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Stop waiting, start making: Lessons in liveability from Jeanne van Heeswijk
Based in Rotterdam, Jeanne van Heeswijk is a visual artist who creates situations in public places to provoke interactions between members of the public. These provocations include talking to trees, arranging fashion marches and baking bread, but all are aimed at setting up opportunities for new encounters and dialogue – in a way is finely tuned to the subtlety of needs, desires and ambitions of a local people and place. Jeanne presented some of her work at Design Indaba 2013. Here she shares more of her thoughts on public engagement, gentrification and the value of co-production:
Posted in Creative, Events, Featured, Spaces, Stories.
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Scrabbling the city: a City Views cover story
On the cover of the March issue of City Views we give you a taste of what is to come during the free public arts festival Infecting the City from 11 to 16 March. The featured work, Scrabbling, is based on the popular word game Scrabble and invites audience and passersby to express themselves and collectively create a temporary artwork. Creator Guto Bussab is the founder and owner of MUTI, a parent brand for Muti Films (film production), Muti Photography (commercial photography) and TheMutiGallery art gallery). City Views traded letters with the artist.
Posted in Creative, Events, Experience, Featured, Stories.
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Twilight Team Run 2012: Thirty years of team work
The Twilight Team Run, an event which has seen Capetonians come out in their thousands, is celebrating 30 years of bringing communities together for a good cause. Continued…
Posted in Events, Experience, Experience Town, Programmes, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Owning the stories in between – Capetonians envision their public spaces
Twenty years ago, New York’s Times Square was an ill-lit, dangerous, no-go zone. Today it has been dubbed ‘The Crossroads of the World’, receiving 360 000 – 500 000 visitors per day. It is an iconic public space that is a globally recognised tourism attraction. Continued…
Posted in CCID, Experience Town, Featured, News, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Urban management.
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Accessing the city: An exploration of Cape Town’s public spaces
An anticipated 800 students and 400 practitioners and academics will be converging on City Hall from 13 to 16 September for the second Architecture ZA Biennial Festival (AZA 2012). How does this affect you?
Posted in Developments, Events, Experience, Featured, News, Safety & Security, Social Development, Spaces, Stories, Success Stories, Transport, Urban management, Walking Tours.
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Creating vibrant public space in Cape Town
How can we create a more liveable city through the effective design, development and management of our public spaces? This was the question posed at the 2012 Central City Partners Forum, held at the Fugard Theatre on 24 July. Continued…
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Business partner to setup and manage coffee shop
Located in a prime site within the museum district, the St. George Cathedral Crypt Memory and Witness Centre, is looking for a partner to help establish and manage an espresso/fresh juice bar Continued…
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