The City as a Process: An Open Discussion to Share the Different Understandings of Cairo
About the Guest
an architect and urban designer by training and a researcher, educator, and activist by conviction. His work takes a social justice approach to sustainability, informality, climate change, and urban design and management practices, and reflects his commitment to changing the way urban development is theorized, practiced, and taught.
Lately, Zaazaa co-founded “10 Tooba | Applied Research on the Built Environment L.L.C” where he is the participatory urban upgrade coordinator. “10 Tooba” is an interdisciplinary group of built environment professionals, with similar roots in architecture, planning and engineering, and developed expertise in anthropology, participatory planning, legislation and policy while working closely with communities in Egypt. The company aims for Socially Just and Sustainable Communities in Egypt and the region.
Zaazaa is the also co-founder of “Madd Platform” that was responsible for several participatory projects in urban and rural areas. As one of the most important projects that Madd platform worked on, was upgrading Maspero area.
https://issuu.com/maddplatform/docs/maspero_parallel_participatory_proj
On the academic level, Zaazaa’s contributed and helped in several publications. He also had 9 years experience in teaching architecture and urban design in several universities (American University in Cairo – Arab Academy for Science and Technology – Modern Sciences and Arts University).
About the talk
In this talk, we travelled on a journey with Eng. Ahmed Zaazaa tells us the recent history of the existing Cairo, why streets sometimes look weird and unorganised, and how it's in order. How Egyptian interacted with Cairo, how the opposite happened. and finally how Cairo become Cairo we know.
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