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SOLVE is about collaboration: the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. If you’re interested in participating in and contributing to any of these events, we’d be pleased to welcome or connect with you.
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Past events
Ocean Cluster
Welcome to our first-ever Seafood Fest
Activism around the food value chain gained urgency during the Covid-19 pandemic. The V&A Waterfront is among those who are deeply engaged. We want to support and expand possibilities for our food ecosystem; but on a systems level we also have a deep commitment to opportunity, sustainability, and inclusivity. SOLVE@Waterfront and
Entrepreneurship
Bright Young Minds 2021
A two-day connecting, innovating and engaging immersion co-hosted with BYM. All the information here.
Ocean Cluster
Ocean Economy: Skills
How might we innovate with a focus on ocean-friendly job creation? If you’re keen to engage in discussions of opportunity and sustainability around the ocean, we’d be keen to have you in the Ocean Cluster. Mail solve@waterfront.co.za for an invitation to the session.
Food Systems
Food Dialogues 2021
The food system is critical and complex. This series of dialogues and discussions, co-hosted with the SA Urban Food & Farming Trust, is a rich resource for all who care about any aspect of the food value chain. All the information here.
Ocean Cluster
Ocean Cluster: Session 2 – Plastics
This cluster session set out to explore the ocean plastics landscape, including innovations that could be initiated, and interventions that could be prototyped on the precinct to build on and contribute to global thinking. We’ve written this event up here.
Ocean Cluster
Launch of the Ocean Cluster – Marine Wildlife
Launch of the Ocean Cluster – Marine Wildlife This session set out to explore and find some answers to two pivotal questions: What unique contribution can the Waterfront, using its precinct and working collaboratively with its tenants and external stakeholders, make to: Showcasing, learning, and innovating about sustainable fishing, job
Food Systems
Launch of the Food Cluster
At this session, SOLVE@Waterfront and its closest stakeholders reached out to the broader stakeholder community to: Share and understand where the Cluster had got to thus far, and its purpose Understand what the City, Province and others are currently doing Look collectively at how we might use the Waterfront as
General
Africa Textile Talks 2023
Talking about Africa’s sustainable & circular textile future The global textile industry has become one of the most socially and environmentally harmful industries in the world. Challenging these impacts begins with sharing ideas and inspiration for sustainable material worlds. That’s what we’re doing on 17 August at the V&A Waterfront.