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,…
ProgramsCREATIVE CITIES: RE-FRAMING DOWNTOWN CONFERENCEYear: 2015 Location: AUC Tahrir Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Conference The Creative Cities: Re-framing Downtown conference, co-organized by CLUSTER and the American University in Cairo, invited international examples of successful models of creative cities that may be relevant to the future development of Downtown Cairo, and in dialogue with local stakeholders…
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…
ProgramsWatch Video CAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGES WORKSHOP WITH UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELDYear: 2015 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: University of Sheffield Scope: Workshop CLUSTER and the postgraduate studio Global Praxis from SSoA (Sheffield School of Architecture, University of Sheffield) organized a collaborative mapping workshop in Cairo, titled: Mapping Relationscapes. The workshop, involving Sheffield and Cairo-based planners and designers,…
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/
ProgramsCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGEWAYS EXHIBITIONYear: 2015 Location: Kodak Passageway, Downtown, Cairo Client: DEDI, CKU Scope: Exhibition This exhibition showcased the journey of CLUSTER’s Cairo Downtown Passageways project since 2012. It showed its different stages including research, mapping, pilot projects and design. This project falls within the context of a broader research endeavor by CLUSTER, exploring the…
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/
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…
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…
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…