NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Brownfield in Saint-Denis is being transformed into a new sustainable residential area that offers a home for more than 1,000 inhabitants, facilities for education, culture and civic amenities. Further revitalization of industrial heritage and city park. We create a city of short distances, which is designed for pedestrians. We target the use of natural and recycled materials and energy self-sufficiency thanks to the smart grid. The area functions as fan village during the Summer Olympic 2024.

An innovative furniture system that reduces the amount of manufactured elements and waste. A company that uses this system has the ability to recover unwanted components, regenerate them or recycle them properly. Users can replace only a few elements to change the look of the furniture, which will significantly reduce consumption. In addition, the user has the opportunity to replace single elements that have broken down without the need to dispose of the entire furniture.

Brownfield in Saint-Denis is being transformed into a new sustainable residential area that offers a home for more than 1,000 inhabitants, facilities for education, culture and civic amenities. Further revitalization of industrial heritage and city park. We create a city of short distances, which is designed for pedestrians. We target the use of natural and recycled materials and energy self-sufficiency thanks to the smart grid. The area functions as fan village during the Summer Olympic 2024.

Join a greener future among the treetops with TreeHouse Place - a teambuilding placemaking activity to reconnect with nature and local communities. Build nature friendly tree house platforms using natural supports, analog rope, knot and pulley systems that don't leave any marks on trees. As opposed to traditional construction this method is quiet, meditative and enjoyable, showing that development can be an open, sustainable and participatory learning activity! 

A university to learn Earth again, to understand how did we live, how can we live, and how should we live?

A university which has a bridge to connect faculties, to be a bridge between ideas&solutions, innovation&acting, culture&design.

A university which evolves by time, grow by nature, and change by students.

A university to live in, feed from to experiment for new behaviours.

An old slaughterhouse turning into a university to learn|addapt and act for sustainability.

We established Nová Cvernovka in 2016 as a group of creatives that sought refuge after being pushed out from an old industrial site in Bratislava. We've revived a damaged school campus and made it into the largest creative hub in Slovakia and a cultural venue. Now, as a community of 450 people we seek new models of environmental and social sustainability in order to show how a concept of cultural ecology can contribute to the green transition of the city.

'Paper Design Guide' will allow local brands and design agencies to create sustainable and recyclable packaging more easily. The data will be gathered from existing sources and interviews with local suppliers, packaging manufacturers and recycling facilities. The guide will include information about materials, print, effects and other components that are 1) Most needed for Lithuanian recycling infrastructure 2) Least difficult to recycle 3) Most environmentally friendly.

The beauty of physical media merged with the convenience of digital streaming. A SongTile is activated by gently bumping your smartphone onto it, it'll open the app and play, like magic! SongTiles wants to bring back the nostalgia of CD/Vinyl, but upgraded with technology, like AR for virtual interaction, and blockchain for security and copyright. Also, selling SongTiles will provide independent artists a much higher revenue than pay-per-stream rate, aiming for a fairer and healthier industry.

emergency relief is evident in emergency situations following a natural disaster, the necessity of creating an emergency settlement to help people, hence the design of a standard local emergency shelter. The main objective of this idea is to design a scalable and flexible structure to provide residential shelter and emergency applications after a disaster (management, therapeutic, etc.) that are compact, lightweightext, ensible, and easy to deploy, thus reducing deployment time visibly.

The beauty of physical media merged with the convenience of digital streaming. A SongTile is activated by gently bumping your smartphone onto it, it'll open the app and play, like magic! SongTiles wants to bring back the nostalgia of CD/Vinyl, but upgraded with technology, like AR for virtual interaction, and blockchain for security and copyright. Also, selling SongTiles will provide independent artists a much higher revenue than pay-per-stream rate, aiming for a fairer and healthier industry.