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The story of Turjaško playground is the story of the transformation of an overgrown and abandoned area in the city's largest neighborhood, which was built without common areas for children and youngsters. The children's need for a place to play freely found its way first by cleaning up the area and then by bringing in some play equipment. The neighborhood argued with the local authorities with a clear need for a safely accessible public green open space and after a few years they were heard.

CALICO is a cohousing project of 34 dwellings offering a generational and social mix and is developed within the common and anti-speculative framework of a “Community Land Trust”. We can find all cycles of life there thank to the birth and end-of-life facilities integrated in the building and open to the wider neighborhood.
An innovative community-based model of care, gender equality, empowerment of the residents and the integration within the neighborhood were put at the forefronts of CALICO.

Compared to the period when the listed 'Stadlerhof' was built, the guests of the accommodated
Day care, despite rather advanced age, are decidedly young! The residential house of a former four-sided farmstead
dates from the late baroque period (mid-18th century) and was carefully renovated, as well as expanded with a circulation annex. To meet the structural requirements for day care and also the historical context, the spatial concept had to be rethought.

Abacus is a table composed of a powder-coated steel structure and natural or burnt solid oak tops. Abacus pushes conventions aside. The table tops glide and move freely along the structure without any constraints, leaving the user free to choose the layout. As the plates disappear, the structure reveals itself and becomes a graphic element that takes shape in space. From a dinner for two, to a family meal, the table is composed and broken down in a playful way.

Contemporary cities face unprecedented pressure to rethink the ways they operate, especially those that have a large percentage of the Soviet-style building stock lacking public amenities that would draw community members together. Fabian’s Living Room, a new sculptural outdoor space located in one of the sleeping districts of Vilnius creates a new welcoming and sustainable social context for neighbourhood meetings around the public grills and other urban furniture made out of reused stone.

How can an old folks’ home foster graceful ageing? The Avon project is all about pioneering new ways in managing ageing issues and caring for the elderly as active independent members of society. LogiRys, which manages the Avon-based senior residence, has placed healthy happy ageing at the heart of its vision and practices. At Avon, LogiRys is experimenting with a new approach to caring to seniors. The results are impressive.

,,Clean trails, clean mind-BIKE YOUR GARBAGE” intends to create awareness of the importance of the cycling as a sport that educates and take care of personal health and especially taking care of the environment. Being in touch with the nature as I natural space for cyclists, we are all witnesses of uncontrolled waste production and still not having the responsibility for taking care of the garbage as a personal obligation.

Project encourages the residents of Kočevje to actively improve their public spaces and to support small local actions that improve their surroundings and benefit wider community. In 2021, we piloted the project with central city local community group only, and in 2022 we transferred the project to all local communities of our municipality. The actions are proposed and carried out by individuals through a working campaign, and the municipality provides the material costs up to €800 per action.

Ignorance is Bliss ceramic tiles are glazed using pigments solely derived from industrial metal waste and by-products. Usually, these metals would be mined and undergo excessive processing. Drinking water supply and soil remediation industries, which produce thousands of tonnes of residue per year and are the main suppliers of metal waste for Ignorance is Bliss ceramic tiles. The collection of 20 selected colours is the result of years of extensive research and experimentation.

The European Union's ambitious plan is to renovate 35 million buildings by 2030, of which 4 million are apartment buildings. Timbeco, in cooperation with TalTech University, has developed a solution for the renovation of apartment buildings based on the circular economy. The goal is to recycle the removed building materials (old roof, windows, etc.), speed up renovation, make the building more energy efficient and improve people's living environment.