Iulia Cistelecan, student from the London School of Architecture, was awarded the 2020 RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship for her project ‘Life Between Shelters: Refugee camps of today becoming cities of tomorrow.’ Iulia’s project will examine the role that architecture can play in transforming today’s refugee camps into sustainable communities.

In this podcast, Iulia Cistelecan shares her project’s plan as she will travel to four refugee camps across Africa, Western Asia, the Middle East, and South Asia: Bidibidi (Uganda), Zaatari (Jordan), Shatila (Lebanon) and Kutupalong (Bangladesh). She explores the topic of spaces between shelters with a focus on the transition from temporary refugee camps to sustainable cities, highlighting the importance of educational and social infrastructure in building community growth and resilience.

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