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PikHost is working towards a brighter future by constructing a sustainable and innovative, tourism-oriented business in Shkoder, Albania. A business that prioritizes progress and growth while ensuring the preservation of our region for generations to come. At the forefront of technology, we bring our expertise to lead the charge in reducing the environmental burden whilst making an impact that matters. This way we are poised to build a thriving and responsible business in Shkoder, Albania.

Budapest100 is an annual festival organized with residents and volunteers to celebrate the city’s built heritage. The project uses tangible and intangible heritage to fight social isolation and strengthen local communities. Through guided visits and exhibitions, visitors and residents share stories and knowledge. The festival is a great tool to keep the stories of residents alive and raise awareness about the value of the built environment and thus creating a sense of belonging.

This is an example of micro-intervention in public space with local community -the development of a small lot which does not belong to owners of local buildings. Previously, this space was in a very bad condition and was used as an illegal parking space. The housing community (inhabitants of the local residential buildings) decided to put this space in order. They invited me to this project in order to design the space, so that they could use it as common space for meetings, rest and picnicking.

Cancer survivors must face the aftermath. One of the associated symptoms is the alteration of the body image, and the consequent decrease in self-esteem, psychological well-being and quality of life, due to the physical changes that the patients experience as a result of the disease itself and the associated treatments. This generates an alteration in the perception of one's own body. The Hospital has set up an aesthetic office for patients.

How to change a territory in a sustainable way? How to give a new meaning to abandoned rural regions when those who inhabit have urban lifestyles? Over 2 years, between conversations, workshops and art creation, starting with the commission of a work of art in the landscape, the collective and the 44 inhabitants of a village in the interior of Portugal, carried out the transformation of an old trail as a manifesto of participatory processes bridging the gap between heritage and contemporaneity.

PONY EARTH ReArt, Regenerative Art, are artworks generated from hundreds of biodiversity data points from agricultural land.

The initiative is focused on the involvement of youth from 5 WB states in cleaning interstate rivers connecting the states to reduce pollution and preserve rivers ecosystems in the entire Balkans. This initiative befriended youth through cultural, sportive, educational activities on behalf of plastic removal and linked different cultures. Boat sailings, touristic activities, pilgrimages with university students combined with cleanup actions sensitized and turned them into WB 0 waste ambassadors.

We improve the biodiversity in and with our own multicultural neighborhood in the Dutch city of Leiden. Together we created façade gardens, gardens in the unpaved soil under trees, an ecological connection on a canal quay, bee and butterfly paradises, an educational tiny forest with and for the school, biodiverse playgrounds, swift nesting possibilities, monthly meetings, clean-ups and events. By doing this, we became a warm community in our now colourful and more climate adaptive neighborhood.

Using design as catalyst of change, the project use stone found in illegal landfills of the Natural Park to create design objects for daily use. This process takes place in an old industrial workshop located in the rural village of Moita do Poço where a new factory model was born: an experimentation laboratory focus on recovery and transformation raw materials for the production of exceptional furniture and design objects to demonstrate these discards are a valuable material.

Could we imagine the monuments of the future constituting themselves in an opposite way to the traditional one, that is, through the historical narration of a mass of individuals, as a constant laboratory, a poetic-political operation materialized through sculptural-social works? The project was configured as an open pavilion that was in operation with a special focus on women workers of Genk, Belgium, with the intention of rescue stories and memories not present in the city's official memorials