private concert, and the first opportunity to meet citydesigners, who will be invited as special guests.

Dinner takes place across the villa’s various magical spaces, including two courtyards, the diningroom, and the chef’s table.

By the time the day is over, the group will have already made friends in the city, experienced someof her amazing musical talent, and some of her most exciting flavours.

Day2. Full day, 0900 ­ 1800City Past. From Camissa the place of Sweet Waters, to Cape Town the apartheid City

Today is a context day. We explore the history of the city, from its indigenous roots as Camissa,the Place of Sweet Waters, through the origins of Cape Town as a city with the arrival of the Dutchand the ensuing colonial regimes, to apartheid and up to 1994 and democratic elections. We areultimately looking at the history that designed and shaped the city and the policies that determinedthe lives of its citizens.

Part1. The Mother on the MountainAn essential introduction to Cape Town, the Mother City, and an opportunity, from an aerialperspective at the Foot of Lion’s Head, to map the city’s past, and get a perspective on theprogramme for the week.

Part2. Walking tour of the original CityExploring the origins of the city, with visits including the Slave Lodge, the remains of the original cityreservoir underground in the Golden Acre mall, the original city jetty at the Cape Town Station andthe District Six Museum. The District Six Museum and the theme of forced removals is veryimportant in the exploration of the city at large and design has fundamentally shaped our present

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and future.

Part3. Cape Malay home lunchThen it’s lunch time. For lunch, we are going to be hosted in a Bokaap home for a Cape Malaylunch, home­cooked. We will be introduced to the spices of the city, a sensual journey that is asmuch a story about the journey of people to the city, and the design of colonialism and the slavetrade that brought people to the Cape. It’s an opportunity to discover more layers of history, whilesampling fantastic traditional food.

Part4. Robben IslandAfter lunch, we take the ferry to Robben Island, and follow the threads of apartheid and forcedremovals to the island where Nelson Mandela was incarcerated. It’s an opportunity to exploreapartheid design further, but also the liberation design and notions of how liberation theory wasshaped in South Africa.

After Robben Island, it’s back to the hotel.

The evening is at leisure, with restaurant recommendations.

Optional Tour: The Cape Town Jazz Safari, with dinner included. If there is a design oriented eventtaking place, we will include that.

Day3. Full day, 0900 ­ 1800City Present. 1995 ­ now. Where does the city find itself today

Using the classic Peninsula Route as our sightseeing base, we build our exploration of historicalcontext ­ the suburbs around the mountain represent the early days of Cape Town, and thereforethe dominant ideologies ­ and also get a fix on how things are changing post 1994. We meet somedesigners with interesting takes on the changes, and the changes required. It’s a day of beauty, it’sa day of contrasts.

Part1. Investment Pavements WeedsJohn Bauer is one of the most progressive artists in Cape Town. His technical and political sussmake him a unique individual, and visiting his home is like entering his brain. His work is primarily inceramics, and his technique, his ability to extrude design on ceramics is unparalleled. He hasrepurposed a Sung Dynasty technique to recreate colours in fantastical ways. On this part of thejourney, to his home in Harfield Village, a site of forced removals, we are hosted by John and giveninsight into how design thinking shapes his work as an artist.http://youtu.be/L5kxEjhTuCchttp://www.modernartistsgallery.com/artistdetails/78_JohnBauer.php

Part2. Grassy Park, the Wetlands Capital of South AfricaKelvin Cochrane’s project in Grassy Park, a zone classified ‘coloured’ under apartheid, and thesuburb with the most incredible concentration of wetlands, saw a dumping ground on the Westcost of the Zeekovlei transformed into a fynbos paradise that is home to some of the last remainingfynbos plants. The Bottom Road Sanctuary is a public zone, designed and manifested by citizens,lead by Kelvin, who sees Grassy Park as the Wetlands Capital of South Africa. Zeekovlei, PrincessVlei and Rondevlei are all around Grassy Park. On this visit, we meet Kelvin, visit his beautiful homeat the Sanctuary, and learn about a citizen­lead intervention to change how the public views publicspace and their role in it.http://bottomroadsanctuary.co.za/about/

