NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Cresce solo se sognata is an urban revitalization and redevelopment project that starts from sharing narratives and memories to intertwine them with History. It is a collaborative and bottom-up process that leverages a sense of community and civic spirit. The project grew thanks to the collaboration of the residents of the area involved in the renovation, Porta Santi. The result of the project is the Cesena Cresce app, a tool to get to know and discover a part of the historic center of Cesena.

With the flower press "Monas" I make an invitation to contemplate at a time when it is crucial to activate the relationships between the micro and the macro. Climate change is the event of our present that most urgently challenges us, individually and collectively, to restore the balance between the big and the small in search of sustainable ways of life.

‘Carlow Carbon Futures’ is the culmination of an expansive two-year speculative research project undertaken by an architectural design collective of 130 TU Dublin students and academics producing 400 projects to radically remodel both the built and natural environments of County Carlow, Ireland. 

We imagined a place where we could work, meet and share with others; ideally it would become a strong community with common interests and facilities, open to the neighbourhood; we wanted to reuse one of the many abandoned ground floor spaces existing in Porto and have an active role in the quality of the public space around us; we even dreamt of a garden where to plant our own food. Armazém Cowork is a simple project where a group of people engaged in a silent yet powerful revolution...

The project develops and applies an innovative education model that is testing participatory tools for empowering communities to accelerate the green transition and co-create shared places in a form of an urban experiment. Green common spaces of residential neighbourhoods evolve into collective spaces for critical thinking and creative testing with students and local community. The education-exploration and co-design prototype is a generative solution and adaptable for different European sites.

Joyride is an accessible and modular para-hockey equipment, a team sport based on the rules of ice hockey but is practiced in a sled, on ice or on wheels, in order to open access to people with disabilities. Inscribed in an urban context, this project is part of a reflexion on inclusion through sport.

RiqualifiCanapa by the union of two words: Riqualificare(retrain) and Canapa(Hemp) is a project that arises from the environmental, aesthetic, and social need to redevelop the most deteriorated areas with one of the most used and yet versatile plants in the world: hemp. We want to use hemp to bring wastelands back to health and benefit the community. In line with the EU Green Deal, we want to be actively involved in making EU climate neutral by 2050 by sowing the seeds of a thriving green future

The project develops and applies a participatory process for empowering communities to accelerate the green transition and co-design shared places in a form of an urban experiment. Green common spaces of residential neighbourhoods evolve into collective spaces for critical thinking and creative testing with students and local community. The education-exploration and co-design prototype is a generative solution and adaptable for different European sites.

ARTEM was born in Nancy in 1999.

On the occasion of the Centenary of L’École de Nancy [The school of Nancy], three major schools joined forces to create an innovative educational organisation inspired by this famous artistic movement:ENSAD Nancy, National school of art and design, Mines Nancy and ICN Business School.

Since 2018, the three schools have been united on the ARTEM Campus, whose urban, architectural and social project also contributes to keeping alive the spirit of l’École de Nancy

Bbox is an innovative wooden box designed to contain organic products. A box that contains a world of values, symbols, economic, cultural and social exchanges becomes a container that is a physical metaphor for a virtuous process. Made from a single sheet of poplar plywood, Bbox is assembled entirely with a game of joints. It has more than a second life in the user's home, with the aim of educating him to a more sustainable lifestyle through loyalty in the home shopping service associated.