Mapping Informality, Engaging Creativity
Lezing / Debat
A public lecture by Omar Nagati and Omar Khaled of CLUSTER — Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research. Thursday 19 September 17:00 – 18:30 (Doors open at 16:30). Free entrance, but registration is required. Register here
Omar Nagati (left) and Omar Khaled (right) of CLUSTER — Cairo Lab for Urban Studies, Training and Environmental Research.
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Mapping Informality, Engaging Creativity
In absence of state provisions, most cities in the Global South are largely developed through informal urban processes. Professional architects and urban planners are risking becoming irrelevant. Based in Cairo, CLUSTER has been developing over the past decade frameworks to engage informality on its own terms, through critical mapping and action research, while proposing creative design interventions. Considered as grounded urban practices, these projects attempt to mediate academic training and institutional codes, on the one hand, and local practices and practical knowledge, on the other. The presentation also features one of CLUSTER’s most recent projects in collaboration with AP+E and Studio Rene Boer in the Netherlands; a compact emergency vehicle on a tricycle frame, suited to navigate narrow streets in informal neighbourhoods.