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Walk of memory is a virtual simulation of a walk through the most populated streets of Ptuj from the 1960s. The walk includes the urban planning features of the period, as well as the appearance and rituals of the people on the street with a binaural sound. The aim of the project is to bring people with dementia from Ptuj closer to the time of their youth in terms of relaxation and cognitive stimulation.
It represents one of the possibilities of working with people with dementia in the future.

The urban landscape is formed through isolated buildings placed which no identifiable masterplan or response to the local environmental factors. The architectural approach moves away from this ‘visual chaos’ to present a building which responds to the climate and takes reference from the island’s distinct way of life. The project explores the typology of traditional Ibizan construction and its logic of growth by modular aggregation.

SPOK is a production platform that aims to gather and spread knowledge about local manufacturing possibilities ranging from handicrafts to industries across Sweden. The purpose of this initiative is to help designers, architects, artists and entrepreneurs to more easily find sustainable production opportunities in their vicinity and facilitate innovative collaborations. SPOK aims to promote the development of local and sustainable production and in the long term also more sustainable consumption

The authors of this project, Carme Ribas, Joan Roig, and Victoria Garriga, proposed to the City Council of Barcelona an exhibition on the architectural reality of Catalonia and the Balearic Islands in relation to the climate emergency, environmental values, and decarbonization.
The aim was to showcase the work of some Catalan and Balearic architects, The New Realists, who, in response to the 2008 crisis, initiated a process of change in both society and the profession.

Villa S.Teresa is a cultural experimentation center located in a historic villa and park. It welcomes artists and tourists for events that highlight civic engagement and environmental preservation. The villa hosts a variety of events, and the experimental park, abandoned until 2020, has been turned into an inclusive community space featuring biodiversity, such as pollinator plants, vermouth herb cultivation, and local apple trees. It provides educational opportunities for local schools.

PescArt Menorca is a circular economy project whose objective is to promote the conversion of discarded fishing nets into new commercially viable products. The initiative seeks to reduce the significant environmental of this waste. The initiative aims to restore value to waste, promoting the symbiosis between the environment preservation and the local productive sector, through cooperating with the fishing sector and key social actors.

“The city for kids” is an ambitious program to enable a pilot project of co-design with children at the neighbourhood level. The project's goal : enable the children to actively participate in their environment and improve their neighbourhood, through a project that incorporates their own voices and needs. From 2020 until 2023, a total of 60 workshops with children between 6 and 11 years old have allowed to develop a participatory process that change two places which are now used by people.

The Design Without Borders project is a 20-year old international, independent, non-institutional NGO initiative that is one of the region's most influential design and all-arts events, focusing on European cohesion, interoperability between different regions, artistic disciplines and themes, intergenerational dialogue, sustainability, innovation and networking. Since the outbreak of war in Ukraine, its mission has been to showcase Ukrainian artists too.

The elementary school, the market square and "Rauchhaus" in Semriach were renovated and extended as part of the municipality's development. All the projects were planned and executed with great commitment from purely local firms. The market square creates a social meeting point for Semriach's residents and invites people to linger, relax and enjoy the constant vibrancy of the heterogeneous and multifunctional meeting zones.

The "Waste 2 Value - valore ai rifiuti" project arises from the awareness that the players operating in the food chain have a lead role in reducing the food waste generated that would not find in other recycling already established. For this reason, Waste 2 Value aims to promote a new circular economy model for the recovery of food waste from the activities of the Centro Nova shopping centre in Castenaso.