Elle Fourie
Scholar since:
2024-08-01
Scholarship received:
Next Generation Scholarship
Education:
University of Florida
Hometown:
Homestead, FL
Elle Felicia Fourie is a student at the University of Florida, majoring in Architecture and minoring in Sustainability in the Built Environment. She is passionate about music and art, and aims to incorporate these themes into her work through acoustic and expressive design.
There is a certain importance in regularly seeing, hearing, and breathing in beauty, which she believes society has lost in favor of accumulating wealth. Living in Homestead, Florida, has shown her firsthand the consequences of this mindset. Every day, she observes as the acres of farmland and greenery she grew up with are gradually becoming breeding grounds for mass cookie-cutter housing projects. It breaks her heart and has motivated her to study architecture to do better for not only South Florida’s community, but the general underrepresented and marginalized communities. The same companies boasting about North Florida's “raw, untouched, natural beauty,” are destroying centuries of growth in South Florida simply because of demographic differences — specifically wealth inequality and ethnicity.
Her main goals are to: a) bring music and art back into built environments, b) protect lower-income communities and the ecosystem from overcrowding and constant construction by pushing for more ‘third spaces’ in the form of accessible forests and activity-based parks, and c) make the housing market more visually diverse and affordable so that every individual can find something that feels like 'home.' Please support her in her endeavor to create a better society for everyone!
There is a certain importance in regularly seeing, hearing, and breathing in beauty, which she believes society has lost in favor of accumulating wealth. Living in Homestead, Florida, has shown her firsthand the consequences of this mindset. Every day, she observes as the acres of farmland and greenery she grew up with are gradually becoming breeding grounds for mass cookie-cutter housing projects. It breaks her heart and has motivated her to study architecture to do better for not only South Florida’s community, but the general underrepresented and marginalized communities. The same companies boasting about North Florida's “raw, untouched, natural beauty,” are destroying centuries of growth in South Florida simply because of demographic differences — specifically wealth inequality and ethnicity.
Her main goals are to: a) bring music and art back into built environments, b) protect lower-income communities and the ecosystem from overcrowding and constant construction by pushing for more ‘third spaces’ in the form of accessible forests and activity-based parks, and c) make the housing market more visually diverse and affordable so that every individual can find something that feels like 'home.' Please support her in her endeavor to create a better society for everyone!