NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

The fundamental objective of the project is the enhancement of medicinal mineral waters and the recovery of a river environment of great beauty. The project sought to enhance all the heritage and ethnographic elements of the environment, clarifying the routes and recovering that river landscape that was invaded by nature and neglect. But the memory of the place was there, and the illusion of many neighbors and institutions to see it recovered was the engine of the project. 

Few of us are familiar with plankton, yet they are an essential part of our ecosystem. The BIOTOPIA project of design allows the public to use digital devices as a means of contributing to scientific research and raising awareness about plankton. Our project of design offers a complete experience in three main stages: Making your own plankton observation kit called the Exoscope, using a web app to analyze plankton and finally an immersive database in virtual reality.

Fluxus Labas! Courtyard project’s goal is to enable people of a certain residential area who share the same courtyard to improve their living environment. The residents with the help of local (and/or foreign) creators/artists tackle the infrastructural, social and cultural challenges.

IN LOCO is a museum without walls or gates, it is a space of exploration that connects and passes down the memory of marginal places transporting you, on site, through a guide in continuous evolution. The museum interweaves places, memories and people, triggering patrimonialization and regeneration processes, aggregating around the places the communities that want to bring them into the future. Because IN LOCO is a space for exploration and action.

“Trencadís” is the Catalan word for broken tile mosaics popularised by the architect Gaudí. The material used for the trencadís technique was damaged or unused pieces of tile and pottery from factories or homes. This idea of using what would otherwise be considered waste from high quality products and creating a new product by adding value through design, is the inspiration for this project, that converts spare scraps from various rug materials into modular pieces that can fit in any space. 

Fashion Map – SK is a unique list of Slovak local fashion spots, concept stores, ateliers and showrooms which aim to lead audience toward authentic local fashion and design scene. It helps the authors and ambassadors to be seen and to build their awareness at the professional, public or tourist audience. The map exists in classical paper format and in 2020-2021 grows into digital space in order to be able to include asa many designers and fashion and design.

Medieval 15th century wells and it's vault that used to store five million gallons of water have been transformed into a Center of culture Azimut, a modern time contemporary space that provides cultural content for people. This cultural heritage site used to be filled with water and today the wells are filled with culture. By becoming a performance and an art exhibition venue, Azimut provides the source of life for the cultural scene that lives and breathes freely inside these medieval wells.

Thick, shock absorbing, lightweight, rot-resistant, insulating... Cork is a material that is considered obsolete and is often attributed with anecdotal uses. Based on an in-depth study of the cork industry in Europe, "Corteza" proposes creative applications highlighting the incredible qualities of this material whilst exploring a refined aesthetic to enhance it. This ancient and natural resource can evolve toward new objects typologies, innovative uses and unprecedented production methods. 

Can you feel the digital texture? Not yet…? Meet TOCA! TOCA is a paper-based interactive (and ecological) surface that can take advantage of both worlds. People of all ages will be able to write and draw on a common paper sheet, while all the content is wirelessly displayed at a computer and/or smartphone in real-time. More, creation will be non-stop since artists can bring their paper drawings to live by adding sounds, colours, and motion on TOCA software, enabling unlimited art possibilities

The Sacred Heart Jesuit Church in Budapest responded to the needs of young families, when they decided to set up a room in the southern aisle of the church, where children can play during holy masses. Our studio was commissioned to design the interior of this space that was intended to be able to adapt to the representative architecture of the monument and serve the freedom of play at the same time.