Darwin Master’s student in Architecture Julia Wlodarczyk has been awarded a scholarship by the RIBA Wren Insurance Association. The awards are given annually to final year Part 2 students who have the potential to make a significant contribution to architecture.
Julia’s project explores the role of architecture in social and political transformation, through the study of her hometown in Belchatow, Poland, as it transitions away from coal dependency.
“The financial support will help me connect to an understudied field of research, which is critical to social development in the phasing out of traditionally fossil fuel areas and enabling representation for underrepresented and underserved groups of people,” she said.
Julia has also contributed a chapter to the forthcoming publication Resilient Urbanism, out this summer.
Thc winter issue of the Darwinian magazine, currently in production, will feature an interview with Julia in which she discusses her project and her approach to architecture.