EAST CITY DESIGN INITIATIVE Informatics & Design - Faculty Training 25 August 2009 Stuart Warden [email protected]
EAST CITY DESIGN
INITIATIVEInformatics & Design - Faculty Training 25 August 2009
Stuart Warden
OVERVIEWBackground: Founding partners
ECDI vision
A case for the East City
The case for design
22@ Barcelona model
Economics
ECDI FOUNDING PARTNERS
• The Faculty of Informatics and Design, CPUT
• Cape Town Partnership - Creative Cape Town project
• Cape Town Fashion Council
• Cape Craft and Design Institute - CCDI
• Interactive Africa / Design Indaba
• The Loerie Awards
ECDI VISION
The East City Design Precinct will become the premier African environment for design innovation, creativity and entrepreneurshipwithin the next 10 years.
It will showcase design excellence, incubate emerging talent and enable new innovations to develop.
...ECDI VISION
The actual and virtual space created by the initiatives provide an environment for business, the academy, the non-profit sector and government to interact in ways that develop design in the city, province, nationally and Africa wide.
Its impact locally and nationally would lead to the improvement in the quality of life, improved economic growth, sustainable solutions and a more inclusive society.
A CASE FOR THE EAST CITY
• Availability of state buildings and land
• Safety, Security, Cleansing and Parking
• Good transport connections
• Presence of synergistic institutions
• Richly textured historical built environment
…A CASE FOR THE EAST CITY
5 BIG IDEAS• Reinstate the historical connection of the
City to the sea
• Bring the people of Cape Town back into the Central City to live
• Improve the public transport system
• Provide for future growth and investment
• Divide the Central City into 20 neighbourhoods – densification, mixed usage, street frontage, heritage and conservation.
EXISTING ORGANISATIONS
IN THE DESIGN HUB
THE CASE FOR DESIGN
Design = products, services, systems, environments and
communication
THE CASE FOR DESIGN
Design = products, services, systems, environments and communication
Design = strategic tool for user –centered innovation
THE CASE FOR DESIGN
Design = products, services, systems, environments and communication
Design = strategic tool for user –centered innovation
Design = a holistic and multidisciplinary
problem-solving approach
THE CASE FOR DESIGN
Design = products, services, systems, environments and communication
Design = strategic tool for user – centered innovation
Design = a holistic and multidisciplinary problem-solving approach
Design = Developing products, services and
systems more responsive to
environmental and social needs
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70/30BARCELONA
MODEL
• Industry tasked to develop a derelict building:
they use 70% for their account
• City can use 30% (subsidised rent)
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Different terminologies used e.g.
• Hubs
• Precincts
• Clusters
• Research parks
• Science parks
• Design parks
ECONOMICSCLUSTERS, PRECINCTS & PARKS
An enabling environment for education/ industry/ government interfaces i.e. Triple Helix
A recent shift in urban planning has led to a changing emphasis on the reintegration of science & research parks into the urban fabric. Examples:
22@Barcelona
The Philadelphia Science Centre
ECONOMICSCLUSTERS, PRECINCTS & PARKS
TRIPLE HELIXMODEL
GOVERNMENT
INDUSTRYUNIVERSITY
22@BARCELONA incubator hubs
ENERGY
MEDTECH
DESIGNMEDIA
ICT
ECONOMICS CLUSTERS, PRECINCTS & PARKS
ECONOMICSCLUSTERS, PRECINCTS & PARKS
4 critical characteristics of successful clusters:
• Proximity
• Linkages
• Interactions
and
• Critical mass (Porter)
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FUTURE
Faculty Action ?
Various funding vehicles for our projects:
•SANPAD
•URF
•Other ?