Counter-Currents

Counter-Currents is a book and exhibition that launched in 2009. It features projects aimed at changing Cape Town, a city known for its high levels of inequality. The project highlighted experiments to address the city’s ongoing problems, especially as it prepared to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup. What originally began as a showcase of promising projects turned into an examination of why change is so hard to achieve across a city where many understand what needs to improve, but often find themselves stuck in the same patterns of failure. The project included an exhibition and a series of public debates which sparked conversation on this challenge among residents and the media.