Bananatopia

The initial idea of Bananatopia is to map the city of Cairo in way to see how segregation and social differentiation are highly present in the city. And how neighboring districts could be highly different in terms of their richness and social class. Thus to be discreet about it, a product was chosen to map this issue by tracking its different types and prices that are found in Cairo’s major districts. This change in price and type will imply how there are major differences between the districts in cairo, these differences are in terms of richness, privileges and social class. The product that was chosen was the banana; because it is a product that is embedded in the Egyptian culture and highly favored and consumed by all class residing in cairo; also its available everywhere around the city all year. Banantopia is an eyeopener for the social problem that exists in Cairo, The goal of this project is to make people aware how the city has an unsolved problem of unfainess and segragation where people with privilges live very close by to very unpriviliged people without being aware of the struggles they face today because of the unfairness of the segrgation in the city. The more privilged you are in the city of bananatopia, you’ll have access to normal human being rights like clean water, food, clean health service, safe housing, proper education, and much more.... the less privigled people struggle to obtain normal human rights because of their placment in the society and their low income that doesn’t serve them their normal rights. Bananatopia was featured in 3 exhibition, "Zoom in Kda" and "Future Design and Design Future" at the Sharjah Gallery at the American University in Cairo and taking part during Amman Design Week 2019 at "The Hangar Exhibition".