NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

Co-Obradoiro Galego is a collaborative project situated in Galicia that looks at biotechniques to help regenerate and revive our craft heritage. The basketry decline situation derives from the reforestation with trees in Galicia from which their wood is not feasible for basketry. In collaboration with basketmakers, we explored a conscious method to continue basketry weaving with a crustaceans-based material shaping regenerative approaches, creating a social, economic, and ecological development.

Human Material Loop collects and processes waste human hair and develops high-performance textile with the lowest carbon footprint possible. Integrating waste human hair into a closed-loop recycling system and introducing new material to the textile industry can be a game changer. In Europe, 72 million kg of human hair waste is generated.Human hair is a keratin protein fiber with versatile properties and huge potentials to radicalize the textile industry.

Buurtschap fabricage proposes transforming a collection of partially vacant, monofunctional office areas scattered in the Randstad metropolitan area into a network of multifunctional productive campuses. A reinterpretation of modern monasteries, buurtschap fabricage gather people interested in alternative, sustainable and communal ways of living and working.

We have to be able to look after all natural fruits of the fields of our towns. This can be done by allowing (and legally permitting, by amending the law adapting it to these days) a certain amount of persons to water these trees and to take back to their families as many fruits as necessary for each member of the family unit , in exchange. This is my pretty idea to bettering our natural and healthy consumption and at the same time , our fields, connection to earth,sustainability, wellbeing etc.

How can Industry change degraded part of the city into its heart?

multidimensionally

L01_CLOSED CIRCUIT; creating a closed circuit of energy, heat, water and raw materials

L02_HYBRID; adding complementary functions, that answers the needs of people and humanizing the space, and eliminate industry nuisance

L03_ECOLOGY; recreating ecological and communication connections interrupted by mega-scale mono-functional industrial areas

L04_BEAUTY; creating domiciled, beautiful spaces for people

Basically, it's about cicles of reusing clothes automatically desinfected with a spray machene installed inside our "Clothes-drop off" box. It would build an innovate fashion style called unisex, that caris a feel of belonging on a municipality, beating traditional steriotypes.  Meanwhile, promoting recycling, gender inclusion and sustainability. 

Perhaps, it would reduce our carbon emissions, as we wouldn't have to shop so many clothes. Instead it creates a community enhancement

The « Architecture Center for regenerative materials » is thought as an eco-system, a place to experiment, raise awareness and produce around regenerative materials. Firstly, the « Micro-Factory » is a producing place where insulated growing mycelium-based panels are produced on its basements. Growing panels drive us on a post-carbonated direction for construction. Secondly, the « Macro-Factory » is thought as a big experimenting room, where could be built 1/1 scale prototypes.

E-value aims to develop a specialized collective hub for data, material, and network flows for the future of E-waste. It is instrumental in helping the EU establish broader financial incentives and improving the legal framework to lead the global conversation on exploring more robust commercially viable solutions for E-waste management and promote the twin transitions. Creating an e-waste recycling system, bringing a resilient, reliable, and self-sufficient circular raw materials market for EU.

Landshapes is an art installation of AI-generated landscapes – images that look real, yet have never been seen by anyone before. Together with engaging stories about the interactions within our climate, it enables us to become absorbed in the morphing landscapes and experience a changing climate in an open-ended manner. Instead of utilizing fear or offering an immediate product solution, it sparks fascination, offers a place of wonder, and allows the viewer to dream of a positive future again.

The aim is the holistic networking of electricity, heat, production, food and living inform a climate-positive power plant settlement and in the sense of interbeing with nature. The power plant remains as the central supply center of man. Through novel living and working concepts, the common path to a climate-friendly future will be taken. The industry of the future is no longer climate-damaging, but resilient and sustainable.