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LightMirror is developing reflective panels to bring sunlight and reduce heating needs in hospitals and care homes.

CINEMAKE is a service that creates a multicultural community. Its activities deepen mutual understanding through cultural story sharing: co-cooking of cultural food is collaborative and interactive; watching a foreign film in the original language is educative; cultural markets support economically the neighbourhood; the online platform ATLAS, archives cultural details to track and build cultural heritage. With CINEMAKE, the community becomes stronger thanks to its cultural diversity.

Mnemeion is an exploration of the possibility of human existence with a complete detachment from digital technology in a future world which is consumed by it. It is a sculptural expression that embodies the need to preserve and protect our thoughts, ideas and memories.

It's a system aimed at the social inclusivity of homeless people, through the co-design of urban furniture. The project will be managed globally by FEANTSA and locally by the public administration and shelters, organizing groups of homeless people and picking up the trash around the cities periodically. The waste collected will be used to produce 3D printed social furniture, co-designed together by designers and homeless people, that will be placed in the regeneration areas of the cities.

HURRA PANGPANG (Swedish for Hurray BangBang) is a recycling/remake studio and targets the forgotten materials generated by todays overconsumption of fast fashion. The concept of re-make in post-consumer waste have been around for a long time but has never had an accessible method and participation for both consumers and creators.

The remnants of overconsumption are here, we just need to take advantage of them, inspire and make creation accessible.

House of Future Making is a shared co-making space for designers, artisans and material engineers, who want to transform urban waste and by-products of nearby companies into valuable, ethically-made objects for the local community. Using both digital fabrication and traditional craft techniques, and fostering a circular economy of “made in the neighbourhood, for the neighbourhood”, we aim to bring manufacturing back into the city and enable the community to be self-sufficient and resilient.

Re-Recycle is a design cap made of 100% recycled material from plastic bottles, which arises from the need for underdeveloped communities with problems of pollution of the seas from waste, to find drinking water and manage the collection of waste, with the aim of raising awareness of the citizens involved in the project towards a sustainable attitude, through the organization of collaborative activities and in support of the implementation of the project.

Ongi Etorri wants to welcome the new inhabitants of Beizama and other rural communities historically isolated and rooted in territory, endemic to the mountainous regions of the north of Spain.

Offering an adaptable and productive residential model that encourages the set up of new small-scale initiatives, while enjoying its privileged relationship with the natural environment. A regeneration strategy that defines a new concept of rurality, harmonising tradition with a contemporary approach.

T'era Park is a design proposal for Naples that is aimed at reinventing cemeteries. How to extend the dense city of the dead ones laying on the edge of the historical city? Instead of further land consumption, recycling derelict sites can be an alternative. In European cities, psychiatric hospitals are often close to burial grounds: in Naples the proximity between the abandoned asylum L.Bianchi and the Poggioreale cemetery is a chance to trigger a new sense of belonging toward both heterotopias.

The project proposes an off-grid retreat or ecotourism complex, a reversible intervention that would not leave permanent marks on the landscape and natural environment. The concept is built around the relationship between human and nature, having the key words of sustainability, ecotourism, rural living, community, health and nature as a life and energy resource. It also aims to bond local people and communities with the tourists, promoting good quality and sustainable forms of tourism.