SAVE THE DATE!

29 April 2021

14:00 - 15:30

Thank you to everyone who joined us online for the first Creative Exchange event of 2021 last month. If you missed out, see below for our news report on the key talking points:

Creative Exchange illuminates fault lines of COVID-19, seeks out green shoots of opportunity – read more

Please save the date for our next online event; where we will explore the state of healthcare in South Africa – and creative, digitally-driven ideas for levelling up services.

More information on our speakers for April:

• Russell Rensburg, Director at the Rural Health Advocacy Project
  
  
• Fikile Dikolomela-Lengene, 1st Deputy President at the Young Nurses Indaba Trade Union
  
  
• Dr William Mapham, Founder and CEO of Vula Mobile
  
  
• Erik Pentinga, Programme Manager for Task Force Health Care

• Dr Riyad Domingo, Chief Executive Officer and Founder: South Africa Makes

The Craft + Design Institute (CDI) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands in South Africa (#cocreateSANL), are hosting a series of monthly events to share knowledge and to create a space for debating ideas on South Africa’s biggest COVID-19 related challenges – we invite you to join us for the Creative Exchange.

The series builds on the #cocreateDESIGN FESTIVAL, which the CDI and Netherlands Consulate General in Cape Town have hosted since 2018. The Creative Exchange continues the Festival theme of 2020, which centred on the 4^th Industrial Revolution, the use of design thinking, and digitally-enabled solutions.

“The COVID pandemic has laid bare so many of our challenges as a country. If we can start with understanding and processing, we can find new ways of designing solutions together that will lead to better access and real change.”
Erica Elk, CEO of CDI

How might we design solutions for increased inclusivity and access?

Underlying the 2021 Creative Exchange series, which leads into the next #COCREATE DESIGN FESTIVAL in September 2021, are four key topic pillars. Particular focus will be on inclusive digital innovation and creative solutions to address what COVID-19 has left even more vulnerable:

1. Access to safe water and sanitation
2. Access to healthcare
3. Access to a resilient economy
4. Access to food and food security

“We aim to explore these pressing challenges experienced by South Africans, but also, and importantly, showcase the application of innovation and design-led approaches to serve as inspiration. This we hope will spark many more new ideas. Connecting it all is design; we want to stimulate the design of better systems, products and services.”
Sebastiaan Messerschmidt, Consul General at the Netherlands Consulate General in Cape Town

The Creative Exchange will take place online and you can book here. You will receive a link to join the stream in advance of the event.

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More on the CDI and #COCREATESANL

The CDI has hosted the Creative Exchange series for 20 years, and this 2021 iteration has been made possible thanks to the Netherlands Consulate General in Cape Town.

The Netherlands’ #cocreateSANL platform has for over eight years been bringing diverse people to the table to exchange ideas and innovations for a sustainable future.