NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

This project, Vi(e)abiliser, is an urban process to implement the milestones of a living, open and adaptable city. A humble preliminary intervention that echoes the current financial stakes and can face the non-binary futures that await us in a serene manner. The first stage of our project is to allow the city to be rebuilt on the natural elements that saw it come into being, with the Artière River flowing through its heart and the Limagne plain preserved as the horizon.

DNBW design collective is providing spatial and aesthetic support for short-film festival Lago Film Fest. DNBW will give a comprehensive recognizable image to the staging taking the opportunity to valorize the landscape and to allow for new uses of space. 

The project, located on the Mediterranean coast, consists of using the resources of an environment with a wonderful culture and construction technique, to create a natural place connected to the surrounding urban environment and the Mediterranean Sea, through a green infrastructure in which places of relationship are created for people that allow the mixing of cultures and knowledge.

To regain people, which includes the youths and the olds, a sense of belonging, and hopefully mitigate the problem of depopulation in Dessau. The recycled concrete panels from the Plattenbau buildings will be reused to generate landscape architecture, the four kiosks, along the red thread in Dessau according to its future city planning. These kiosks will establish conversations between existing buildings and green fields to provide new opportunities for activities belonging to the citizens.

Somos is a tool to understand nature’s balance and learn to perceive plants in a different way. It's a product-service system concept in which one of the main touchpoint is an alternative pot for plants which allows you to create a new type of relationship with your plants by rethinking the interaction you have with them. The tool is designed for understanding when plants need to be watered through a balancing mechanism based on the weight of the plant and on the one of a counterweight. 

P44 is an urban bench for public encounters, local connections, and sustainable interaction downright for humans and nature. 

The furniture is designed for people to meet at and use, for local ecosystems to gain foothold and strengthen subsequently from a pandemic time, and essentially for people and nature to interact in longevity through the adaptation of circular thinking.

GreenD is an educational initiative that aims to rethink the study of design. It motivates to work together across disciplines and cultures and promotes the education of sustainability pioneers. With my project, a summer school, I want to create an awareness of sustainability through a shared experience of nature and professional knowledge. Design students will become multipliers of a grassroots movement who will define future teaching content with impulsive and forward-looking ideas.

Spain’s enormous pork industry keeps growing despite its deeply negative consequences. Our proposal arises from the agricultural side of this delicate situation: we want to transform pig farm waste into one of the best organic fertilisers possible.

Attacking the pollution problem in our area and rendering a natural organic fertiliser that nourishes and heals the soil, we aspire to promote a collaborative effort that shifts our impact on the environment from a harmful to a regenerative one.

On the campus of the Radboud University Nijmegen a large amount of pine tree logs await reuse. The trees were cut down because they were affected by a beetle. The university asked AIR3+ to come up with a circular plan for the wood. The company asked two students from HAN University of Applied Sciences to develop a suitable circular business plan. The plan is to upcycle the wood to sustainable outdoor furniture on the campus, and thereby create additional natural, economic and social value.

How to get around town? On a site where transport and competition are the protagonists given the presence of the Nantes University Hospital Center to the west, and the Faubourg district to the east, the project looks to create new paths for communication, giving priority to pedestrians and cyclists. A path from north to south and another from south to north that meet in the center and forms a velodrome in the city, open to the public and inviting to play.