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31 March 2011

Can-do QuaDror – building beyond the box

It’s no secret, Creative Cape Town is a fan of forward thinking architects, fringe issues, fine and contemporary arts, and a fair bit more (Design Indaba, Toffees festival, Creative Week). But most of all we’re fans of using everything at our disposal to create a better world. And sometimes, even using things NOT at our [...]

31 March 2011

Encounters with loyalty – eye opening support for documentary film

Encounters put documentary on the map in the mother city. Tooting its own trumpet as “premier documentary Festival in South Africa”, it is a properly organised annual film extravaganza with an angle on human rights, heritage and social issues that sets a standard for conscious entertainment. Recognising that filmmaking is an expensive – and therefore [...]

31 March 2011

Spotlight Singapore – Business with a cultural handshake

Much as we love him, there’s more to Singapore than crooning music exports like Hanjin, who recently charmed Greenmarket Square and the CTICC at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival. Preceding his (well documented) visit, another entourage from Asia came to create ties, exchange ideas and build bridges with BRICS. A 3-day programme called Spotlight [...]

31 March 2011

Art SA – everyone’s elite online

South Africa is still a country in transition. Its  distribution of fiscal and natural resources is unequal, and whether you divide the divides into first and third world, working or middle class, or thinking in or out the box; access to information is key to riding the wave of change.  Surprisingly, an area of interest [...]

31 March 2011

Vertical studio, lateral minds – The Fringe centralises Cape Town design

At Design Indaba Conference 2011, designer-turned architectural revolutionary, Dror Benshetrit, announced an architectural structure that may help heal the world’s housing issues. QuaDror is based on interlocking Ls, a context-sensitive design structure that stands to give millions a decent, cost effective and culture-sensitive home. It started, quite simply, as a fancy, far-from-founded idea. And is [...]