Prizes: All applications

The FRACTAL project aimed to enhance alpine communities involvement in implementing Green Infrastructure (GI) locally. Using a bottom-up approach, it integrated GI into education through workshops, summer camps, and festivals. FRACTAL produced an innovative educational toolkit with infographics, a board game, a booklet, and a silent movie. Thanks to the engagement of local stakeholders, a GI Pact with a set of GI-based solutions was co-developed and signed by several public administrations.

Kudos – Library for Material Relations is a travelling, demountable pavilion and workshop program rethinking architecture as relations, not objects. Built with hyper-local, circular materials—reused plywood, surplus clay, reed—and mycelium grown on regional waste, it is co-created with children, students and publics. The living “library” invites touching, making and dialogue, then returns materials to ecosystems (fungi to landscaping, clay to soil), turning eco-anxiety into agency through care.

AlpTextyles reconnects Alpine communities, heritage, and landscapes through wool. Across the region, it reactivates local value chains by linking shepherds, craftspeople, designers, researchers, policy makers, and institutions. Through summer schools, workshops, and co-design processes, it transforms undervalued wool into sustainable materials and cultural narratives, strengthening cultural identity, supporting circular economies, and inspiring new forms of community-based textile practices.

The FAZZCLUB MODEL enabled hundreds of households to access rooftop photovoltaics in a coordinated, affordable and transparent way. Through public assemblies, independent guidance and collective negotiation, it reduced complexity, mistrust and costs, turning solar adoption into a safe and accessible process for ordinary families.

Cowor-Coeur is a community-driven third place in a restored former church in Wallonia, Belgium. Renewed through a family-led, circular renovation that preserved its heritage, it has become a recognised hub for coworking, culture, wellbeing and entrepreneurship. With around 30 regular coworkers and more than 500 events each year, it plays a major role in strengthening local social, cultural and economic life.

Located in a small village in the French Pyrenees, Atelier des Marbres is a place where heritage meets design. Housed in a former school, it hosts designers in residence and invites residents and visitors to rediscover local marble through new uses. Through its residencies, mediation tools, marble collection and convivial café, it brings this heritage back to life and recreates a shared space in a rural context.

The Pachamama residence, located at 11 Avenue Jean Mermoz, 31700 Cornebarrieu, comprises 61 housing units ranging from one- to four-bedroom layouts, distributed between apartments and villas, following a micro-village concept that promotes social diversity and adaptable living typologies. The layout is organized around a central square and a grid pattern alternating built areas and landscaped spaces, including an orchard, shared gardens, and soft mobility pathways. The project relies on locall

(Re)Vestir Cascais is a strategic environmental initiative by Cascais Municipality, implemented by Cascais Ambiente, promoting the collection and circular reuse of textiles. It uses traceable bags and smart bins to ensure transparency, allowing citizens to follow items’ journeys. Supported by a mobile app and the Climaborough project, it measures impact and fosters engagement, with strong potential for replication in other municipalities.

Rediscovering ritual as a form of social technology, a quest for values and participatory governance lies at the heart of *La Congiunzione degli Opposti* (2018–25). In the Luminetica PEACE method, the community inhabits symbols and generates new values reactivating latent heritage as an ecosystem of collective coexistence. As Civic Medicine the project heals the rift with UNESCO sites and transforms static sites into engines of Life-specific resilience: a scalable model for European regeneration

Domino: The Living House revolutionizes housing design and construction by shifting from “static buildings” to “continual processes”. Using new unit space thinking and a modular structural system with integrated service shafts, this pilot in Helsinki allows residents and owner developers to reconfigure homes as life evolves. Units can be merged, split, or repurposed without waste, indefinitely extending the building's lifespan. It is a circular, affordable blueprint for resilient urban living.