IDDS Masi 2017 Cape Town Concept Paper submitted to MIT D-Lab and IDIN
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Concept Note IDDS Masi 2017 Cape Town Presented by IDIN SA Organising Committee
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Transcript of IDDS Masi 2017 Cape Town Concept Paper submitted to MIT D-Lab and IDIN
Concept Note IDDS Masi 2017 Cape TownPresented by IDIN SA Organising Committee
Masiphumelele – pronounced ‘masi – pu – ma – le – le’ (affectionately known as Masi) is a South African township, situated 45 minutes away from the Cape Town CBD which is home to historically disadvantaged South Africans and refugees. It faces a number of socio-economic and environmental challenges, despite which - it has a strong sense of community empowerment. The name ‘Masiphumelele is a Xhosa word, chosen by the community, meaning “We will succeed”. However, it has experienced much devastation. Our goal for this summit is to integrate the spirit of “Ubuntu” into Masiphumelele, using the key principle of empathy in design thinking, to instil a sense of hope and pride within the community. We wish to help Masiphumelele achieve its dreams of success
About Masiphumelele
Vision
Goals
Ubuntu The theme for the IDDS Masi 2017 Cape Town summit shall be “Ubuntu”, meaning “I am because of you | A person is a person because of other people”. This African philosophy is the essence of humanity; creating a human connection, a community in which one may only exist because others do.
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Using design thinking, we will co-create solutions that enable Masi’s citizens to sustain and empower themselves to deal with housing, policing, food, conservation, entrepreneurial and ICT challenges. We can make design thinking, everyday thinking in Masi, and everyday thinking. Design thinking can be traced 100 000 years in Africa but due to apartheid and colonisation, local people have been denied the ability to learn this proud tradition and unlock indigenous design solutions rooted in the African philosophy of Ubuntu.
Merle O'Brien | IDIN SA Chapter Co-ordinator & IDDS D’Kar 2015 participant | [email protected]
Lea Chisholm | Lead co-ordinator & SA secretariat | UCT Architecture Student | [email protected]
Thabiso Mashiba | IDDS Masi 2017 Co-lead co-ordinator & IDDS DKar 2015/2016 Co-Lead FacilitatorChad Sonday | IDDS Masi 2017 Co-lead co-ordinator & co-founder of UNISOUL
Key contacts:
KEY CHALLENGESMasiphumelele faces a number of challenges which need to be addressed in order to ensure the security (financial and physical) of the people living within the community. These challenges include: •HousingIllegal shacks are constantly being torn down, leaving many homeless. Due to the haphazard layout of the shacks, many in Masi have lost their homes to a fire last year and are now living as refugees in their own community, taking shelter in community halls. There is a serious need for improved temporary housing. Even in the shacks, there is no water access and the sanitary facilities are shared between families. Many shacks are erected over a water estuary which is ecologically sensitive as well as the cause of health issues among children.
•Drugs & crime | Need for a Mobile Police StationMasi has become notorious for its heavy involvement with drugs which impacts the youth safety and development. There was an initiative previously taken in Masi to create a mobile police station, and we should look at models for this to be created. Inadequate policing leads to riots and ongoing crime.
•ConservationDue to housing and many fires, the surrounding wetland area (belonging to South African National Parks) is under threat.
•Female entrepreneursThere are a number of women’s projects skills involving beadwork, recycling, sewing, beer brewing and food growing
•ICT Education•There is only one junior school and one high school, both of which have not got suitable facilities to meet the vast number of students’ needs. The library has ICT resources but there are no educational curriculum to support ICT education for the youth to connect to the digital world.
•Food & NutritionApproximately 23% of Masi’s people are infected with HIV-AIDS with an increase in tuberculosis in the past ten years. Nutrition for children, elderly, sick and unemployed is vital but there is not enough food growing, soup kitchen etc.
HOST COMMUNITY | PROJEKT UBUNTU
Projekt Ubuntu is a community based volunteer programme and educational space in Masiphumelele.
Projekt Ubuntu will be our leading organisation on the summit. In the past, Projekt Ubuntu funded the rebuild of Masincedisane Pre-school after a fire in July, 2014.
