CLUSTER TalksGrowing Up In Sultanate of Oman: A Summary Of The Sultanate’s Overlooked CultureYear: 20 September 2021May Sherif Looking at the heritage of the Sultanate of Oman, this presentation discusses its historical, environmental, and architectural dimensions, with an emphasis on the cultural diversity and tolerance characteristic of Omani society. The presentation raises an important question…
CLUSTER TalksIndigenous Architecture in Australia (Using Design To Reveal Layers Of History And Memory)Year: 30 October 2019Spencer Nash Australia is a country of 24 million people from a diverse range of backgrounds, yet the design community has a distinct lack of representation from the land’s first inhabitants. At present, it is estimated that there are…
CLUSTER TalksBogotá: An Approach To The Urban Challenges Of The Global SouthYear: 24 October 2018Maria Paulina Suescun Bogotá is nestled within the Andes mountains, where the sun is strong and the wind is cold. A sprawling metropolis sitting 2,600 meters above sea level, Bogotá is home to around eight million people from every corner of…
CLUSTER TalksFraming The City (Downtown Through A Cinematic Lens)Year: 4 April 2018Tamer El Said “In the Last Days of the City” is the debut feature of filmmaker Tamer El Said. It tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo, played by Khalid Abdalla (The Kite Runner, United 93, Green Zone, Tigers, The Square),…
CLUSTER TalksArchitecture Sans Frontières: Lessons From The Global SouthYear: 7 February 2018Beatrice De CarliVictoria OkoyeLucia Caistor – Arendar The Academy focused on Oslo’s neighborhoods of Grønland and Tøyen as a starting point to analyze the larger circulatory processes taking place in and around Oslo and how these processes have affected definitions of contemporary spaces of…
CLUSTER TalksWorld Without A ManualYear: 5 December 2017Jan Korbes Starting with an introduction to the Refunc method, what it takes, and what results it brings when working with leftover materials from linear thinking in society. We will show different ways to extend the lifecycles of materials, avoid waste, and design with consideration for the future…
CLUSTER TalksAarhus – Development and PresentationYear: 8 November 2017Katrine Mandrup Bach How do we plan the cities of our future? How do we balance the needs of people with those of investors? How do we secure our built heritage when urban areas become more expensive and more cramped? And how can a city you’ve never…
CLUSTER TalksThe Muqarnas and the Crystal: Halim’s ‘Assimilative Renewal’Year: 31 July 2024Hazem Ziada Hazem Ziada, PhD (Georgia Tech 2011), who is currently a Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture (UK), Flux Atelier. Halim discerned this tension as early as 1983 in his award-winning entry to the Masjid ‘Uthman ibn-‘Affan (al-Doha, Qatar) design competition when…
CLUSTER TalksBDS Movement in US Campuses: History and Current PoliticsYear: 20 May 2024Hazem Ziada Hazem Ziada, PhD (Georgia Tech 2011), who is currently a Senior Lecturer at Manchester School of Architecture (UK), Flux Atelier. Ashraf Abdalla A PhD candidate in Architecture History at GSAPP, Columbia University, and an Adjunct Professor at Pratt Insitute, Undergraduate Architecture…
ProgramsTAJREEDA EXHIBITION – PALM REEDS CRAFTSYear: 2024 Location: VeryNile, Cairo Client: Wealth Inequality Initiative by Julius Baer Foundation Scope: Product Design and Manufacture Exhibition As part of Bridging Inequality through Creative Economy in Informal Areas (BICEIA), this project aimed to integrate the designers and manufacturers in Cairo’s formal economy with the artisans and craftspeople in…