GDC through the Years

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	1987 Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher open Greenside Design Center with 31 students, 75 square metres of office space and an answering machine

1987

Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher open Greenside Design Center with 31 students, 75 square metres of office space and an answering machine

	1988 Paul Enslin wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award

1988

Paul Enslin wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award

	1989 Les Mogridge wins the Zumtobel Design Award Sandy Shapiro wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award Celia Clucas represents South Africa at the International Council for Societies of Industrial Design General Assembly and Conference in Nagoya, Japan Ashraf Essack becomes our first finalist in the SABS Design Institutes Design Achievers Award – many more will follow Ingrid Templer presents a paper entitled “The Creative Aspects of Lighting”, at the South African National Council for Illumination Conference and wins the best paper award

1989

Les Mogridge wins the Zumtobel Design Award
Sandy Shapiro wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award
Celia Clucas represents South Africa at the International Council for Societies of Industrial Design General Assembly and Conference in Nagoya, Japan
Ashraf Essack becomes our first finalist in the SABS Design Institutes Design Achievers Award – many more will follow
Ingrid Templer presents a paper entitled “The Creative Aspects of Lighting”, at the South African National Council for Illumination Conference and wins the best paper award

	1990 Justine Glanville wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award Des Laubscher becomes a member of the National Council of the Society of Designers in South Africa

1990

Justine Glanville wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award
Des Laubscher becomes a member of the National Council of the Society of Designers in South Africa

	1991 Des Laubscher and Ingrid Templer attend the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly and Conference in Chicago and gain full membership for South Africa at the federation Tanja Lohr and Judith Hudson win the Dulux Innovation with Paint Award Dianne Holtzer wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award Des Laubscher becomes President of the Society of Designers in South Africa

1991

Des Laubscher and Ingrid Templer attend the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly and Conference in Chicago and gain full membership for South Africa at the federation
Tanja Lohr and Judith Hudson win the Dulux Innovation with Paint Award
Dianne Holtzer wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award
Des Laubscher becomes President of the Society of Designers in South Africa

	1992 Patricia Terry wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher attend the International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Montreal, Canada. Initial talks are held with a delegation from Nottingham Trent University at the conference to form a partnership with Greenside Design Center Ingrid Templer presents a paper at the South African National Council for Illumination Biennial Conference entitled: “Working Together: A Dialogue between Lighting and Environmental Designers”

1992

Patricia Terry wins the Z Displays Exhibition Design Award
Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher attend the International Conference on Quality Assurance in Higher Education in Montreal, Canada. Initial talks are held with a delegation from Nottingham Trent University at the conference to form a partnership with Greenside Design Center
Ingrid Templer presents a paper at the South African National Council for Illumination Biennial Conference entitled: “Working Together: A Dialogue between Lighting and Environmental Designers”

	1993 Denis Marokefalos wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher represent South Africa at the joint Congress and General Assemblies of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design in Glasgow, Scotland Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher visit Nottingham to start liaising with the Department of Design at Nottingham Trent University with the aim for them to validate courses at Greenside Design Center Ingrid Templer is appointed as Education Officer to the South African Society of Designers Des Laubscher presents a paper at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Biennial Congress in Glasgow, Scotland entitled: “Design for Developing Countries- the Rainbow People

1993

Denis Marokefalos wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award
Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher represent South Africa at the joint Congress and General Assemblies of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers, the International Council of Graphic Design Associations and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design in Glasgow, Scotland
Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher visit Nottingham to start liaising with the Department of Design at Nottingham Trent University with the aim for them to validate courses at Greenside Design Center
Ingrid Templer is appointed as Education Officer to the South African Society of Designers
Des Laubscher presents a paper at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Biennial Congress in Glasgow, Scotland entitled: “Design for Developing Countries- the Rainbow People

	1994 Validation of all courses offered at Greenside Design Center by Nottingham Trent University starts Michelle Riley wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award Nicolas Bornman wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award

1994

Validation of all courses offered at Greenside Design Center by Nottingham Trent University starts
Michelle Riley wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award
Nicolas Bornman wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award

	1995 Des Laubscher is voted onto the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Board at the General Assembly of IFI in Nagoya Japan Lucia Gorgolione wins the PFG Building Glass Visions Interior Design Competition. Special Merit Awards are given to Colleen Delaney, Denis Marokefalos, Gavin Mc Luskie and Patricia Terry Annelie Mathiesen wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award Karen Jansen Van Vuuren wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award Des Laubscher together with Ingrid Templer presents and wins the bid at the IFI General Assembly to host the 2001 IFI Congress and General Assembly in South Africa in 2001