They also work with female and young entrepreneurs in building their businesses.
For more information on them, they have a Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/ProjektUbuntu/
Inside Yoga Shala – Projekt Ubuntu’sAccommodation Venue
Dining Area at Projekt Ubuntu View from Verandah overlooking Masi
The image of Nelson Mandela created by Projekt Ubuntu at Afrika Burn to raise funds for Masi and which is its logo
Masicorphttp://www.masicorp.org/Established in Masi since 1999,Masicorp offers the community a basis upon which to grow economically. They run a preschool in the area, as well as a famous library (with ICT resources); they hold educational courses for people of all ages, and help entrepreneurs develop their businesses.
RESOURCES REQUIRED TO ADDRESS CHALLENGES
Living Hopehttp://www.livinghope.co.za/Living Hope runs a health programme, offering education of and prevention against HIV-AIDS. Other aims of theirs is accessible education and economic enhancement for the people of Masi. They also address the housing and drug crises in Masi.AWOL Tourshttps://www.awoltours.co.za/AWOL Tours offers tours of the township on bicycles through BEN. AWOL promotes cultural sensitivity as well as nature conservation. They run a couple other environmental and social development programmes.BENhttp://www.benbikes.org.zaBicycling Empowerment Network promotes the use of a bicycle in all ways: transportation, fitness, economic empowerment, etc. They source cheap bikes from Europe and offer them to the community as well as promoting jobs in the industry.
There will be a range of resources required for the summit tosupport housing development, in which case we will require building utensils, including: corrugated iron, timber, masonry, joineries (cement, mortar, nails, screws, bolts, etc.), paint, concrete, amongst other necessities.
We may need ICT resources in which case we will approach Masicorp, and perhaps use their world-famous library.
The surrounding communities (i.e. Noordhoek, Fishoek, and Sun Valley) have been very involved in donating resources to Masi, so we will approach them for donations as well.
We will source low-cost resources in the area so that whatever we use will be accessible for the residents in Masiphumelele in the future, once we have left. This way they will be able to continue to sustain themselves using what was learnt during the summit. We will approach the organisations listed on the right to see if they would like to be involved, which might allow us access to more resources.
VENUE | THE UBUNTU CENTRE
Projekt Ubuntu has access to the following reaources: •Accomodation facility (sleeps 30 people) within 1km of Masiphumelele known as the Yoga Shala.•The Ubuntu Centre, a venue created within the community of Masiphumelele which serves as a workshop community creche resource.•The Masiphumelele library which has been equipped with WiFi ICT facilities.
Candi Hogan, founder of Proekt Ubuntu with 2 local community members
A typical street in Masi The crèche built by Projekt Ubuntu in Masi
TIMELINE
The summit would take place around from the 2nd week – 4th Week of June 2017 before Cape Town’s rainy season begins – and during the school and university vacation period. The summit would extend over 3 weeks to be able to immerse the designers within the culture and setting, and develop the designs to their full potential. This length of time will allow for enough time to develop relevant design prototypes and test them within the community; after which we will have sufficient time to adjust the designs if necessary.
