NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Sewage Pipes Festival is an ecological-communal initiative for the wider area of the city of Banja Luka and solving the pollution of the Vrbas River. By asking a question “Where does your shit go?” It attracts wider community and goes viral, giving realistic expectations that this kind of support can encourage the community and the political instance to take real action, and that next festival editions can celebrate solving the problem that is visualized, promoted, illuminated and made aware

The fundamental objective of the project is the recovery of a fluvial environment of great beauty and the enhancement of medicinal mining waters. With the intervention the patrimonial elements are recovered (the space of the old bath and the power plant that were in ruins) and ethnographic (4 mills and some annexed buildings), of the environment, clarifying the routes and recovering that fluvial landscape that was colonized by invasive and abandoned species.

Unique inclusive revitalisation of Prague’s High School into smart, safe, sustainable, operationally energy and carbon positive building focused on life cycle pillars of sustainability: environmental, socio-cultural and economic-organisational and received the highest SBToolCZ certificate. Innovative and standard technologies created complex living lab providing both mitigation and adaptation to climate change. Published operation data serves for optimization and not only for students‘ projects.

Vale Domingos (VD) was an extremely stigmatized area. In 2011 there was a rumor that the vacant lot would give way to yet another social neighborhood; the population, disagreeing, presented a community project together with the political decision-makers, with the objective of creating a botanical park (PBVD) and thus breaking the pejorative image of VD and inhibiting the adoption of behaviors. The community, through the power of volunteering, in building the PBVD, boosted the feeling of belongin

Mutur Beltz created in 2017, Artistic Residence of Good Living, in Karrantza, (Basque Country). Expanding the space for reflection, debate and dissemination on the situation of the sheep and pastoral world from the Art. For this, each edition, a series of artists are invited to live together with the Mutur Beltz family and the rest of the shepherds of the Valley.Each participating artist makes a work or project and the dissemination of this, is presented in different formats.

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.