Unlocking the Potential: Exploring Urban Acupuncture in Egypt’s Urban Development – Booklet and Program
December 25, 2023
Urban Acupuncture – Online Expert Workshop Videos
January 7, 2024
Name:
Unlocking the Potential: Exploring Urban Acupuncture in Egypt's Urban Development - Public Event
Duration:
Thurs., 28th December 2023 - 12:00 PM - 04:00 PM
Location:
El Horreya Centre for Creation in Alexandria [ مركز الحرية و الابداع ]
Unlocking the Potential: Exploring Urban Acupuncture in Egypt's Urban Development - Meet Our Speakers
Name:
Usama A. Nassar
Title:
Professor of Architecture and Urban Design
Affiliation:
Suez Canal University
Usama Nassar is a Professor of Architecture and Urban Design in the Faculty of Engineering at Suez Canal University, where he has been a faculty member since 1997. He completed his Ph.D. at Suez Canal University after earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at Cairo University. Additionally, he spent two years in a channel program at Birmingham City University in the UK. His research interests revolve around urban design and encompass urban theories, applications, and the implementation of study projects in Egypt. In recent years, his focus has been on developing improved techniques for expressing, analyzing, and executing urban spaces. He has actively collaborated with researchers from various social science disciplines and has published two books since 2013. Nassar has participated in 11 conferences and workshop program committees, and his work has been featured in over 14 articles in international journals. Furthermore, he currently serves as the Vice Dean of Graduate Studies and Research in the Faculty of Engineering at Suez Canal University. He also holds positions on the editorial boards of several journals, contributing to the advancement of research in his field.
Name:
Mohamed Adel Dessouki
Title:
Assistant Professor of Architecture
Affiliation:
Arab Academy for Science and Technology
Mohamed Adel Dessouki is an educator and a visual artist who lives and works in Alexandria, Egypt. He got his bachelor degree in architecture from Alexandria University in 2000 and earned a master’s degree from the Arab Academy for Science and Technology in 2003 and a Ph.D. in Architecture from Cairo University in 2012. He is currently an assistant professor of architecture at the Arab Academy for Science and Technology. Dessouki studied art at l’Atelier d’Alexandrie between 1992 and 1994, parallel to his high school studies. He participated in l’Atelier’s Youth Salons in the years 1994, 2000, and 2001. After a long pause, he resumed his artistic practice in 2017 and has since then participated in a number of group exhibitions. His first solo show, Memories of an Asphalt Road, took place in Alexandria’s Institut Français d’Egypte in 2019. He was one of the participants of MASS Alexandria’s Independent Studio and Study Programme (ISSP) for the year 2018/2019. In his art practice, Dessouki’s work basically focuses on memory, architecture, and the everyday.
Dessouki is a founding member of the Save Alex initiative which has been advocating, since 2012, to protect the built heritage of the city of Alexandria. He also blogs about the city of Alexandria, its endangered heritage, and its history in Gudran Medina Mot’aba (Walls of an Exhausted City).