Part3. Lunch at Kalk Bay HarbourKalk Bays fishing harbour is a hot aspiration for developers who would love to build a V&A inspiredcommercial tourism waterfront. For the moment, the Kalk Bay harbour remains very much a

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working class, fishing harbour, with rustic elements but also some fine restaurants. Our lunch is atHarbour House.http://www.harbourhouse.co.za/harbourhouse

Part4. The Penguins that Hated the ColdJust outside Simonstown live a colony of penguins that hated the cold so much that they migratedto the (relatively) warm waters of the Indian Ocean of False Bay. They live around the magnficentBoulders Beach. No trip along the Peninsula is complete without stopping to greet these littlewonders and enjoy one of the city’s finest locations.

Part5. The Cape Point Nature ReserveThis is where the Indian and Atlantic oceans meet, it is the southern most point of the Peninsula(not the most southern point of Africa, that title goes to Cape Aghulas). Within this nature reserve isan incredible diversity of plant life but also some surprising animal life, including frequentappearances by ostriches and baboons.

Part6. Return via Kommetjie and Scarborough and Chapmans PeakThis is just the most magnificent sightseeing, following the coast on the Atlantic side from CapePoint back to the city, via Chapmans Peak, which is one of the world’s greatest mountain passes(let’s hope it is open), and also via Hout Bay. Hout Bay was originally a forest, hence the Afrikaansname ‘Hout’, meaning wood. Hout Bay supplied the developing city most of the wood it needed forbuilding in the early days. It is also a fishing village with a rich fisher history. As a suburb containedneatly by sea and mountain, it is a place where we can see the South African apartheid designproblem all in one view ­ we can see from anywhere on the hills the traditional plan of white town,surrounded by black township and coloured ghetto. We will spend a little bit of time here looking atthis design dynamic, set against incredible beauty, and reflect on the possibilities of design that cantake us out of this paradigm.

We are back by between 1800 and 1900.

The night is free, with restaurant recommendations.

Day4. Full day, 0900 ­ 1700City Present and City Future. The New Centres of Cape Town

The city began below the mountain, as we’ve discovered over the last few days, but it hasexpanded terrifically in every direction, especially inland. Today, most of us live outside the originalcity. And yet it is still regarded as the centre, even though for most citizens it is the periphery. Withexpansion has not come new centres, and one of the key design futures of the city is a recognitionof new centres, and a development approach that seeks to enhance these new centres, putting infinancial resources, transport resources, and thinking differently about how state resources can bebetter distributed by moving away from the idea of the original city as the throne.

So today we are going to explore some of the new centres of Cape Town, and look particularly athow the colonial and apartheid design of the city is slowly being transformed by new approaches.

In each of these centres, we are hosted by people who are driving change.

Part1. The Langa QuarterLanga was the first township, established in the 1920s by the English colonial government. Today, itis just about the centre of the metropole, and no longer a peripheral location, far from everything.

As urban geography has shifted around Langa, so Langa has been setting itself up to takeadvantage. The Langa Quarter is a citizen social enterprise project designed to establish Langa asthe gateway to the Cape Flats and as a new commercial hub in the city. We meet the creators of

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the project, and tour the Langa Quarter on foot with them, before visiting the original Langa CBDand looking at the connections.

We also visit the Pass Museum, and gain further insights into issues of restriction of movementand the power dynamics of space.

Part2. Athlone CBDAthlone is about 9km east of the original city, across the freeway from Langa. It was designated asa coloured zone. It incorporates many communities and its CBD has historically been a hub forcoloured citizens living on the Cape Flats. Since 1994 it has struggled to stay relevant, and todaythere is a major push to bring new life into the zone. On this part of the visit we meet an architectworking on the Athlone CBD redevelopment project.

Part3. Khayelitsha CBDKhayelitsha is the fastest growing suburb in South Africa. That we call it is a township is misleading­ it is a city of some one million people, and a range of economic layers from food­insecure superpoor, to extravagantly wealthy.