1995

Des Laubscher is voted onto the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Board at the General Assembly of IFI in Nagoya Japan
Lucia Gorgolione wins the PFG Building Glass Visions Interior Design Competition. Special Merit Awards are given to Colleen Delaney, Denis Marokefalos, Gavin Mc Luskie and Patricia Terry
Annelie Mathiesen wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award
Karen Jansen Van Vuuren wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award
Des Laubscher together with Ingrid Templer presents and wins the bid at the IFI General Assembly to host the 2001 IFI Congress and General Assembly in South Africa in 2001

	1996 Caroline Osborne wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award Natasha Fontes, Claudia Folgore and Jason Campbell are finalists in the Gauloises Freedom Always Graphic Design Competition Christine Raftopoulos is a finalist in the International Design Conference SA 2001 Logo Type Design – Continental Shift Bachelor of Arts Honours courses are introduced

1996

Caroline Osborne wins the Z Display Exhibition Design Award
Natasha Fontes, Claudia Folgore and Jason Campbell are finalists in the Gauloises Freedom Always Graphic Design Competition
Christine Raftopoulos is a finalist in the International Design Conference SA 2001 Logo Type Design – Continental Shift
Bachelor of Arts Honours courses are introduced

	1997 Tamara Lieberthal wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award Robin Turner is a finalist in the Nagoya, Japan Design Foundation Award for his work entitled “Greeting” Samantha Mallic, Claudia Folgore and Natasha Fontes are finalists in the Gauloises Freedom Always Graphic Design Competition Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher represent South Africa at the IFI General Assembly and Conference Des Laubscher is appointed President Elect of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers at the General Assembly of the IFI in Dublin, Ireland Des Laubscher is invited to join the Board of Design for the World, Barcelona, Spain Greenside Design Center becomes the first design institution in the Southern Hemisphere to become an education member of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers

1997

Tamara Lieberthal wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award
Robin Turner is a finalist in the Nagoya, Japan Design Foundation Award for his work entitled “Greeting”
Samantha Mallic, Claudia Folgore and Natasha Fontes are finalists in the Gauloises Freedom Always Graphic Design Competition
Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher represent South Africa at the IFI General Assembly and Conference
Des Laubscher is appointed President Elect of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers at the General Assembly of the IFI in Dublin, Ireland
Des Laubscher is invited to join the Board of Design for the World, Barcelona, Spain
Greenside Design Center becomes the first design institution in the Southern Hemisphere to become an education member of the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers

	1998 Robin Turner and Keith Kearney win a Gold Award at the SAPPI Design Awards Greenside Design Center launches and completes its first Community Design Project in Etwatwa, Daveyton, at the W.J. Mpengesi Primary School This project is a forerunner to many community projects undertaken by the centre Greenside Design Center is chosen by the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers to pilot Design for Life projects together with institutions from the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Brazil and India. These projects are presented at the IFI General Assembly and Conference in Sydney 1999 Des Laubscher presents a paper in Guanajuato, Mexico, at the 1^st National Symposium of Interior Designers “Horizons that Converge”, entitled: “Design and Humanity – Looking to Answers for the 21^st Century” Des Laubscher presents a paper for the Danish Designers at the Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, entitled: “Nordic Spaces viewed from the South”

1998

Robin Turner and Keith Kearney win a Gold Award at the SAPPI Design Awards
Greenside Design Center launches and completes its first Community Design Project in Etwatwa, Daveyton, at the W.J. Mpengesi Primary School This project is a forerunner to many community projects undertaken by the centre
Greenside Design Center is chosen by the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers to pilot Design for Life projects together with institutions from the Netherlands, Sweden, Australia, Brazil and India. These projects are presented at the IFI General Assembly and Conference in Sydney 1999
Des Laubscher presents a paper in Guanajuato, Mexico, at the 1^st National Symposium of Interior Designers “Horizons that Converge”, entitled: “Design and Humanity – Looking to Answers for the 21^st Century”
Des Laubscher presents a paper for the Danish Designers at the Bella Center, Copenhagen, Denmark, entitled: “Nordic Spaces viewed from the South”

