1st Delta-Symposium Technical-Urban and Cities
Overview
The Delta Built Environment Symposium (DBES) is a non-profit association that brings together scholars from various disciplines who share a strong commitment to Built Environment research in Nile Delta region settings and empirically-based analysis and non-academics; in particular, professionals who have an interest in the research findings. The DBES encourages topical research among its members; initiates multidisciplinary discussion through round-tables and seminars; trains younger scholars; high-quality publications; establish links with universities, research institutions and other reputable bodies; and engages in debate and collaboration with non-academics who operate in society and are interested in our empirical knowledge, and in making use of it.
Goals:
To promote the significance of built environment research to intellectual debates and to society more broadly;
To set the agenda on topical debates and chart and encourage new theoretical directions through reflection on the epistemological significance of built environment knowledge;
To stimulate critical scholarship and the exchange of ideas among scholars with different disciplinary backgrounds;
To engage in exchange of ideas and collaboration with Anthropologists, Sociologists, Geographers, Jurists, Economists, Political Scientists Historians, Architects, Medical Doctors and non-academics who operate in society and in that capacity are interested in built environment empirical knowledge.
To encourage high-quality publications. The work of the DBES is published in the form of books, occasional papers, journal articles, and special issues.
To establish links with relevant reputable institutions (universities, research centres, etc.)
Activities: Seminars and Conferences; Training Seminars and Schools; Research Projects; Publications, Public Debates.
The Nile Delta and its coastal zone are populated regions in Egypt and contain a variety of development activities. Those human activities which provide income and source of life to many also generate constraints to Nile delta region. Nile delta Urbanisation proceeding at such a pace has meant increases in the number and size of cities but also continues to alter the social fabric of urban centres, sometimes in profound ways.
This meeting is under the auspices of the Delta Built Environment Symposium (DBES) – brought together social anthropologists, sociologists, urban planners, architects, and human geographers committed to empirically-grounded analysis of cities in order to examine a number of pressing methodological and theoretical questions relating to urban change.
The Symposium encompassed lectures, seminars, field trips and social events across a range of topics including migration, identity and belonging, the impact of stereotype, gentrification, public space, and historical and global links.
The Symposium culminated in a two-day Research Seminar that brought together interested scholars. As well as papers delivered by academics and practitioners on a range of issues relating to the theme of Cities in Flux, the Symposium gave attendees the opportunity to deliver poster presentations that draw on their own work and on the work they conducted over the previous workshops days.
Expanded and revised versions of the Seminar papers and poster synopses will be published in outlets associated with the DBES.
Founders
Dr.-Ing. Moamen elSoudani
