NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

Habiter la terre is the life project of Louise McKeever and Mathieu Munsch, based in the village of La-Grande-Fosse in the Vosges Natural Regional Park. We aim to promote autonomous living practices rooted in an understanding and respect of nature. Through sharing the skills acquired through carving a life out of the land around us, we aim to empower others to take steps towards regaining their own autonomy and to cultivate resilience at the level of our local community.

We've wanted to develop a water sports UV and rashguard protection T-shirt promoting circular economy. We started the design from the very beginning having in mind the supply chain and the least possible impact towards the environment. The overall water sports industry is not focused the way we expect on sustainability. We thought that more can be done and we want to lead by example because the sea and ocean are our favorite playground and we want to protect it and keep it clean.

Fahle Gallery Street is the heart of the urban space of Fahle Park, created in the area of ​​a historic paper mill. The landscape for the gallery is unique indoor street in Estonia and in Nordic countries with year-round heating, based on an unusual concept that creates a feeling of nature breaking into the urban space. Glass-roofed street hides cafés and a terraces, water features with fish and exotic landscaping, and is a real gem in the middle of the business district.

A new green residential area is being developed on the site of the former hospital "De Lichtenberg" in the Dutch city of Amersfoort. The area has a rich culture and is characterized by - for Dutch standards - very sloped terrains which were created during the ice age. House Lichtenberg overlooks the whole historic city whilst being next to the rural forests of the Veluwe. An authentic environment to create a unique nature-oriented home on the border of this urban and rural area.

Sítycleta Sin Límites (Sítycleta Without Limits)is a volunteering service of tricycle rides for the elderly and people with reduced mobility in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.It aims to reconquer public space providing them the sensory experience of riding a bike, the most agile and happiest means of transport in cities as it allows us to move at a slow pace, attentive to the dynamics that arise around us along the route.It's made possible thanks to the volunteers who drive the tricycle.

High performance project with low energy consumption and low CO2 emissions, benefiting from an energy label A.

Passivhaus labeled building. Exemplary construction with the use of bio- sourced materials, local materials and site mobilizing people far from employment.

This project is based on the negawatt philosophy and methodology : 1/ Sobriety : minimization of all needs

2/ Efficiency

3/ Renewable

Diamond Resorts Europe, which was recently acquired by Hilton Grand Vacations in August 2021, partnered with We Are Water in 2019 to launch an initiative that encourages guests at its 24 European Resorts to make a rational and sustainable use of water.

These programmes are aimed at informing people of their water usage and encouraging them to make simple changes, such as reusing bath towels, and do so in an exciting and unobtrusive way. These informed actions will help promote good practices a

BOTTO is a product-service that facilitates the communication among wholesalers, associations that act for the donation of surplus food, and the ItalianRedCross. It has been designed & developed by OpenDot fab lab as a solution within the EU Project Reflow to make the city more sustainable, intervening on the food flow in urban areas. It is an IoT technology device which communicates with a Telegram Bot reporting & enabling a quick redistribution of the surplus production as donations 

This project articulates a methodology of assisted rehabilitation in vulnerable residential communities through the co-design of replicable, small-scale projects and their further co-fabrication and implementation in five multi-family buildings in the Raval neighbourhood. Efficient low-cost, recyclable, license-free solutions that can be self-constructed with the assistance of local professionals and entities respond to the local and global urgency of improving living spaces in deprived areas.

The vast revitalized riverfront area stretches along the three Prague embankments. The completed first phase is Prague's largest post-revolutionary investment in public space, the first with such sociocultural impact. It focused on the reconstruction of 20 vaults in the riverside wall allowing maximum contact with the river. The vaults will serve as cafes, workshops, galleries and public toilets. 6 vaults are accessible by elliptical pivoting windows that are probably the largest in the world.