NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

“Places we love exist only in us”
Ivan V. Lalic

UDUM focused on protecting the environmental heritage of the Val di Sole (Trento IT), by addressing the urgency of the melting of the glaciers and the water crisis, in a perspective that unites the Alps and the Dolomites to the Mediterranean, up to the Himalayas. How to interact with/adapt to climate change?
The methodology UDUM adopted to reach the broadest audience was co-design and co-producing simple and direct means such as music, water bottles, springs/waterways trekking paths and maps.

An open workshop, equipped with industrial machines, to fabricate any idea you have in your mind. A flexible infrastructure for carpenters, metal workers, designers, engineers, artists,s and architects, and for anybody that likes to get hands-on. A growing community and network of skilled craft man and material enthusiasts. A place where ideas are transformed into tangible objects.

Wunderbugs is a project designed to make humans, insects and plants coexist within a single ecosystem. An active and participatory space that, thanks to the collaboration of citizens, performs intensive investigations on the biodiversity of urban areas, helping to restore an integral vision of the city while regulating the anthropogenic activity of man.

While all the theaters in the world were closed due to the pandemic, a natural stone theater took life from a former extraction quarry at the foothill of the Italian Alps, thanks to an innovative and challenging environmental redevelopment. Tones on the Stones accepted the challenge with the building of Tones Teatro Natura, a place surrounded by nature, dedicated to the new generations and offering them brave new visions to build a more sustainable future.

The TANGÓ project is a complex project: on the one hand, it approaches a part of local histories of the Teleki square of Budapest that has been less researched by the mainstream, filling the gaps in the collection, processing and presentation of the past. On the other hand, it seeks to broaden the range of visual representations and vocabularies of absent voices by involving contemporary photographers, architects, urbanists, criminologists, literary historians and cultural researchers.

Pendulum is a reading and ambient table lamp. Counterweight keeps the lampshade in perfect balance in any position. This way the lampshade can be rotated as far as +90° to -90° and around its vertical axis by >360°.
LED light source stays hidden from the eye, no matter the lamp's position: the light is indirectly scattered via the lampshade.
Repairing Pendulum is easy and affordable. Using simple tools and with all the spare parts available in our store. Longevity guaranteed!

Más Que Espacios San Cristóbal (+QESC) is a project developed by Madrid Borde Sur in the San Cristóbal neighbourhood in Madrid and funded by the Rey Juan Carlos University. The +QE project, developed between 2021 and 2022, focused on three main lines of work: recovering citizen participation after Covid19, improving the perception of the San Cristóbal neighbourhood (the most vulnerable in the city of Madrid) and executing pilot tactical urbanism actions including the two previous points.

KARMA CLIMA is a multi-layer project by Marlene Kuntz to bring to the front the discussion about climate change; establish an effective alliance between Artists, Community Cooperatives, Organizations, Institutions; design/prototype a new music business model. It implemented artist residences, music products, tours, workshops, immersive audio-video experiences in co-design with Stakeholders and Communities. It produced innovative sustainable technological cultural formats ready for replication.

A green urban space where it is possible to cultivate a personal and profound contact with Nature and people and re-establish direct contact with them.
In the garden people can find vegetable gardens, cultural and musical events, events related to local traditions, outdoor educational paths with children, self-construction workshops, sustainable agriculture workshops and collaborations with local actors.
Everything is co-produced with local communities...because together is better!