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MAPPING INFORMALITY
CAIRO, 26-29 MAY 2012
At Megawra, 17 Amin Zaki Street, Ard el-Golf, Heliopolis.
Curators: Paola Bellaviti, Costanza La Mantia, May Al-Ibrashy
WORKSHOP II OF:
THE HEURISTICS OF MAPPING URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: DIALOGUES ON THE
MOVE
Project promoted by:
Adriana Allen, Alexandre Apsan Frediani, Rita Lambert
Development Planning Unit/ The Bartlett/ University College London
In collaboration with:
Francesca Cognetti, Beatrice De Carli
Department of Architecture and Planning (DIAP)/ Politecnico di Milano
Paola Bellaviti, Costanza La Mantia, Antonio Tosi
Laboratory of International Cooperation/ DIAP/ Politecnico di Milano
May al-Ibrashy
Megawra (Built Environment Collective), Cairo
THE HEURISTICS OF MAPPING URBAN ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE is a project
initiated in 2011 by the Development Planning Unit/ The Bartlett/
University College London. Through a heuristic process which involves
an international network of researchers, activists, and organisations,
the project aims to apprehend how place-making practices by ordinary
citizens reinforce, resist or transform the production of reproduction
of injustice through space in ‘hot-spot’ locations – places of rapid
transformation where the everyday practices of living are confronted
with planned market-led strategies of urban regeneration. Its final
aim is to produce an interdisciplinary heuristic process, a public
learning tool capable of ‘mapping’ the biophysical, social, political
and discursive means through which place-making operates as an
everyday practice in a number of selected ‘hot spots’ in the global
South.
The first phase of the project, DIALOGUES ON THE MOVE, organised with
the support and contribution of Politecnico di Milano, and the Cairo
based organisation Megawra (Built Environment Collective), is
articulated into three workshops held respectively in Milan, Cairo and
London. This stage is aimed at evaluating the potential dialogue
across geography, sociology, planning and anthropology in mapping
place-making. The underlying premise informing the development of such
process is that ‘participatory mapping’ is not only a tool to
investigate and capture place-making practices, but is itself a means
to produce spaces and social relations and for finding and boosting
alternative and creative practices and related governance systems.
Mapping is thus explored as a political tool of representation, and a
socially constructed process influencing the way the environment is
perceived, framed, and negotiated.
The case studies of Cairo also allow us to explore different facets of
the concept of “power” related with maps and mapping, and especially
with the concept of informality, focusing on a city where almost 70%
of housing is informal and where formal and informal are often shades
of the same reality.
AGENDA
MAY 26TH | SETTING THE SCENE
6.00 - 6.30 PM| INTRODUCTION TO DIALOGUES ON THE MOVE
The Heuristics of Mapping Urban Environmental Change | Adriana Allen,
Alexandre A. Frediani, Rita Lambert (University College of London)
6:30 - 7:15 PM | DEFINING INFORMALITY
Is the Cemetery informal? | Nairy Hampikian & May al-Ibrashy
Informality in Greater Cairo: Typology, connotations and Interventions
| Khaled Abdel Halim
7.15 – 7:45 PM | SUM-UP AND DEBATE
9.00-10.00 PM | CAIRO CINE NIGHT (public screening)
Bulak. Amongst the ruins of an unfinished revolution | D.Morandini
(26.28 min.)
Cairo Micro-Gardens | C.Cescutti, B.Urbano (34.59 min.)
MAY 27TH | SENSING MAPPING
6.00 - 6.45 PM | SESSION A
Mapping Meaning: Using cognitive and behavioral mapping to read
territorial claims and perceived value of the built environment | Dina
Shehayeb
Mapping Post Revolutionary Informality | Omar Nagati
6.45 - 7.15 PM | COFFEE BREAK
7.15 - 8.15 PM | SESSION B
Mapping History: UNESCO project to set the Historic Cairo Borders |
Federica Felisatti & Ahmed Mansour
Art as Mapping: Giza Threads| Rana El Nemr
Mapping Life: Cairo as a lone individual: geography and self
exploration | Youssef Rakha
8.30 – 9.00 | SUM-UP AND DEBATE
MAY 29TH | THE HEURISTIC OF MAPPING CAIRO'S INFORMALITY
7.00 – 9.00 PM | PUBLIC SEMINAR with Paola Bellaviti, Costanza La
Mantia, Beatrice De Carli, May al-Ibrashy
Presentations and discussions will be in English.
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