The CBD, and its extension through the Khayelitsha Corridor gives a good indication of just howmuch resources are being put into Khayelitsha at present, and what the future holds. We will meetthe entrepreneurs behind the thriving Department of Coffee, the first coffee shop in a township inCape Town; we’ll visit Harare Square and Hubspace Khayelitsha and look at business developmentin the township, and we’ll visit Kuyasa, and see how green energy solutions, applied to low costhousing, are leading the way in clean energy development in South Africa.

Part4. BellvilleBelville was the heart of the apartheid administration in Cape Town, you will see that in the designof the buildings there. It is, like Langa, very central in the Metropole. Historically it was a whiteAfrikaans suburb, but today, especially around the CBD, it is incredibly diverse, with a strongpan­African presence. It is a major hub connecting various parts of the city, especially with it’scentral train terminal. It is also a sports hub.

There has been a lot of talk about major urban upgrades for Belville to enhance its economicopportunity within the city and grow it’s status as a centre point.

We will tour the CBD and get inside the fabric of Belville, hosted by a team of traders, representingvarious African countries, working here.

Day5.Free day

Cape Town is a city so infused with nature, that to rush through without taking a pause to reflectand enjoy this key element would be to miss the point entirely. And so a day off to just relax andenjoy the city, to reflect and to have no deadlines or timelines, is a valuable, no ­ essential! ­ part ofthe programme.

Day6. Full day, 0900 ­ 1800City Future. The Innovation Corridor ­ Khayelitsha to Stellenbosch

The R310, running from the coast at Khayelitsha, through to Stellenbosch, represents a corridor ofinnovation. There is Kuyasa, the solar project in Khayelitsha. Just outside Khayelitsha there is theCape Town Film Studios, one of the most advanced in the world at the moment. Next door isiThemba Labs, our Hadron Collider, a laboratory for accelerator­based sciences. A little furtherdown the road is the Lyndoch Eco­Village, and at its centre is the Sustainability Institute. Lyndochoffers a vision of the future of economically and racially integrated communities, run on renewable

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energy and with all municipal services provided internally. Finally, at the end of the strip, we hitStellenbosch, known best for wine in the past, but more and more gaining a worldwide reputationas the Silicon Valley of Cape Town.

For today’s exploration into modes of innovation in the city, we are going to spend most of our timeon the corridor:

Part1. The Township Winery, PhilippiJust off the corridor, but close enough, and important for its innovation in the wine sector. It is thefirst township based winery in South Africa, and is introducing new approaches to wine and wineculture.

Part2. Cape Town Film Studios OR iThemba Labs(due to non­disclosure agreements with projects in production, the studios are not always availablefor visits)

Part3. Lyndoch eco­village

Part4. Lunch at the Spier Wine Estate’s farm­to­plate restaurant called 8.

Part5. The iShack, Stellenbosch

Part6. Mxit, a visit to South Africa’s biggest social network, created in Stellenbosch

Free evening with restaurant recommendations

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Day6. Full day, 0900 ­ 1800City Future ­ Wine by designAn exploration of the wine region of Cape Town, visiting estates who have introduced bold designinterventions to transform the industry socially, culturally and environmentally.

Visits and tastings would include the Solms Delta wine estate, in Franschoek, whose ownershipmodel, and indigenisation of the wine estate paradigm, is making a big impact. The BacksbergEstate, also in Franschoek, is South Africa’s 1st and the world’s 3rd carbon neutral estate. MhudiWines is in Paarl, it is South Africa’s first black owned wine estate ­ in an industry where everybodyelse has been doing it for 300 years, how does a newcomer design a new wine paradigm?

And finally we visit a winelands based craft brewery, Cape Brewing Company, whose brewmasteris a winemaker. Taking wine insights into the beer world, brewing by design.

A lunch exploring indigenous food of the region at the Fyndraai Restaurant at Solms Delta, hostedby their chef Shaun Schoeman.

Day7. Three quarter day, 1400 ­ 1800Open Studios Day

A day of meeting designers in many disciplines, in their studios and workplaces. Graphic designers,industrial and fashion designers, architects, mavericks. Intimate conversations with design heads inCape Town

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Farewell dinner party barbeque with invited guests from the week’s programme.

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