	1999 Ingrid Templer is invited by the Korean Society of Interior Designers to present a paper and lead a design workshop in Seoul. The workshop, endorsed by IFI, is structured to encourage future leaders in the discipline of interior design to get together and share knowledge. The workshop, entitled WING, World Interiors for the Next Generation, attracts young designers from around the world to attend and they are tutored by renowned designers from all corners of the planet. Ingrid Templer also presents a paper at the WING Workshop entitled “Form, Texture, Pattern” Des Laubscher becomes President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/designers at the General Assembly of IFI in Sydney, Australia Tiffany Turkington, the Head of Department for Graphic Design, presents a paper at Sydney ’99 and is elected to the board of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher represent South Africa at the International Federation Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly and Congress in Sydney, Australia Des Laubscher presents a paper in Tokyo, Japan, entitled: “Design for the World – Use of the Safety Syringe as Prevention to Aids Contamination” at the Japanese Institute of Design Symposium

1999

Ingrid Templer is invited by the Korean Society of Interior Designers to present a paper and lead a design workshop in Seoul. The workshop, endorsed by IFI, is structured to encourage future leaders in the discipline of interior design to get together and share knowledge. The workshop, entitled WING, World Interiors for the Next Generation, attracts young designers from around the world to attend and they are tutored by renowned designers from all corners of the planet.
Ingrid Templer also presents a paper at the WING Workshop entitled “Form, Texture, Pattern”
Des Laubscher becomes President of the International Federation of Interior Architects/designers at the General Assembly of IFI in Sydney, Australia
Tiffany Turkington, the Head of Department for Graphic Design, presents a paper at Sydney ’99 and is elected to the board of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations
Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher represent South Africa at the International Federation Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly and Congress in Sydney, Australia
Des Laubscher presents a paper in Tokyo, Japan, entitled: “Design for the World – Use of the Safety Syringe as Prevention to Aids Contamination” at the Japanese Institute of Design Symposium

	2000 Des Laubscher delivers the Keynote Address at the World Conference on Environmental Design for the New Millennium in Seoul, Korea. He is also involved in a debate on the topic with panel members Robert Stern, Mario Botta, Michael Graves, Charles Correa, among others Des Laubscher presents the Keynote Address at the Asia Pacific Design Association Congress entitled Humanising Space, in Bali Greenside Design Center, Pretoria University and the University of Johannesburg host a World Interiors Next Generation (WING) International Design Workshop in Plettenberg Bay The full boards of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations and the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers conduct a story telling workshop at the W.J. Mpengesi Primary School, Etwatwa, Daveyton, hosted by Greenside Design Center Des Laubscher appointed Juror for the Hong Kong Chapter of the Chinese Interior Design Association’s Professional Excellence Award Des Laubscher presents a paper in Sao Paulo, Brazil entitled: “South African Design in a Global Context” at the Biennial Interior Design Congress staged at the World Trade Centre

2000

Des Laubscher delivers the Keynote Address at the World Conference on Environmental Design for the New Millennium in Seoul, Korea. He is also involved in a debate on the topic with panel members Robert Stern, Mario Botta, Michael Graves, Charles Correa, among others
Des Laubscher presents the Keynote Address at the Asia Pacific Design Association Congress entitled Humanising Space, in Bali
Greenside Design Center, Pretoria University and the University of Johannesburg host a World Interiors Next Generation (WING) International Design Workshop in Plettenberg Bay
The full boards of the International Council of Graphic Design Associations and the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers conduct a story telling workshop at the W.J. Mpengesi Primary School, Etwatwa, Daveyton, hosted by Greenside Design Center
Des Laubscher appointed Juror for the Hong Kong Chapter of the Chinese Interior Design Association’s Professional Excellence Award
Des Laubscher presents a paper in Sao Paulo, Brazil entitled: “South African Design in a Global Context” at the Biennial Interior Design Congress staged at the World Trade Centre

