NEB Prizes 2024: All Applications

MAmMal is a visible, beautiful and comfortable COLLECTIVE BREASTFEEDING SPACE. The difficulties of breastfeeding in public spaces lead many women to experience it in isolation, a factor that impacts the already low breastfeeding rates in Spain. The project supports breastfeeding as it is the healthiest and most sustainable feeding method. Located in an area currently undergoing transformation, it seeks to recover the sense of belonging through the most vulnerable inhabitants.

The project maps public drinking water fountains and invites different stakeholders to care, share and upgrade an undervalued public utility. The pilot interactive database shows locations and structures for drinking water available for residents and visitors, once typical of neighbourhoods and streetscapes in Sarajevo. The digital platform reaches out to local authorities to take lead in necessary maintenance, restoration and future integrated management of this valuable public infrastructure.

Preserving Earth's most precious resource, water, is a top priority for humanity, and FiberLoop, driven by this mission, plays a pivotal role in achieving it. FiberLoop represents a pioneering advancement in environmental monitoring, introducing the world's first simultaneous temperature and humidity smart photonics sensor that utilizes the entire length of an optical fiber as a single, unified sensor element. Fiberloop covers extensions of over 25 kilometers with a precision of about 1 meter.

The project was aimed to co-design and pilot an integrated multi-use management and operational plan for Făget Forest-Park (the largest planted area in the vicinity of Cluj-Napoca, a Natura 2000 site and a popular recreational destination for residents), meant at solving potential conflicts between different uses (nature protection and conservation of biodiversity; mitigation of climate change and regional climate regulation; recreational and tourism activities), in a NEB approach.

Contemporary redesign of anonymous soviet time fishing factory gatehouse, old brick box turned into a dynamic openable pavilion cafe and destination for local community and design lovers in Slītere nature park on North coast of Latvia. Bringing local community together in concerts, summer evenings, and for helping maintain the place. Accepting and reusing soviet time heritage in historical livs coast where vernacular timber buildings dominate and are typical.

A web3-powered model for a regenerative economy and deep connection, where doer-dreamers co-create a habitat where nature thrives.

"Resilient Woods: Post-Disaster Revival" is an artistic and social initiative arising from the aftermath of the 2021 wildfires in Sardinia. This project rejuvenates scorched wood, offering various applications including the creation of a Timber Bank, the installation of giant nests in affected areas and educational activities for children. It fosters unity among communities impacted by wildfires, emphasizing the enduring vitality of the forest.

The primary hypothesis of this project is that the Anthropocene crisis has brought a new perception of our built environment, which design professionals should consider designing more liveable spaces. This perception combines spatial cognitional patterns that are common for everyone. While multiple factors can affect spatial cognition and guide eye movement, this project and its application seek to highlight measurable psychophysiological cognitive patterns useful for a liveable design approach.

We believe in beauty, in design and second chances. Bringing waste materials back to life and transforming them into design objects is at the center of Regenesi's values.
All items are made with recycled materials, following an innovative production process that guarantees the same quality of the raw materials. We continually aim to improve and innovate to be the best version of ourselves, and to make the world a more beautiful place to live.
True design gets to the essence of things. It makes

I want to be useful...recycle me is a complex program, based on nudging, tactical urbanism, and community engagement, with three main aims and lines of action:
• Littering prevention
• Increasing recycling levels
• Beatification of public spaces
Through the program, we turn the care of the public environment into a stimulus for civic activity and responsibility.