What is
Creative Cape Town all about?
Creative Cape Town communicates, supports and facilitates the development of the creative and knowledge economy in the Central City of Cape Town. The key aim is to facilitate dynamic partnerships in the central city, in line with the goals of the central city development strategy, to make the central city into a leading centre for knowledge, innovation, creativity and culture in Africa and the South.
14 December 2011
Question: Public art or public nuisance?
When it comes to art in public places – and questions of what it is, who it’s by, who it’s for and what it’s meant to do – there have been a few memorable incidents in Cape Town this year. The mistaken identity of an Artscape zebra, a Sea Point secret garden, and a hacked (then [...]
Communicating
Creative Cape Town
Integral to Creative Cape Town’s mandate is communicating the developments, trends, opportunities and news about the creative and knowledge economy in Cape Town central city. Information is key in developing a proactive creative milieu, a prerequisite to Cape Town becoming a truly creative city. Creative Cape Town’s communication is aimed primarily at the creative and [...]
Design in
Cape Town
Great design requires fresh, open, responsive thinking and doing: in other words, creativity. Creativity in design feeds innovation, and innovation, essentially problem-solving, drives progress. Innovation is key to our economic development.










