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Yarn bombing Jan Van Riebeeck in Cape Town's CBD

7 September 2012

Public space activation toolkit

If you feel inspired to use the city as your stage but don’t know how, here are some helpful hints: Take it outside In China they do tai chi, in Argentina they tango. There is no reason why the activities we usually do in private spaces or indoors can’t happen in public spaces. Just because [...]

Tim Tompkins by Bruce Sutherland

6 September 2012

Reimagining public space

How can Cape Town reimagine its public spaces through design? That was the key question framing Times Square Alliance President Tim Tompkins’ trip to Cape Town in July 2012, as part of a visit co-hosted by the Cape Town Partnership, Central City Improvement District and City of Cape Town. First up on the agenda was [...]

An alleyway beautification project takes shape in the Fringe, photo by Sarah Scott

21 August 2012

September: Cape Town’s open creative season

Make sure you get some rest in August because September promises to be a month-long, non-stop creative festival – showcasing everything from performing arts to the best of the country’s advertising talent – at the heart of which is Creative Week Cape Town from 15-23 September. To make planning your dairy around all of these [...]

Learners take part in a public art experiment on St George's Mall, photo by Lisa Burnell

2 August 2012

Call to crowd-source Creative Week Cape Town 2012

Need some space? Space to create, space to play, space to have your say? Be a part of Creative Week Cape Town and claim your own bit of public space in Cape Town this September. Whether that means goema buskers on the Grand Parade, a Mzansi style flashmob under the noon day gun or a [...]

Tim Tompkins by Bruce Sutherland

27 July 2012

Times Square’s big, bright lessons in public space

Public space, without so much as a right of admission sign, is open to anyone. It can reconnect communities and help forge constructive relationships for unity and growth in its surrounding neighbourhoods. Think of the Grand Parade as a packed fan park during the 2010 World Cup. On an ordinary day, however, the Parade’s potential [...]