NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Rundelsgatan in Velligen use to be a space mainly for traffic - dominated with impermeable hard surfaces that lead stormwater without treatment into sewer system. Today the street is safe space where rainwater is managed on site in way that new biodiverse plantations with trees can use it as resource. The result is lush green street that provides with wide range of ecosystem services to its local residents that can experience the nature and its processes right in front of their doorstep!

In 2022 we developed a corn maze as a seasonal attraction, which shape was inspired by the motives of the local embroidery named "Hrvatica". Within the maze we have developed assignments about local heritage which was a fun element for kids and youth. Around 2000 visitors came to explore the corn maze, local community accepted the project very well and it was widely covered by the media. We believe it is a great example of sustainable tourism and regaining a sense of beloning in the rural area.

Muharem Berbics Friends Club in Kakanj Municipality is a project of the Foundation Muharem Berbic which adapted and preserved industrial cultural heritage, built in 1936, with the aim of establishing a social business where people with disabilities get the opportunity to work. This is a socially inclusive project which promotes equality, equity, and anti-discrimination. This project is in Bosnia and Herzegovina and in the region first of this type. Currently, there are employed 5 people.

The Magical Realism exhibition selected by Arte Laguna in Venice among 120 very best contemporary artists in the world of 2021 attracts attention to the biodiversity crisis. Driven by the fact that 69% of species populations have been lost since 1970 according to WWF, it focuses on making the importance and fragility of nature, particularly of tropical ecosystems visible and tangible, and how human cultures and the natural environment co-evolve, influencing and shaping each other.

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Application of environmental improvement systems in industrial areas through the implementation of NBS. Environmental, but also social, economic and cultural improvement has been achieved through the combined incorporation of standards of renaturing and sustainable urban drainage systems located along a green-blue corridors. The NBS have been materialized in two pilot projects: one in Argales industrial park (Valladolid, Spain) and another in Cantarias industrial area (Bragança, Portugal).

Ágora is an integrated and intergenerational facility to provides effective responses to social demands, to generate participatory and relational synergies where citizens feel their expectations represented, their needs satisfied and collective ties strengthened through architecture, among other means.
Thus, these services are housed in a building, though its true vocation is closer to the qualities of an open public space such as an ágora, capable of representing the daily hopes of citizens

Community art project encountered in various forms, including mosaic installation and bringing people together in a collaborative and creative process. Main project objective was to create the space for people to connect within their community in an esthetic manner. The mosaic installations was honoring the green culture principles. It had been done with recycle materials hoping to achieve the goal that culture can contribute to the protection of the environment.

The Fire Psychosocial intervention Structure operated in collaboration with the National Center for Social Solidarity in order to cover extraordinary and urgent support services for individuals, families or vulnerable population groups that passed into crisis status due to the fire of July 23, 2018 in the Municipalities of Marathon, Rafina and Pikermi.

Boekel Ecovillage is an inspiring example of sustainable living. This social housing project has 36 circular, biobased, climate positive, climate resilient, nature inclusive houses. In the ecovillage solutions for every SDG have been implemented and this integral approach combined with a number of building innovations has won them three separate sustainable building awards in 2021. This is a citizen led initiative and all 47 inhabitants have participated in the design and building of the houses.