CAMISSA, (the ancient Khoi name for Cape Town - meaning the place of sweet waters) is a spatial framework proposa.
CAMISSA is a development framework which through the use of water, focuses on the reinstatement of the ecological link that reunites the mountain and the ocean, into a public landscape, as a sustainable solution for Cape Town's CBD. It is a means by which to re-structure the City of Cape Town in accordance with environmental principles. Aimed at a sustainable approach to water use, planning, design and management that is based on the intrinsic value of water as a significant public resource that is not separate from the value of land and landscape. The vision is one of a genuinely progressive dual water management strategy that offers opportunities for new models to transform the future well-being of the city into an equal society for all people; and allows for public integration and education through the recreational use of the system.
Subsequently, RECLAIM CAMISSA a non-profit trust / Public Benefit Organisation was constituted and registered in order to support implementation of the 10 year programme.
Conceptualizing Rurality with Michel de Certeausbrown08
This SlideShare presentation contains a brief introduction to the ideas of Michael de Certeau and some possible avenues for reconnecting his work with the "cultural turn" in contemporary rural studies.
Shaping the Smart City Journey
Presented as part of the Smart Cities Summit Parramatta
@parracity @FutureCitiesAU #ParraSmartCity
(http://www.futurecities.org.au/projects/smart-cities)
OCTO Talks - State of the art Architecture dans les frontend webOCTO Technology
Vous avez dit architecture front 💅 ? Du CSS au CDN, personne ne sera épargné !
par Pierrette Bertrand (Head of Web Front Development @OCTO Technology), David Ostermann (Developpeur Front End @OCTO Technology) et Florian Leroy (Consultant Senior @OCTO Technology)
Qu’est-ce qu’une architecture front ? Selon que vous demandiez à un intégrateur, un développeur frontend, un développeur d’API ou tout simplement, à un architecte, la réponse sera bien différente. Car selon notre expérience, ce dernier, n’a en réalité qu’une partie de la réponse. Dans ce talk, nous regarderons ensemble les avantages et inconvénients de la multitude des choix possibles, à chaque étage, afin de donner une carte utile pour s’y retrouver. N’en déplaise aux développeurs front, le concept d’architecture front dépasse de loin le choix de leur framework préféré !
Digital strategy for a successful smart city initiativeSaeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation was presented during the Arab Future Cities Summit held in Dubai from 10-11 November 2014. It highlight the development of a digital strategy for a smart city initiatives. What is the main focus of a digital strategy for a smart city, what are the different planning approaches to smart city initiatives, and covers Dubai smart city initiative.
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Chad in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Chad, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2023 Kosovo (February 2023) v01DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Kosovo in 2023. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Kosovo, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Conceptualizing Rurality with Michel de Certeausbrown08
This SlideShare presentation contains a brief introduction to the ideas of Michael de Certeau and some possible avenues for reconnecting his work with the "cultural turn" in contemporary rural studies.
Shaping the Smart City Journey
Presented as part of the Smart Cities Summit Parramatta
@parracity @FutureCitiesAU #ParraSmartCity
(http://www.futurecities.org.au/projects/smart-cities)
OCTO Talks - State of the art Architecture dans les frontend webOCTO Technology
Vous avez dit architecture front 💅 ? Du CSS au CDN, personne ne sera épargné !
par Pierrette Bertrand (Head of Web Front Development @OCTO Technology), David Ostermann (Developpeur Front End @OCTO Technology) et Florian Leroy (Consultant Senior @OCTO Technology)
Qu’est-ce qu’une architecture front ? Selon que vous demandiez à un intégrateur, un développeur frontend, un développeur d’API ou tout simplement, à un architecte, la réponse sera bien différente. Car selon notre expérience, ce dernier, n’a en réalité qu’une partie de la réponse. Dans ce talk, nous regarderons ensemble les avantages et inconvénients de la multitude des choix possibles, à chaque étage, afin de donner une carte utile pour s’y retrouver. N’en déplaise aux développeurs front, le concept d’architecture front dépasse de loin le choix de leur framework préféré !
