Cluster Talks
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…
CLUSTER TalksIntellectual Property Rights in EgyptYear: 23 September 2024Eman SalehVice President of the Patent Office and Trainer at the National Intellectual Property AcademyFatma SamirExecutive Director of the National Intellectual Property Academy The Patent Office, through the National Intellectual Property Academy and in collaboration with the Academy for Innovation Marketing and Research Outputs and Technology Transfer…
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 investors? How do we secure our built heritage, when urban space only becomes more expensive and more cramped? And how can a city you’ve never…
CLUSTER TalksTowards Fairer City: On Housing and Mobility Challenges In BarcelonaYear: 19 July 2017Miquel Benedito 1. Social housing scarcity: A study of all the opportunity spots in the city shows how we could inject social housing inside the city offering a solution to urban sprawl through densification. Miquel talks more in depth about a particular…