What’s the first image that comes to mind when you picture the heart of historic Cairo? Is it the architecture? people in the streets? markets and their vibrant noise? Or something else entirely? We invite you to see the city from a whole new angle in our upcoming tour and bird’s-eye drawing workshop led by artist Mohamed Wahba. As we move ...
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Join us on our upcoming tour of al-Darb al-Ahmar to discover this remarkable neighbourhood and explore how its stories have been passed down through generations. We’ll begin our tour at one of Cairo’s historic gates — a site that has witnessed major events over the centuries and still stands today. As we go along the route, we’ll visit ...
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Join us on our upcoming tour as we explore how architecture — in its diverse forms and philosophies — has contributed to the production of knowledge across time, continuing into the present. At each stop, we’ll discover how architecture has served as both a source and a medium for conveying knowledge and becoming an integral part of the ...
read moreWe're delighted to share the news of al-Khalifa Urban Dreams film series winning the Audio-Visual Media category in the the Golden Cubes Awards!
Congratulations to all the hardworking young filmmakers and to many more achievements!
To watch al-Khalifa Urban Dreams films: https://shorturl.at/tMPS0
The filmmaking project is in partnership with international place-making filmmakers Jessica Jacobs Film Geographies and Vitor Hugo Costa Metafilmes and in collaboration with Nature Conservation Egypt (NCE)and is funded by Landscapes of Hope.
The fifth edition of the Golden Cubes Awards is organised by the UIA Architecture and Children Work Programme.
Site preparations and preliminary conservation works have started in the dome of Safiyy al-Din Jawhar and dome of Yahya al-Shabih as part of Athar Lina’s Heritage and Climate project funded by the British Council’s Cultural Protection Fund, in partnership with the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
More about the project: https://shorturl.at/cGHT9
Athar Lina is a participatory conservation initiative that aims to establish modalities of citizen participation in heritage conservation based on an understanding of the monument as a resource not a burden.