MappingCAIRO URBAN TOURS (CUT)Year: 2015 Location: Cairo Client: Egypt Urban Forum (EUF) Scope: Mapping and Research CUT — Cairo Urban Tours — explore areas, initiatives and pioneer projects in different parts of the city, featuring itineraries through Cairo’s typical urban conditions: the deteriorating urban core, encroaching informal areas, and expanding desert cities. Unveiling the characteristics…
DesignFRENCH BOOTH AT CAIRO INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIRYear: 2015 and 2016 Location: International Book Fair, Cairo Client: French Institute Egypt Scope: Interior Design The design of the French Booth for the Cairo International Book Fair was based on three principles: Designing a modular unit to accommodate the different shelving arrangements based on the needs of each…
Digital PlatformsCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGEWAYSYear: 2015 The website explores cultural and entertainment highlights, spaces of memory and heritage sites alongside Downtown’s back alleys. It offers a glimpse into a larger body of information, a database on Downtown passageways and in-between spaces that CLUSTER has mapped over three years: including activities, patterns of use, typology and genealogy,…
ProgramsCREATIVE CITIES: RE-FRAMING DOWNTOWN CONFERENCEYear: 2015 Location: AUC Tahrir Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Conference The Creative Cities: Re-framing Downtown conference, co-organized by CLUSTER and the American University in Cairo, invited international examples of successful models of creative cities that may be relevant to the future development of Downtown Cairo, and in dialogue with local stakeholders…
PublicationsCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGEWAYSYear: 2015 Cairo Downtown Passageways: Walking Tour publication falls within the context of CLUSTER’s broader research endeavor exploring the network of downtown Cairo’s passageways, back alleys, side streets and in-between spaces as an alternative framework for the development and revitalization of Downtown. This guidebook explores cultural and entertainment highlights, spaces of memory and…
Digital PlatformsPUBLIC INTER-LIBRARY ONLINE TECHNOLOGY (PILOT)Year: 2015 PILOT is a shared Arabic-English cataloguing platform for small, specialized collections housed at civil society organizations, professional practices or private collections. It adopts a universal cataloguing system (Library of Congress) and follows romanization system from the Arabic letters to Latinized letters based on a simplified version of the…
DesignECOHOUSEYear: 2015 Location: Al-Azhar Park, Cairo Client: Embassy of Denmark, State of Green, UN-Habitat Scope: Research, Design and Implementation The question of eco-friendly architecture and sustainable development has been at the center of academic debate, design interventions, and public policies in cities around the world over the past two decades. In Egypt, these questions have…
ProgramsWatch Video CAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGES WORKSHOP WITH UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELDYear: 2015 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: University of Sheffield Scope: Workshop CLUSTER and the postgraduate studio Global Praxis from SSoA (Sheffield School of Architecture, University of Sheffield) organized a collaborative mapping workshop in Cairo, titled: Mapping Relationscapes. The workshop, involving Sheffield and Cairo-based planners and designers,…
DesignWatch Video PHILIPS PASSAGEWAYYear: 2015 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Research, Design and Implementation This project falls within the context of a broader research endeavor by CLUSTER, exploring the network of Cairo’s Downtown passages. These passageways offer an alternative framework for the development and revitalization of Downtown. Philips Passage is an L-shaped space…
Digital PlatformsCREATIVE CITIES: RE-FRAMING DOWNTOWNYear: 2015 The Creative Cities: Re-framing Downtown Cairo conference invited international examples of successful models of creative cities of relevance to the future development of downtown Cairo, and in dialogue with local stakeholders considered the role culture can play as a catalyst for development. www.creativecitiescairo.org/conference/