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Cape Town will use World Design Capital 2014 to identify, nurture and promote projects that offer tangible evidence of how design can improve lives. The focus will be on projects that bridge historical divides, reconnect the city in structure and in spirit,

rebuild social and economic inclusion, and reposition Cape Town for a sustainable future.

Cape Town is the first city in both Africa and the Global South to be given the title of World Design Capital. As a focal point for the international design community in 2014, it will use the spotlight to highlight the creativity of its city, country and continent through a year-long festival of events and projects.While designers, innovators and producers will most certainly benefit from the increased exposure, Cape Town has a bigger design message for the world. In the Global South, where basic survival challenges and societal problems are a real part of everyday life, creativity and design take on a particular significance.Design's problem-solving capabilities have tangible human impact; here design is the potential to improve life. This is what Cape Town's World Design Capital 2014 vision – “Live Design. Transform Life.” – means.Mobilising the design community and incentivising it to the big vision of World Design Capital 2014 from the bottom up will have powerful, life-changing results. From fashion and furniture through architecture and technology to urban and environmental planning, the city and its citizens can design to improve life.

Meanwhile, from a top-down perspective, the City of Cape Town is embedding design thinking into its very organisational structure as, like city administrations worldwide, it looks for planning solutions for a future of rapid urbanisation. Now, in a milestone year when South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy, Cape Town will become a proactive case study in using design-enabled thinking and practices to achieve a sustainable, inclusive and more liveable African city. It will nurture designs that bridge historical divides, reconnect the city in structure and in spirit, rebuild social and economic inclusion, and reposition Cape Town for a better future.Beyond the programme of events that the World Design Capital celebrations comprise, there are a number of legacy projects that will continue beyond the year 2014. For Cape Town, 2014 is just the beginning of a better city by design.

Photograph by: Andrew Brown

ERYKAH BADU

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