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2022 RIBA Research Fund News
1 December 2022
RIBA awards £30,000 in research funding
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has today announced the recipients of the 2022 RIBA Research Fund. Awarded annually, the Fund is intended to support individuals – at any stage of their career ? who would like to conduct a piece of independent research to benefit architects and the wider profession.
2022 RIBA Research Fund, UK
The 2022 recipients of the RIBA Research Fund are:
Aude Azzi and Frederik Weissenborn
Spatial Practice in a Post Disaster City: Learning from Beirut
Awarded £6,000
This project explores spatial practices that have emerged in Beirut in recent years. Focusing on four neighbourhoods in central Beirut – Geitaoui, Gemmayze, Karantina, and Mar Mikhael – the project investigates the spatial practices that have been developed by communities in response to the 2020 Port explosion and explores if and how they can be translated to other social and geographical contexts. Kate Jordan and Julie Marsh
Moving pictures: reusing cinemas as places of worship in the diaspora
Awarded £8,000
This project combines primary research with the innovative art-based methodology, ?site-integrity? to investigate the adaptive reuse of cinemas as places of worship and explore questions of faith and diaspora in the contemporary urban landscape.
Garrett Nelli
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