Towards a More-Than-Human Mobility: The Future of Sustainable Cities in Egypt

Name: Towards a More-Than-Human Mobility: The Future of Sustainable Cities in Egypt
Start: 2022-09-18T19:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T20:00:00+02:00
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Sun, Sep 18, 2022

7 PM – 8 PM (GMT+2)

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Egyptian cities to come will not look like the cities of today. Movement and the circulation of living (and nonliving) things will be shaped by rapid increases in population, urbanization, and land use. As Egypt builds more and more new cities, how can we imagine the future of transportation beyond just humans and their material goods? What can we learn from the collective Egyptian memory as we expand beyond human-centered active transport? And how can we expand our understanding of a city’s impact or value beyond material outcomes, such as infrastructure development, economic profits, or reduced carbon emissions?

The AUC Innovation Hub is a springboard for industry partnerships, multidisciplinary research, and experiential learning. Located at the AUC New Cairo campus, the Innovation Hub offers corporations, start-ups, and AUC faculty/students the opportunity to collaborate on strategic research projects and co-create innovative solutions for Egypt’s and the region’s toughest challenges.

New Silk Roads offers a range of future thinking programs focused on collectively imagining preferred futures and producing bold, innovative future scenarios. For over ten years, New Silk Roads has worked with various clients, including international organizations, multinational companies, and creative enterprises.

Futures Talks are being implemented as part of the GreenWorks program led by Hivos and funded by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Speakers

Momen El-Husseiny

Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design

The American University in Cairo

Momen El-Husseiny, Assistant Professor of Architecture and Urban Design at the American University in Cairo. He holds a PhD in Architecture from the University of California, Berkeley, with a designated emphasis in Global Metropolitan Studies and Anthropology. He is also a registered architect in Egypt and a trained ethnographer. His scholarly work falls at the intersections of critical urban theory, massive urbanization, governmentality, modernity and othering, politics of space, gated communities, mapping communities under threat of climate change, healthy cities, and sustainable urban mobility in new desert cities.

Noran Abdou

Senior Urban Planner

AECOM

Noran Abdou, an urban planner and interdisciplinary researcher specializing in urban analytics. Her projects focus on mapping for development, geographic citizen science, and digital participation. She is currently a Senior Urban Planner for AECOM in Dubai. She holds an MSc from Stuttgart University in Integrated Urbanism and Sustainable Design and a BS in Architecture and Urban Design from the American University in Cairo.

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