Cluster Talks
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…
CLUSTER TalksAfter Belonging – Oslo WorkshopYear: 2 November 2016Rana RashidyArwa AliReem El Attar 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 residence. Located in central Oslo,…
CLUSTER TalksSoil and Soul: The Auroville Experience & Map-making: State, Society and PoliticsYear: 18 April 2016Mohamed RafikAhmed El Leithi The experience of Auroville’s Earth Institute goes well beyond the building techniques one can learn. It represents a true interaction with a global community and unique coexistence with nature and spirituality. During the workshop, we explored the…