Using creativity to enhance competitiveness

Join us for our next CCDI Creative Exchange on Thursday, 01 December as we hear from Social Fabric SA, a project that believes that the collective creativity of South Africans – designers, artists, makers and thinkers – can pull together to breathe new life into an industry.

Making the time to think creatively, to experiment and play is an essential part of product development and a part often neglected when time and budgets are tight – find out how they are using creativity and bringing together artists, designers and South African textile manufacturers to collaborate and start re-building the embattled textile industry.

Please join us and make the most of this great networking opportunity. We look forward to seeing you there!

Our speakers:

Winnie Sze, co-curator Social Fabric

Helen Andrews, co-curator Social Fabric

Igshaan Adams, artist and artist-in-residence for off-cuts project

More on Social Fabric SA

Social Fabric SA is a not-for-profit project to help SA's embattled textile industry through the development of an innovation pipeline. It is known that many SA textile and clothing firms have closed and with that, jobs lost. Yet there are unique SA strengths which may not have been fully capitalised. These include natural materials such as wool and mohair, the resilience of the firms that are still operating, and the talents of designers who collectively made Cape Town the World Design Capital 2014.  

Social Fabric SA aims to build cross-creativity collaboration as a way to mend gaps in the decimated industry, to spark new ways of thinking, and to strengthen creative networks. Their focus is on innovative thinking as a way to compete better.  

About the CX

The CCDI’s Creative Exchange (CX) is one of Cape Town’s most popular monthly creative industries events and has been running for many years. It promotes the design sector in particular, offering access to information on what’s new, interesting and transformative. Each month it attracts around 100 people from across the sector, from architects to fashion designers, policy makers to photographers, to listen, engage, share and exchange ideas.