NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Spazio Conposto is a physical and immaterial space where multiple social dimensions can join. It is a push for the local population to meet and trigger regenerative processes for creating a new sense of community. Food permeates the new reality, where positive contamination of distant generations connects the historical heritage and local traditions to contemporary elements. Citizens can shape the future life of the city, starting by celebrating diversity and healthy and sustainable lifestyles.

Imagine a kitchen nestled in the heart of an agricultural area, where the freshest ingredients are sourced, and traditional cooking is celebrated. What if you could experience the taste of the land, and learn about the ecosystem. Our kitchen is more than just a place to dine, it's an immersive and educational experience transporting you back to the roots, and leaving you with a deeper appreciation for the land. Join us in our culinary journey, where you will rediscover the joy of food and land.

During our course of study there have been many topics addressed in the field of design, among these one that particularly impressed us was Social Housing.
We believe that social housing is an urban reality destined to be very successful today and in the future future, as a reality that best combines with post-pandemic needs, both in terms of new desires housing and social conditions of people as a response to the economic repercussions of Covid-19.

"Le serre di Freya": holistic center with a research laboratory, a hydroponic greenhouse, and one Bistrot/ Shop. What we will do is basic: recycle unsold agricultural products into ingredients for food companies (such as powders or extracts), have a stable production with the hydroponic, and create a harmonious space for everyone to enjoy and participate actively. In 3 steps: stop wasting agricultural products, farm consciously, and inspire a community feeling.

Centralissimi is a service that links the public and private sector. It offers an entertainment and education format to involve teenagers in the policy-making cycle, helping them address their needs, concerns and proposals to institutions, through discussions with experts and the use of multimedia languages. Encouraging the learning by doing, it leverages the use of already existing local resources, such as bars and co-working areas in Centrale district, fostering the local sense of belonging.

CampUs is a participatory project that researches the methodology and the technical know-how to bring life to underused university areas, based on best practices from design thinking and digital fabrication. The project’s long-term objective is to educate interested participants around its basic components and thus invest in them to take on similar urban initiatives and address their community’s spatial needs both critically and creatively.

NET is a service that provides short workshops which help non tech-proficient people break the ice with technology in a practical way and in partnership with local activities. NET is deeply entwined with the local community and offers flexibility in building the learning path and the follow up activities. The service leverages gamification and group dynamics, considering technology as a medium to enable people in daily life and empower their creativity and not as the final goal.

The project is based on the idea to produce a palette of primary and secondary natural and organic color pigments for painting and series of several essential oils that would bind the pigment and help the pigment's paint last longer and smell good. The healing properties of both the natural/organic pigments and the essential oils are inevitable. The product can be used by students, artists, amateurs, people with congenital disabilities, art-therapists and art institutions.

The encounter between Art and Nature produces a fairy-tale dimension, Land Art installations to discover and protect biodiversity. Natural materials, together with the reuse of waste materials, are transformed into zoomorphic sculptures, with functional lodgings and shelters inside them, for specimens of local fauna and flora. A creative process carried out through a direct dialogue with nature, involving the local community through practical and educational workshops to help local ecosystems.

Purify both air and landfills with our eco-friendly corn-based air purifier - a revolutionary concept that transforms the industrial ecosystem by harnessing the full potential of biobased materials in mass production and accelerating the shift towards a greener industry. By turning waste into valuable resources, this concept, which incorporates advanced principles of circularity and cutting-edge production technology, lays the foundation for a sustainable evolution of the industry.