Events

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28Jan2015Reuse … Don’t Refuse

22Jan2015Megawra reopens in Khalifa

06Dec2014SPEND THE DAY IN KHALIFA | 2

11Sep2014Al-Khalifa summer camp closing event

05Jul2014Rollercoasting the city x13

25Jun2014Design Futures HotHouse 4 – The Outcomes

12Jun2014Architecture strategy _ related to the context | Amandus Sattler

27May2014FILMSCREENING AND DISCUSSION | ENTROTERRA GIAMBELLINO | SUNDUS SHERIF SABRY

24May2014MEGAWRA LECTURE | Interiority – The Discourse of Split Screens | Adham Selim

18May2014Grad Project Workout: Module 4: In Design

10May2014Cine Megawra | Animation Night

29Apr2014Lecture by Florentine Visser, Less is more,…?…Learning from Aqaba Residence Energy Efficiency project in Jordan (AREE), National Winner of the ENERGY GLOBE AWARD 2007

26Apr2014ALTERNATIVE MODELS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN EGYPT

01Apr2014Grad Project Workout: Module 3: “A STEP TOWARDS PHOTOREALISM”, ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION USING VRAY 3.0

30Mar2014Delivering Concepts: Jenan Azmi showcases the process of formulation of concepts in her work

25Mar2014Grad Project Workout: Module 2: Advanced Techniques for modelling via 3DS Max

19Mar2014LETS (Local Exchange Trading System) | Workshop

18Mar2014Grad Project Workout – Module 1 | Conceptualisation

17Mar2014Mentorship with Mostafa Hossam | What Is Next? The art of prediction from unself-conscious to self-conscious

15Mar2014Tahrir as break: Between a City and a Square—Spaces of power | Presentation of Columbia University GSAPP students of design studio findings under the supervision of Shahira Fahmy.

13Mar2014Cine Megawra | Underground

22Feb2014Social Justice and the Built Environment; The End and the Beginning

20Feb2014CINE MEGAWRA | Amadeus

13Feb2014CINE MEGAWRA |Quail and autumn | Existence

12Feb2014The Urban Forming of Streets Collective Facades

30DecTemporary Spaces – Architecture of Forced Displacement

24DecSaints Tour & Filmscreening

19DecOn Building Urban Ecological Resilience

17DecPublic seminar: Tailored integrated solutions for Khalifa’s Ground Water Problem

14DecTrenchless Technology Approach To Infrastructure

06DecWater reuse and treatment projects by TU Berlin El Gouna

05DecDrinking Water Management Policies in Egypt

21NovHacking Heritage

19NovCity walk | Sultans Tour and Filmscreening

13NovConservation School – Integrated solutions for ground water

07NovResilient Rules

02NovThe Nubian Villages of Bigge

23OctSidewalks, starting a dialogue about pedestrian in Cairo

15OctMegawra season opening

14OctSpend the Day in Khalifa 4

23SepMapping Urban Water Flow (UMIS) – al-Khalifa

05AugClimate Graffiti Workshop

17JulSoilless agriculture workshop

26MayParticipatory workshop: al-Khalifa, A Dream

19MayDialogues between Architecture and Cinema

16MayThe Fatimid Cemetery of Aswan, Historic Gem and a Living Heritage

14MayCairo, why? – Visual Arts Exhibition

09May Agebha mnen| Khalifa Exchange

04MayThe Disadvantaged Groups in Cairo: Sleepwalking into segregation?

22AprCity Walk: Darb al-Husr | Cairo Urban Sketchers

13AprLecture series: Megawra+ Al Azhar University

11AprAlexandria, and the stewardship of the asset “Urban Heritage”

06AprWhen Cities Speak

30MarIhky ya Tarkih

30MarCairo, why? visual art workshop and exhibition

23MarA Story of Intentional Errors

19MarAl-Ashraf Street: Infrastructure and Wellbeing

19MarCity walk- Manial | Mohamed Ali Palace

16MarUrban Information Systems: Concepts, Issues, & Potentialities

08FebMaspero Parallel Participatory Project: Presenting Full Process and Launching the Project’s Report Book

07FebAndalusian Music Night

05FebAndalusian Copper Art: a 3-day Workshop

21JanSpend the Day in Khalifa 3

27DecIntroduction to the LEED rating system | Lecture by: Amira Ayoub

20DecCurating architecture: Interventions in public space

12DecCity walk-Attaba| National Theatre

29NovAthar Lina Initiative: Recent Developments

25NovFawanis al-Khalifa Workshop

23NovFilmscreening | Attention gentlemen

22NovAn Architecture for Autism| Lecture by Magda Mostafa

11NovHeliopolis | Lecture and walking tour

09NovArchitecture, Society and Cinema through Political Shifts ( 1952-2011)

