NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

Intentamos entender la “vida” en las ciudades observando su infraestructura y desarrollo pero también analizando el día a día de sus habitantes y los detalles que componen su identidad.

“ La ciudad y el agua ” vincula la joyería con la literatura a través de la creación de cinco broches  basados ​​en cinco cuentos de mi propia autoría, inspirados en el estilo de prosa del libro de Italo Calvino, “ Las ciudades invisibles ” . Esta serie es una expresión de la relación de mi C i ty  (

The aim of this project is to design social welfare services that work as shelters for homeless people. In particular this part of the project is focused on a shelter that provides protection against cold, and in the same time spreads a message of solidarity and kindness. This shelter is called Scorz that in the neapolitan dialect means rind, peel, skin. The shelter design was inspired by origami and some natural structures like the cocoon. It is light, portable like a backpack and sustainable.

We go crazy about Camellias not only because of their aesthetic beauty and history but also because they were able to boost engagement and participation of a community and to transform abandoned soils into new areas of an Excellence Camellia Garden in Tuscany. The project started in 2020 and had a multi-sectoral, bottom-up approach in order to bring people closer to nature, regardless of their age, interests and groups with a focus on protection of landscape and people inclusion.

— What belongs to everyone, what matters to us, the modern tradition. There is no break with the past without a desire for the (re)generation of our aspirations and our permanent inherited values; the changing world, transfigured by the emergence of the phenomena of mutation, a dynamic espoused by novelty and characterised by lasting modernity, a legacy have passed for us into universal heritage.

HygroShape is a first of its kind concept for self-shaping furniture. Using purely the natural, intrinsic properties of wood, furniture pieces are produced in an efficient and compact flat state, materially programmed to shape themselves when unpacked. It happens effortlessly, in silence, without human interaction, tools, or assembly instructions. The project uses material programming to harness the unique potentials of sustainable materials and practices. 

Exploring the protected landscape of Lonjsko polje, one of Europe’s largest wetlands, is planned through a network of entry-points and observatories placed within it. The visitor centre samples rural morphologies, creating a new social focus within the village. The observatories connote centuries of anthropogenic and natural symbioses, of a border condition, in a bestiarium of markers and vistas. They become a ludic element of the landscape, a new species echoing the locally familiar.

Binario Vivo was created with the aim of redeveloping the area of ​​the Cernusco-Merate railway station in order to create a new landmark for the local community and the tourist flow. Through co-design processes, a strong link has been created between the urban environment and the natural ecosystems that surround it.

“Parco Libera Tutti”, which can be translated into “A park (free) for all”, is an urban regeneration project which aim was the shared realization of an "Inclusive Park" in the largest green area of Certaldo (a small town in Tuscany): a place accessible to all without discrimination of age, motor, sensory or psychic skills; a place in which to carry out activities that promote social inclusion and intergenerational exchange. 

The "Summer of Pioneers" is a project for “trial” living and co-working in rural areas. For 6 months, 20 selected creatives and knowledge workers ("pioneers") are provided affordable, furnished living spaces as well as co-working spaces in a previously vacant castle by the participating municipality, Tengen in southern Germany. In return, the pioneers contribute to the community with new impulses and cultural activities, and thus contribute to the revitalization of otherwise neglected areas.

Lamia Santolina (Apulia, Italy) is a space of research, a residency center for art and earth that questions through artistic practice the ecosystemic relationships of the environment. 

The garden has more than 400 varieties of endemic and Mediterranean drought-resistant plants. Built in lime and hemp, the studio is reached by a natural path. The oblique and soft angles, the white lime, suggest the place of thought.