Omar Nagati

Omar Nagati, a practicing architect and urban planner with over 25 years of experience, is the Principal and Co-founder of CLUSTER, an urban design and research platform in Cairo. He studied at Cairo University, UBC, Vancouver and UC Berkeley with a specific focus on informal urbanism, and taught at a number of local and international universities, most recently as a former visiting professor at the University of Sheffield. He is a member of Global Council for Creative Economy, UK. His work at CLUSTER has been the recipient of a number of awards including Cairo Design Award and Curry Stone Design Price, representing Egypt in a number of architecture and urban biennales in Venice, Lisbon, Oslo, Lahore and Seoul. Nagati is a co-author of numerous printed and online publications and research papers, such as Archiving the City in Flux (2013), and Street Vendors Initiatives and the contestation of Pubic Space (2016), with Beth Stryker, and most recently Grounded Urban Practices in Cairo, Amsterdam/Rotterdam and Berlin (2019-20).