NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The symbiosis between nature and technology is the original characteristic of BooTech, a disruptive sustainable construction system in a time of environmental crisis. BooTech innovates through the dry-mounted application of bamboo, a natural product of nature, to achieve beautiful, cost-effective, low carbon architectural solutions of different geometrical forms and sizes. The elegant designed system can host bamboo poles of various available species that can vary from 50mm to 140mm diameter.

Personalized. Eco-Friendly. Transportation and Leisure. We're Petal and we've created urban friendly electric bikes that help you arrive in style and on time. Our small frames are light and low maintenance but high on design, perfect for commuting, errands or making an entrance, with interchangeable accessories to meet your cargo needs. Whether you own, share or borrow your ride, you're welcome in our inclusive community driven by goodwill, ease of use and sustainability.

"Tracing a Pollinators' Path"project (or "Percorso Impollinatori" in Italian) aimed to engage citizens and farmers in addressing pollinators decline through the implementation of three participatory actions.

“CAPitoli urbani” is a reasearch program that consists in the definition and optimization of circular production processes for the realization of projects that valorize inhomogeneous plastic waste (e.g. aluminum, tetrapak, paper, PP, HDPE)

SuperBarrio is a videogame for public space co-design. Superbarrio uses gamification strategies, attracting a larger audience, increasing engagement and developing virtuous relationships between citizens and neighborhoods.

It has an intuitive interface where users can visualise the 3D of the area to be codesigned, select some design possibilities (e.g. planting trees, integrating bike stations), visualise them in the 3D and visualise indicators related to the impact of their selections.

Àgora València is a project of València World Design Capital 2022 and the City Council of València, and takes over from the pavilions that were once erected in other capitals such as Helsinki and Taipei.
Thanks to this building, the city celebrates with its inhabitants and visitors its status as a global epicentre of design, and gains a space open to the public as a legacy of the transforming power of design. A place open to society as a whole, conceived to bring design to the general public.

beCIVIC is a cultural project for all outhere who feel places and citizenship should be designed as more inclusive, sustainable and participated.

"SPACE", "VOICE", "AUDIENCE" and "INFLUENCE" have been created, and conditions for regaining the sense of belonging of the involved youth from vulnerable groups, to the local community beyond just the provision of state care. The produced and promoted film and trailers with the moving stories of these children contribute to their inclusion through public support. Experiences have been pooled and good practices have been shared between organizations and professionals from multiple countries.

The daycare centre is a pilot project for the EU deinstitutionalisation programme in the Cēsis region with the aim of helping people with mental and functional challenges to integrate into society. The aim was to create a place open to the society and city but at the same time a safe space for the users. The daycare centre is not as much institution rather a large house. In an extremely tight budget the goal was to give the most vulnerable part of the society the best that we possibly can.

School of Form Student Exhibition of objects for sensory garden. The context was Warsaw allotment gardens and urban green areas. Authors developed spatial forms that strengthen or enrich sensory landscape and make it more attractive for people with visual impairment. The exhibition aim was to reconnect with nature and make it more accessible and inclusive.