{"id":11897,"date":"2010-09-04T10:31:34","date_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whalecottage.com\/blog\/?p=11897"},"modified":"2010-09-04T10:31:34","modified_gmt":"2010-09-04T08:31:34","slug":"cape-town-has-designs-on-being-world-design-capital-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisvonulmenstein.com\/blog\/cape-town\/cape-town-has-designs-on-being-world-design-capital-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town has designs on being World Design Capital 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Cape Town is bidding to be selected as World Design Capital 2014, reports the Cape Argus.<\/strong>\u00a0 The Cape Town Partnership is driving the bid, and its bid focuses on making Cape Town a better place to live.\u00a0 It is\u00a0a pity, however, that the logo designed for the bid is so boring, and does not reflect the design wealth and creativity\u00a0of Cape Town, nor its beauty.<\/p>\n

The Cape Town bid for World Design Capital 2014 has the\u00a0slogan\u00a0“Live design, transform life”, and will benefit Capetonians if Cape Town wins, in attracting interest in and visitors to our beautiful city.<\/p>\n

The World Design Capital project promotes the value of design in ‘managing and reshaping cities’.\u00a0\u00a0 It is a project of the International Council for Societies of Industrial Design.\u00a0\u00a0 It aims to show how design can tackle the problems of urbanisation in making ‘cities more attractive, more livable,\u00a0and more efficient’.\u00a0 It encourages organised urbanisation through planning, design and management of cities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

A winning design city is selected every two years,\u00a0and in that year the city\u00a0commits to using design to address its urbanisation challenges, and showcases design achievements of that city through a program of design events and activities.\u00a0\u00a0 Two cities are short-listed every two years,\u00a0and have to expand on their design proposal, to be selected as a winner.\u00a0 The selection for 2014 takes place in two years’ time.\u00a0\u00a0 Likely competitors for Cape Town include Bilbao and a number of Chinese cities.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Cape Town World Design Capital bid focuses on the natural beauty of Cape Town, set between two World Heritage sites, being\u00a0Table Mountain and Robben Island, its cultural diversity, cuisine, music, dance, unique language,\u00a0and its urban design and designers.\u00a0 In the city centre there are more than 1000 creativity-related companies alone,\u00a0including ad agencies,\u00a0architecture and urban design practices,\u00a0IT companies, and fashion and jewellery design companies.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

The annual Design Indaba has already established Cape Town’s credentials as\u00a0the leader in international design, attracting the world’s top designers as speakers as well as delegates (putting Martha Stewart on the programme earlier this year was the first Design Indaba flop).\u00a0\u00a0 In addition, a number of Cape Town-based urban designers and architects have won international design awards.<\/p>\n

The Green Goal programme, which was designed to offset the carbon footprint of the World Cup,\u00a0forms part of\u00a0the city’s bid, and has achieved international recognition.\u00a0\u00a0 Over the past few years the city has attracted residents back to living in the city, in beautifully designed warehouses and lofts.\u00a0 Salt River and Woodstock have been regenerated, with furniture and lighting design companies opening there, as have art galleries, eateries and one of the city’s\u00a0largest markets at the Old Biscuit Mill.\u00a0\u00a0 The benefits of urban living\u00a0in using\u00a0the new modern and world-class Integrated Rapid Transport system to get around the city\u00a0forms part of the bid.\u00a0\u00a0 The film and television industry also forms part of the bid, having been an important means of attracting international productions to the Mother City in the past.<\/p>\n

Cape Town’s bid for World Design Capital 2014 is being managed by the Cape Town Partnership’s Lorelle Bell, and she is requesting Capetonians to alert her to all the design-related assets of Cape Town, to be included in the Cape Town Bid Book.\u00a0 Contact her: lorelle@capetownpartnership.co.za<\/a> and see more details about Cape Town’s bid for World Design Capital 2014 at www.capetown2014.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris von Ulmenstein, Whale Cottage Portfolio: www.whalecottage.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cape Town is bidding to be selected as World Design Capital 2014, reports the Cape Argus.\u00a0 The Cape Town Partnership is driving the bid, and its bid focuses on making Cape Town a better place to live.\u00a0 It is\u00a0a pity, however, that the logo designed for the bid is so boring, and does not reflect […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[3,124,587,22,21],"tags":[5942,7128,7136,4309,7126,367,32366,7141,569,3017,4779,32378,7121,1034,1852,32400,7130,977,7127,7137,7142,7139,7134,5623,7138,7122,7135,7132,2239,7140,7125,3693,188,5954,7124,87,7133,4,7129,7123,7131,32373,2135,531,7120,4243],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t