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…
ProgramsWatch Video KAWEELA EXHIBITION – CARPENTRY METALWORK FURNITURE DESIGNYear: 2024 Location: Egypt Designers School, 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…
ProgramsCLUSTER TALKSYear: 2016 – ongoing Location: Cairo Scope: Talks, screenings, and workshops As part of CLUSTER’s ongoing educational training programs and commitment to knowledge dissemination, CLUSTER Talks introduces CLUSTER staff, extended team, and network of interns to current issues and critical themes by inviting academics, practitioners, experts, as well as CLUSTER’s own members to share…
MappingINFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: MAPPING CREATIVE INDUSTRIESYear: 2022-23 Location: Giza, Egypt Client: Dutch Embassy Scope: Mapping and Research Similar to most cities in the Global South, Cairo – a megacity of 20 million- is largely produced informally, posing questions about the role of architects and designers in the making of their cities. The Informality as Creativity…