NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

For centuries, rural communities have shaped and have been shaped by their landscapes. The depopulation of villages has cornered practices such as transhumance and their knowledge systems into disappearing. This training would give young and ambitious shepherds from the Shar region access to informative workshops, study visits, and knowledge transfer from experts and experienced shepherds. The main goal is to provide them a blended toolkit of traditional knowledge and contemporary solutions.

The architecture emerges as an integrative element of the landscape capable of reviving places and equally ensuring them a future. Consequently, a project named “A trail of cold war” (“Um troço de Guerra fria”), that addressed the appreciation of the mining industrial patrimony of Regoufe and Rio de Frades complexes, was conceived.

Our desire was to create a multifunctional structure that would adapt its contents to the location. Our wish is that the structure can function anywhere in the world. The contents are adapted to the location and needs of the city. The construction is solid and simple and enables the building to be easily repurposed.The building functions as a city, Corridors become promenades and streets, the apartment becomes a house and each zone is accompanied by rural elements (orchards, parks).

The objective of our project is inclusion of Muslim community members, namely students, into everyday student life. Simply by meeting the dietary needs of the students who practice Islam in Serbia, we would create a more inclusive and peaceful educational environment for everyone.

Building a Collective Future is a design-build workshop aiming to support rural initiatives in transforming vacant spaces into communal and cultural spaces. Through methods like Co-Creation and Design-Building we’re inviting local communities to experience moments of self-empowerment and togetherness. Not only does our concept offer a sustainable approach to existing structures, it will also showcase how good design can greatly contribute to social change.

The streets and neighborhoods in Tirana are constantly changing ,so let's capture the frame in a piece of paper, as a memory, capturing moments that might soon be gone. Artists, students and everyone who sketch, draw or illustrate are going to walk through the city to draw and sketch Tirana in 2023. The main focus is to hold an art exhibition and from auction sales of sketches and donations, we can improve a neighborhood with a children's playground or other facilities .

Leisure center cañada, comes from an investigation on the social exclusion suffered by some areas in particular. Causing in them a lack of motivation and opportunities. The idea is to generate a series of spaces that manage to improve the quality of life in the neighborhood. With the prupose of build a leisure center with spaces that provide activities to meet the needs, desires and motivations of users and this achieve personal satisfaction and a transformation of themselves and things.

The competition proposal for the public library of the future in Lublin attempts to redefine the perception of the function of this facility in the light of current social needs. It is a synthesis of existing knowledge repositories and didactic spaces adapted to modern learning methods. The shape of the building aims to provide an atmosphere conducive to comfortable education supported by greenery and naturally illuminated rooms, in order to avoid the overwhelming fast pace of urban life.

Allotment gardens (AG) are an integral part of urban greenery which is why it is vital to prevent them form being urbanized. Opening them to urban space and redefining their function could encourage everyone to use them - the elderly, the socially excluded, people with disabilities and children as well. Proposed concept for 'Bielniki' AG in Poznan responds to the social needs with ideas such as horticultural therapy and local food production, all based on principles of sustainable development.

By assessing disaster risk from a community-based perspective and building on the traditional relationship of care between the inhabitants of the Misa river area (Italy) and their environment, now challenged by depopulation, this project aims to prevent the more and more frequent disasters affecting the area by empowering communities, promoting local skills and building networks that enable them to undertake locally appropriate activities that increase resilience and reduce vulnerability.