NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Narrative infrastructure makes personal memory meaningful to how we collectively evolve our communities. By mapping oral histories in Cyprus, we move memories from minds and books to the landscape. By mapping memories to an area of influence, they can overlap one another and other relevant economic, policy, conflict, and environmental data sets. We can propose design or policy responses that largely rely on the authentic voice of locals, building a future in continuity with local living memory.

a former luxury hotel is converted into a housing and employment project for the inclusion of homeless people. around the centre of the project, permaculture-farming, more and more functions settled in the course of the project development. architecture as process for with-and-through-one-another / The hybrid concept at VinziRast am Land shows what architecture can achieve when it identifies and exploits opportunities beyond the drawing board.

Sculptural Installation Garden 2123 is a sustainable public garden, designed to create inclusive space for communities and a platform for empowering societal memory via innovative strategy of reusing materials, leftover in the processes of regeneration of public spaces. It accentuates the immaterial inheritance and creates environment for bonding relationships between different cultures, generations and communities, enhancing a sense of belonging.

Prague spots is a project that aims to support a sustainable urban environment by supporting urban communities, developing culture, and focusing on the active involvement of all age and social groups of society. The purpose of the project is to revive the neglected, non-functional, or unused public space of Prague in cooperation with local actors.

The Anttila Farm Incubator urban concept stems from the will to create an efficient fusion between the urban and the rural environment, offering the inhabitants the activities and peacefulness of the rural setting with the commodities and density of a semi-urban settlement. The creation of a cooperative agro-productive community is the starting point to achieve this concept by assuring the economical sustainability of the site while keeping the culture and heritage of the site.

Ripple proposes a collaborative place-based approach to climate resilient green space in towns. The team worked with a community in Ballina (Ireland) that had faced socio-economic challenges to see if a model of respectful support, listening and engagement could generate a positive ripple-effect. Together they created the Paradise Garden, a haven for humans and wildlife where rainwater is slowed through a series of rills, wells and natural attenuation on its way to the adjacent river.

Beauty protects this house from future destruction -
sustainable for generations

A poetic home
which shows its owners
love to nature
There is an old grove
where the house opens
the glittering sun shines through the canopy of leaves
is reflected in the natural water basin and
into the interior of the house
It lets you experience inside the wind and weather outside
The roof is flat to bear the beloved plants
The rough brick facade tells the worlds beauty by the play of sunlight

“Placemaking for Physical Activity Kit” represents the joint energy of mixing the expertise of grassroots sport and placemaking sectors and developing a new concept of promoting physical activity and sport in urban settings with the Placemaking for Active Recreation approach and tools. The ultimate goal of the approach is to support and improve the capacities of both sectors and the result to be in improved programs and places facilitating physical activity in the urbanized areas.

AUDARA is a web-based app that processes around 300 accessibility parameters to deliver comprehensive accessibility audit reports for Romanian museums.

Based upon accessibility regulations in force in Romania and inputs from accessibility and accessible tourism experts of accessible tourism tour operator Accessible Romania by Sano Touring, AUDARA contributes to ensuring adequate access and participation of persons with disabilities in cultural activities provided by Romanian museums.

The park in Czyżyny was created thanks to the huge involvement of residents as part of the Civic Budget. It was built on the site of the former MPK depot and a fragment of the taxiway for airplanes. Originally, almost the entire area of ​​the park was covered with asphalt and concrete. A three-hectare park was created, which has become a place where residents spend their time outdoors in an interesting way. There are playgrounds, wall-holle, parkour, gym, benches, deckchairs, public toilet.