09/04/2025
UIA Golden Cubes Awards 2023-2026 Webinar
April 11, 2025, 15:00-16:30 Paris time (CET)
Meet your Webinar Speakers:
Hadeer S. Dahab, a Nubian community architect and cultural heritage specialist. With an M.A. in Cultural Heritage Management from the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and an M.Sc. in Architecture and Urban Design from Cairo University, Dahab is a university instructor and a consultant for UNESCO, the British Museum, and other institutions.
During her 10 years work as an urban researcher and a heritage education coordinator at Megawra | BEC, Dahab was a 2022 Real City Challenge Award finalist with her regional project "Makanuna al-Khalifa”.
In 2023, Dahab founded "Makanuna" (our place); a youth-led placemaking initiative implemented 50+ community-driven projects across 15 Egyptian neighborhoods in just its first year, engaging over 1,200 young people to actively shape the future of their cities while honoring their cultural heritage.
Dahab is Egypt's first community architect in the U.S. IVLP "Sustainable Cities" program and recognized by "Celebrate Your Local Jane Jacobs" initiative 2024.
In 2023, Dahab led the 2023 UIA Golden Cubes Award-winning "Al-Khalifa Urban Dreams" film series in the audio-visual media category of the awards.
For the seminar, Dahab’s presentation will exhibit how she harnesses the power of architecture, heritage, and youth engagement to transform cultural heritage into a catalyst for social impact and creative entrepreneurship.
