OUR MISSION AND VALUES
OUR HISTORY
SELECTED TALKS
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
OUR MISSION AND VALUES
We believe our cities can be more equitable, socially inclusive, visionary & innovative.
We work with ambitious and progressive organisations and people to make a meaningful contribution to the future of our cities.
We love working across the fields of urban development which include housing, transport, public space, sustainability and planning.
Our Future Cities NPO is an independent non profit organisation promoting democracy and actions towards the creation of more equitable, progressive and bold cities. We work in cities including our base, Cape Town as well as Durban, Johannesburg and Lagos with collaborations and engagements with partners and clients in cities around the world.
Through our consulting services we work with the government, business and communities on projects which align with our mission and values.
We have become a leading platform for urbanism in Africa with over 120,000 social media followers. In 2016, our website was listed as one of the top 20 in Urban Planning globally, and has been exhibited at the Guggenheim, Vitra Museum and FRAC Centre.
OUR HISTORY
Future Cape Town was started by Rashiq Fataar in July 2010, in the period after South Africa’s successful hosting of the 2010 FIFA World Cup. Initially, Future Cape Town was a means of stimulating a broader debate and questioning the future direction of the city.
Under the tagline “inspiring a more liveable city”, Future Cape Town was born as a social media account on Twitter, which began to challenge this status quo by prompting and asking tough questions about the ways in which the city would progress, in the process encouraging other citizens to do the same.
In late 2013, Future Cape Town welcomed Future Johannesburg, Future Lagos and Future London, and became a registered nonprofit, Our Future Cities NPO.
SELECTED TALKS
Our work has been presented in major cities across the globe, including Bogotá, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, and Paris.
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- Radical Jozi: Housing the Inner City, Urban Think-Tank’s Joburg Action Lab, Johannesburg (Panel Discussion), 2017
- Densification and the Ambition for a Democratic City, No-Cost Housing Conference, ETH University, Zürich, 2016
- Social Innovation, Public Life, and the Future City, Smart City Expo World Congress, Casablanca, 2016
- Inventing a New City, Cities for Life Conference, Paris, 2016
- Opening Lecture, The Future of Public Space Lecture Series, Cape Town, 2016
- Building Collaborative Cities and Communities Now: ‘Collaboration Unusual’, Green Building Convention, Johannesburg, 2016
- Learning to Ask for the Future Cape Town We Want, Municipal Art Society Summit, New York City, 2015
- Building a Democracy in Cape Town: The Work of Future Cape Town, Smart City Expo World Congress, Barcelona, 2015
- The African Condition (Panel), Design Africa Symposium, Cape Town, 2014
- Livable Cities, Tshwane 2055 Outreach Programme, Pretoria, 2013
- The City Community : Strategic City Partnerships for Sustainability, Rio+20 UNEP Pavilion, Rio de Janeiro, 2012
PUBLICATIONS
Our work has been presented in major cities across the globe, including Bogotá, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, Rio de Janeiro, Munich, and Paris.
Books
- ‘The Ambition of a Democratic City’, in Cape Town: Densification as a Cure for a Segregated City, 2016
- ‘Global Designing Cities Initiative’ (contrib.), in Global Street Design Guide, 2016
- ‘Cape Town: What Happens Next’, in The Cape Town Book: A Guide to the City’s History, People and Places, 2015
- ‘City on the Move’, in Movement Cape Town, 2015
- ‘Cape Town: A Cosmopolitan Metropolis at the Bottom of the African Continent’, in World’s Best Cities (National Geographic), 2014
- ‘Cape Town as a Global Urban Laboratory’, in Department of Design, 2014
- ‘Cape Town as an Urban Laboratory of the World’, in World Design Capital Cape Town 2014: The Story of an African City, 2014
Our Future Cities has appeared in a number of print and online magazines and periodicals including; Icon Magazine, Earthworks Magazine, Blueprint Magazine, The Guardian, Urban Africa, Mahala, Aerodrome, and Next City.
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