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Redistributing Opportunity: Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre, Uganda
How do you support and nurture youth in the world’s largest refugee settlement? While the initial focus for aid organisations is to provide safety, shelter, sustenance, health care, and education, boredom among refugee youth is a persistent challenge in the years to resettlement and therefore providing creative outlets is vital. The Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre is intended to answer this challenge, alleviating pervasive boredom while providing necessary cultural infrastructure and programs, as well as supporting the building of community, easing tensions between rival groups, and helping overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, which is rife in many refugee communities. The centre will comprise a recording studio, spaces for music training, and a sheltered performance venue which doubles as a community meeting space. To.org and Hassell in collaboration with LocalWorks and Arup have created a sheltered, open-air amphitheatre, built from compressed earth blocks crafted from material excavated on the site. Currently under construction, the centre will also include community toilets, a tree nursery, vegetable garden, and freshwater facilities.
Redistributing Opportunity: Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre, Uganda
How do you support and nurture youth in the world’s largest refugee settlement? While the initial focus for aid organisations is to provide safety, shelter, sustenance, health care, and education, boredom among refugee youth is a persistent challenge in the years to resettlement and therefore providing creative outlets is vital. The Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre is intended to answer this challenge, alleviating pervasive boredom while providing necessary cultural infrastructure and programs, as well as supporting the building of community, easing tensions between rival groups, and helping overcome post-traumatic stress disorder, which is rife in many refugee communities. The centre will comprise a recording studio, spaces for music training, and a sheltered performance venue which doubles as a community meeting space. To.org and Hassell in collaboration with LocalWorks and Arup have created a sheltered, open-air amphitheatre, built from compressed earth blocks crafted from material excavated on the site. Currently under construction, the centre will also include community toilets, a tree nursery, vegetable garden, and freshwater facilities.
Redistributing Opportunity: Bidi Bidi Music and Arts Centre, Uganda
Sustainable Development Goals Series
Rubbo, Anna (editor) / Du, Juan (editor) / Thomsen, Mette Ramsgaard (editor) / Tamke, Martin (editor) / Ferguson, Rachael-Heath (author) / Mimran, Nachson (author) / De Kestelier, Xavier (author) / Lesna, Joanna (author) / Pollard, Brett (author)
World Congress of Architects ; 2023 ; Copenhagen, Denmark
2023-09-20
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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