NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

Structural handicaps, lack of services and depopulation problems are keywords that define the so-called "internal areas" which represent the 70% of the Italian territories. On the other hand, these territories have great potential thanks to their traditions, culture and naturalness. The idea is to give new life to the abandoned heritage along soft mobility itineraries, to trigger the slow tourism, to create services and to give economic input aimed at the resilience of these peripheral areas.

Our goal is to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry, by ensuring that textile waste does not end up in landfills, but is used as a raw material to produce circular products. After 3 years of experience in the management of used clothes,we have created Re4Circular: the first technology based on Artificial Intelligence, which automates the cataloguing and digitization of textile waste, connected to a B2B digital marketplace that allows to direct the clothes towards circular uses

Contemporary workers are becoming the modern nomads who are looking for the right spot to stay productive. This SPOT in our proposal is an individual mobile working unit, which comes with the specific material and transfer mode and is aimed at workers who need to work with flexibility of their own customized and hygienic space, in any public or private context; Promoting the idea that can work for the job missions, pandemic situations and even the future of smart working. 

Public outdoor pools are as much a part of summer as ice cream and sunburn, the smell of chlorine and French fries. They are the most democratic of all places, offering spaces of encounter and community. Nevertheless, public pools are on the retreat, especially in rural areas. Rippershausen, a small village in Thuringia, is bucking this trend and has maintained its own swimming pool for 51 years. A structural and architectural redesign of the site is now to contribute to the further development.

The main idea is to make an innovative gazebo for people, which is also green - it uses solar energy and it will be used as a source of information about a city or area. Through the photovoltaics it will be possible to build a charging station for phones and it will be possible to power a router, which will provide free Wi-Fi for people. QR codes will be used to generate information about the area or city.

The work focuses on explaining the concept of pro-sociality and its role in the adaptation of post-industrial facilities based on the analysis of selected projects from Europe. The conclusions from the analysis and public opinion polls of city residents, served as the basis for the development of a program to save the historic factory of Robert Biedermann’s in Łódź and help city residents by creating a place that does not exclude anyone.

The aim of our idea is the creation of places where we can find a renewed and more inclusive sociality, spaces in which you can feel like a part of nature, areas where you can re-build a more sincere and true relationship with the city we live in.

This project is born from the necessity to come back to life in beautiful and sustainable places where you are surrounded by nature, still having all the comfort of the modern cities, after two difficult years spent between the walls of our houses.

The thesis reads the valorization of the historical heritage as an opportunity to solve the structural criticalities of the contemporary territory: the choice of proposing a recovery strategy for the Remole fulling mills, an "industrial" complex of the XIII century now abandoned, represents an example of architecture born in a dialectic relationship with the territory, whose recovery could only be exploited through re-establishing a new mutual relationship. 

Home as Hometown shows an urban regeneration project aimed at the appropriation of public space with tools of private space. Occupying the forgotten corners of the urban space, completely lost during the lockdown but often already partly forgotten, and even making them sacred today, we believe is essential in regeneration practices, and is, therefore, the aim of this project.

“HAND-MATTER” promotes local material cultures and crafting through collaborative design networks aimed at producing high quality design pieces. Designers and craftspeople closely collaborate throughout all design steps in order to vivify traditional hand-crafting techniques and redefine Greek design. Through sustainable ways making use of local materials and an inclusive co-design dialogue, the local design scene is enriched and externalized by merging the cultural past with future visions.