Following the call for nominations in December 2012, WDC Cape Town recommended three nominees representing local and African design while ICSID nominated two individuals from the international design community.
The IAC has three main roles: it will assist the curatorial panel in placing submissions within a global context; advise Cape Town Design NPC on programme development and be ambassadors for WDC 2014.
"The primary objectives are to provide an external perspective on the WDC 2014 strategy and vision of building social inclusion, reconnecting the City in structure and in spirit and repositioning Cape Town for the global knowledge economy," said Cape Town Design NPC CEO, Alayne Reesberg.
The WDC was first hosted in Turin, Italy in 2008, which was an experimental platform for developing and testing the WDC concept. The first WDC city nominated after an official bidding process was Seoul in 2010 followed by Helsinki in 2012.