From Left to Right: Ripin Kalra, Nikki Linsell, Dava Sagenkahn (representing the John McAslan Family Trust), Julia King, Nigel Vaz, Sophie Handler
The RIBA ICE Bursary exists to support architectural and engineering students, graduates and newly-qualified architects and engineers committed to the progress of community and environmental issues in economically deprived areas in the UK or abroad.
The scheme, formerly known as the RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary, has been offered since 2004 following generous donations from John McAslan. In 2009 John McAslan + Partners (JMP)| and the Whitbybird Foundation committed £50,000 each over the next five years to enable the Bursary.
The bursary supports individuals or teams for projects lasting between 6 and 12 months in communities where the focus is on improving or modifying the physical environment to enhance the quality of life for the local community.
In 2010 candidates have been invited to put forward original project proposals or to develop proposals for projects contributing to already pre-existing initiatives.
One or more bursaries up to a total value of £15,000 will be provided to support an individual or a team for projects undertaken during 2010. Recipients are expected to contribute 25% of total project costs – either through in-kind sponsorship or direct grants from other organisations or group fund raising.
The deadline for submitting applications has now passed. Recipient(s) of the 2010 RIBA ICE Bursary will be announced in April 2010.
For further information on the 2010 Bursary please download the 2010 application form or write to Alex Nelia alex.nelia@inst.riba.org|
Background information about the Bursary can be found in ‘Beginnings'– a booklet of previous Bursary nominated projects.
Recipients of the RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary 2008:
Dr Heather Cruickshank - "Community Infrastructure in Rural Nigeria" - received £2,000.
Clips featuring photographs taken during the work on the project can be viewed on YouTube here|, here| and here|.
Sophie Handler - "Resistant Sitting. A Pensioner's Alternative Street Furniture Guide" - received £2,500
Ripin Kalra - to revisit three sites in India affected by earthquakes and cyclones in the 1990s - received £6,000
Asif Khan and Julia King - "Mass Sustainability: Zero Carbon Chair and School Desk" - received £3,000
Nikki Linsell, Article 25 - to work alongside The Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) - received £6,850
Recipients of the RIBA/ICE McAslan Bursary 2007:
Asif Kahn & Julia King - 'One Year House', refugee housing on the Thai-Burma border - received £7,242
Sophie Handler - 'How to Set Up Workable Interventions in Public Space for Older People in Newham' - received £5,000
Nikki Linsell represents a team from Article 25 working on a project for the 'Conservation of Saxon Buildings in Transylvania' - received £3,290
Julia Bouvy - 'Regeneration of Embankment Life in West Africa' - received £1,000
Recipients of the RIBA McAslan Bursary 2006:
Claudia Amico - Building a workshop centre in the Community of Women (Cité des Femmes), Senegal - received £6,500
Craig Bamford - The displacement of Tuavi Ambau village, India - received £4,250
Recipients of the RIBA McAslan Bursary 2005:
Joann Tang - Pilot school outreach project - received £2,500
Pascale Scheurer - Introducing People in Space – the new generation of architecture - received £2,500
Henry Travers, Elizabeth Babister, Allan McRobbie - Proposal to develop a prototype third generation emergency family shelter - received £10,000