NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Kinderbal are simple glasses, which design is focused on the detail of a single relief migrating at three heights, allowing the glasses to be stacked.
Colors taken from contemporary color spaces - CMYK and RGB - were created based on the receiving properties of the human eye. By stacking the glasses, the user can create full color palettes and play with mixing the reflected colors.

Kinderbal is made by hand, blown into wooden molds, while glass in tinted in glass mass, not spray painted.

The project idea "INCLUSO" is aimed at creating an inclusive and accessible children's playground in which children with and without disabilities meet and play together experiencing sociality, exercising imagination and developing proper cognitive-motor growth.

Solidarity Shop Berat is one place collectinglocal flavors – food items, handicraft souvenirs – made with locally sourced products, reflecting the local tradition, culture, and spirit, and most importantly, made by the local people. It helps generate income for families and individuals coming from the vulnerable groups: rural families living in isolated areas with little/no access to the market, long-term unemployed women, youth not in employment or education, single mothers, local artisans.

HydroSKIN represents a revolution in façades: The lightweight, textile skin absorbs wind-driven rainwater hitting the façade. Its use inside the building reduces water and energy consumption. During hot season, HydroSKIN releases water to cool the exterior and interior environment by evaporation. The aim is to reduce urban heat and flood risks effectively and economically by activating the immense façade surface in our cities. HydroSKIN can be implemented to any new and existing building façade.

Our biodevices Herbi are cyber-physical products that enhance local carbon sequestration and air pollutants removal, quantifying and communicating to citizens the amount of captured CO2e. This value is tokenised and converted into a tradable environmental asset, benefiting local communities (1 token = 1 herbi). The whole system creates an emotional relationship between people and nature through technology, contributing to net-zero, nature-positive and healthy cities.

Coolture Kiosk is a civic design project, located in Venice, that uses the kitchen as an element of community activation. A space of inclusion that creates a link between the territory and the people who live it. The aim of the project is to create social aggregation and urban regeneration by using food as a vector of culture and as an object of territorial analysis. Through co-cooking events, workshops and local markets, a relationship is created between citizens, farmers and the territory.

A modular and sustainable furniture system dedicated primarily to young people and families in the context of the Vignole (Venice, Italy). A civic space that offers accommodation, educational paths, games, playful and adventurous activities, through which education in sustainability, movement and contact with nature are provided. The project, moreover, provide for the lack of green areas in Venice, thus becoming a meeting place for young Venetians.

Creating a lamp out of biodegradable, CO2-negative mushroom mycelium. The lamp is made to both visually and literally last a long time! The underlying message of the lamp is to devalue consumer society and get people to move towards a slower and more efficient lifestyle, with the mushroom mycelium lamp being a reminder of that, both conceptually and physically.

The Manor Network concept is based on the desire of employees, owners and active citizens of manor houses, castles and cultural heritage sites in Valmiera region to cooperate in problemsolving, realise ideas and find new uses for historic sites. It will be a network for challenges related to the exploration and preservation of cultural heritage, responsible management, tourism development and events organisation. The long term goal – a tool to provide knowledge and skills to network members.

Though the Port Seine Metropole Ouest aims to become a major logistic gateway located at the confluence of the Seine and Oise River, it projects to artificialize an entire site with a high biodiversity potential. Our counterproject seeks to transform the abandoned industrial heritage located on the banks of the Seine River into a series of embankments creating a port network. The goal is to showcase how adaptive reuse can help reduce environmental degradation by avoiding land artificialization.