An Experiment in Incrementalism

Creative City South has since its beginnings in 2016 been a temporary, itinerant, non-profit initiative. It has been based in several cities with its key base in Johannesburg, South Africa since 2019. On 29 July 2021, CCS established its offices in Greenside, Johannesburg, at the home of it’s director, myself Zayd Minty. The space is being conceived as a shared environment for experimentation around urban cultural change ideas in its very specific Global South city context - The Parks: Urban Culture Lab and Residency.

By sharing the development and experiments of The Parks, as the project engages in a dialogic exercise with partners and publics, we will seek to highlight the general findings it encounters which may be relevant for other culture linked entities exploring city change work. This blog will (initially) be a personal view on new developments, visitors, dialogues and more as we make the project a reality.