Prizes: All applications

Where the Walls Speak turns the streets of Cortes de la Frontera into an open-air gallery. Through murals and artistic interventions, the project invites residents and visitors to rediscover the village’s stories, culture, and landscape. By using art and culture as tools for connection and visibility, it aims to bring new life to the town, attract visitors and creativity, strengthen community pride, and help fight rural depopulation while celebrating the identity of rural Andalusia.

The Ecological Caravela is a Brazilian nature-based technology that merges design, science and ecology to regenerate aquatic ecosystems. Inspired by historic caravels, the floating structure works as a living ecological station where native algae capture blue carbon and promote ecosystem services while generating environmental data. Both functional and sculptural, it acts as ecological infrastructure, an urban sculptural intervention and a cultural symbol of care for waters and territories.

"Community Heart" is more than just a stadium. It is a space in the Yarun community where sports meet inclusion. We have transformed an ordinary field into a modern hub accessible to everyone: from toddlers to veterans. This is where will is forged, unity is born, and the nation's health is strengthened. Our project proves that even in a small village, architecture can inspire great changes, offering a sense of beauty, equality, and a true home for the entire community.

Echoes of a Forgotten World documents living winter masked rituals within North Macedonia and across Europe through photography, videography, and oral histories. Working directly with local communities and masked groups, the project focuses on authentic traditions beyond staged spectacles, uncovering Europe's shared cultural fabric and preserving the symbolic meaning of masks, processions, and seasonal rites through an open-access digital archive.

Bridge over Foša is a contemporary steel structure in a UNESCO-protected city. Its slender, hyperbolic paraboloid form blends into the historic context while introducing a distinct identity. Prefabricated in a local shipyard and installed in one day, it highlights engineering innovation and local craft. More than a pedestrian crossing, it acts as a vital social hub and cultural landmark, enhancing the urban fabric while respecting the historical integrity of its ancient surroundings.

The Multipurpose Urban Arena transforms a former ice rink site into a urban campus where sport, culture, and everyday community life meet right at the edge of Jihlava's historic centre. Replacing the original 1950s stadium, it reconnects the venue with the city and offers welcoming spaces for social gathering. It creates a new civic landmark that draws on the site’s memory while giving it renewed urban relevance.

Palermo, pandemic year 2021: an artificial plant named Udatinos grows on the Oreto River. In 2025 a second specimen will appear in Verona along the Adige River. The plant is a next-generation cyborg: a Datapoietic Agent with the aim of making humans sensitive to water’s well being, fostering a New Deal between technology and the environment built on Care, Response-ability, Participation. An icon of bio-techno diversity is born, where data like water flows uniting people and nature.

From an empty warehouse to a vibrant community hub, Dorado reimagines a vacant industrial space in Turin’s Aurora neighbourhood. Through cultural programming, coworking, and community participation, Dorado brings together residents and local organisations to shape the neighbourhood’s future. With hundreds of events and thousands of visitors, Dorado shows how shared spaces can foster creativity, inclusion, and a renewed sense of belonging in the city.

Re-Wall is a circular, reconfigurable exhibition infrastructure created for CAM Gulbenkian using surplus construction materials and remnants from previous exhibitions. Rather than disposable exhibition design, it proposes a demountable, adaptable and durable system capable of hosting successive curatorial projects over three years, turning sustainability into a spatial, public and educational experience.

Superland, developed for the Futurium by Benjamin Frick and Parzelle X, is a temporary forest garden translating future agriculture into a spatial experience. Wooden structures support climbing plants and raised beds host edible species. Visitors see how vegetation shapes microclimate and perception. The formerly empty plaza becomes a hub for social encounters and learning, with signage on biodiversity, soil, and resilient agriculture. Extended for a year due to strong public interest.