Create proposals and prototypes of designs to combat the issues previously listed
Adapt/improve designs further and promote the designs
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Identify the issues
Develop an approachto the issue
Review/confirm the design.Feedback on the design proposals
Develop the product Implement
the product within the community. Test the product
Re-assess the design
ReflectionOrientation
Scoping within the community to understand the requirements of Masi in greater depth
Engage in community consultations
Research options from which one may draw ideas
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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ORGANISING TEAM
Merle O'Brien: IDIN SA Chapter Co-ordinator, was a participant at IDDS D’Kar and hosted IDIN Jona Repitshi
at Open Design talk in SA to share experience and co-
ordinate a local chapter and is founder of Creayion iLab and
design innovation thought leader at Lacuna-
Lea Chisholm: an architecture student at the University of Cape Town is serving as lead co-ordinator under the mentorship of Merle O’Brien and Thabiso Mashaba [email protected]
Candi Hogan: co founder of Project Ubuntu the Masi community host will also provide venues, meals and transport [email protected]
Thabiso Mashiba: IDDS DKar 2015/2016 Co-Lead Facilitator has agreed to serve on the SA organising committee
Chad Sonday: Design thinking graduate from Vega and founder of Unisoul will serve as co-lead Facilitator with Thabiso during the Summit [email protected]
Gina Alphane: works for a local NGO Regency
Foundation and co-ordinates the Hook Up Dinner for small entrepreneurs in the region – she will lead logistics, accommodation & meals [email protected]
Zachary Sonday: Responsible for digital media at Unisoul and will lead Communication, ICT & Video [email protected]
Danielle Geddes: Completing Honours in Politics at the University of Stellenbosch Business School & will lead [email protected] Luthando Tyhalibongo: Head of Communication for the University of the Western Cape who will lead media [email protected]
Erica Elk: CEO of the Cape Craft and Design Institute Government Agency for design and innovation promotion in the province Government Relations (Gillian Bejamin to represent Erica and link to Better Living Challenge) [email protected] | [email protected]
Sune Stassen: Co-ordinator of Open design and author of SA design thinking text books used in schools [email protected]
There are design thinking academics in the City who will be approached in the 2nd phase to mentor the team and help in the community scoping and during the Summit to serve as indigenous design experts within each team.
BUDGET +/- USD 30,000K
We budget a cost of R250 (USD 20 per day) for accommodation, breakfast, lunch and dinner per person at the Ubuntu Centre & Yoga Shala – provided by Projekt Ubuntu for 3 weeks.
R250 x 50 people x 21 days = R260 400 for three weeks’ stay. This would be for a 30 people staying at the Yoga Shala and 20 people staying in homes in Masiphumelele.
Transport will include the following:•airport transfers via the MyCity public intermodel system to the city •transfer to Masiphumelele via train (one hour) and •A shuttle service provided from Projekt Ubuntu to transfer from the station to the venue. •Daily transport from accommodation to the community would be via taxi shuttles and bicycles.
There are many small entrepreneurs in Masi who can be supported through the logistics which would be our first option to contribute much of the resources into the community.
We will fundraise for supplies such as corrugated iron, timber, masonry, joineries, paint, etc. which may require additional funding of around USD 20K
EVALUATION
Continuity•Via Projekt Ubuntu who will sustain the initiative started during IDDS Masi 2017 and a nodal point for IDIN Network globally who want to continue the involvement.•Via Open Design (the City of Cape Town’s annual design festival) we have the opportunity to provide for the IDDS Masi legacy to serve as a living exhibition, allowing the thousands of delegates to Open Design in August 2017 to connect to the project via tours as well as talks at the event.•Lacuna Innovation working with Creation i-Lab will explore the potential to sustain its involvement with Projekt Ubuntu and the Masi community via its CSI initiatives.•Projekt Ubuntu works with CPUT (Cape Peninsula University of Technology) to train its SRC to provide community leadership skills to its committee and the projects of IDDS will be used continuously for them to work/be trained in.•Open Design has the opportunity to host tours within Masiphumelele exposing the community to the tourism industry. Included in the ticket could be a souvenir from the tour, such as an item of beadwork, creating a market for beading. We are aware that BEN and AWOL Tours already do tours within Masi and we are eager to reach out to them and work with them.•Media coverage via the social and mass media channels that will be activated to raise awareness about the initiative.•Community feedback about the impact IDDS had on the entrepreneurs, women, children and the youth.FundingIDDS Masi 2017 will also be evaluated by the funds raised via donations as well as in-kind resources from government and corporate sponsors. A dedicated member of the local organising committee has been assigned and will be supported by the team who are highly entrepreneurial, networked and resourceful. There are satellite events such as Afrikaburn as well as the Cape Town Cycle Tour and other marathons (i.e. Two Oceans) where corporate teams can use this initiative as their cause.IDIN GoalsOur goals mutually align with IDIN’s goals to use design to co-create local sustainable and innovative ecosystems, leadership skills and community empowerment in a hands-on way that creates new pathways of hope out of poverty. IDDS Masi 2017 will shine a light to the IDIN Community around the world from the tip of Africa to show the power of Ubuntu and ignite African pride in its design heritage.