	2001 Darren Bester wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award Des Laubscher is given honorary membership to the European Council of Interior Architects Greenside Design Center becomes the first design education institution worldwide to win the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Socially Responsible Design Award for its work on the Zimpeto Mission Project in Mozambique Des Laubscher wins the DSA Presidents Award for his lifelong commitment to promoting excellence in design in South Africa and abroad Ingrid Templer, in conjunction with Kinuko Nakagawa from Japan and marianne Frandsen from Denmark presents a paper entitled “North, South, East…” at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Conference in Johannesburg Des Laubscher appointed visiting Professor of Design at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, in recognition of international work in the field of socially responsible design. Refereed by top interior architects from five countries globally. They were from Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and Korea. Des Laubscher appointed External Examiner for ICS, College of Arts, Tokyo, Japan, degree students, for a four year tenure Des Laubscher appointed Juror for the Asia Pacific Annual Interior Design Awards, Hong Kong, China Des Laubscher appointed as a Juror for the 10^th International Design Competition, Osaka, Japan. Organised by the Japan Design Foundation, this competition is regarded as one of the most prestigious design competition’s in the world

2001

Darren Bester wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Award
Des Laubscher is given honorary membership to the European Council of Interior Architects
Greenside Design Center becomes the first design education institution worldwide to win the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Socially Responsible Design Award for its work on the Zimpeto Mission Project in Mozambique
Des Laubscher wins the DSA Presidents Award for his lifelong commitment to promoting excellence in design in South Africa and abroad
Ingrid Templer, in conjunction with Kinuko Nakagawa from Japan and marianne Frandsen from Denmark presents a paper entitled “North, South, East…” at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers Conference in Johannesburg
Des Laubscher appointed visiting Professor of Design at Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK, in recognition of international work in the field of socially responsible design. Refereed by top interior architects from five countries globally. They were from Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and Korea.
Des Laubscher appointed External Examiner for ICS, College of Arts, Tokyo, Japan, degree students, for a four year tenure
Des Laubscher appointed Juror for the Asia Pacific Annual Interior Design Awards, Hong Kong, China
Des Laubscher appointed as a Juror for the 10^th International Design Competition, Osaka, Japan. Organised by the Japan Design Foundation, this competition is regarded as one of the most prestigious design competition’s in the world

	2002 Des Laubscher Chairs the Jury for the Marksman Design Awards in Amsterdam, Holland Des Laubscher is appointed as a Fellow of Design for the World, Barcelona, Spain. Des Laubscher appointed Juror for the Annual Interior Design Awards for the Korean Society of Interior Designs, Seoul, Korea Greenside Design Center staff and students, together with Nicolas de Klerk and his staff, design and build the “Beautiful Things Hand Made In South Africa” exhibition at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, Wanderers, Johannesburg, for the Department of Arts and Culture Quentin Duncan and Onica Lekuntwane sit and pass the International Society of Type Designers Examination. Thus becoming the first students in the Southern Hemisphere to become members of this prestigious society Des Laubscher presents a paper at Nottingham Trent University, England, entitled: “Design Without Common Wealth – Design in the Humane Village”

2002

Des Laubscher Chairs the Jury for the Marksman Design Awards in Amsterdam, Holland
Des Laubscher is appointed as a Fellow of Design for the World, Barcelona, Spain.
Des Laubscher appointed Juror for the Annual Interior Design Awards for the Korean Society of Interior Designs, Seoul, Korea
Greenside Design Center staff and students, together with Nicolas de Klerk and his staff, design and build the “Beautiful Things Hand Made In South Africa” exhibition at the United Nations World Summit on Sustainable Development, Wanderers, Johannesburg, for the Department of Arts and Culture
Quentin Duncan and Onica Lekuntwane sit and pass the International Society of Type Designers Examination. Thus becoming the first students in the Southern Hemisphere to become members of this prestigious society
Des Laubscher presents a paper at Nottingham Trent University, England, entitled: “Design Without Common Wealth – Design in the Humane Village”

	2003 Des Laubscher is appointed Juror for the IFI Design to Improve Life International Awards Mumbai, India and Copenhagen, Denmark Quentin Duncan wins Loerie Award Melanie Cameron sits and passes the International Society of Type Designers Examination Des Laubscher represents South Africa at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly and Congress in Pune and Mumbai, India. He receives the Presidents Award for his continued commitment and contribution to the federation

2003

Des Laubscher is appointed Juror for the IFI Design to Improve Life International Awards Mumbai, India and Copenhagen, Denmark

Quentin Duncan wins Loerie Award
Melanie Cameron sits and passes the International Society of Type Designers Examination
Des Laubscher represents South Africa at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly and Congress in Pune and Mumbai, India. He receives the Presidents Award for his continued commitment and contribution to the federation

