Sketches

Goemarati - you are welcome. Designing an inclusive intervention I'm not a designer. I trained as an actor and film-maker, and became an entrepreneur. But I've learned that design is at the heart of everything that we do - if not always entirely by design. So that makes us all designers, in an unconscious way. In people's homes, decisions have been made about where to put this painting in relation to that picture, where the chair stands in relation to the sofa, the pot plant in relation to the graduation certificate. These are all design decisions, but very few people doing this would consider themselves as designers.  Enjoying the foodcourt at the Manenberg Goemarati I watch my son, he's 14 months old, plot his routes. Even at this early stage of life, design is central. When we walk out of the apartment, he has a specific routine. He always turns right out of the door. He touches the geyser outlet pipe on the wall. He touches the neighbour's g...

Dirty secrets? Not really. The Baxter is a public entity, audited, all dirty washing aired, and or turned into a production. No, the Secrets of the Baxter is a new experience that I'm excited about, something that Coffeebeans Routes has created in partnership with the Baxter Theatre. Sometime in 2010, Michelle Constant, CEO of Business Arts South Africa, joined one of our Jazz Safaris, and shortly after met with Baxter Theatre CEO Lara Foot. Michelle called me after the meeting and said Iain you have to have to have to meet with Lara and talk about creating a theatre tour together. So Lara and I met. And then months later, after lots of thought, myself and Lana Paries started putting things together. Very quickly we hit on the right mix, and in June this year we tested it out. Below is what it looks like, we think its a winner, will be interesting to see over the coming summer season how it does. Expect to see a lot about it in the media over the next year. We anticipate th...