NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

due to the consequences of climate change, the situation of the forest is deteriorating so rapidly that foresters on their own have hardly any control. software could already improve operational management today, would enable more sustainable interventions and the application of artificial intelligence. for this purpose, a system for collecting and analyzing data was developed, which simultaneously enables data recording and allows a connection between the real and the digital world.

Moraininc who? Is a question answered through the regeneration of four different places along the morainic hills of the region of Veneto. Trough architectonic and landscape analysis technics the projects seek to form a collective image of the territory, linking the geological moraines with the human modification of this land. Themes such as Vineyard’s plantations, enhancing built heritage, regenerating historic public spaces and re shaping ancient roads are explored in this proposal.

An equitable balance will increase the territory's resilience to meet energy, health, and climate constraints set to increase in number and intensity in the coming decades. So rather than working on the city's densification, we prefer to develop the notion of Distributed Urbanism. It is an excellent opportunity to rethink the relationship between cities and less densely populated peri-urban or rural areas. The work presented was done by over 150 students.

"Melting plot" is a multi-script city guide: a communication format and translation system for cultural mediation, fostering integration between cultural and linguistic alterities cohabiting our society.
Communication design plays a pivotal role in mediation between different cultures belonging to the same mixed society, starting from Milan cultural heritage as a case study. It helps access a city's plural identity scripts. It pursues engagement and a sense of belonging.

Abandoned areas as opportunities to reactivate the peripheries and promote a sustainable urban development: a proposal for Calvairate.

Sustainable development witin the context of technological skills is the foundation of beauty and aesthetic connection acquired during the learning process by considering social inclusion, equal opportunities with emphasis on the amphitheater classroom surrounded by flora will quickly adapt students and teachers to the technological environment, which will give a new perspective on the natural and exact sciences.

Student housing is boring. The endless corridors and copy/pasted rooms offer little stimulus or engagement and provide only the bare minimum necessary for life. The Nest aims to create a sense of place and belonging through the mix of different housing typologies and personal backgrounds. Instead of dozens of single or double bedrooms that all look the same, each unit is unique and offers a different set of characteristics, opening the student dormitories to new and exciting possibilities.

zoomguide is a community-driven platform to enhance how people discover art and culture in the world. The platform enables museum curators, artists and citizens to bind digital stories and artworks to physical objects of artistic, historical or cultural significance.

The platform is composed by an app powered by artificial intelligence that enables people to scan cultural items and obtain multimedia stories and digital artworks, and a content curation system for creators and storytellers.

Biophotovoltaics (BPV) is a source of renewable energy that leverages plants’ natural life cycles to generate electricity. Biophotovoltaics for nature and people aims to develop BPV by sharing knowledge about this new technology, and with its innovative “green areas” prototype, that integrates BPV. This infrastructure uses mostly soil, plants, water and electric compounds. It is designed for urban environments that it can help rehabilitate, by creating new activity and increasing local biodiversity, while producing energy.

THE PROPOSAL CONSISTS IN THE CREATION OF SELF-SUFFICIENT CAPSULES, POWERED BY SOLAR ENERGY, WHICH WOULD ALLOW HOMELESS PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE FIRST WELFARE. IT IS A RESIZED RESIDENCE, AS IT IS POSSIBLE TO LIVE IN AN ENVIRONMENT ISOLATED FROM THE THERMAL POINT OF VIEW, THANKS TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ROCK WOOL, AND TO MEET THE NEEDS OF A HOMELESS, RESULTING TO BE A PLACE IN WHICH ELECTRIC STOVE, AS WELL AS STOCKS OF WATER. THE CAPSULE HAS REDUCED DIMENSIONS FOR BE MOVED ANYWHERE.