News:
#WDC405 has been selected by the World Design Capital pitch event. More details here or here.
Next Event: Closed
We have worked on 6 events. The World Design Capital has now moved for 2016.
WDC 405 - General Introduction
We have been placed on the official WDC2014 (World Design Capital #WDC405) program a number of mini-events for local companies to showcase their solutions.
Each of these mini-events is 2 hours long, but can be extended. The form of each mini-event is open.
We are requesting you and your team to apply your creative minds and design thinking to use the opportunity, by engaging a topic from the list below with your collaborators and perhaps competitors to "make the pie bigger" .
The 6 mini-events correspond to the WDC "clusters", and are
(1) Community - Tuesday - 11th March 2014 - ( Health, Housing Urban Development)
Hosted by Samantha Kenmuir
Advert for previous event -> http://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-World-Design-Capital-WDC405-Software-Meetup/events/169364012/
(2) Connectedness -Tuesday - 8th April 2014 - ( Communication, Transport)
Hosted by David Hislop
Advert for event -> http://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-World-Design-Capital-WDC405-Software-Meetup/
Notes of this event ->http://www.korwe.com/blog/connecting-our-products-world-our-people-and-our-problems
Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10152016149232544.1073741856.104346482543&type=1
(3) Lifestyle - Tuesday - 20th May 2014 - (Fashion, Furniture, Arts & Culture, Sports, Recreation)
Hosted by Aslam Khan. More info:
-> http://ieee.org.za/world-design-capital-lifestyle-0
-> http://ieee.org.za/computer-society/lifestyle-wdc405
-> http://www.korwe.com/blog/wdc405-lifestyle
(4) Education - Tuesday - 15th July 2014 - (Schools, Skills Development, Design Education, Exhibitions)
Hosted by Alen Ribic.
-> More here http://ieee.org.za/computer-society/education-wdc405
->Meetup http://www.meetup.com/Cape-Town-World-Design-Capital-WDC405-Software-Meetup/events/188239812/
-> You Tube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4LMQrtOhPs
-> Alen's Notes http://alenribic.com/presentations/teaching_prog_schools.pdf
-> Introduction - http://www.korwe.com/blog/wdc405-education
-> Event Notes - Coming soon
(5) Business - Thurs 13th November 2014 - (Social Entrep, Economy, Innovation, Finance, Systems, Service Design)
Thursday 13 November, Tygervalley. Subject Design of Open Data systems.
Details here.
-> David's notes http://www.korwe.com/blog/wdc405-business-open-data
(6) Sustainability - Thursday 18th December - (City, Ecology, Food, Energy, Water, Nature)
Discussing risk and thick tails with regard to GMO's.
-> The presentation is here.
Venue: Korwe offices.
Date and time: 18/12 at 12h00.
This will be the final event of #WDC405
We will be working on a book on Software Design to be published in 2015. The book will be loosely based on the above 6 workshops.
