{"id":3330,"date":"2019-01-14T15:35:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T14:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/2019\/01\/14\/ignazio-cassis-visits-empower-shack\/"},"modified":"2025-04-23T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-23T13:52:53","slug":"ignazio-cassis-visits-empower-shack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/2019\/01\/14\/ignazio-cassis-visits-empower-shack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignazio Cassis Visits Empower Shack"},"content":{"rendered":"Swiss Federal Council member Ignazio Cassis visited the site of the Empower Shack Project in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa, meeting Prof. Hubert Klumpner on site. Together with the Swiss Ambassador, they spoke at length about the project\u2019s potential to reshape housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa.\u00a0The\u00a0Empower Shack project aims to reshape the approach to informal settlement upgrading by offering an innovative and inclusive methodology for the fair distribution of public space, delivery of basic services, and an urbanization scheme that combines housing upgrades with a safer urban environment and new economic and social possibilities. He\u00a0posted about it later on in <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ignaziocassis\/status\/1083701992437006337\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his social media account<\/a>.\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"1280\" data-id=\"3336\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190114_Site_Visit_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190114_Site_Visit_2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190114_Site_Visit_2-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190114_Site_Visit_2-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BT North, Swiss Federal Council Member Ignazio Cassis and Professor Hubert Klumpner, January 2019 (ETHZ U-TT \/ Michele de Villiers)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1335\" data-id=\"3348\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3348\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_3.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_3-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_3-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_3-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BT North, March 2018 (ETHZ U-TT \/ David Southwood)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2205\" height=\"1575\" data-id=\"3344\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2.jpg 2205w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_2-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2205px) 100vw, 2205px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BT South, December 2015 (ETHZ U-TT \/ Daniel Schwartz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2205\" height=\"1575\" data-id=\"3340\" src=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1.jpg 2205w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1-300x214.jpg 300w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1-1024x731.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1-768x549.jpg 768w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Empower_Project_Photos_1-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2205px) 100vw, 2205px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">BT South, December 2015 (ETHZ U-TT \/ Daniel Schwartz)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swiss Federal Council member Ignazio Cassis visited the site of the Empower Shack Project in the township of Khayelitsha in South Africa, meeting Prof. Hubert Klumpner on site. Together with the Swiss Ambassador, they spoke at length about the project\u2019s potential to reshape housing policy in post-apartheid South Africa.\u00a0The\u00a0Empower Shack project aims to reshape the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"departemente":[138,159,178],"newsletter_ausgabe":[296],"class_list":["post-3330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","departemente-departement-architektur-d-arch","departemente-institut-fuer-landschaft-und-urbane-studien-lus","departemente-prof-hubert-klumpner-institut-fuer-landschaft-und-urbane-studien-i-lus","newsletter_ausgabe-nl-41"],"acf":[],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":17,"label":"News"}],"departemente":[{"value":138,"label":"Departement Architektur (D-ARCH)"},{"value":159,"label":"Institut f\u00fcr Landschaft und Urbane Studien (LUS)"},{"value":178,"label":"Prof. Hubert Klumpner"}],"newsletter_ausgabe":[{"value":296,"label":"NL 41"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190114_Site_Visit_1-1024x768.jpg",1024,768,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"Yaxin Hou","author_link":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/author\/houya\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":17,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":17,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":109,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":17,"category_count":109,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3330\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"departemente","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/departemente?post=3330"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter_ausgabe","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xoxo.capsule.ch\/it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter_ausgabe?post=3330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}