NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

The Sjel is an ar(t)chitectural music installation traveling through nature to serve as a shelter, a place for contemplation and reconnection with nature. It invites individuals to take a walk into nature on their own and to give themselves permission to connect with it in a very symbolic ànd physical way: by entering a space which is merged with nature and through music inspired by nature itself. It is a place of safe introspection where solitude meets unity and the invisible becomes visible.

Genius Loci is an interactive digital mapping tool designed and made by citizens to safeguard the Šančiai district of Kaunas against top-down decision-making that prioritized private value above public interest. Each map represents local landmarks, nature, people and their stories. Together, the interactive maps and over 1,000 inputs form a data set to create a new sustainable vision for this urban neighbourhood, preserving its cultural heritage, landscape and environment.

The Beauty of Care, a poem a day lights up your way! Poetic experimentation as a form of care integrated with clinical medical practices, supports and enriches the lives of caregivers and patients. Web-based tool offers custom made audio poetry tracks for relaxation, care, and healing. Every day in Italian and French new tracks that comprise a few minutes of sounds/voices/words built/recorded specifically. The project comprises also training courses designed for medical doctors/caregivers.  

TowerTopia has been created as a space where art, creativity and nature coexist, giving a shelter to many species of flora and fauna in this oasis on the edge of the farmlands. The creators of the garden setting strives to make the horticultural, artistic experiences accessible to communities within Lower Silesia region. Planning and building signifies human responsibility for creating the public and private spaces and then looking after that, which exists for the order of beauty of space.

A living landscape stands for water, ground, nature and people in synergy with each other. We are not waiting for solutions from above, everyone can get involved. Working together, we restore our landscape. Our goal is to have a landscape adaptation plan on how to retain water into it, to break up the huge lifeless farm monocultures, to increase soil fertility and to reduce ground erosion.

For generations we were told that to be successful we had to leave the village. This narrative has made us lose diversity and resilience.

Since COVID, work for many no longer dictates where we are.

So, what if rural areas became grounding destinations where people can work from, restore and support to reactivate?

We partner with small villages to unlock their hosting potential, helping them be the place where urban and rural worlds relate, regain understanding and celebrate diversity.

Box for Expression is an attempt to co-create a ‘common space’ within the urban/rural public space. Physically, it is a modular, reusable and re-adaptable open infrastructure. It offers the possibility for users to add oral stories into the cloud, gradually forming a collective narrative of passengers. It aims to create an open-source and accessible infrastructure, focusing on the idea of the "commoning" at the intersection of digital civics, fabrication, social research and artistic practice

Seven wheel barrows are mounted on a scaffold-like structure. They are filled with water, until they tip over and release their content. The water returns to where it came from. They do their jobs: to be filled, and to be emptied. The installation is an ornament for the neighbourhood. Excellent in its uselesness, like any other fountain. The relentless, unpredictable installation is ruthless and and poetic as water itself.

The nature of ENDURANCH Project has as main goal the promotion of open-air sports activities. Developing the social, economic, and ecological processes in the territory- capable of leading to the sustainable development necessary to restore the balance between nature and man- by boosting sports and other activities in nature. ALL our small-scale projects lead to this concept we wish to evolve and replicate: afforestation, drones to test, experiential hub, energy days, open-air cinema and so on!

With take-away and food delivery becoming more popular, the number of single use boxes that end up in the trash is on the rise. Food containers are the third most common plastic litter of oceans. By signing up for a membership at the RAKUN app, customers can order their food home in reusable, stainless steel boxes. The next time they want to use the box, they drop off the one they have with them, and the restaurant replaces their used box with another one that has already been properly washed.