NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The project, which is strongly focused on educating the younger generation about legality and the rediscovery of local identity values, consists of a series of 8 murals in AR, dedicated to the memory of Carabinieri General Gennaro Niglio, a local hero who lost his life as a result of his fight against the Mafia. Conceived and realized by students of the Federico II University of Naples, the installation is based on the designed interaction of street art and augmented reality.

Sense Heritage: 9 Lives of Curator is about those yet to come to the past by believing in the future and those yet to come to the future by believing in the past. And the bridges they can make together. It is about not leaving anyone behind but looking beyond the horizon. It`s about sharing the beliefs of belonging to something larger than life yet undeniably born from life itself. It is about enabling the minds and hearts to speak and act together. It`s just about us.

The Vineyard Project cultivates the vineyard as a therapeutic landscape for youth experiencing mental ill-health, involved in a one-to-one interaction with vine-growers and peer agronomy students in vine care activities. With the involvement of arts, humanities and enological high schools, the project aims to develop an innovative program for youth, based on peer-training, aimed at competitive employment (an essential part of citizenship) and rooted in locally constructed therapeutic landscapes.

KOGAA Lab is an academia platform run by KOGAA architecture studio. The platform applies executive knowledge related with QOL (quality of life in the city) topics as adaptive re-use, adaptation to climatic change or positive impact on communities and localities.
Lab's pilot project was a collaboration with the Technical University of Liberec, Czech Republic. During summer semester we led student atelier whose main topic was the reactivation of an industrial building located in Liberec.

10km from Barcelona the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia's Valldaura Labs comprises 140ha of forest where global student cohorts learn-by-living in a renovated farmhouse hosting digital fabrication tools alongside a carpentry, gardens and domestic/educational spaces. Practising sustainable forest management to harvest their own 0km lumber and produce cross-laminated timber with an on-site mill and press, students complete one circular self-sufficient prototype building each year.

Ideas laboratory and meeting place.
A participatory and inclusive meeting space for local communities, with tools to co-create an eco-social transition, responding to local needs. A space for dissemination, training and advice on the sustainable use of natural resources, with participatory decision-making.
as Einstein said
"The mind is like a parachute, it only works if you open it"
Local communities can join forces and find solutions that improve life with participatory actions.

Liminal Lab is a research laboratory spread across rural Italy that aims to transform small municipalities, their historical heritage, and underutilized infrastructure, into places of learning and research in order to develop strategic projects for the territories concerned. The initiative is a time of participatory brainstorming on the critical issues of small towns and the potentials through which they can be repositioned as active agents in the creation of tomorrow's culture.

We believe that design and design-thinking can bring together people of different nationalities, different ages, political views and religions in the name of solving common tasks and sustainable development of our society.
We believe that design, design-education as well as purposeful and meaningful actions of the local design- community can lead to quality changes in environment and improvement of the quality of life in Western Balkans.

Tasnad Urban Garden Project rethinks the way green public spaces can provide an identity-centered educational experience raising awareness on the local endangered botanical heritage, while at same time addressing the needs for outdoors sports activities for modern healthy individuals of all ages. The mid-term goal is to support a paradigm shift and encourage both the locals and visitors of the Garden to support nature-based projects through educational means.

“A house is a mountain is as hat” is an accessible, tactile and easy to read Children's Book about architecture that explores "the house" in its many dimensions. It introduces concepts about the built environment and the power of architecture - how it can be created, used and transformed consciously, in harmony with the planet. With colors and relief, large letters and Braille, is available in libraries and bookshops and may also be read by children who are blind or low vision.