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The City celebrates diversity and debate on a cross-continental scale. Harnessing a global network of visionary urban designers, thinkers and communicators, The City develops innovative solutions to social, cultural and spatial challenges.
Motivated by the belief that imagination is the key to a shared future, The City puts ingenuity to work in the built environment through research, publishing, and critical and inclusive engagement. From architecture to design, culture and society, the focus is the making of cities. The City is a space for all.
Institutional Partners:
The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) is an interdisciplinary institute in the University of Cape Town’s Humanities Faculty that facilitates research projects in the creative and performing arts that disrupt boundaries, while underscoring creative education and practice across discipline and faculty. In a country where division continues to hamper our institutions and bureaucracies, the ICA fulfils a pressing need for a space where intellectuals and artists from a wide range of backgrounds can come together to experiment with ideas and develop new visions for the creative and performing arts through innovative projects.
The Research Center for Material Culture (RCMC) is a flagship research institute within the Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam), Museum Volkenkunde (Leiden) and the Afrika Museum (Berg en Dal) that serves as a focal point for research on ethnographic collections in the Netherlands. It’s research projects address the historical and contemporary meanings of ethnographical collections, the national and global histories of which they are a part, and the contemporary societal questions around issues of heritage, cultural identity and belonging that these objects raise.
See is supported by:
The Consulate General of the Netherlands in Cape Town supports See through #cocreateSA – a platform for South African and Dutch counterparts to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future. It stimulates collaboration between South Africa and the Netherlands based on the belief that if we work together, we can make a difference and co-create solutions for local challenges. #cocreateSA is an initiative of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa, capturing the true essence of modern foreign diplomacy: building relationships, putting the demand at the core of our discussions and focusing on long-term commitments and partnerships.
The Creative Industries Fund NL is the Dutch cultural fund for architecture, design and digital culture, as well as every imaginable crossover. The Fund strives to make a substantial contribution to the quality of professional design practice within, and especially between, the disciplines of architecture, design and digital culture.
