School for Sonic Memory

Through a multisensorial exploration comprising scores, images, texts, smells, choreography, music, and recorded sounds, the authors respond to some of the wider themes emerging from the residency: the circulation of knowledge, migration, water, heritage, mythology, memory, and the notion of citizenship.

You are invited to embark on a journey across the Mediterranean basin offering alternative narratives of what it means, or might mean, to belong to a sea rather than a country.

The mapping workshop with Omar Nagati is intended to introduce participants in the School of Sonic Memory in Alexandria, and potentially wider audience, to a number of critical methods and mapping tools based on CLUSTER’s work, as well as larger urban questions facing Egyptian cities. The workshop may also introduce a short exercise to hypothetically map and engage stakeholders within the current context and urban politics of Alexandria.

CLUSTER is an independent urban research and design platform based in Cairo with a wide range of programs, publications, and online platforms. CLUSTER has an extensive experience of mapping tangible and intangible urban heritage in cities in the MENA region and Africa.