The Creative Cape Town Clusters invites you to an evening of information sharing and networking The CAPE TOWN DESIGN NETWORK 2010
Topic: Digital Story Telling and its relevance in 21st century Africa
Speaker: Roderick Lim Banda (ICT Entrepreneur and Enterprise Architect)
Venue: Cape Institute for Architecture 71 Hout Street, Cape Town
Date: 14 April 2010
Time: 5 – 7 pm
Cost: Free EVENT – Tell your designer, media and ICT friends
Rsvp: bronwyn@capetownpartnership.co.za
The event will be preceded by a walkabout of the exhibition Counter Currents currently up at the Cape Institute for Architects, by the exhibition curator Tau Tavengwa. The exhibition, which highlights key urban developments in Cape Town, and tackles design and sustainability considerations is linked to an extensive book by significant speakers including Cape Town Partnership’s CEO Andrew Boraine.
The event will introduce the World Design Capital Co-ordinator – Lorelle Bell – who will be driving Cape Town’s bid for World Design Capital 2014. See www.capetown2014.co.za.
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More on the Speaker: Roderick Lim Banda
Roderick Lim Banda has spent most of his professional career in the information technology (IT) industry but has a background in art and architecture history. He wrote a thesis on “Building Architecture as a Reference for Architecture Intensive Disciplines” on the relationship between the history of building architecture and IT architecture disciplines. He has helped to architect and develop enterprises, services and software intensive systems across various sectors including financial, media and telecommunications, retail, health care, education, public services and energy.
Roderick is an Entrepreneur, Enterprise Architect (EA) and Chief Information Technology Officer (CITO). He founded his consulting company, Knowledge Architecture Systems Engineering (KASE) and is a co-chair and co-founder of the Academic CIO Forum. He is an entrepreneur involved in a number of start-up initiative. His current projects involve knowledge management, systems architecture and engineering on secure transaction management, digital convergence (television, mobile and internet), cloud computing, global network infrastructure, service design, collaboration management and local innovations using agile methodologies. He is also doing research with the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) on Enterprise Architecture and Agile Practice. Roderick actively engages in communities of practice, facilitates Cafe Conversations and workshop based learning, collaboration, design and interaction as well as online forums and discussions.
More on the Exhibition: Counter-Currents: Experiments in Sustainability in the Cape Town Region
Counter Currents showcases bold urban development initiatives by both the state and the private sector and aims to shift public ideas and discourses about the future of Cape Town. The starting point of this initiative is that the nature and direction of Cape Town’s physical metamorphosis is unsustainable and culturally questionable if not inappropriate. However, amidst the expansion of real estate, a number of very important “counter-currents” are afoot (as plans or interventions or sometimes, only dreams) which represent both a critique of unimaginative urban growth and hold the seeds for putting Cape Town onto a unique and culturally resonant growth path; a precondition for creating a more inclusive, vibrant and sustainable city at ease in its own skin, perched at the southern tip of Africa.
More on Lorelle Bell (World Design Capital Co-ordinator)
Lorelle Bell is a communications specialist with experience in communication strategy, campaigns & branding, editing, publishing, media liaison, and internal & external communication. She has worked extensively in the development as well as the arts & culture arena and has global corporate communication experience. Lorelle has also written on arts & culture for newspapers and magazines, most recently for the Business Day Weekender.
More on Creative Cape Town Clusters and the Cape Town Design Network
Creative Cape Town is an initiative of the Cape Town Partnership. Its key aim is to support and nurture the creative and knowledge industry in the Cape Town central City. Creative Cape Town Clusters include quarterly networking and information sharing events at Woolworths, intimate monthly breakfasts at Bird Cafe as well as the new Cape Town Design Network 2010. The latter initiative is aimed at engaging the design, media and ICT communities of Cape Town around plans to bid for the World Design Capital 2014 and plans to establish an innovation hub in the East City – the East City Design Initiative.
