Prizes: All applications

This conceptual architectural solution uses specialized design principles to help visually impaired individuals navigate daily life independently. More than a residence, it is a safe, barrier-free home that eliminates the fear of obstacles. The goal is to set a new standard for inclusive architecture, ensuring that future housing is universally comfortable, safe, and sustainable for everyone. It serves as a blueprint for a future where inclusivity is the core of every home.

In Elefsina, young people (15–30) are reclaiming abandoned spaces and transforming them into a community-led hub. Through workshops, events, and co-creation processes, migrant, LGBTQI+, and local communities connect, learn, and actively shape their city. The project strengthens social cohesion, reduces discrimination, and builds a scalable model of inclusive, youth-led urban regeneration.

We transform underused sites into sustainable cultural spaces where art, ecology, and social participation coexist. By transforming a sarajevan post war ruin into a vibrant community space, artists, activists, and neighbors collaborate through workshops, green initiatives, and art activities. These efforts create inclusive spaces while promoting art, ecology, and community. We turn neglected areas into dynamic places so people of all profiles can connect, co-create, and care for their city.

K67 Re:Activate brings back to life the iconic K67 kiosk by restoring and reactivating it as a new form of social infrastructure through a socially-inclusive and culturally-aware framework. Once embedded in everyday urban life, these small structures are reimagined through circular reuse as the smallest unit of public life. The project tackles contemporary urban challenges by transforming abandoned kiosks into spaces for local exchange, culture, and community.

Bega Echoes reclaims Timișoara’s blue highway as a living classroom. Three reed observatories (upstream, urban, downstream) offer sensory sanctuary. A circular floor opening invites direct water contact, often for the first time. Real-time sensors ensure safety, turning citizens into active monitors. If pollution peaks, data becomes evidence for civic accountability. Upcycling local reed via workshops turns waste into regenerative skin.An architectural interface for empathy and water resilience.

Casa da Azenha transforms a tradicional family olive mill into a vibrant "Living Lab" in Santa Cruz do Douro. We blend five generations of heritage with social innovation, using sustainable enotourism to revive ancestral traditions and combat rural depopulation. By empowering local producers and sharing our oral history through podcasts, we prove that rural roots are the foundation for a beautiful, inclusive, and sustainable European future.

Urban centers face severe water runoff, where rain is treated as waste, while public spaces lack shade and thermal comfort. This project reimagines rainwater as a resource, capturing and filtering it through a low-tech system for irrigation and mist cooling. The structure creates a shaded, pleasant space that encourages interaction, offering a nature-based response to heat stress and urban ecological and social decline.

Traviata in Three Acts transforms a neighbourhood into a living stage, where residents and artists co-create a multidisciplinary public opera using existing architecture as the stage. By replacing Alfredo’s father with society, it reveals how collective pressure shapes personal choices. With a reimagined ending as a wedding, the project turns tragedy into a shared act of acceptance, making the story of Violetta and Alfredo in La Traviata local, understandable, and open to all.

The project repositions ceramic production in Europe by combining traditional craft with contemporary production to enable sustainable and competitive local manufacturing. Through collaborations with designers, cultural spaces, and hospitality contexts, ceramics are developed in real-use environments. An independent design line positions the work within the contemporary design field, while public formats make processes accessible, redefining craft as a relevant practice and strengthen.

Satu Mare is turning its public spaces into vibrant places where people connect, create and belong. Through culture, events and community-driven initiatives, EU-funded urban infrastructure is brought to life, activating streets, squares and riverbanks. Led by the G.M. Zamfirescu Cultural Center, the city transforms everyday spaces into shared experiences that shape a more inclusive and lively urban life, through placemaking and over 50 events yearly, including 300+ concerts and performances.