PORT SAID URBAN AND CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURS

MappingPORT SAID URBAN AND CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURSYear: 2022 Location: Port Said Client: EU and EUNIC Scope: Mapping and Research Port Said Urban and Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Tours Opening were curated and designed by CLUSTER between the 17th and the 26th of November 2022 at StaBene Cultural Cafe in Port Said. Today, Port Said is…

PORT SAID URBAN AND CULTURAL HERITAGE EXHIBITION

ProgramsWatch Video PORT SAID URBAN AND CULTURAL HERITAGE EXHIBITIONYear: 2022 Location: StaBene Cultural Cafe, Port Said Funders: EU and EUNIC Scope: Cultural and Urban Heritage Exhibition It gives us great pleasure to announce the opening of Port Said Urban and Cultural Heritage Exhibition and Tours Opening curated and designed by CLUSTER between the 17th and…

PROTOTYPE CITY: ALONG THE LINE

DesignFacebook PageInstagram PageWatch Video PROTOTYPE CITY: ALONG THE LINEWon the Cairo Design Award 2024 in the Architecture and Landscape CategoryYear: 2022 Location: Agouza, Giza Client: British Council Scope: Design and Implementation The Along-the-Line project is designed and implemented by CLUSTER, with the support of the British Council in Egypt as part of “Prototype City;” an…

INFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: URBAN SIGNAGE WORKSHOP

ProgramsWatch Video INFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: URBAN SIGNAGE WORKSHOPYear: 2022 Location: Giza, Egypt Scope: Program The Urban Signage Workshop, organized and led by CLUSTER, Ahmad Saqfalheit, and Alaa El-Hadidy, aims to support the local neighborhood of Ard al-Liwa through a pilot project to design and implement new signage for a set of stores, workshops as well…

SOUND MAPPING EXHIBITION

ProgramsSOUND MAPPING EXHIBITIONYear: 2022 Location: ALFABRIKA and ALGAMALON, Ard al-Liwa Partners: for Cities and GIS Friends Scope: Urban Sound Exhibition CLUSTER is pleased to announce the opening of the “Sound Mapping” exhibition, displaying the outcome of a five-day workshop held between the 25th to the 30th of July 2022 at ALFABRIKA in Ard al-Liwa. Both…

MANSOURA COSMOPOLITAN HERITAGE EXHIBITION

ProgramsWatch Video MANSOURA COSMOPOLITAN HERITAGE EXHIBITIONYear: 2022 Location: Andrea Cafe, Mansoura Funders: EU and EUNIC Scope: Tangible and Intangible Heritage Exhibition Check below for Arabic text It gives us great pleasure to announce the opening of Mansoura Cosmopolitan Heritage Exhibition curated and designed by CLUSTER between the 11th and the 28th of February 2022 at…

INFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: URBAN SHUTTERS WORKSHOP

ProgramsWatch Video INFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: URBAN SHUTTERS WORKSHOPYear: 2021 Location: Ard al-Liwa Scope: Workshops Cairo, as most cities in the Global South, is largely produced informally, posing questions about the role of architects and  designers in shaping their cities. The project aims at bringing together architects, designers and art students along with craftspeople and artisans,…

CRITICAL ARABIC URBAN LEXICON (CAUL)

Digital PlatformsCRITICAL ARABIC URBAN LEXICON (CAUL)Year: 2021 The Critical Arabic Urban Lexicon (CAUL) is part of a wider project of knowledge dissemination developed by CLUSTER to interrogate the discursive gap between the Middle East and North Africa and the centers of knowledge production in the ‘First World.’ CAUL aims to address the interdisciplinary nature of urban…

INFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: URBAN GREEN WORKSHOP

ProgramsWatch Video INFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: URBAN GREEN WORKSHOPYear: 2021 Location: Ard al-Liwa Scope: Workshops Cairo, as most cities in the Global South, is largely produced informally, posing questions about the role of architects and  designers in shaping their cities. The project aims at bringing together architects, designers and art students along with craftspeople and artisans,…

MAPPING URBAN INFORMALITY IN TANGIER

PublicationsMAPPING URBAN INFORMALITY IN TANGIERYear: 2021 Location: Tangier, Morocco Client: AFAC Scope: Mapping and Research “Mapping Urban Informality in Tangier: Four Itineraries across the Formal-Informal Interface” is a mapping project by CLUSTER Cairo and Think Tanger that aims at understanding the relationship between formality and informality in the city of Tangier. Through prevailing themes such as…