The BLC2 team has been partnering with a wide range of industry stakeholders to work towards the goal of supporting the incremental upgrading of...
Read MoreOne of the three main work streams of the BLC2 is an investigation into innovative finance for upscaling the upgrading of informal settlements and...
Read MoreThe BLC2 team made an important presentation to a group of about fifty officials from non-metropolitan municipalities of the Western Cape on the 18th...
Read MoreThe BLC2 has adopted as one its programmes Living Labs in supporting the goal of having greater impact on the lives of informal settlement residents...
Read MoreThe BLC team hosted a five-hour hackathon with students from Vega School and Fontys Academy for Creative Industries (Tilburg, the Netherlands)....
Read MoreOne of the key outcomes of the Needs Analysis phase of BLC2 was the identification of a need for toolkits to support NGO intermediaries, small scale...
Read MoreThere has been a notable increase in an appetite for a ‘Design-Led approach’ to solve problems and create innovative processes and projects...
Read MoreSince the launch of the Better Living Challenge (BLC) 2 at the end of June, the BLC team has been working hard on one of its first projects,...
Read MoreThe second iteration of the Better Living Challenge (BLC) was officially launched on 30 June at an event hosted by the Cape Craft and Design...
Read MoreOne of the first BLC 2 activities began recently with a Design/Build Workshop in collaboration with Craft - the thinking hand design/build school....
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