07NovMural Mapping Workshop

31OctMashroo3 Kheir Workshop in Megawra al-Khalifa

28OctUnderstanding Growth

24OctCity Walk – Zamalek| Aisha Fahmi Palace

14OctBirth Certificate versus CV / Timeline of Bab Zuwayla

01OctWeek of Regional Climate Action | Film screening

23AugArchitectural Ecologies: Furnishing the Sustainable City | Lecture by: Brook Muller

10AugBook Signing of “More than Vernacular” |Marwa Dabaieh

29JulLecture |Culture and Informal Urban Development |Hassan ElMouelhi

27JulRamlet Bulaq: Scenarios of Urban and Social Transformations| 10 Tooba

25JulArchitecture for the humanity’s workshop | “Ain”

02JulIftar Ramadan at Megawra

08JunLaunch of the fourth Cairobserver publication | Mohamed Elshahed

07JunIntroduction To The Living Building Challenge – Amira Ayoub

06JunUrban Innovations Competition Final Exhibition and Seminar

29MayCity walk – Shubra

28MayCine Megawra – Water |Deepa Mehta

21MayCine Megawra | The Thread And The Wall

18MayInternational Museum Day Celebration | Gayer Anderson Museum

14MayCine Megawra – Wajda | Hayfaa al-Mansour

10May10Tooba | Applied Research on the Built Environment

22AprSpirit of Youth Association for Environmental Service

08AprDavid Attenborough’s Life Story | Presented by Ahmed Ebeid

07AprEcocitizen World Map Project | Heba Essam el-Din Khalil

30MarLECTURE | Just a passerby | Ashraf Botros

23MarNarratives of the Self and Other: Bein al-Sarayat and its surrounding spaces

22MarCelebrating the City as a Resource

21MarCity walk | Al-Dahir

14MarTHE PERSPECTIVE OF NONSENSE & OTHER SENSES THAT MAKE NO SENSE-Jurgen Bey

28FebManga workshop

21FebGarden Design in Ancient Egypt – Hala Barakat

19FebCine Megawra |EZBET KHAIRALLA

18FebLECTURE AND DISCUSSION | Léopold Lambert | The Funambulist

06FebKhalifa-Exchange

01FebMEGAWRA +

29JanCine Megawra | Omnia Khalil – Egyptian Urban Action

28JanReuse … Don’t Refuse

22JanMegawra reopens in Khalifa

06DecSPEND THE DAY IN KHALIFA | 2

11SepAl-Khalifa summer camp closing event

05JulRollercoasting the city x13

25JunDesign Futures HotHouse 4 – The Outcomes

12JunArchitecture strategy _ related to the context | Amandus Sattler

27MayFILMSCREENING AND DISCUSSION | ENTROTERRA GIAMBELLINO | SUNDUS SHERIF SABRY

24MayMEGAWRA LECTURE | Interiority – The Discourse of Split Screens | Adham Selim

18MayGrad Project Workout: Module 4: In Design

10MayCine Megawra | Animation Night

29AprLecture by Florentine Visser, Less is more,…?…Learning from Aqaba Residence Energy Efficiency project in Jordan (AREE), National Winner of the ENERGY GLOBE AWARD 2007

26AprALTERNATIVE MODELS OF UNIVERSITY EDUCATION IN EGYPT

01AprGrad Project Workout: Module 3: “A STEP TOWARDS PHOTOREALISM”, ARCHITECTURE VISUALIZATION USING VRAY 3.0

30MarDelivering Concepts: Jenan Azmi showcases the process of formulation of concepts in her work

25MarGrad Project Workout: Module 2: Advanced Techniques for modelling via 3DS Max

19MarLETS (Local Exchange Trading System) | Workshop

18MarGrad Project Workout – Module 1 | Conceptualisation

17MarMentorship with Mostafa Hossam | What Is Next? The art of prediction from unself-conscious to self-conscious

15MarTahrir as break: Between a City and a Square—Spaces of power | Presentation of Columbia University GSAPP students of design studio findings under the supervision of Shahira Fahmy.

13MarCine Megawra | Underground

22FebSocial Justice and the Built Environment; The End and the Beginning

20FebCINE MEGAWRA | Amadeus

13FebCINE MEGAWRA |Quail and autumn | Existence

12FebThe Urban Forming of Streets Collective Facades

11FebFutility | Beyond Architecture (2.0) Presentations

06FebCine Megawra | Urbanized

05FebMaspero Parallel Participatory Project

18JanRollercoasting the City | Graphic Novel Workshop

15JanCine Megawra | Melancholia

13JanCreating Children’s Play Spaces | Athar Lina 3

09JanCine Megawra | The Diving Bell and the Butterfly – What’s Going On?

