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Opening of the exhibition ‘City Desired’ in Cape Town
Exhibition 30 October - 15 December 2014

The Dutch-South-African teams of the Density Syndicate are presently finalizing their designs for three locations in Cape Town. They will be presented at the exhibition “City Desired”, organized by the African Centre for Cities (ACC) in the City Hall in Cape Town. The exhibition will offer Cape Town residents and visitors insights into the challenges and possibilities facing this unique city: dynamics that echo in cities across the world. This exhibition appears against the backdrop of the World Design Capital (WDC) program, with its focus on “Live Design, Transform Life.”

The Density Syndicate uses the concept of density to tackle the many divides and challenges that currently face Cape Town. With the legacy of apartheid etched deep into every neighbourhood, particularly in the sharp separation between the neighbourhoods, the question in Cape Town today is: how can city planning contribute to a sea change in this reality that it first helped to create? How can the infinite sprawl of the segregated city be unified, opened up, woven into a coherent tapestry?
In an intensive process, working within multidisciplinary teams and in close collaboration with residents and interest groups, the teams are presenting ideas and alternative strategies to deal with the incremental growth of the informal settlements, the creation of green, collective space and in general, overcoming boundaries and barriers in the broadest sense of the word.
The Density Syndicate is a program organized by the International New Town Institute in collaboration with the African Centre for Cities.