ProgramsALEXANDRIA TRAM MAPPING WORKSHOPSummer School ProgramYear: 2025 Location: Faculty of Fine Arts, Alexandria University Scope: Research Mapping and Creative Outcomes The Tram: A Witness to the City’s Memory For over a century, the tram has crossed the streets of Alexandria, functioning not just as a mode of transportation, but as a crucial thread in the…
ProgramsEMPOWERING THE INFORMAL CITYClimate Justice in Cairo’s Self-Built NeighbourhoodsYear: 2025 Location: Ard al-Liwa Client: Creative Industries Fund NL Scope: Workshops “Empowering the Informal City” addresses issues of climate change to enhance the environmental performance in informal areas based on local solutions. Supported by the Create Industries Fund in the Netherlands, it includes a series of…
ProgramsSOCIAL FURNITURE WORKSHOPAgouza Children’s ParkYear: 2025 Location: Ard al-Liwa Client: The Austrian Cultural Forum Scope: Workshops As public spaces around Agouza were being redesigned and repurposed over the past few years, the old and deteriorated public benches in these spaces have been accumulating in the Children’s Park in Agouza. Therefore, after the success of the…
DesignVisit Parallel Program – World Urban Forum (WUF) 12 GROUNDED URBAN PRACTICES TODAYPARALLEL PROGRAM – WORLD URBAN FORUM (WUF) 12Year: 2024 Location: Giza, Egypt Client: Creative Industries Fund Scope: Exhibition Design & Curation This exhibition was part of a Parallel Program curated and designed by CLUSTER and Loom during the 12th World Urban Forum; it…
MappingALP O NILEItinerary of Swiss Heritage in CairoYear: 2024 Location: Cairo, Egypt Client: Swiss Embassy Scope: Curation and Design In collaboration with the Swiss Embassy in Egypt, CLUSTER designed and produced a walking and bus tour map for the event celebrating the 90-year friendship treaty between Egypt and Switzerland. The map, “Alp O Nil,” traces…
ProgramsVisit Grounded Urban Practices Website PARALLEL PROGRAM – WORLD URBAN FORUM (WUF) 12Year: 2024 Location: Cairo, Egypt Client: Creative Industries Fund Scope: Urban Tours, Exhibition, Booth & Roundtable Discussion Early November the 12th World Urban Forum took place in the Egyptian capital Cairo. Parallel to the official event, CLUSTER (Cairo) and Loom (Amsterdam/Rotterdam) hosted an…
DesignON THE TRACKS OF MUSICYear: 2024 Location: Amman, Jordan Client: Action For Hope Scope: Mobile Exhibition CLUSTER was assigned by Action for Hope to design and produce the display units of the “On the Tracks of Music” exhibition in Amman and Beirut. The exhibition in Amman took place at the Jordan National Gallery of Fine…
ProgramsTAJREEDA EXHIBITION – PALM REEDS CRAFTSYear: 2024 Location: VeryNile, Cairo Client: Wealth Inequality Initiative by Julius Baer Foundation Scope: Product Design and Manufacture Exhibition As part of Bridging Inequality through Creative Economy in Informal Areas (BICEIA), this project aimed to integrate the designers and manufacturers in Cairo’s formal economy with the artisans and craftspeople in…
ProgramsWatch Video KAWEELA EXHIBITION – CARPENTRY METALWORK FURNITURE DESIGNYear: 2024 Location: Egypt Designers School, Cairo Client: Wealth Inequality Initiative by Julius Baer Foundation Scope: Product Design and Manufacture Exhibition As part of Bridging Inequality through Creative Economy in Informal Areas (BICEIA), this project aimed to integrate the designers and manufacturers in Cairo’s formal economy with…
MappingINFORMALITY AS CREATIVITY: MAPPING CREATIVE INDUSTRIESYear: 2022-23 Location: Giza, Egypt Client: Dutch Embassy Scope: Mapping and Research Similar to most cities in the Global South, Cairo – a megacity of 20 million- is largely produced informally, posing questions about the role of architects and designers in the making of their cities. The Informality as Creativity…