Narjes Ben Abdelghani is someone who builds bridges — not only between walls, but between people, knowledge, and lived experience.

Trained as an architect and currently a teacher-researcher at the National School of Architecture and Urbanism in Tunis, she constantly weaves connections between the built environment and the living world, between knowledge and the hand.

At the intersection of research, cultural mediation and creative practice, she has spent years developing sensitive, hands-on approaches to transmission — especially with children, students, and communities often considered “distant” from the arts and culture. Her projects come to life in schools, museums, historical sites and public spaces — often rooted in the heart of the Tunis medina — always guided by a strong commitment to local engagement, active pedagogy, and storytelling.

Her approach draws from traditional crafts, raw materials and silent histories. She designs objects, educational tools, maps and notebooks that serve as supports for memory and experience. In 2022, her program “Suis le chat de la médina” (Follow the cat of the medina), co-created with fellow architects, was awarded the prestigious Golden Cubes Award by the International Union of Architects (UIA).

Narjes sees architecture not simply as a space to inhabit, but as a narrative to unfold, a knowledge to share, a place for encounter. Her work follows a deeply artisanal ethic — slow, precise, collective, and profoundly human.