Crafting Crisis: How the State Undermines Creative Industries

Can a transformed South African creative economy ecosystem come to being without state investment in industry support bodies?

Creative IndustriesZayd MintyMay 31, 2018cape town, world design capital, design, crafts, creative industry, creative city, innovationComment

Working Together: Cape Town's Bid for World Design Capital 2014

The power of networks and a tight deadline. The conditions and the processes behind Cape Town's successful bid for World Design Capital 2014.

creative citiesZayd MintyDecember 7, 2017cape town, south africa, social justice, world design capital, network, global south, culture, creativity, creative economy, creative industry, world cup, apartheidComment

Cape Town's Two City Tale of Culture

Design and the Divided City: Culture and the transformative potential of Creativity. Part one in a series on Cape Town's journey to becoming World Design Capital 2014.

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