NEB Prizes 2021: All Applications

Metropol Parasol pioneers a fundamental re-imagination of the contemporary public space. It stands as a key landmark of urban design in the 21st century: one which combines places for social gatherings, culture, food and a panorama deck. As the world's largest wooden structure, Metropol Parasol becomes an architectural forerunner: reactivating the city centre and the entire region by facilitating a unique and dynamic relationship between the historical city and the vibrancy of contemporary life.

Family of side tables, stools made of solid wood. We wanted to represent a family of iconic symbols with the intention of lasting and remaining in time, being able to be inherited from one generation to another.

The word TOTEM is original from the Ojibwa language, spoken by the native Indians of North America and it was used to designate a monument that characterized each tribe or person in which animals or plants were represented as a power animals and protective spirits.

The Rediscovery Centre’s headquarters is a 3D textbook, built to be a national centre for excellence in education for sustainable development and the circular economy. Designed to inspire, inform and create impact and behavioural change in all who visit.

Reconditioned from the shell of the old Ballymun boiler house, the building's operations are designed and mapped to environmentally friendly practice in its operational processes. It is Ireland's greenest and most ‘circular’ building.

The goal of the Cuidados en Entornos Escolares, Taking Care in School Environments, project is use participatory processes to create a new model of school space that promotes health, wellbeing and development, responsive to the new paradigms and challenges of the 21st century. The results have exceeded all expectations, showing how physical space can generate important social changes, creating identity and commitment to nurturing and inspiring spaces.

The "New European Bauhaus" need interdisciplinary People. And an interdisciplinary Product Data Model - tripleP.

People. Products. Properties.  

tripleP is the Transformation from traditional Product Management into Model-driven Product Data Management.

"New European Product Data Management" is the independent and decentralized NEB thing.properties-driven Product Data Model.

One Product Data Model for the whole Product Life Cycle.

Let me introduce you to QUARANTINO.
QUARANTINO is a DIY Low-cost PAPER PET for QUARANTINE.
This is an open collaborative project, wide open, fun and free. Please do share.

Print, colour, cut, fold, glue...and ready! This is your Quarantino!
There are four FREE available models at your disposal: the Quarantino Quartet.
There is also the chance to design your own, choosing the blank template.

Quarantino templates are shared online since april 2020, under open CC_BY license.

Best is yet to come!

Elena Ferro es la tercera generación de zuecos de su familia fundada en 1915. Bajo la marca Eferro, logró convertir un artículo rural en un complemento de moda, agregando valor de innovación a un elemento del pasado.

Trabajan en su taller de Merza para reinventar su profesión combinando nuevos diseños con características ergonómicas. Al hacer esto, están protegiendo nuestra identidad cultural al construir un puente entre los tiempos modernos y el conocimiento antiguo. 

The importance of history and the role that culture plays on the population is well defined, but we have never researched culture in a truly collective way. Data digitisation and archiving could be transformed into an exceptional tool for connecting all different users and sectors of cultural heritage into a “Global heritage” interaction and communication. The research undertaken is summarised to the development of a crowdsourcing, interdisciplinary platform, under the name “Heritage for People”

High-quality housing according to the Swedish market tied to high construction, rental and running costs. It is not granted that high-quality housing respects the environment during its construction, running and demolition phases. While affordable housing tied to low-quality housing that the investor is not interested to build due to economical factors.

This project is a trial to tie the investors’ profit with the energy-efficient, productive, environmental and affordable housing practice.

The festival promotes the sharing of common challenges at the level of regional clusters among peoples overlooking the mare nostrum, stimulating the development of sustainable circular economy models and promoting the 17 SDGs of the UN 2030 Agenda, with a participatory bottom-up approach, which enhances the demands and skills of civil society, respecting and safeguarding of the Mediterranean ecosystem.