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The continuous migration that has taken place during the last decades from the countryside to the cities has generated negative effects on agriculture and livestock production. Rural areas have seen their opportunities impoverished and their access to basic services limited. The challenge we want to achieve with this project is to encourage migration from the cities to the countryside, to promote a rural society capable of self-sufficiency in which a sustainable economy can develop

How can we reuse tons of plastic agricultural waste and create a material that could enrich the aesthetic of our villages? Foil&Soil Mishmash establishes a bridge between material science technology and artistic point of view by forming a unique, nature-based, locally-sourced material for social use. Creating a series of various, public artefacts will help us to stop, relax and rethink how much we depend on the countryside. To be a human means to be the foil and soil of the current times.

We fight against marketing campains, which influence public in a negative way. We use digital billboards to turn marketing into art. With projectors we project visual art in public spaces, which is supposed to lead the general public to a sense of self-satisfaction, better behavior towards our beloved planet and opening their consciousness.

The project is a prototype house build in a remote area with the aim to restore the ecological heritage. Designed to be reversible, the construction is affordable, efficient and ecological. From organic materials to the lightness of the structure everything was planed to have the smallest impact on the ground. The cabin also respond to all modern needs and ensure full availability to look after natural's surroundings.

Management of organic pollutants from animals; the increase of green spaces; reduction of zoonotic contaminants; raising the competitive level of meat processors in Kosovo to the level with the criteria of the European Union

Rennergy is a startup found in 2022, from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, that will impact the whole concept of creating electricity in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Due to the fact that the country relies on coal and wood for heating, and coal for electricity production, the cities of Bosnia and Herzegovina are among the most polluted in the world during the winter months. Bosnia and Herzegovina has the fifth highest death rate from air pollution, and this is especially emphasized in the capital.

The research invests in the psycho-physical effects that the environment of incarceration has on the users that experience everyday life in the Italian penitentiary system. The outcome is an inventory of design pills that aim to renew the project perspective as an ethical tool, which is capable of articulating the relation between space and people and its effect on people’s behaviour and the environment through humble but impactful changes.

Regeneration of the territory through the concept of Art in all its forms, intended as a means of expression and identity. Making the area more liveable, making the place evolve and change through the passage and interaction of people. ARTIB represents the desire to promote and provide an identity through Art, that has an intrinsic language, superior to spoken or written one. It becomes a meeting point of different systems, developing a wider one, both for the place and for the people.

The most problematic elements of wind turbines in the context of recycling are wind blades due to the materials they are made of. One of the solutions for the post-consumer development of wind turbine blades is their reuse in the architectural and construction industry, which at the same time contributes to extending the life cycle of the blades.
The concept concerns ideas for reuse of decommissioned blades in the architectural archery center design in Poznań, Poland.

Memento is an archeology of memories of Córdoba, small pieces that make up the imaginary of the city. All together they set up infinite personal visions of Córdoba, while isolated, they make us aware of what still remains to be discovered. Combating the proliferation of mass-produced souvenirs that very much damage the image of the city and crafts is the main objective of each Memento, designed with care and handmade by craftsmen.