Digital strategy for a successful smart city initiativeSaeed Al Dhaheri
This presentation was presented during the Arab Future Cities Summit held in Dubai from 10-11 November 2014. It highlight the development of a digital strategy for a smart city initiatives. What is the main focus of a digital strategy for a smart city, what are the different planning approaches to smart city initiatives, and covers Dubai smart city initiative.
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Chad in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Chad, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2023 Kosovo (February 2023) v01DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Kosovo in 2023. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Kosovo, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIAMunira Shahbuddin
The moral argument and ethical challenges and framework for sustainability through holistic water management in Malaysia. Should we confine to standard approach that only measures cost benefit analysis of social policies to serve the majority of the public and deprive basic rights (water, food, air and life) of the indigenous and rural communities.This lecture combines technical approaches in sustainable water management and philosophical views - to address problems and challenges in climate change and global warming.
Sydney’s Water - Grey water, Water efficiency programs, Desalination Plant an...Biocity Studio
Sydney’s water demand is currently met by 11 major damns, recycled water and water pumped from the Shoalhaven River. Warragamba dam provides Sydney with 80% of Sydney drinking water supply. Sydney’s high demand for water has forced the NSW Government to come up with a Metropolitan Plan for Sydney, by creating more Grey water, Water efficiency programs, Desalination Plant and early lead detection.
Andy Freifeld, Temple University, “Landscape Design and Reuse Planning in Min...Michael Hewitt, GISP
Funding for mine land reclamation is difficult to acquire and, while the environmental benefits of reclamation are fully understood, the economic benefits of reclamation are just beginning to be appreciated. Innovations in landscape design and reuse planning can attract partnerships with lenders and investors and spur the economic development associated with reuse of abandoned mine lands. Strategies like energy development, carbon sequestration, and wetland banking can address environmental concerns, but should also preserve historical and cultural legacies in order to maximize economic gain. These environmental strategies are now being encouraged by State and Federal agencies, while the cultural legacies are more universally overlooked. This presentation will discuss the ways in which environmental design of reclamation projects could benefit both economically and environmentally by the inclusion of preservation and consideration of historical and cultural legacies of the sites, while still utilizing core environmental strategies.
Session 1: Wed. Feb. 24, 2010:
"Opening Out Towards the Water"– The Big Picture
Moderator: Dr. William Solecki, Director, CISC
Speakers/Panelists
Click on each speaker's name to download their presentation [PDF]
Dr. Rutherford H. Platt, Senior Fellow, CISC
Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
Linda Cox, Executive Director, Bronx River Alliance
Wilbur L. Woods, Director, Waterfront and Open Space Planning, New York City Department of City Planning
Cortney Worrall, Director of Programs, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
HOLISTIC APPROACH FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER MANAGEMENT IN MALAYSIAMunira Shahbuddin
The moral argument and ethical challenges and framework for sustainability through holistic water management in Malaysia. Should we confine to standard approach that only measures cost benefit analysis of social policies to serve the majority of the public and deprive basic rights (water, food, air and life) of the indigenous and rural communities.This lecture combines technical approaches in sustainable water management and philosophical views - to address problems and challenges in climate change and global warming.
Sydney’s Water - Grey water, Water efficiency programs, Desalination Plant an...Biocity Studio
Sydney’s water demand is currently met by 11 major damns, recycled water and water pumped from the Shoalhaven River. Warragamba dam provides Sydney with 80% of Sydney drinking water supply. Sydney’s high demand for water has forced the NSW Government to come up with a Metropolitan Plan for Sydney, by creating more Grey water, Water efficiency programs, Desalination Plant and early lead detection.
