4 December 2012
Creative Commons: collaboration made easy
Just as a city’s commons – its public spaces – allow people to meet, mix and mingle, so Creative Commons allows people to share their ideas, information and work across the globe, unimpeded by national boundaries and intellectual property laws. Why in the world would you allow anyone to use your creative output for free? [...]
14 November 2012
Mayor announces World Design Capital 2014 implementation company board
Friday 9 November 2012 saw the official announcement of the voluntary board that will govern the implementation of Cape Town’s World Design Capital 2014 programme. The thirteen board members were chosen out of 103 nominees, through a rigorous selection process coordinated by the Cape Town Partnership and headed by an independent selection panel. Rebuilding and [...]
7 November 2012
Maboneng Township Arts Experience: Turning homes into galleries in Gugs
In 2000, Siphiwe Ngwenya – probably better known as rapper Ngwenya aka Master Sip, frontman of Natives from the Sun and former member of hip-hop outfit Skwatta Kamp – was looking to exhibit some of his work in his own backyard in Alexandra, Johannesburg. Since then, Maboneng Township Arts Experience – Siphiwe’s initiative to turn [...]
2 November 2012
Design needs your voice
“ACCESS Design for Urban Transformation: Exploring opportunity gaps” Please join Creative Cape Town, Cape Peninsula University of Technology and Aalto University – Aalto Global Impact for a full day interaction on how participatory design can be used for social change and urban transformation. What: The purpose of the event is to open the dialogue around [...]
2 November 2012
Poetry in motion: A tale of Cape Town’s taxis
In celebration of transport month, City Views’ writer Ambre Nicolson spoke to Cape Town-based writer, academic and author of The Institute for Taxi Poetry Imraan Coovadia about transport and why Cape Town is a great city for writers. Part satire, part thought experiment, your new novel is set in an imagined Cape Town in which [...]




