Digital PlatformsCLUSTER MAPPING INITIATIVEYear: 2024 CLUSTER Mapping Initiative is a project by the Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research, as part of CLUSTER’s mandate for critical engagement in the city and public space through urban research, programs and design interventions. The CLUSTER Mapping Initiative documents and analyzes tangible and intangible urban elements, and seeks to…
Digital PlatformsCRITICAL ARABIC URBAN LEXICON (CAUL)Year: 2021 The Critical Arabic Urban Lexicon (CAUL) is part of a wider project of knowledge dissemination developed by CLUSTER to interrogate the discursive gap between the Middle East and North Africa and the centers of knowledge production in the ‘First World.’ CAUL aims to address the interdisciplinary nature of urban…
Digital PlatformsCREATIVE URBAN INITIATIVES PLATFORM (CUIP) TUNISYear: 2021 The Creative Urban Initiative Platform, CUIP, is a community-based, user-generated interactive map and directory of art, culture, architecture, advocacy, urban development and interdisciplinary initiatives and organizations. CUIP also provides a calendar of events by emerging initiatives focusing on the city and public space. CUIP Cairo was launched…
Digital PlatformsGROUNDED URBAN PRACTICESYear: 2021 CLUSTER is glad to announce the launch of “Grounded Urban Practices (GUPs) by CLUSTER and Non-Fiction. This study contains an in-depth investigation of the work of GUPs in several countries, based on an extensive research and several meet-ups with a selected number of GUPs in many cities. The research focused…
Digital PlatformsAMMAN STAIRWAYSYear: 2018 The Amman Stairways Mapping Project builds upon on earlier archives and databases developed by local art, architecture and urban communities in Amman, as well as research practices developed by CLUSTER in collaboration with the Center for Spatial Research (CSR) and Studio-X Amman at the Columbia Global Centers | Amman. The project…
Digital PlatformsCREATIVE URBAN INITIATIVES PLATFORM (CUIP) AMMANYear: 2018 CUIP is a community based, user- generated interactive map, directory, and a shared calendar of events for art, culture, architecture, advocacy, urban development and interdisciplinary initiatives and organizations. Launched in 2013 by CLUSTER in Cairo, CUIP is a directory and calendar of emerging initiatives focusing on the…
Digital PlatformsCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGEWAYSYear: 2015 The website explores cultural and entertainment highlights, spaces of memory and heritage sites alongside Downtown’s back alleys. It offers a glimpse into a larger body of information, a database on Downtown passageways and in-between spaces that CLUSTER has mapped over three years: including activities, patterns of use, typology and genealogy,…
Digital PlatformsPUBLIC INTER-LIBRARY ONLINE TECHNOLOGY (PILOT)Year: 2015 PILOT is a shared Arabic-English cataloguing platform for small, specialized collections housed at civil society organizations, professional practices or private collections. It adopts a universal cataloguing system (Library of Congress) and follows romanization system from the Arabic letters to Latinized letters based on a simplified version of the…
Digital PlatformsCREATIVE CITIES: RE-FRAMING DOWNTOWNYear: 2015 The Creative Cities: Re-framing Downtown Cairo conference invited international examples of successful models of creative cities of relevance to the future development of downtown Cairo, and in dialogue with local stakeholders considered the role culture can play as a catalyst for development. www.creativecitiescairo.org/conference/
Digital PlatformsCREATIVE URBAN INITIATIVES PLATFORM (CUIP)Year: 2014 The Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP) includes the multiple architecture, art, advocacy, urban development, and interdisciplinary initiatives addressing issues related to the city, the urban environment and public space in Cairo. cuip.clustermappinginitiative.org/