	2004 Mercia Scheepers wins the Elle Décor Solve Student Design Competition. Greenside Design Center produces four finalists and two of the winners for this competition Jacque Middleton and Emma Laubscher sit and pass the International Society of Type Designers Examination

2004

Mercia Scheepers wins the Elle Décor Solve Student Design Competition. Greenside Design Center produces four finalists and two of the winners for this competition
Jacque Middleton and Emma Laubscher sit and pass the International Society of Type Designers Examination

	2005 Ellena Craparo, Kelly Hughes, Lucky Rantsimane and Bornwell Nelson win Loerie Awards for the SAPPI Ideas That Matter Competition Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher present a paper entitled “Democritising Public Space in a Post Apartheid South Africa” at the World Design Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark Des Laubscher represents South Africa at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark Greenside Design Center is chosen as one of seven design schools worldwide by INDEX 05 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to participate in a global design event entitled “Design to Improve Life”. Greenside Design Center represents the continent of Africa. Andrea Kleinloog wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Competition

2005

Ellena Craparo, Kelly Hughes, Lucky Rantsimane and Bornwell Nelson win Loerie Awards for the SAPPI Ideas That Matter Competition
Ingrid Templer and Des Laubscher present a paper entitled “Democritising Public Space in a Post Apartheid South Africa” at the World Design Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark
Des Laubscher represents South Africa at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers General Assembly in Copenhagen, Denmark
Greenside Design Center is chosen as one of seven design schools worldwide by INDEX 05 in Copenhagen, Denmark, to participate in a global design event entitled “Design to Improve Life”. Greenside Design Center represents the continent of Africa.
Andrea Kleinloog wins the PG Bison Student of the Year Competition

	2006 Ray Whitcher and Kelly Williams are D&AD finalists for their website design, Corbis Des Laubscher, in partnership with the Dutch Consulate, the Independent Development Trust and BNO, the Dutch Professional Design Association, initiated DUTCHMATCH, which ultimately leads to fourteen South African designers going to Holland for skills development training through JIPSA, initiated by the Deputy Presidents Office

2006

Ray Whitcher and Kelly Williams are D&AD finalists for their website design, Corbis
Des Laubscher, in partnership with the Dutch Consulate, the Independent Development Trust and BNO, the Dutch Professional Design Association, initiated DUTCHMATCH, which ultimately leads to fourteen South African designers going to Holland for skills development training through JIPSA, initiated by the Deputy Presidents Office

	2007 Greenside Design Center becomes a Founding Member of the South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions Des Laubscher curates an exhibition of South African design entitled NEWAFRICA, which is exhibited in Copenhagen, Denmark. Onica Lekuntwane is chosen to exhibit some of her illustrations on this exhibition and attends the opening of the exhibition and the INDEX Summer Camp Greenside Design Center is once again invited to participate in INDEX, Copenhagen, Denmark. Honours students Robyn Penhall and Leungo Tumedi attended a three week Summer Camp and work with students from Denmark, Jordan, Qatar, South Korea, Spain, USA, Italy, Canada, Holland and Sweden to create design solutions to improve life Ivor Templer goes to Nottingham Trent University and Guillermo Garma Montiel comes to Greenside Design Center in a lecturer exchange programme Greenside Design Center is accepted as a member of Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. Cumulus is an organization of art and design institutions focusing on current global debates on research, professional practice and higher education in art and design. Greenside Design Center is the only member of Cumulus in Africa, which has a worldwide membership of 140 institutions. Des Laubscher represents South Africa at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers in Busan, Korea General Assembly and Conference and is appointed Chair of the Jury for the IFI Design Excellence Awards 2007 Des Laubscher elected President of the newly formed South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions

