Prizes: All applications

Batolabo is a travelling laboratory navigating Europe’s rivers, from the Loire to the Danube, aboard a traditional wooden boat. Launched in September 2025 from Orleans, this river-based laboratory explores ways of inhabiting waterways and assessing their health through an artistic and scientific protocol developed along the water, inspired by river cultures. It aims to amplify the voices of rivers and highlight a unifying continuity between European watersheds, while fostering civic engagement.

Designed to integrate with the surrounding rural landscape, this eco-friendly building spans an area of 16.000 m² and accommodates up to 250 students in vibrant, light-filled classrooms and versatile laboratories. Utilizing sustainable wood construction and energy-efficient technologies, the school enhances community well-being. It’s not just a school, it’s a nurturing environment where nature and education thrive together.

Cryptographic Beings is a bio-hybrid machine storing digital data in living algae. Marimo moss balls float or sink through photosynthesis, forming biological binary memory. Robotic arms control moving lights to write while sensors read back. Each write consumes real metabolic resources: data permanence depends on ecological care, not silicon. The work stages the tension between accelerationist extraction and symbiotic stewardship: will our data infrastructures cultivate life, or consume it?

Rosa Bonheur School marks the first step of Aucamville’s future eco-district. Built from Pyrenean timber and raw earth bricks, it gives form to local resources and forgotten craftsmanship. Designed to breathe naturally, it invites children and teachers to live with climate rather than against it. More than a school, it is a place where learning, matter and territory come together to shape a shared and lasting way of living.

The Platform for Spatial Literacy turns architecture into a shared public language. Through hands-on workshops, walks and creative exploration, it enables children and communities to read, question and shape the spaces they live in. By building spatial understanding from an early age, it fosters responsibility, strengthens connection to place and supports more thoughtful, inclusive and sustainable environments.

Utopia: No Entry is a temporary architectural installation built for Mugak/ Biennial in Vitoria-Gasteiz. A four-metre-high wooden wall divides the main central public square of the city, disrupting movement and visibility. Conceived as a paradox, it builds a barrier to question borders and segregation. The wall becomes a collective canvas, inviting citizens to intervene, transforming the space into a participatory platform for dialogue, memory, and critical reflection.

Zadiņi, where waste becomes art & land heals community: In Latvia’s post-Soviet countryside, Zadiņi transforms over-used land into a thriving circular ecosystem. Here, cows restore meadows through rotational grazing, ‘freakbikes’ rise from trash, and forests grow richer with every sociocratic decision. Our open homestead proves that sustainability is not just possible, but also beautiful, inclusive, and full of life. By sharing our skills, we’re turning Latvia’s stereotypes into seeds if change

Anitzenea turns a former site of control into a shared home for care, culture and coexistence. In the heart of Errenteria, people from over 80 nationalities co-create daily life through art, language and collective governance. It is not just a building, but a living civic infrastructure where diversity becomes belonging and democracy is practiced every day.

The Mihai Eminescu Trust has implemented the first nature-based wastewater system in rural Romania, in the UNESCO heritage village of Viscri. Through constructed ponds and natural filtration by aerobic and anaerobic bacteria, the system protects groundwater, preserves historic buildings, and ensures public health. The integrated, transdisciplinary approach and community-led maintenance support long-term water resilience and provide a replicable, cost-effective model for small communities.

The Berlin Design Network (BDN) is a digital and social infrastructure transforming Berlin’s creative scene into a collaborative powerhouse. By bridging art, science, and policy, BDN empowers designers to lead in sustainability and circularity. As a living heritage of "Design City Berlin," it fosters inclusion through open access to resources, jobs, and mentorship. BDN isn't just a platform; it’s a transdisciplinary incubator driving the sustainable transition through high-quality design.