Andy Freifeld, Temple University, “Landscape Design and Reuse Planning in Min...Michael Hewitt, GISP
Funding for mine land reclamation is difficult to acquire and, while the environmental benefits of reclamation are fully understood, the economic benefits of reclamation are just beginning to be appreciated. Innovations in landscape design and reuse planning can attract partnerships with lenders and investors and spur the economic development associated with reuse of abandoned mine lands. Strategies like energy development, carbon sequestration, and wetland banking can address environmental concerns, but should also preserve historical and cultural legacies in order to maximize economic gain. These environmental strategies are now being encouraged by State and Federal agencies, while the cultural legacies are more universally overlooked. This presentation will discuss the ways in which environmental design of reclamation projects could benefit both economically and environmentally by the inclusion of preservation and consideration of historical and cultural legacies of the sites, while still utilizing core environmental strategies.
Session 1: Wed. Feb. 24, 2010:
"Opening Out Towards the Water"– The Big Picture
Moderator: Dr. William Solecki, Director, CISC
Speakers/Panelists
Click on each speaker's name to download their presentation [PDF]
Dr. Rutherford H. Platt, Senior Fellow, CISC
Robert Yaro, President, Regional Plan Association
Linda Cox, Executive Director, Bronx River Alliance
Wilbur L. Woods, Director, Waterfront and Open Space Planning, New York City Department of City Planning
Cortney Worrall, Director of Programs, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance
Dive into the innovative world of smart garages with our insightful presentation, "Exploring the Future of Smart Garages." This comprehensive guide covers the latest advancements in garage technology, including automated systems, smart security features, energy efficiency solutions, and seamless integration with smart home ecosystems. Learn how these technologies are transforming traditional garages into high-tech, efficient spaces that enhance convenience, safety, and sustainability.
Ideal for homeowners, tech enthusiasts, and industry professionals, this presentation provides valuable insights into the trends, benefits, and future developments in smart garage technology. Stay ahead of the curve with our expert analysis and practical tips on implementing smart garage solutions.
Expert Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) Drafting ServicesResDraft
Whether you’re looking to create a guest house, a rental unit, or a private retreat, our experienced team will design a space that complements your existing home and maximizes your investment. We provide personalized, comprehensive expert accessory dwelling unit (ADU)drafting solutions tailored to your needs, ensuring a seamless process from concept to completion.
Book Formatting: Quality Control Checks for DesignersConfidence Ago
This presentation was made to help designers who work in publishing houses or format books for printing ensure quality.
Quality control is vital to every industry. This is why every department in a company need create a method they use in ensuring quality. This, perhaps, will not only improve the quality of products and bring errors to the barest minimum, but take it to a near perfect finish.
It is beyond a moot point that a good book will somewhat be judged by its cover, but the content of the book remains king. No matter how beautiful the cover, if the quality of writing or presentation is off, that will be a reason for readers not to come back to the book or recommend it.
So, this presentation points designers to some important things that may be missed by an editor that they could eventually discover and call the attention of the editor.
Between Filth and Fortune- Urban Cattle Foraging Realities by Devi S Nair, An...Mansi Shah
This study examines cattle rearing in urban and rural settings, focusing on milk production and consumption. By exploring a case in Ahmedabad, it highlights the challenges and processes in dairy farming across different environments, emphasising the need for sustainable practices and the essential role of milk in daily consumption.
Can AI do good? at 'offtheCanvas' India HCI preludeAlan Dix
Invited talk at 'offtheCanvas' IndiaHCI prelude, 29th June 2024.
https://www.alandix.com/academic/talks/offtheCanvas-IndiaHCI2024/
The world is being changed fundamentally by AI and we are constantly faced with newspaper headlines about its harmful effects. However, there is also the potential to both ameliorate theses harms and use the new abilities of AI to transform society for the good. Can you make the difference?
Top 5 Indian Style Modular Kitchen DesignsFinzo Kitchens
Get the perfect modular kitchen in Gurgaon at Finzo! We offer high-quality, custom-designed kitchens at the best prices. Wardrobes and home & office furniture are also available. Free consultation! Best Quality Luxury Modular kitchen in Gurgaon available at best price. All types of Modular Kitchens are available U Shaped Modular kitchens, L Shaped Modular Kitchen, G Shaped Modular Kitchens, Inline Modular Kitchens and Italian Modular Kitchen.
