NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Alt_Shift SL Track involves a series of Community-engaged Architectural Design Learning courses (electives & design studios) organized at the KU Leuven Faculty of Architecture by the Altering Practices for Urban Inclusion (Alt_Shift*) Research Group. Through 'critical spatial practices' students engage in 'altering practices,' which question and transform the socio-political conditions of the spaces into which intervene and test the boundaries of their own disciplines.

The Fabmobil is a double-decker bus that has been converted into an art and digital workshop and is travelling across the rural countryside to bring digital education and the therefore necessary technologies to the people who need them. The workshop bus is in use for a variety of events and workshops, courses and target groups in the field of emancipatory and self-effective media education. Usually the bus travells the region and stops for 1-5 days to host the workshops.

Culinary students at Vocational school in Đakovo (Croatia) made pralines named Sophia's hearts. The idea was inspired by the story of bishop Mandić and his relationship with Jakob Haibel who was actually Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's brother-in-law and a prominent musician. He was invited to the Đakovo Cathedral for that particular reason. At that point, Jakob and Sophia got an opportunity for their romance. Their love story was an inspiration for our school's project Sophia's hearts.

Innovative day center in Derio that offers social and occupational support to people with autism. 24 people with an autism spectrum disorder receive support through an organized and coordinated set of actions carried out by a multidisciplinary professional team of 7 people, aimed to facilitate their personal and social development, their autonomy and their social and labor inclusion through activities such as gardening and agriculture, among others.

Faro for the Earthquake is a valorisation project to gather, in an archive of the memory, the testimonies of life and knowledge of each village hitten by the 2016 earthquake in center Italy, ispired by the COE Faro Convention, throught a partecipatory process.
The reconstruction of the towns destroyed by the earthquake will take time, but the community that will enter will be very different from the original, with the risk to lose the "human capital" of whom built and lived those villages.

Calcione Academy is a new model of training “incubator” that combines collaborative life experiences, training, design and realization of outputs aimed at enhancing and innovating the heritage of Castello del Calcione, the amazing location hosting the project. Calcione Academy has the goal of make Castello del Calcione a self-sufficient entity and an active point of reference in the area as in was in its glorious past, with a strong identity and important national and international connections.

School of Design,Graphics and Sustainable Building unites in its essence craft, skills and esthetics and has made a goal to creatively transform the schoolyard based on sustainability, inclusion and general well-being. Within the school curriculum, students under the mentorship of their teachers envisage, create and implement their solutions to adapt school area to their needs. The schoolyard should serve as an extention of the Mediterranean atrium with birds, plants and decorative stones.

We've seen how the seemingly simple act of creating can be a force for growth, change, and discovery in people’s lives. We want to inspire and multiply the kind of creative exploration that furthers expression, learning and application. Jewelry Skills is an educational platform for creative and curious people, on topics including jewelry making, designing, freelancing, and more.

The Natural Building School, as part of the Spreeplan Projekt UG educational initiative, uses “learning through experience” in seminars and workshops to impart specialist knowledge on the subject of healthy, ecological building and renovation. The educational offer is aimed at adult professionals and laypeople as well as explicitly at children and young people. The events are held either in public educational institutions or in our own seminar center in Räbel (Saxony-Anhalt).

MY-CO SPACE is a habitable sculpture made of wood and fungi that invites the sensual reflection and exploration of sustainable ways of living and dwelling on our planet. The load-bearing wooden structure, covered with 330 fungal panels, is intended to make life in the smallest space (analogous to that of a space capsule) and co-habitation with fungi physically tangible. It was built from organic materials and thus fully biodegradable. Currently, it is on show at a University library in Berlin.