The Open Design Festival is a platform for showcasing ideas, sharing experiences and building relationships. This week we’re focusing on events that support the innovation and creativity of the next generation of designers and change-makers.
Here are some highlights:
Design Garage
80 Roeland Street
17 AugustTime 18:00-21:00 | Free entry The Design Garage is the newest kid on the emerging designer’s block, showcasing and exhibiting work from young designers. It launches on 17 August and you’ll be able to buy products on the night.
20 August Time 12:00-18:00 | Free entry Unearth raw talent with Design Entourage. See, feel and buy clothing, accessories, shoes, printing and photographs by new and exciting local designers.
Dine with Khayelitsha Meet at Central Library, Darling Street, to be collected and transported to various venues in Khayelitsha
19 AugustTime 18:30 – 22:15 | R200 pp Make new friends over delicious home-cooked food and build relationships with new communities with the Dine with Khayelitsha team.
Innovate the Cape
Design Education Wing 1st floor, Cape Town City Hall
20 AugustTime 10:00 – 17:00 | Free entry Meet the innovators of the future as they develop their winning ideas that will address local socio-economic challenges in the Innovate the Cape workshop.
CCDI Product Support Tour 2nd floor Harrington House, Barrack Street
15 AugustTime 09:00 – 15:00 | Free entry Access the resources you need to make new products a reality with the Cape Craft and Design Institute. Find out more on the CCDI product support tour
Idea to Product Lab
Side Street Studios Albert Road, Woodstock
15 – 19 AugustTime 09:00 – 18:00 | Free entryVisit the first Idea to Product Lab in Cape Town, brought to you by long-standing Open Design supporters Rabbit
Catch the Sounds of the Culture Beat
13 Park Green Summergreens, Milnerton
12 – 13 AugustTime 12:00 – 14:30 Talking culture, change, peace and knowledge in poetry and music with Lab Base and Astromechanix
Black Filmmakers Festival Open DesignEvents Space 2nd floor, Cape Town City Hall
14 August Time: 15:00 – 17:00 | Students R25 | Public R45 Watch and discuss productions by emerging filmmakers and performers at the Black Filmmakers Festival, which is part of the Open Design Movie Programme.
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