NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Application of environmental improvement systems in industrial areas through the implementation of NBS. Environmental, but also social, economic and cultural improvement has been achieved through the combined incorporation of standards of renaturing and sustainable urban drainage systems located along a green-blue corridors. The NBS have been materialized in two pilot projects: one in Argales industrial park (Valladolid, Spain) and another in Cantarias industrial area (Bragança, Portugal).

Ágora is an integrated and intergenerational facility to provides effective responses to social demands, to generate participatory and relational synergies where citizens feel their expectations represented, their needs satisfied and collective ties strengthened through architecture, among other means.
Thus, these services are housed in a building, though its true vocation is closer to the qualities of an open public space such as an ágora, capable of representing the daily hopes of citizens

Community art project encountered in various forms, including mosaic installation and bringing people together in a collaborative and creative process. Main project objective was to create the space for people to connect within their community in an esthetic manner. The mosaic installations was honoring the green culture principles. It had been done with recycle materials hoping to achieve the goal that culture can contribute to the protection of the environment.

The Fire Psychosocial intervention Structure operated in collaboration with the National Center for Social Solidarity in order to cover extraordinary and urgent support services for individuals, families or vulnerable population groups that passed into crisis status due to the fire of July 23, 2018 in the Municipalities of Marathon, Rafina and Pikermi.

Boekel Ecovillage is an inspiring example of sustainable living. This social housing project has 36 circular, biobased, climate positive, climate resilient, nature inclusive houses. In the ecovillage solutions for every SDG have been implemented and this integral approach combined with a number of building innovations has won them three separate sustainable building awards in 2021. This is a citizen led initiative and all 47 inhabitants have participated in the design and building of the houses.

What is hidden beyond the elegant buildings of the Italian historical city centres? Interno Verde once a year exceptionally opens the secret gardens of Parma, Mantua and Ferrara to the public. For a weekend it trasforms the intimate and private space into a shared, inclusive space. It invites the communities to preserve their gardens, and to look at them with different eyes, as precious green islands which innervate the urban fabric, essential for protecting biodiversity and reducing pollution.

EasyFootings® is a new, sustainable and innovative category of foundation technology created out of concern for the environment based on a circular economy. It is distinguished by cost competitiveness, the possibility of repeated use and the reduction of CO2 by 80% due to the lack of concrete, the production of which is very emission-intensive. After all, we all want sustainable solutions to the challenges of population growth, urbanization, climate change and resource depletion.

At SALUBATA, we occupy a niche where we repurpose shoes from ocean deemed plastic wastes. These shoes are modular and saves over 70% of manufacturing energy and are designed to be recycled. Our near goal is to reach a critical mass of 1 million shoes that are made from old plastic bottle wastes, recollect the shoes and recycle them back into other shoes; thus attaining a closed loop system where zero waste escapes. With this model, we believe we can stamp out plastic pollution in its entirety.

By bringing people together and promoting social inclusion, the project aims to improve the overall well-being of the community, and to create a more cohesive and supportive environment for all members - disabled, orphans, seniors - who can not afford to pay for them. The project uses regular sport, cultural activities, and other recreational activities that are designed to be suitable for all participants, as a way to bring people together and foster a sense of belonging and inclusion.

A participatory project that unveiled various perspectives of relationships we build with each-other, through and with objects that surround us. 3 jewelry pieces wandered the world for 1 year, from host to host and explored connections: maker – wearer, past wearer – present wearer, object – person. The work itself was the journey of the pieces, changing context and environments, reflecting on host's personality, behaviors, routines.