NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The CO-RE project has achieved what thought to be impossible in a suburban area of Northern Italy: regaining the sense of belonging to an inactive place by stimulating participatory citizenship through the actions that new neighbors, subjects on a rehab path, activated to re-connect with locals and break the stigma, turning a challenge into an opportunity. The results include enhanced inclusion and collaboration, social and working re-skilled rehab subjects, and innovative activities to benefit

A place that used to be a dump has been transformed into a park. By bringing together the hands and the minds of the locals, this park is now a place where we celebrate our culture, it is a place where the local school, kindergarten and scouts learn about nature, it is a place where art lives, it is a place for sports and active and healthy lifestyle. It is a place which brings together the community and gives the locals opportunities a reason to be proud of.

Through Shared Fictions, the old Tobacco Factory of Alicante became a meeting place for neighbours, ecologies and cultural policies. A summer programme embedded in its immediate territory, transcending the physical limits of the cultural centre but also of what we understand as a city. This programme combined habitat with encounter; learning with enjoyment and hedonism with commitment in order to achieve an intergenerational, interspecies and expanded activation throughout the Alicante region.

The project consists of a comprehensive strategy aimed at raising awareness on the traditional closed timber balcony as a characteristic feature of Maltese heritage and provide adequate platforms to ensure its conservation including educating communities, upskilling craftsmen and providing financial means to upgrade this physical feature.

Retwist+ is a circular economy project where recycling becomes the center of a closed-loop cycle. 100% cotton denim left-overs from the past Albini Group collections were transformed into new fabrics for the Group’s denim collection, Albiate 1830. The composition is 30% recycled fiber and 70% organic Supima cotton. Using only denim fabrics has made it possible to obtain an already dyed product of a pale indigo nuance, eliminating the dyeing phase and reducing the use of water and other resources

TAC! Urban Architecture Festival, is an annual festival, organized by the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda (MITMA) in collaboration with the Arquia Foundation, which promotes innovation and experimentation in architecture through the construction of a temporary Pavilion in different Spanish cities. The festival unites contemporary architecture, young practice, and open dialogue on the urban and social aspects of architecture through meetings and cultural activities.

Collectief Goed aims to acquire and renovate worn-out and vacant houses, in order to rent them at an affordable price to low-income families with children.

Once upon a time there was a park. Although lush and leafy, the park was considered unsafe and not used to its full potential. Through resident participation, engagement and some magic, the park underwent a metamorphosis and turned into a beautiful place. The residents felt proud of their new park, and lived happily (and healthier) ever after, with only a slight fear of crossing paths with dinosaurs!

“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”
G.B. Shaw

In reconstruction project of Tartu’s narrow Oa Street it was taken in consideration that all street factors in landscape architecture determine how people feel in the street. Home streets must be first and foremost be for local residents and to passers-by only in the second order. The premise of this is a street space with a preference for light traffic, where it is pleasant enough to be just like that, so people stay here longer, creating social control.

Our concept is a recycling system that allows the useful recycling of pre-consumer waste. Depending on the category of waste, textiles of different qualities can be created. ReWoven is the first prototype developed from this system: a high-quality textile made of 100% recycled natural fibers that can be used, for example, in interiors. The aspired business model is based on linking aesthetic research with all stakeholders along the textile value chain.