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PROJECT
THE # COCREATE DESIGN FESTIVAL
The #coCreate Blue-Green Cities Design Awards are an initiative of the Mission
Network of The Netherlands in South Africa, and the festival was organised in
partnership with the Craft and Design Institute, UCT’s Future Water Institute, the
City of Cape Town and ILASA. Winning projects were selected from fields such as
civil and environmental engineering, architecture, landscape architecture, urban
design and conservation.
Place, people and purpose in his is a community project run by a group of women in
the Griffiths Mxenge section of Khayelitsha, Cape Town. It
Khayelitsha, Cape Town Tincorporates waste removal, transformational art and green
space creation, forming a water-sensitive rain garden design
that protects surface and groundwater systems and promotes
The prize-winning Indawo Abantu Injongo community engagement.
This community initiative, supported by The Umvoto
eKhayelitsha initiative has transformed Foundation, recently scooped three awards in the inaugural
a neglected Khayelitsha street into a #coCreate Blue-Green Cities Design Awards. It not only won the
beautified, water-sensitive design feature community-based project category, but also the most valued
water-sensitive innovation, and most valued project: water
supported by the local community. champion.
Rain garden with donated indigenous plants
