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KomshiLOOK is a vibrant, community-driven festival that transforms overlooked neighborhoods into cultural stages. Through art, performances, and shared experiences, it fosters belonging, pride, and connection. By activating balconies, courtyards, and public spaces, KomshiLOOK invites everyone—residents, artists, and visitors—to become part of the story, proving that culture thrives where people come together as neighbors. Because being a good neighbor means being a good citizen.

The ELENA-PRIMAVERA project, led by Nasuvinsa's Refurbishment Promotion Area aims to mobilize energy refurbishment of private residential stock in Navarra. Project focuses on providing free, comprehensive support to those who may face challenges in the energy transition process.The management teams offer advice on technical, legal, and financial aspects, ensuring an accesible assitance in 8 One-Stop-Shop offices across the whole territory.

The revitalization of Āgenskalns market is a citizen-led initiative transformed by a social enterprise into a self-sustaining public marketplace that preserves the cultural heritage and fosters belonging as a community hub. Established in 1898, this municipally owned cultural monument faced closure in 2018 due to deterioration. Recognizing its value, a social enterprise led its revival using participatory methods and private resources, successfully reopening it in 2022.

The Urban fair "Near Mezdra the Iskar River Rustles" is a series of annual city festivals launched in 2024. It brings together the local creative community,cultural,educational,and sports organizations,providing a stage for young talents from various fields. Part of the urban event goals is to bring art,culture, and traditions to every resident of the city by holding each edition in a different neighborhood to restore the residents' sense of belonging to the community, culture, and traditions.

Cultural heritage often remains confined within national borders, limiting its global potential. Modern digital technologies enable cultural heritage to transcend these boundaries, making it accessible to a wider audience. The Fabula Croatica project exemplifies this approach by integrating the Glagolitic script into a broader cultural context. It aims to promote Croatian heritage internationally and serves as a model for other countries to present their cultural heritage.

"Restart Begato" is an urban redevelopment project of the Begato, popular neighborhood in Genoa, promoted in 2020 by the Region of Liguria. Through the implementation of participatory practices and the use of multi-actor collaborative tools, the project has contributed to the complex redefinition of a ‘fragile’ context in order to design needs place-based interventions that, simultaneously, are adept at coordinating many actors and different rationales and forms of action

The Stay & Bloom initiative builds on the successful implementation of Agro Challenge Albania, a project that empowered young entrepreneurs in rural Albania to develop sustainable businesses in the agriculture and eco-tourism sectors. The project addressed the growing issue of youth migration by creating opportunities that allowed young people to reconnect with their homeland, engage in community-driven entrepreneurship, and develop sustainable local businesses.

In Europe’s last divided capital, we’ve turned a military container into the world's first innovation hub within a buffer zone, uniting Cyprus' communities after 50 years of division. The Social Impact Generator fosters entrepreneurship, sustainability, and social cohesion, transforming a space of conflict into one of collaboration. By reimagining a military site as a hub for learning and innovation, we empower youth, marginalized groups, and entrepreneurs to co-build a more inclusive future.

The project (Un)healthy spaces transforms neglected hospital grounds at the Ljubljana University Medical Centre into welcoming, restorative and accessible spaces that promote healing, reduce stress and support both patients and medical staff. Based on more than 500 insights from patients and medical staff, we turned a former smoking pavilion into an accessible oasis and a parking lot into a welcoming waiting area—providing restorative refuges for patients, staff, and visitors alike.

How will we build in the future? The pavilions in Park of Oracles answer this question. They are built with rammed earth, created through research workshops. Each pavilion explored a different challenge: the first focused on construction basics, the second on modular systems and process optimization, and the third on material improvements. The park combines a rational technical approach with an intuitive, poetic expression.