NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The goal of the project is to raise awareness for justice in design and to anchor it in the design discipline, as well as to initiate a discourse between designers and society. In workshops, designers develop tools to face social challenges and shape the future. "How to: gerecht gestalten?!" adds a social component to aesthetics: What is inclusive is beautiful because it creates a sense of belonging. The participatory workshops will be further established and a regional platform will be created.

NAA is a sustainable real estate project by a group of young entrepreurs in Altona, Hamburg. The co-working space is organized as a cooperative and thus not only creates affordable, high-quality and sustainable space for Altona's entrepreneurs and creatives, but also makes them co-owners.
Most of the future NAA is already in place and being preserved. Only about 1/3 will be newly and sustainably built.
The impact of the NAA as a model for collaborative urban development reaches far.

Just like the nature has it's seasons, so could the work providing finances had. Observing natural rhythms, natures wisdoms, we could implement so much our lives the way we live, the way we wok and all other things.

The form was inspired by the work of Slovenian architect Jože Plečnik, who is very rich in spatial ideas, meanings and visual expressions. It helped me give the shape to my idea.
The intention was not to make a simple cardboard piece, but also a small social space. So I made a chair that can be sat only in pairs, in balance between the two, to provoke play and social interactions - things so neglected these days.

Pyžamo Community Center ("Pyjama" is the name of the former bar in the area) is a pilot project of a modular public building in the city of Trnava.
Based on intensive dialogue with the city leadership and participatory planning with residents, we designed a shared, multi-generational space for all.
In our proposal, we create a vibrant space for the local community.
A neglected and underused area will be revitalized into a valuable public space.

Turismood wants to renew the personal experience of any tourist, but with special emphasis on Accessible Tourism. Due to to the study and analysis of the European tourist offer, we seek to adapt the best tourist products to our area of ​​action, as well as create our own new ones. This will make it possible to generate innovative accessible spaces and improve the accessibility of existing ones, always acting in accordance with the Universal Design framework.

The challenge is to create a project that had no economic impact and doesn’t exploit new resources through the use of recycled materials. The first step is to build a database of waste and excess material from some companies close to the project site. Those materials are the fulcrum around which to develop architectural solutions giving them new life. This database can be use by those who would undertake the same design process. This system could be replicated for any other project and territory

Un-Residual is a research hub focused on materials obtained from local organic waste. The project is intended as a replicable model which constitutes a network: each hub establishes a symbiotic relationship with its proximal ecosystem, from its monitoring and study to material production and innovation. Local citizens, researchers and companies are involved in a collaborative environment where to change the paradigm of local production chains and start new conversations about sustainable living.

The idea stems from the desire to link the urban project with the city project in a single multi-scale vision, working on morphology and landscape: it consists in the definition of a methodological approach that can reread urban and rural sub-areas dialoguing with the existing. The potential is the possibility of acquiring a structuring role for urban regeneration by generating common goods at the service of the city.

A sustainable thrift shop that handpicks used products and curates them to new condition for the customer. All this by washing, ironing & repairing, branded under our label. So in a few words, we recreate, restore & revive online, physically and through pop up events.