The theme of this studio is to map and unpack the paradoxes of the Egyptian neoliberal city going beyond the binary dispositions of private/public spaces. Moving beyond the canonical epistemologies of gated communities framework developed in the geographies of the global north, we come to realize the production of public markets inside privatized gated communities in the case of Cairo, the development of public open-for-all mosques inside compounds, public church, strip-mall as a buffer edge instead of the concrete fence, and temporalities of access to gated communities creating a circumstantial dynamic formation of grey spaces, challenging the cookie-cutter theory of neoliberal city as we know it.