You could be a professional graphic designer and still make mistakes. There is always the possibility of human error. On the other hand if you’re not a designer, the chances of making some common graphic design mistakes are even higher. Because you don’t know what you don’t know. That’s where this blog comes in. To make your job easier and help you create better designs, we have put together a list of common graphic design mistakes that you need to avoid.
3. CALAMITY OF CLIMATE CHANGE global applications regional aspects local solutions from doom to HOPE IMAGE SOURCES : Andrew Smith, in “The Making of a City”, by Worden, et al. : ANNUAL KHOI TRANSHUMANCE PATTERNS IN AND AROUND THE CAPE PENINSULA. Cape Archives M166; Greenmarket Square. BURGHERSWACHTPLEIN (1764) WATER CARRIERS. CARON VON ZEIL, January 2009 - Indlovini Squatter Camp, Monwabisi - Cape Town, 2009. WATER CARRIERS OUR LEGACY AND OUR DESTINY? Photograph taken in Monwabisi, CAPE TOWN, 2009. RECLAIM CAMISSA
4. GLOBAL, NATIONAL & REGIONAL “ Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest level of access to safe water coverage of any region, with only 60% of the population served.” -- UNESCO Water Portal Bi-monthly Newsletter No. 205, 10 July 08 “ ALL WATER VESTED IN THE STATE” CITY WITHIN A REGION RECLAIM CAMISSA CAPE TOWN: the MOTHER city The frontier of our modern nation The very ‘meaning’ of the city of Cape Town: CAMISSA – the place of sweet waters WE NEED ECOLOGY Not economy….. WE NEED HONEY Not money…..
5. REGIONAL / METRO RECLAIM CAMISSA … ..some knowns estimated 6.5m sea level rise, within the next 50 years…. AND BEYOND THAT: TRUE BAY. MAP, by Chris Berens: CLIP CLOP www.clipclop.co.za CAPE TOWN – a sprawl city SOURCE: CARON VON ZEIL, 2004.
6.
7. LOCAL / SUB-METRO Stadsfontein Spring Flow rate in excess of 2.5 million litres/ day. RECLAIM CAMISSA
8. THE ARK IS READY TO FLOAT OUR HERITAGE and OUR FUTURE FIFA WORLD CUP 2010 let’s give them a GOAL RECLAIM CAMISSA
10. reality and possibility WATER IS A LIVING CYCLE QUANTUM LEVEL APPLICATION Cape Town uniquely possesses a natural dual water system with 20 artesian springs and a 6.7km ‘urban river’ RECLAIM CAMISSA
11. reality and possibility economics & (community) urban eco-tourism “ For every foreign tourist to South Africa, eight permanent jobs are created. In terms of sustainable development, tourism is therefore critical to the economy of the country....The Council for Geoscience has identified geo-tourism as one of its focus areas for sustainable development.” - (GEOCLIPS 2002:4) Table Mountain (potential World Heritage Site) – “an authentic illustration of the evolution of the earth and the origin of life from 3500million years ago to the present”. --Council for Geoscience: GEOCLIPS: South Africa - our geological wonderland, June 2002:4
12. RECLAIM CAMISSA THE ROLE OF WATER IN STRUCTURING THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE Source:Nitschhke, 1993 COLONISATION SLAVERY BOER WAR APARTHEID POVERTY CLIMATE CHANGE the (spiritual) healing of a nation “ closing the frontier” LANDSCAPE COSMOLOGY JUSTICE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL SPATIAL SOCIAL CULTURAL SPIRITUAL ECONOMICAL PUBLIC SPACE (Source: Eko : 35) Source: Budihardjo, 1997 HEAD god mountains (wo)man land evil sea BODY LEG
13. SOLUTION CIVIC HYDROLOGY BEFORE SEOUL CITY, KOREA – 4 YEAR PROJECT AFTER LIVING RIVER = LIVING CITY ROME 2 800 YEAR OLD HISTORY OF A (DUAL WATER SYSTEM) CIVIC HYDROLOGY The concept is to transform the stormwater infrastructure so as to create a powerful civic infrastructure that engages citizens in ways that conventional infrastructure is unable to do. By creating a public landscape that is physically accessible, expressive of civic ideals and a place where the public can gather: a progressive stormwater system that is an effective mechanism for building the city’s civic life and also a compelling strategy where water is renewed and falls abundantly throughout the city', before finally being used to water the city’s green spaces.