06JanCairobserver Print Issue #2 | Launch and Discussion

30DecEzbet Community Centre Competition

26DecFilm Screening | The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology

24DecPracticing Architecture in Egypt | Introduction to Project Management

19DecCine Megawra | 12 Angry Men

12DecCine Megawra | One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

30NovSpend the Day in Khalifa | Athar Lina 3

23NovGrasshopper Workshop For Professionals 101 [3rd]

19NovBeginners Comics Workshop

06NovMentorship Program with Raef Fahmi

03NovFutility | Beyond Architecture (2.0)

30OctAin Shams Neighborhood Initiative | Closing Presentation

25OctKhalifa – Inside Out | Athar Lina 3

20OctMegawra Opening | 2013 – 2014 Season

08OctPublic Markets in Cairo

28SepGrasshopper Workshop For Professionals 101 [2nd]

07SepMegawra Open Day and Volunteer Meeting

19JulParametric Logics with Grasshopper (1st)

23JunThe Right to Architecture | Beyond Participation

22JunCine Megawra | Man from Earth

21JunIntroduction to LEED & GA Exam Preparation | 1 Day Course

15JunSave Alex | Grassroots Mobilization for Urban and Architectural Conservation in Alexandria

08JunCine Megawra | Nostalghia

01JunCine Megawra | I’m a Cyborg, But That’s OK.

28MayBeyond Architecture | Megawra Tuesday Talks

25MayCine Megawra | Pina

16AprNASS | Identity and Vision through Architectural Design

13AprAUB Neighbourhood Initiative

06AprFilm Screening: Medianeras

03AprThe Ageless Mentor: Architectural Archives at the Rare Books and Special Collections Library at AUC.

28MarUrban regeneration: beyond the building Jason Hilgefort

26MarLife is Elsewhere: In search of the sweet voice of Tom Waits

12MarDIAGNOSIS: Advanced Environmental Design Workshop and Competition

02MarRousseau’s The Social Contract and Abou Seif’s Al-Bedaia: 3rd F+B+T event

23FebAin Shams Neighbourhood Initiative

16FebCairo-Zawia publication

15FebOpening and school wall painting: Athar Lina School for Heritage and Art

12FebAn Architect’s Occupation

22JanOrigami event with Waraqat

19JanCairo From Below – ‘Our Urban Futures’Ideas Competition – Seminar and Award Ceremony

18JanVisit to Manial al-Rawda and Villa Abu Rihab

18JanAthar Lina Heritage School for Children: Athar Lina 2

16JanAdventures in Architecture, Second F+B+T Event

12JanUnderstanding Sustainable Development

08JanArchitectural Practice in South Africa

08DecLEED Green Associate course

18NovMegawra Building Club: I M Pei’s Museum of Islamic Art (MIA)

12NovAthar Lina Closing Seminar in Ibn Tulun Mosque

11NovCastor in Cairo

06NovThe Right to housing: a socially just and sustainable built environment

29OctWho Shapes our Cities? Urban Egypt between Grassroots Initiatives and State Control

29OctHow I Started to Stutter: Action (in)jection Language games, urban disjunction & a reading of Lebanese action films

22OctMegawra Book Club: Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle

16OctDozing; Architecture and the science of precise placement

10OctSketching Techniques for Designers

08OctMy Architect: A Film by Nathaniel Kahn + A Book By Louis Kahn

23SepGround Truth in Cairo

21SepHeliopolis Walk

17SepTadamon: Cairo Urban Solidarity Project

15SepMegawra Opening – Fun day

30AugGendered Architecture

07AugRamadan seminar: whose monument: participatory design project for monument-street buffer zones

03JulTo each story there are two sides or more

30JunWhose monument: participatory design project for monument-street buffer zones

27JunFilm screening: Synecdoche, New York

12JunAlien Encounters

30MayFilm Screening: Metropolis

26MayMapping Informality

19MayLive in Slums

30AprMegawra Film Screening: La Jetee & 12 Monkeys

23AprEnvironmental Design: A point of View

21AprComputational Design | Workshop C | Programming Architecture – Interactive Environments

18AprMegawra Book Club | Al-Sa’irun Niyaman (Sleepwalkers)

05AprComputational Design | Workshop B | Digital Fabrication – Materiality in Depth

02AprDesigning Despite of…

31MarCine Megawra | Herzog & De Meuron’s Bird’s Nest

29MarComputational Design | Workshop A | Grasshopped!

27MarMegawra Book Club | The Sultan’s Seal

26MarHeliopolis | Where Is It Going?

12MarCine Megawra |Garbage Dreams

05MarThe City and the Public | New Modes of Urban Intervention in Cairo since Jan 2011

25FebCine Megawra | Blade Runner

18FebHow Architects Communicate

18FebMegawra Opening

18FebJack of Eight Trades

06FebMegawra Focus Group Meeting

17JanTaking Leave

11JanComputing without Computer

08JanInside Out – Storytelling workshop