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24 Hours Viktor-Adler-Markt – The Market Shapes the City is an artistic and research-driven project that captures the daily life of Vienna’s Viktor-Adler-Markt. Through an immersive artist book, public multimedia readings, and open discussions, it highlights the market’s role as a vibrant social hub, a source of affordable food, and a key arrival point for migrants. By engaging vendors, residents, and policymakers, the project advocates for the protection of community-driven urban spaces.

Amphie serves as a pioneering platform for sustainable urban regeneration in Milan, dedicated to enhancing biodiversity and nurturing a healthier urban environment by reducing pesticide usage. Our initiative involves the creation of shelters for amphibians and reptiles, achieved through close collaboration with the Milan local government and active engagement with regional operators, citizens, organisations and public utility companies.

How to create conditions for a sustainable and hopeful spatial practice? The circular transformation of the building sector requires not only different techniques and materials, but also other modes of doing. Developed for IABR 2024, the Practice Place is a method and a soft space for encounter where different perspectives (including designers, activists, residents, ecologists, developers, civil servants and artists) share experiences, develop tactics, and build alliances for transformation.

Your Energy, Your Power: Clean Energy for a Clean Future empowers communities in Croatia, Serbia, and North Macedonia to take control of their energy future. Our initiative promotes community-owned energy cooperatives, blending cultural heritage with modern sustainability. By harnessing abundant solar potential and leveraging local expertise, we're creating a decentralized, affordable, and green energy landscape. Join us in building a resilient, sustainable future.

mnemotope is a platform redefining literature by removing barriers of grammar, language, and form, and amplifying voices often excluded from traditional literature by prioritizing accessibility and bold design. In just over year, it has published 250+ voices from 22 countries, hosted 1,000+ attendees at live events, and is stocked in 35+ stores. when we include a broader range of voices and stories in publishing, we see the world, and each other, in more nuanced, vibrant, and wonderful ways.

Podgora, a hidden gem in Bosnia and Herzegovina, is believed to be the birthplace of Baton of the Daesitiates, a great Illyrian leader. Following the Baton's Footsteps aims to revive this heritage by creating an open-air museum dedicated to his legacy. By blending history with local traditions, the project will reconnect the community with its roots and transform Podgora into a unique cultural destination. Enjoy this journey and uncover the untold history of Bosnia’s ancient warriors.

"Vernacular" describes all construction activity that was developed in one specific place over centuries using local traditions, materials and requirements. Today, due to internationally standardized construction techniques, designs and construction processes, we have lost the potential of these valuable and sustainable vernacular skills. New vernacular architecture seeks solutions for a sustainable, beautiful and affordable future in architecture using this neovernacular potential.

Threading Roots regenerates a depleted quarry at the island’s heart, where urban, industrial, and rural contexts meet. Through afforestation and ecological renewal, it reconnects communities with local craftsmanship, heritage, and produce. It reconstructs L-Imnarja, a local agricultural feast, with traditional rubble stone and Mediterranean reed weaving. Balancing food, nature, and people, it supports biodiversity, regenerates soils, strengthens food security, and fosters shared stewardship.

PERK is an outdoor research and exhibition platform exploring enclosures, rewilding, and the hortus conclusus—a medieval symbol of purity, restraint, and control over nature and femininity. Through new curatorial strategies and outdoor ways of exhibiting, artists reinterpret this powerful metaphor, challenging capitalist and patriarchal narratives. PERK reclaims the enclosed garden as a space for polyphonic perspectives on our relationship with the more-than-human world.

Pollino transforms urban signage into multifunctional habitats for wild pollinators, specifically solitary bees, by integrating modular nesting spaces and floral elements. It creates safe nesting spots in cities, helping to connect fragmented ecosystems, support pollinators, and enhance urban aesthetics. Developed through interdisciplinary collaboration, Pollino promotes environmental awareness and resilience, offering a scalable solution for vibrant, sustainable multispecies urban communities.