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CLUSTER Talks – Towards an Integrated Mobility System: Navigating the Future of Greater Cairo’s Mobility Systems

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CLUSTER TalksTowards an Integrated Mobility System: Navigating the Future of Greater Cairo’s Mobility SystemsYear: 20 August 2024Hassan Hussin a multidisciplinary Mobility Consultant, Urban researcher, Planner, Lecturer, and Architect. Currently, he is a PhD researcher at the Technical University of Berlin (TUB) and working as a part time mobility consultant at Rupprecht Consult in Germany. In…

CLUSTER Talks – Smooth City

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CLUSTER TalksSmooth CityYear: 18 September 2023Rene BoerAmsterdam-based critic, curator, and organizer In cities around the world, a new urban condition is spreading rapidly, characterized by ever-increasing levels of ‘perfection’, efficiency, control, and the active eradication of any aberration or alternative. In the smooth city, urban space is sanitized and urban life is compressed into a…

CLUSTER Talks – Ancient Egyptian Woodworking

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CLUSTER TalksAncient Egyptian WoodworkingYear: 31 August 2023Amr OrensaA botanist by education, a passionate photographer and traveler, and a businessman, Amr Orensa is the design manager at Pinocchio, one of the foremost furniture manufacturers in Egypt. In 2016, Amr started Designdustry as an initiative that aims at bringing furniture designers and manufacturers together to exchange knowledge…

CLUSTER Talks – Ways of Defeating Any Creative’s Worst Enemy: A White Paper

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CLUSTER TalksWays of Defeating Any Creative’s Worst Enemy: A White PaperYear: 15 August 2022Alaa El-Hadidy Every designer’s life revolves around creating something from nothing. This process is never straightforward, and there are constantly new difficulties and barriers to overcome, particularly when starting from scratch. In this session, I’ll try to discuss my own experience with…

CLUSTER Talks – Understanding Valencia’s Urban Realm (Street Art & Public Parks)

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CLUSTER TalksUnderstanding Valencia’s Urban Realm (Street Art & Public Parks)Year: 15 August 2022Salma ElBastyYoussra Zakaria This CLUSTER Talk presents the observation and research findings of a one month secondment in Valencia as part of the Transmaking program, funded by the European Union, by Salma Elbasty and Youssra Zakaria, both from CLUSTER Cairo. Through this work,…

CLUSTER Talks – Egypt’s Modern Architecture Movement(1939- 1959)

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CLUSTER TalksEgypt’s Modern Architecture Movement(1939- 1959) Social Housing & Rural ReformYear: 7 March 2022Ashraf Sami Abdalla In the face of Egypt’s pressing problems in the 1940s-50s, a new generation of Egyptian architects sought to develop a local modern movement as the appropriate architectural orientation providing the answers to the country’s socio-political and economic challenges. These…

CLUSTER Talks – The Underlaying Urban Fabric of Minneapolis (Tools of Spatial Segregation)

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CLUSTER TalksThe Underlaying Urban Fabric of Minneapolis (Tools of Spatial Segregation)Year: 25 October 2021Noor Abdelhamid Today, Minneapolis is one of the most liberal metropolitan cities in the United States. Underneath this disguised liberalism are deep-rooted tools of spatial segregation that continue to shape the socioeconomic urban fabric and housing market of the city today. The…

CLUSTER Talks – Growing Up In Sultanate of Oman: A Summary Of The Sultanate’s Overlooked Culture

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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…