MappingCAIRO D-TOURYear: 2014 Location: Downtown, Cairo Client: Al-Ismaelia for Real Estate Investment Scope: Mapping and Research Cairo D-Tour Downtown Walking Tours present a new experience of Downtown Cairo, exploring its multiple points of interests, spaces of memory and heritage sites. These walking tours pass through Cairo’s main streets and back alleys, revealing the historic significance…
ResearchWatch Video STREET VENDORS INITIATIVEYear: 2014 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: SUNY Foundation Scope: Research Street Vendors Initiative critically engages the issue of street vendors in Downtown, and aims at developing strategies and proposals for pilot areas that would address the needs and aspirations of the multiple users and stakeholders in Downtown streets and public space. …
ProgramsETH MAS URBAN DESIGN WORKSHOP I AND IIYear: 2014 – 2015 Location: Cairo, Egypt Client: ETH Scope: Workshops CLUSTER and the MAS Urban Design Program, ETH-Zurich presented two 10 day workshops in Cairo which engaged international and local architectural students as well as designers/urbanists in a collaborative investigation of questions related to the theme Resistance…
ProgramsCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGES WORKSHOPYear: 2014 Location: Kodak Passageway Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Workshop Cairo Downtown Passages aims to develop a pilot urban design and art project in the northern part of downtown Cairo, highlighting existing and emerging initiatives and activating underutilized public spaces. This passageway redevelopment project emerged from a design workshop held in April…
DesignWatch Video KODAK PASSAGEWAYWon the Cairo Design Award 2017 for Landscape ProjectsYear: 2014 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Research, Design and Implementation This project falls within the context of a broader research endeavor by CLUSTER, exploring the network of Cairo’s Downtown passages. These passageways offer an alternative framework for the development and revitalization…
ProgramsPUBLIC INTER-LIBRARY ONLINE TECHNOLOGY (PILOT)Year: 2014-ongoing Location: Cairo, Egypt Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Community Networking PILOT is a bi-lingual (Arabic/English) online library cataloguing system, developed by CLUSTER to network together specialized collections held by civil society organizations throughout the MENA region. PILOT currently joins together the libraries of 22 initiatives in Cairo, Alexandria, Amman and…
DesignSAFE CITIES: BECAUSE I AM A GIRL, IZBAT KHAYRALLAHYear: 2014 Location: Izbat Khayrallah Client: UN-Habitat Scope: Research and Design The question of “safe cities” has become more pressing in Cairo during the past few years, as the rapid political and urban transformations create new realities in public space for all citizens, and for women in…
ProgramsHASSN KHAN EXHIBITIONYear: 2014 Location: Kodak Passageway Client: D-CAF Scope: Curation, Design and Exhibition The Hassan Khan exhibition was sited in what had been unutilized storefronts alongside the Kodak passageway in Downtown Cairo, designed and curated by CLUSTER to present a procession of exhibition spaces, interjecting the artist’s oeuvre amidst the public and pedestrian activities…
PublicationsLEARNING FROM CAIROYear: 2013 Learning from Cairo (www.learningfromcairo.org), co-organized by CLUSTER and the American University in Cairo, was an international symposium that sought to engage the current political and urban transformation unfolding in Cairo as a critical context for examining relevant international case studies and best practices in areas ranging from housing, transportation, public space…
ResearchARCHIVING THE CITY IN FLUXYear: 2013 Location: Downtown Cairo Scope: Research Archiving the City in Flux examines new modes of informal urban interventions in public space that have emerged in Cairo since January 2011. During this time a breakdown of the security apparatus has led to a state of unprecedented fluidity in the city. These…