NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

4 years of experimentations are necessary to transform a common old shop into
a habitable sculpture combining sustainability, poetry & innovation in the
Parisian nest of Romanticism.
Each element of daily life (handle, air, spoon, insulation) is the subject of
reflecting & challenging 80 disciplines (dressmaker, metal industrial, sommelier,
plumber) to obtain new experiences & objects; all dialoguing together thanks to
use, form, color.
The fuel: pleasure to excel/build together.

Thurje Handmade is a brand of artisanal products. The innovation of Thurje Handmade stands on the networking of skilled Albanian artisans and the young generation of designers, introducing a renewed vision for made-in-Albania products. The culture of handicrafts has almost disappeared with the modernization of our lifestyle, but Thurje Handmade rediscovers traditional ways of doing, conserving the same quality and offering refreshed products, designed to fit into contemporary lifestyles.

The DANCING TREES aims to sensitize the audience and encourage urban initiatives in defense against excessive tree felling. By using performing arts, the artists wants to inspire citizens to connect and network, be proactive in the defense of trees and forests. In addition to the dance-theater performance, the project included talk-back sessions after the show, round tables, webinar “Create Your Action“, digital platform, documentary and short film based on the project/performance.

Dream Flowers is a project created from a Bulgarian artist based in Malta inspired from the cultural heritage tradition of bobbin lace in Malta/Gozo and Croatia/ Lepoglava. Connecting cultural heritage by creating visual art installations.

The project is focused on creating a connection between tradition and modern vision. Through visual art, installation and workings using the bobbin lace and other stuff made from recycled materials by workshops with the community of Lepogalva.

‘Die Auenweide’ is an ecological co-housing project 30 km outside of Vienna. It is an alternatively financed affordable and natural living space, where 46 adults and their kids are living sustainable lifestyles and encourage rethinking.

Extensive common areas such as a co-working space, a guest apartment and the community house enable togetherness through everyday encounters. The houses are built as sustainable timber construction, insulated with straw. The interiors are plastered with clay.

The story of Turjaško playground is the story of the transformation of an overgrown and abandoned area in the city's largest neighborhood, which was built without common areas for children and youngsters. The children's need for a place to play freely found its way first by cleaning up the area and then by bringing in some play equipment. The neighborhood argued with the local authorities with a clear need for a safely accessible public green open space and after a few years they were heard.

CALICO is a cohousing project of 34 dwellings offering a generational and social mix and is developed within the common and anti-speculative framework of a “Community Land Trust”. We can find all cycles of life there thank to the birth and end-of-life facilities integrated in the building and open to the wider neighborhood.
An innovative community-based model of care, gender equality, empowerment of the residents and the integration within the neighborhood were put at the forefronts of CALICO.

Compared to the period when the listed 'Stadlerhof' was built, the guests of the accommodated
Day care, despite rather advanced age, are decidedly young! The residential house of a former four-sided farmstead
dates from the late baroque period (mid-18th century) and was carefully renovated, as well as expanded with a circulation annex. To meet the structural requirements for day care and also the historical context, the spatial concept had to be rethought.

Abacus is a table composed of a powder-coated steel structure and natural or burnt solid oak tops. Abacus pushes conventions aside. The table tops glide and move freely along the structure without any constraints, leaving the user free to choose the layout. As the plates disappear, the structure reveals itself and becomes a graphic element that takes shape in space. From a dinner for two, to a family meal, the table is composed and broken down in a playful way.

Contemporary cities face unprecedented pressure to rethink the ways they operate, especially those that have a large percentage of the Soviet-style building stock lacking public amenities that would draw community members together. Fabian’s Living Room, a new sculptural outdoor space located in one of the sleeping districts of Vilnius creates a new welcoming and sustainable social context for neighbourhood meetings around the public grills and other urban furniture made out of reused stone.