2007

Greenside Design Center becomes a Founding Member of the South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions
Des Laubscher curates an exhibition of South African design entitled NEWAFRICA, which is exhibited in Copenhagen, Denmark. Onica Lekuntwane is chosen to exhibit some of her illustrations on this exhibition and attends the opening of the exhibition and the INDEX Summer Camp
Greenside Design Center is once again invited to participate in INDEX, Copenhagen, Denmark. Honours students Robyn Penhall and Leungo Tumedi attended a three week Summer Camp and work with students from Denmark, Jordan, Qatar, South Korea, Spain, USA, Italy, Canada, Holland and Sweden to create design solutions to improve life
Ivor Templer goes to Nottingham Trent University and Guillermo Garma Montiel comes to Greenside Design Center in a lecturer exchange programme
Greenside Design Center is accepted as a member of Cumulus, the International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. Cumulus is an organization of art and design institutions focusing on current global debates on research, professional practice and higher education in art and design. Greenside Design Center is the only member of Cumulus in Africa, which has a worldwide membership of 140 institutions.
Des Laubscher represents South Africa at the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers in Busan, Korea General Assembly and Conference and is appointed Chair of the Jury for the IFI Design Excellence Awards 2007
Des Laubscher elected President of the newly formed South African Institute of the Interior Design Professions

	2008 Greenside Design Center signs the Kyoto Design Declaration with Cumulus. This is a statement of commitment by the members of Cumulus to sharing the global responsibility for building sustainable, human centered, creative societies Matthew Holley wins the Escom Energy Efficient Lighting Competition and Salona Kassen is runner up in the same competition Greenside Design Center sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Kolding Design School in Denmark, to promote lecturer and student exchanges Des Laubscher and Ingrid Templer attend the Annual Conference and General Assembly of Cumulus in Zurich, Switzerland, and successfully bid to host the Cumulus Conference in South Africa in 2013

2008

Greenside Design Center signs the Kyoto Design Declaration with Cumulus. This is a statement of commitment by the members of Cumulus to sharing the global responsibility for building sustainable, human centered, creative societies
Matthew Holley wins the Escom Energy Efficient Lighting Competition and Salona Kassen is runner up in the same competition
Greenside Design Center sign a Memorandum of Understanding with Kolding Design School in Denmark, to promote lecturer and student exchanges
Des Laubscher and Ingrid Templer attend the Annual Conference and General Assembly of Cumulus in Zurich, Switzerland, and successfully bid to host the Cumulus Conference in South Africa in 2013

	2009 Sheena Edwards, Aslam Mohammed and Mphela Mamabolo attend a Master Class Design Camp entitled Vision 2020 at the invitation of Kolding Design School in Denmark Cecil Cameron wins the Lefarge Design Excellence Award Greenside Design Center wins the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers IFI Design for All Award. This award recognizes excellence in design that is in service of humanity. The award is given for our 10% Community Engagement Project Ingrid Templer presents a paper the International Conference of the Inclusive Museum in Brisbane, Australia, entitled “New media Interactivity in the Museum - Democritisation or Dumbing Down

2009

Sheena Edwards, Aslam Mohammed and Mphela Mamabolo attend a Master Class Design Camp entitled Vision 2020 at the invitation of Kolding Design School in Denmark
Cecil Cameron wins the Lefarge Design Excellence Award
Greenside Design Center wins the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers IFI Design for All Award. This award recognizes excellence in design that is in service of humanity. The award is given for our 10% Community Engagement Project
Ingrid Templer presents a paper the International Conference of the Inclusive Museum in Brisbane, Australia, entitled “New media Interactivity in the Museum - Democritisation or Dumbing Down

	2010 Ingrid Templer receives an International Award for Excellence for the top ranked article, 2009, from the International Journal of the Inclusive Museum in Istanbul, Turkey Marina Muscardin is one of eight finalists for an international design competition organized by The Lumec, “Fondation Concept Lumiere Urbaine” (CLU) Montréal, Canada. The theme for this years competition is Street Furniture Light. The CLU Foundation receives entries from 34 countries which transformed this initiative into a truly global competition Greenside Design Center now has 41 staff members, 368 students, occupies 1800 square metres of office and studio space, has two residences for foreign and out of town students and a VIP suite for visiting lectures …….. a far cry from 1987!

2010

Ingrid Templer receives an International Award for Excellence for the top ranked article, 2009, from the International Journal of the Inclusive Museum in Istanbul, Turkey
Marina Muscardin is one of eight finalists for an international design competition organized by The Lumec, “Fondation Concept Lumiere Urbaine” (CLU) Montréal, Canada. The theme for this years competition is Street Furniture Light. The CLU Foundation receives entries from 34 countries which transformed this initiative into a truly global competition

Greenside Design Center now has 41 staff members, 368 students, occupies 1800 square metres of office and studio space, has two residences for foreign and out of town students and a VIP suite for visiting lectures …….. a far cry from 1987!

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