Today Daljit Singh perfectly summarized why Cape Town's Design Indaba is such a unique event; "Everybody gets to chat and mingle; the VIPs aren't shepherded into a separate room". He's right; the congenial atmosphere makes everyone feel like a special guest rather than a conference lemming and you really do get to brush shoulders with the legends.

Core's highlight of Day 2: BusinessWeek readers will be very familiar with Roger Martin, the dean of the Rotman School of business in Toronto. Martin's talk explained why there's a schism between the thinking of designers and business people.

His thesis has Aristotelian roots; it discusses 3 ways of thinking; inductive and deductive logic on the one hand and abductive logic on the other. Moving away from the heavy philosophy, it's about the ability to see what already exists versus seeing what might be. Both are needed but they usually clash.

Martin's school trains people to integrate both ways of thinking, creating a new kind of designer or a new kind of businessperson or perhaps something entirely new altogether.