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…
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…
Digital PlatformsLEARNING FROM CAIROYear: 2013 Learning from Cairo, co-organized by CLUSTER (Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research) 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…
ProgramsWatch Video LEARNING FROM CAIRO: GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE VISIONS CONFERENCEYear: 2013 Location: AUC Tahrir Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Conference Learning from Cairo was a three-day international conference including plenary sessions, workshops, urban tours, website, and a publication. Learning for Cairo, co-organized by CLUSTER and the American University in Cairo, sought to engage the current…
ProgramsCairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP) WORKSHOPSYear: 2012-2013 Location: Cairo, Egypt Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Community Networking CUIP is a community based, user-generated interactive map, directory and shared calendar of events for art, culture, architecture, advocacy, urban development and interdisciplinary initiatives and organizations based in Cairo. CLUSTER’s idea for the Cairo Urban Initiatives Platform (CUIP: www.cuipcairo.org)…
MappingCAIRO DOWNTOWN PASSAGEWAYSYear: 2012 Location: Downtown Cairo Client: SUNY Foundation Scope: Mapping and Research CLUSTER’s Cairo Downtown Passageways website and publication offer a vision to reimagine Downtown Cairo and its intricate network of passageways, alleyways and in-between spaces as a framework for urban regeneration. Downtown Cairo was partially modeled after European cities in the late…