NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Reet Aus, PhD, is a sustainable fashion designer who uses industrial upcycling to reduce the fashion industry’s impact on the environment by circulating fabrics leftover from mass production back into production using the design. In mass production, an average of 25-40% of new fabrics are considered pre-consumer waste and end up in landfills. Reet Aus uses a science-based production model UPMADE® and for the first time, she produced a collection from pre-consumer leftover fabrics in Europe.

PAiR is a cultural destination that provides locals and travellers alike with meaningful artistic content in an unconventional setting. By hosting a rich programme of events, PAiR seeks to help contemporary art find its way into the hearts of as many people as possible. We are a point of intersection between humans and nature, the local and the global, cutting-edge practices and age-old traditions, a place where new meanings emerge via creative experiments.

"nice gallery" is about the development of three-dimensional, virtual exhibition projects. Including specially created spaces that represent our own gallery spaces on site. A serves in this respect as a digital alter ego. Nice gallery aims at the best possible combination of free access to art & culture for as many as possible, the protection of resources through virtualisation, the involvement of broad social groups into the projects and the aestheticisation of space, motion and interaction.

One temporary construction becoming Another.
This space was created with reused materials, coming from a temporary installation at a School in Barcelona. The wood screens and light tubes are rearranged in the Post-Compulsory Education Office. Since the modules could be directly reused, construction waste has been reduced and contributes to a sustainable outcome. From start to finish, only three months were planned. This lead to co-managing the design and the construction simultaneously.

The project is a public sports building whose program focuses on an indoor pool oriented towards the sea views, taking into account visual relationships, both inside the building and outside. It is a completely accessible building, whose design responds to the needs of all users, and allowing free access to its spaces with facilities for everyone, transferring architectural concepts to sensory experiences, both tactile, and sound, to bring the architectural experience to the neediest.

“Places we love exist only in us”
Ivan V. Lalic

UDUM focused on protecting the environmental heritage of the Val di Sole (Trento IT), by addressing the urgency of the melting of the glaciers and the water crisis, in a perspective that unites the Alps and the Dolomites to the Mediterranean, up to the Himalayas. How to interact with/adapt to climate change?
The methodology UDUM adopted to reach the broadest audience was co-design and co-producing simple and direct means such as music, water bottles, springs/waterways trekking paths and maps.

An open workshop, equipped with industrial machines, to fabricate any idea you have in your mind. A flexible infrastructure for carpenters, metal workers, designers, engineers, artists,s and architects, and for anybody that likes to get hands-on. A growing community and network of skilled craft man and material enthusiasts. A place where ideas are transformed into tangible objects.

Wunderbugs is a project designed to make humans, insects and plants coexist within a single ecosystem. An active and participatory space that, thanks to the collaboration of citizens, performs intensive investigations on the biodiversity of urban areas, helping to restore an integral vision of the city while regulating the anthropogenic activity of man.

While all the theaters in the world were closed due to the pandemic, a natural stone theater took life from a former extraction quarry at the foothill of the Italian Alps, thanks to an innovative and challenging environmental redevelopment. Tones on the Stones accepted the challenge with the building of Tones Teatro Natura, a place surrounded by nature, dedicated to the new generations and offering them brave new visions to build a more sustainable future.