Winner of RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship announced

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Royal College of Art student will visit direct air capture sites in Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, Canada and the US

Hana Sapherson, an MA architecture student from the Royal College of Art, has won this year’s RIBA Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship, the RIBA has announced. Her winning project was titled Zero: Direct Air Capture Infrastructure and the Future of Zero Carbon Societies.

The Foster scholarship provides £7,000 to the winning student  to help them investigate issues relating to the sustainable survival of cities and towns. Sapherson’s project will see her travel by boat and train to research the global transition to net-zero by 2050.

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