NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

The project aims to "enhance a peri-urban area" by optimizing its function for society.

Navarra, has outstanding climatic characteristics, hosting in its approximately 10,000 km2 many of the European climatic regions and their Biodiversity.

The idea is to represent, in part of the campus of Navarra University, some characteristic habitats of Navarra, and to create treks accompanied by explanations that inform the visitor of the natural/cultural values ​​collected in them.

Everyone can learn to build - and perhaps everyone should.

With Europe facing a housing crisis, set against a climate emergency, BUILD SCHOOL set out to empower people with the skills, knowledge and community needed to take on sustainable building projects.

Designed to demystify the basics and hands-on workshops putting new skills to instant use, the courses doubled people’s confidence to take on their own projects and went on to spur the development of a new social enterprise.

The play and movement space concept in Schermbeck shows perspectives for an attractive, networked and thus sustainable spatial framework. Citizens should be attracted to the outdoors and leave their cars behind. Children get to know their everyday routes in a new way through the newly created play and exercise areas.

INTER_SPACE is a new material development based on the interplay between traditional crafts and the increasing digitalisation using contemporary lace as an example. While touching the multi-sensory materials, an unrestricted access to tactile experiences is enabled and the ability to learn and remember is strengthened. The project consolidates the local cultural landscape through its innovative design and at the same time takes a serious stance in the international new materials development.

The ALGAECULTURE is about trespassing grounds with the power of algae. In the heart of Vienna, all needs seem to be fulfilled - cultural institutes, the closeness to the city park, the developed infrastructure and the beautiful view by the Wien river. However, one has the impression of a lifeless area, which suppresses the prevailing forces of nature and human desires. Our answer is the opening of spaces, respecting the flora and fauna and an architecture that creates balance.

Due to the imminent need to halt the advance of climate change, we are facing a paradigm in which the rehabilitation of rural areas is becoming an essential point in this regeneration process. Therefore, this project seeks to act on the revitalization of a regional livestock route with small changes that do not involve major alterations in the ecosystem but rather ensure that places that are currently disused or abandoned become generators of experiences.

The food system is one of the most polluting industry of our society. On the other hand, food can reconnect people and nature! By combining professional agriculture and amateur urban gardening, it is possible to improve the self-sufficiency of a community, but also have environmental and social benefits, such as: less polution and packaging, biodiversity improvement, heat island reduction, health improvement, social cohesion among different ages and ethnicities, food and environmental education.

A small developing idea of a multimodal guide (webpage, online app, social media, e-book, audio guide) for Greek cultural heritage environments developed for both Greeks and non-Greeks disabled visitors as they are often excluded from touristic and cultural spaces. This guide is built around disabled visitors' perspectives and evaluations and gives priority to artists with disabilities. The project has been acknowledged by an EU program, and my objective is to obtain funds to fully develop it.

In 2019 in EU OECD countries recycled only 14% of plastic material [1]. This situation is not sustainable and through this project I want to improve it. Plastic material is a valuable resource that should be recycled in bigger scale with affordable technology. By providing open source content and knowledge transfer, people can see real example how to process domestic waste into beautifull parametric bench with positive environmental impact. 

[1] www.oecd.org

The idea was designed from an inclusive perspective, to improve the quality of life of people in the neighborhood. The project tries to reconnect the different levels of the place, building a floor with a continuous paving of anti-slipping stone as an adaptation of the traditional paving system. The connections with the streets are solved with soft ramps and with stairs of small height, to facilitate the daily displacements of the elderly people.