NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Neurodiverse people face difficulties using public play areas. ASD Publics has developed autism-friendly design guidelines and an innovative co-creation method, including a performative workshop methodology, to co-design inclusive public playgrounds with and for autistic children and their families. These have been tested in four co-creation workshops that explored new ways of engaging autistic children through play and creative ways of exploring multi-sensoriality and connectivity with space.

The new Fanton Bivouac is a protective shell at high altitude, a rough-hewn sloped volume that inhabits the Marmarole saddle in the Dolomites, a boundless space at 2667 m.a.s.l, a context made of rock, light, wind, snow and distances.
Its fibreglass body bends along the cliff profile and draws a visual tracer, an attempt to amplify and frame the landscape, a space coagulated around the tension between the vastness of the natural architecture of the Alps and the minute one of the bivouac

This is a unique district library, located in a dense urban node of the city of Barcelona, a sculptural volume inspired by stacked blocks of books and seated on a square slightly elevated above the street and whose large gaps and voids dialogue with the environment.
The access arcade extends the pedestrian and cultural axis of the neighborhood and connects with the interior central courtyard that connects all of floors and brings natural light into the heart of the building.

The aim of this project was to refurbish an existing playing field into something that provides infants, toddlers, younger and older kids, teenagers, adults, elderly, persons with special needs, families, and work staff groups with opportunities to engage in play, gatherings, discussions, interactions, and relaxation while being a stepping stone towards closing the gap in age and life conditions currently experienced by todays’ life rhythm as well as providing a safe, secure, green environment a

The BIRN BiH and the Srebrenica Memorial Center opened a new memory room, in a place of a transformed ancient battery factory, which now serves as an exhibition center. The room and video archive of 100 video testimonies along with collected items from the victims family members, became part of a permanent exhibition. The place of suffering is transformed in place of memorialization, which will contribute to the local community healing and combat genocide denial.

The city’s new center of gravity is a converted department store that now also is a multifunc-tional lecture center. This saves resources (sustainability), brings together diverse population groups (inclusion) and revives the city center (quality of experience).

A small major city that has been shaped by its industry is reinventing itself. That is only possible be-cause the municipality and university cooperate tightly in order to shape a new future.

TOWARDS THE NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS, EUI-IA, HORIZON EUROPA, EUROPCOM
FOR ADOPTION BY THE COMPETENT EUROPEAN INSTITUTIONS OF INNOVATIVE SPATIAL PLANNING PROJECTS AND THEIR INCLUSION IN THE CAPABILITIES OF THE "URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM" OF THE EC
OR TO CREATE A NEW PROGRAM, AFTER THE ACQUISITION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION OF THE LICENSES AND COPYRIGHTS.
THE PROJECTS SOLVE FUNCTIONAL, URBAN, TRANSPORT AND INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS OF THE URBANIZED EUROPEAN STRUCTURES BY PROVIDING THEM WITH UNUSED

Anima Mundi is a journey to discover the secrets that lie hidden at sunset among the gnarled trunks and foliage of Palermo’s Botanical Garden. A magical and immersive experience created by Odd Agency to transport the public into an imaginary world populated by fantastic presences and in contact with the soul of the world.

The microcosm of the quartier «Italie» stands as a mirror of the global history of Dudelange, even of Luxembourg and Europe. Moving Lusitalia is a physical and digital project based on stories of everyday life, revealing the changes in rhythm, time and space over the decades. A two-year project leading to a multimedia exhibition, a series of conferences and a permanent audiovisual journey (web app) that let people explore the Quartier, discovering meaningful places and their stories.

Dark Sky® Alqueva is the first destination in Portugal dedicated to astrotourism. Born in 2007 and certified in 2011, it’s the first Starlight Tourism Destination in the world as well as the first cross-border destination, has its Official Observatory in Cumeada, a Best Tourism Village by UNWTO. Our mission is to protect the night sky as a resource for sustainable destination development and raise awareness of the importance of protecting this resource from the growing problem of light pollution