Now more than ever, L’Étoffe de l’Europe™ really embodies the material that the 27 EU member states wove together using the 37 colours from their flags.
It both symbolizes the sense of belonging of 450 million European citizens and expresses their cultural diversity: together they are the weavers of a joint work formed by the interweaving of ties, relations between nations, flows of people and goods, data and information exchange networks.
Biome Makers develops tools for sustainable agriculture. BeCrop, the standard for soil analysis, is our technology combining DNA-Sequencing and Intelligent Computing. Our non-profit global initiative, Fields4Ever, promotes accessibility to BeCrop® technology for functional soil assessment, soil health education, and training to researchers, farmers, and agronomists for their soil restoration projects. Currently, Fields4Ever supports 210 projects in 40 countries, analysing 21K samples worldwide.
Twenty insights of the oldest citizens of Pula of how life is changing due to climate change & over 100 interactive dialogues compiled into augmented reality app, enables you to ask questions and get answers in real-time while walking around the ancient city. You never have to walk alone again. Play a game with grannies and they will guide you, tell stories of life, inspire you to change for the better. ClimeAR is a transgenerational climate voyage through time and space you want to take!
See U is the largest temporary occupation in Belgium, that takes place on the site of the former Fritz Toussaint barracks in Ixelles. 45.000m2 completely dedicated to innovation, sustainability and education. See U exists thanks to a community of more than 100 project who drive the site on a daily basis. There are projects from the associative, economic, cultural or educational world. See U is a public place, open on the neighborhood, with a new range of local facilities for its inhabitants.
Noa! is trying to bring back the traditional cotton handkerchief. Their handkerchiefs are funny and with a colourful design. They already got a prize in Slovak National design award. They would like to help replacing the one-use products with those we can use for years. Few months ago they added a new product offer - sport/functional T-shirts. They are made from 100% recycled polyester produced from plastic bottles or old fishing nets, also funny and colorful. All products are sewed in Slovakia.
The work originates from the muse created to give equal value in discarded material a persona. A crazy-cat-lady-like muse that hoards every possible item in her house, valuing her lowstatus single-use-waste-collection equally to her high-status-material jewelry box. Stating that every material has a value that one can enhance and add to through recontextualization. The collection lifts a serious cause with a touch of humor and therefore make the subject of overconsumption more reachable.
A small old public building that has been closed for 7 years.
A town that keeps alive a very old tradition around the celebration of the summer solstice, an intangible heritage of UNESCO.
An opportunity to create a space for the exchange of ideas, which allows the involvement of different geographical and social backgrounds of the inhabitants of the village, encouraging a sense of belonging.
And a strategy that increases visitors and encourages economic activity in the village.
Project was about converting a former road and parking lots set on the city walls into an urban space filled with greenery and available to wider public. With the help from EU, the 785 meters long promenade now serves as a historical, educational, cultural, inclusive space. The greatest success so far, however, is the positive attitude that the community developed towards the newly created urban space, all of which celebrates the new status of UNESCO protected cultural heritage gained in 2017.
The Plaça del ramal is a physical transformation of the historic center of Llers, with the aim of connecting the cultural heritage, highlighting the historical tradition and the feeling of belonging.The project aims to achieve an overall reading, through the unitary urbanization of the small public spaces that we find around the old Medieval Castle.The public space created aims to provide the public with a reunion and meeting space.
Blowing life into the West Station! Molenbeek could not wait... before big urban transformations along former railway tracks, local and regional authorities and citizen organizations came together to create a temporary, reusable and portable new public space : Molenwest Square ! The site, built in a few months and made with arches and reusable sea containers, gives shelter for social initiatives as well as a place to meet, play, talk and create.
