Prizes: All applications

The project involves installing a water recycling system in residential buildings. Greywater from showers, sinks and washing machines is cleaned and reused for flushing toilets and watering gardens and public spaces. Consequently, the demand for tap water can be reduced by around 50%. Heat is also recovered for use in providing hot water. This modular, replicable system has been tested in an ongoing operational setting. The project demonstrates how wastewater can be treated as a resource.

The 125 social housing units in Seville dignify public architecture. Designed as a bioclimatic refuge, the building uses white brick to reject heat and ensure the passive comfort of its residents. It features nearly zero-energy consumption, spacious terraces, cross ventilation, and flexible homes that adapt to evolving families. It proves that social housing can unite sustainability, design, and inclusion.

Our PROJECT is based and introduced in avant-garde fashion movement, where we focus on experimental aesthetics with a limited offer, only produced locally and from sustainable materials, high quality deadstock & regenerated qualities. We create a sense of scarcity and high desire among our consumers. We are leveraging a unique fusion of urban culture and avant-garde design with tailoring technique, to establish a distinct brand identity within the inner circle of avant-garde fashion.

Rizoma is a community-run grocery and urban garden in Lisbon, where citizens collectively decide what they eat, how it is produced and how it is shared. Combining local food systems, participatory governance and social spaces, it transforms everyday consumption into an act of democracy, sustainability and community building, fostering inclusion, resilience and a deeper connection between people, food and place.

HeritACT redefines urban regeneration by placing cultural heritage at the core of sustainable city-making. Engaging citizens and institutions through participatory design, and integrating land art principles and nature-based solutions, it activates historic sites as community-led spaces fostering inclusion, climate resilience, and economic sustainability. In Milan pilot sites, the Cascine become green infrastructure hubs enhancing environmental resilience and community life.

Comprehensive renovation of an old industrial building from 1965 in Madrid promoted by the Daniel & Nina Carasso Foundation. It aims to be an exemplary eco-social space that contributes to the “composition of knowledges” and to the creation of alliances between actors linked to the communities of “sustainable food” and “citizen art” (the two strategical lines of action of the Foundation) as well as among other different actors who will inhabit the space and also the neighbourhood and the city.

Our research and creation residency programme, IEAC (Ecological, Artistic and Cultural Mediation) - Pays vagues, aims to open up a space for meaningful and sensitive dialogue, drawing on a visible natural phenomenon – Beach wrack – between researchers, artists, citizens and grassroots actors, to raise awareness of the systemic issues affecting coasts and oceans, whilst promoting, through collective action, the gradual development of a coastal parliament.

Summer of Pioneers Dessau-Roßlau turned vacant spaces into places of encounter, creativity and belonging. In the Bauhaus city, newcomers and local residents co-created events, cultural programmes and new ideas for affordable community living. The project shows how heritage, participation and adaptive reuse can make everyday urban life more sustainable, inclusive and beautiful.

RiVestiTo is a 12-month Turin project funded by Horizon Climaborough. It optimizes the textile supply chain via reuse, upcycling, and recycling to reduce environmental impact. By integrating Re4Circular and the Mercato Circolare App, the project ensures transparent, efficient management of post-consumer textiles at a local level. It is also a major awareness-raising campaign targeting citizens, businesses and local authorities regarding circular and responsible practices for textiles.

The Globe Performing Space is a geodesic cultural hub in the Bologna Apennines where performing arts, nature and community come together. Created by Instabili Vaganti Theatre Company, it transforms a rural inner area into a living space for artistic creation, residencies, training and public encounters, showing how culture can generate beauty, inclusion and long lasting territorial regeneration.