NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Off the Grain is an innovative upcycling project born thanks to the collaboration between ALBINI_next, the Think Tank of the Italian textile company Albini Group and Riso Gallo, one of the oldest rice industries in Italy. It is a new type of dye, obtained from a by-product derived from the processing of a particular variety of black rice grown by Riso Gallo. Thanks to this circularity project, ALBINI_next gives new life to a by-product that is no longer valuable for the food industry.

adira.de is the first German nationwide barrier-free housing portal for exclusively barrier-free and wheelchair accessible apartments.

Grounded Indigo is a natural textile dye that originated in the search for dyeing practices that are more responsible with regard to people and the environment. A doubly evocative name, which summarizes indigo’s bond with the earth and emphasizes Albini’s commitment and pledge to nature: the word ‘Grounded’ evokes both the terrain in which the plants are rooted and the company's respect for sustainability.

Censis Rubliss is a research and craft design agency, acting in the field of fashion/ home accessory and based in La Tremblade (Fr), first oysters'production center in Europe. Focused on bio-sourced materials, geared towards circular economy and thoughtful consumption, the products are handmade out of recovered local industrial bio-wastes, like oysters and mussels shells, and a plant based binder (french origin). They're 100% bio-based, recyclable, renewable, industrially compostable, & local.

Green Tirana is preparing and offer tailored tours and activities in and around Tirana which provide a unique travel experience for tourists in a sustainable way, that help communities to be economically developed and preserve their traditions, especially in unknown areas around Tirana, while educating tourists to be more responsible towards environment and local culture and offering training in the field of sustainability.

Mind’s Eye was a pilot project aiming to bring people who experience visual impairment in contact with contemporary art, through the research, the development and the implementation of a cohesive system of inclusive and multi-sensory applications that propose a different way of perceiving art, beyond sight. The project was implemented in a section of the space and part of the permanent collection of MOMus-Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Four scattered pavilions, linked to nature, protected by the trees of the property, overlooking the deep landscape of La Vega de Granada. A brick wall is used to connect them, and they appear with fascination, linked to their exclusive landscape. Memories are erased and reborn, raising an emotional influence in the space.

Garden of Memories is the first slovak natural cemetery which works with respect towards people and nature as well. It is the green burial alternative where ashes or bodies of deceased can be placed to the flower beds or meadow. We use eco-friendly, asthetical and handmade funeral products with low ecological footprint. Farewells take place under the treetops and follow the wishes of bereaved families. We support biodivesity of the cemetery by nectarivorous plants, beekiping or manual mowing.

Far from being conventional, NOSTALGIA brings forward a perspective shift with regard to preciousness and value in jewelley and fashion by using innovative non-wovens made entirely out of residues coming from textile and food industries. Triggered by two major existing problems, the negative impacts of the textile and food industries on the environment and on large groups of people, the jewellery collection brings a new perspective on waste, as being the new gold.

We believe there is no better way to tell a company´s store than through its waste.

By providing bespoke solutions using the production waste of coffee, chocolate, wine, and beer, we help companies to better use their waste - instead of virgin materials - to present their core values, responsibility, and goals. Also, to inform the final consumer of the provenance of materials.

By giving a new life to solid organic waste, we help shape a truthfully circular economy awareness.