14. CAMISSA - ONE OF MANY SYSTEMS RECLAIM CAMISSA CAMISSA TRAFALGAR LIESBEEK BLACK CAPE FLATS AQUIFER UNIT OUDE KRAAL NEWLANDS
15. WEB OF SOCIO-ECOLOGICAL LINKS ATLANTIC OCEAN Water follows the path of least resistance - it has no boundaries: When one uncovers the history of a 'place', it is through means of title deeds - ownership and power. But, when one uncovers the history of a place, through its water - upon which everything is dependant - one uncovers the popular history of that place…… TABLE MOUNTAIN PLACES OF CIVIC HYDROLOGY WATER, LAND and HUMANKIND - in unison RECLAIM CAMISSA
16. DUAL WATER SYSTEM form and function GRAVITY FED ATLANTIC OCEAN TABLE MOUNTAIN OLD SHORELINE spring water & mountain run-off DOCKSIDE MARKET possibilities to navigate NEW WATERSEDGE possibilities to navigate - water taxi irrigation & display THE OLD CITY WATERWAYS navigation of subterranean water taxi routes subterranean gracht adventure trail irrigation & display CULTURAL HEART irrigation & display opportunities re-instate mill opportunities re-instate storage reservoirs A WATER SUSTAINABILITY PARK environmental ; public & commercial opportunities: retention & detention, filtration & display power generation through water mills re-instatement of Graaff's Hydro-Electrical re-instate reservoirs CIVIC-HYDROLOGY PRECINCTS catchment; detention, filtration & display water museum – field of springs Oranjezicht Farmstead lost heritage spaces & links GATEWAY TO THE MOUNTAIN catchment; detention; filtration & display re-instatement of dam; weir; filtration, mill, wasplaas, washer-women’s cultural /water museum SALT WATER 100M ASL RECYCLED WATER POTABLE WATER RECLAIM CAMISSA
17. FRAMEWORK STRUCTURE SYSTEMATIC LAYERS DEVELOPMENT FRAMEWORK BLUE system – CIVIC HYDROLOGY GREEN system GREEN & URBAN PUBLIC SPACES RED system URBAN MOBILITY BLUE system CIVIC HYDROLOGY RECLAIM CAMISSA
The * City’ Bowl’s current water resources once sustained 111 000 people (and passing trade). Today, only 55 000 persons live here due to the Apartheid legacy . The Stadtsfontein (Main Spring) produces almost enough (potentially potable) water daily to provide every person in the GCTMA with one litre per day. All of these resources are wasted through the storm water system and the city's water is piped in from the food - growing region , as the mountain run-off and the spring water are currently polluted and wasted . This is not sustainable. This water is a vital resource for the City of Cape Town and was scrapped from the asset resource register in 1994. . PROBLEMS & OPPORTUNITIES HYDROCIDE
SA’S FIRST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Placaat 12 of 1665 : “Niet boven de stroom van de spruitje daer de schepen haer water halen te wassen en deselve troubel te maken”
One of many systems…..
BY SECURING OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCE, WE ARE ABLE TO DENSIFY OUR CITY – and thus live more sustainably on our land. - the new Foreshore – mixed used accommodation for lower & middle income.
