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World video travel guide
World Design Capital title to shift from Helsinki to Cape Town
The WDC Helsinki 2012 closing summit and evening ceremony will be held in Helsinki on Thursday, 29 November 2012. At the events, all eyes will be on Cape Town as Helsinki passes on the title of World Design Capital.
The aim of Cape Town’s year as Design Capital is to use design to create a more harmonious city. During the year, Cape Town will place emphasis on socially responsible design, durability and innovations.
A delegation of seven representatives from Cape Town will participate in the WDC Helsinki 2012 closing summit and evening ceremony, including Mayor Patricia de Lille and the World Design Capital 2014 project manager Richard Perez.
The International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) will be conferring the title of World Design Capital on Cape Town at an evening ceremony at Helsinki City Hall. A plaque containing the title World Design Capital Cape Town will be presented to Cape Town Mayor Patricia de Lille.
The Mayor of Helsinki, Jussi Pajunen, received the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 plaque in Seoul in December 2010. The plaque has been located at the Helsinki-Vantaa airport and, after the turn of the year, it will be relocated to a spot allocated by the City of Helsinki.
Closing summit to discuss significance of design in changing cities
The international World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 closing summit will be held at Finlandia Hall on 29 November 2012. The summit will summarise the impact of the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 year and review the importance of themed years to the city.
Four topics will be discussed at the summit: Roots for New Growth - Demand for Design, Global Responsibility - Designing the Future, Open Helsinki - Creating Cultural Change, and Design Destination - Transforming the City. Debating these topics will be top Finnish and international speakers such as Ravi Naidoo, Judy Dobias and Michael Thomson.
The summit will end with a panel discussion involving the Mayors of Cape Town, Taipei and Lahti, the Chair of Stockholm\'s city council and representatives from Icsid, UNESCO and the IBM Smarter Cities network. The panel will consider what kind of cities are design-led cities, and what the challenges of design are in modern cities, as well as touching on other topics. The summit will be moderated by strategic design manager Marco Steinberg from Sitra.
