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…
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…
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…
DesignCIMATHEQUEYear: 2013 Location: Adly Street, Downtown Cairo Client: Cimatheque – Film center Scope: Renovation, Development and Implementation Cimatheque is an alternative film center dedicated to celebrating the diversity, beauty and power of film from the region and beyond. Cimatheque is located in Downtown Cairo, in an important historical building with pronounced Art Deco features. In…
DesignDOUM CULTURE HOUSEYear: 2012 Location: Abdeen, Cairo Client: Doum Culture Foundation Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) As an emerging cultural foundation promoting critical thinking and literary culture, DOUM Foundation was interested in finding a location Downtown within the historical context to be re-modelled to the needs and programs of its mandate. The chosen site is…
DesignCINEMA RIALTOYear: 2012 Location: Al-Fajjala, Cairo Client: Natik Awayez and Linnea Carlsson Scope: Renovation and Development (Concept) Rialto Cinema represents the peak of the film industry in Egypt in the 1930s and 40s and is located in al-Fajjala, which in the twentieth century was a middle class, culturally vibrant and ethnically mixed district. With the…
ProgramsARTISTS AS URBAN CATALYSTSYear: 2012 Location: Goethe Institut, Cairo Client: Ford Foundation Scope: Public Panel This panel discussion explored the role that artists and arts organizations are playing in the development of Downtown Cairo. A direct dialogue between representatives of Al-Ismaelia for Real Estate Investment and The American University in Cairo with artists and cultural…