“I find the possibility of exploring truly innovative ways to change our city, and its artificial divisions, exciting,” said Executive Mayor, Alderman Patricia de Lille at the official city-to-city handover of World Design Capital title.
Last night, the City of Cape Town’s Executive Mayor and Mayoral Committee Member for Tourism, Events and Marketing, Councillor Grant Pascoe, were in Helsinki, Finland be presented with a commemorative plaque that marks the beginning of Cape Town’s reign as World Design Capital 2014.
Mayor De Lille has been visiting various sites in Helsinki – the World Design Capital 2012 – that are part of the projects the city undertook during its tenure as World Design Capital 2012.
“These will inspire and motivate the plans for Cape Town’s year as World Design Capital 2014, where the City intends to use design and design-led thinking to help us drive the social and economic change we want and need. However, we have to complement these large-scale interventions with the innovative solutions that design can bring to change cities” observed Executive Mayor Patricia de Lille at the hand-over ceremony.
“Whether it is the design of new housing structures for lower-income groups; to facilities for the urbanising population joining us in search of a better life; to amenities that creatively bring people together across old boundaries, design can truly change our city.
In conclusion, we need to harness the creative potential of design and bring people together to help us find solutions by unleashing the energy of being the World Design Capital for 2014.
Then we can speak with a new honesty when we say: live design, transform life.”
The Cape Town Green Map was included in the Official Bid Book
