Aalto Talk
8.0 – Meeting ACC @ UCT
15.12.2012 - Janne Salovaara
On our way back to the city from Sweet Home Farm we stopped to have meeting with the director of African Centre for Cities, Edgar Pietersen. ACC is an University of Cape Town multidisciplinary initiative that has a mission: The ACC seeks to facilitate critical urban research and policy discourses fo...
Read more ››7.0 – Sweet welcome to Sweet Home Farm
07.12.2012 - Janne Salovaara
Shannon and Mark, two wonderful people working with an illegal settlement at Cape Flats Philippi called Sweet Home Farm, organized a tour and a workshop at their project ground – that is a home to 17 000 cape-townians living in this illegal settlement. We met at one of the local houses, which was th...
Read more ››6.0 – Talkoot! A Finnish way of working together – exported
24.11.2012 - Janne Salovaara
Talkoot event was part of the official Helsinki meets Cape Town even series, facilitated by CPUT and organized in the impressive RLabs, in Bridgetown, Athlone – one of the townships of Cape Flats. RLabs was started as somewhat a personal spinoff of another Living Lab – or so I’ve heard, and was ...
Read more ››5.0 – Closer look at the Fringe and BDay Cake at Ashraf’s
20.11.2012 - Janne Salovaara
In the middle of it, we sort of snugged out from the City Dialogue event to have a walking tour around the Fringe. From Half moon we walked through the buzzing bus/taxi/train station, which after the walkthrough our guide, Yehuda, told us that probably 90% of Cape Townians (close to mountains) have a...
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Nene Tsuboi
Nene Tsuboi is a designer from Japan, based in Helsinki since 1999. Her works include artworks for products and publications, designing graphics and spaces,
organising events and exhibitions. Her projects often relate to architecture and
urbanism, and the making of more interesting and enjoyable places. She is the co-owner/operator of Kulttuurisauna, a new public sauna in Hakaniemenranta in
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Janne Salovaara
Creative Sustainability MA Student.
On a trip to South-Africa; Cape Town and Johannesburg.
Meeting, greeting and creating.
