By accident or by design: Cape Town's festival of invention

The naming of Cape Town as the World Design Capital may have been met with cynicism in some circles, but if you took a peek at this month’s Open Design Festival, you’d be forgiven for being swept away by it all. It’s crammed full of exciting inventions and is, to borrow a phrase from the writer’s children, ‘kak cool’. And you don’t have much time left to experience it, so you’d better get cracking. By MARELISE VAN DER MERWE.