Date and time: 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm, February 28, 2019

Venue: Main Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

Speaker: Dalila Ghodbane (PhD Candidate. Passive Climate Control and the City Academy of architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland CEDEJ, Cairo, Egypt)

Title: Building a living / Living a building: Crossing scales and modes of knowledge in the creation of the urban climate in Cairo

Commentator: OTSUKI Toshio (Professor, Department of Architecture, the University of Tokyo)

Language: English

Abstract:
Cities are warmer environments than less built places like rural areas. That is what is called the urban climate. As heat waves are increasing, rain fall and wind speed are reducing, with serious consequences on public health and cities livability, and high-tech solutions alone are not enough to answer climatic challenges in urban environment. In places like Cairo, where public authorities at the city scale has few means to invest in measures for mitigating climatic problems, investigating other channels of actions becomes a necessary step that remains to be done. Therefore, I chose to investigate domestic practices and building activities related to climate, that, despite shaping the majority of the built environment of Cairo today, remains apart from the field of what is recognized as architecture.

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