In February 2021 Open Design Afrika’s CEO and Founder, Suné Stassen was invited to deliver a keynote at The Nature of Cities Festival. Her topic: “Creativity as a catalyst to develop appropriate social capital – a crucial building block for sustainable future cities”.  We are proud to say that her talk was extremely well received by this global audience.

More about The Nature of Cities Festival HERE

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CONTRIBUTORS INCLUDED:

FILM: Tanya Ruka / Wairua & Opanuku (films)

KEYNOTE: Suné Stassen
Cape Town, South Africa
“Creativity as a catalyst to develop social capital—a crucial building block for sustainable future cities”

FILM: Tim Colins & Reiko Goto / A Tree is a Living Thing (film) 4:20

DIALOGUE: Beyond trees: what is an expanded role for and meaning of forests in cities?
Ana Macias Madrid
Andrej Verlič, Ljubljana
Yvonne Lynch Riyadh
Moderator: Liza Paqueo

Harini Nagendra
Bangalore
Thinking ecologically about cities in the global south

 

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