NEB Prizes 2022: All Applications

Box for Expression is an attempt to co-create a ‘common space’ within the urban/rural public space. Physically, it is a modular, reusable and re-adaptable open infrastructure. It offers the possibility for users to add oral stories into the cloud, gradually forming a collective narrative of passengers. It aims to create an open-source and accessible infrastructure, focusing on the idea of the "commoning" at the intersection of digital civics, fabrication, social research and artistic practice

Seven wheel barrows are mounted on a scaffold-like structure. They are filled with water, until they tip over and release their content. The water returns to where it came from. They do their jobs: to be filled, and to be emptied. The installation is an ornament for the neighbourhood. Excellent in its uselesness, like any other fountain. The relentless, unpredictable installation is ruthless and and poetic as water itself.

The nature of ENDURANCH Project has as main goal the promotion of open-air sports activities. Developing the social, economic, and ecological processes in the territory- capable of leading to the sustainable development necessary to restore the balance between nature and man- by boosting sports and other activities in nature. ALL our small-scale projects lead to this concept we wish to evolve and replicate: afforestation, drones to test, experiential hub, energy days, open-air cinema and so on!

With take-away and food delivery becoming more popular, the number of single use boxes that end up in the trash is on the rise. Food containers are the third most common plastic litter of oceans. By signing up for a membership at the RAKUN app, customers can order their food home in reusable, stainless steel boxes. The next time they want to use the box, they drop off the one they have with them, and the restaurant replaces their used box with another one that has already been properly washed.

ESG Maturity is a Software as a Service (SaaS) with the goal to capture a snapshot of the overall ESG maturity status of the company, return a set of initiatives that companies can start implementing to improve its ESG maturity level, make a benchmark (how the company positions itself comparing to other companies in the same sector) and finally give companies the possibility to monitor strategic KPIs. All this is given through simplified frameworks that increase the quality of experience.

Retrofitting of 302 private dwellings in a degraded area where Visesa played the role of Delegated Promotor, contracting, supervising and managing both design and execution of rehabilitation projects and their financing, including several subsidies and grants management on behalf of the beneficiaries and delivering a final “turnkey” product: a renovated building with a new envelope and connected to a brand new district heating network to foster energy efficiency and fight against energy poverty.

Barcelona Eco Hub is a sustainability and innovation Centre in Castelldefels open to the entire community.  The building has achieved the Passivhaus Premium certification as one of the first innovative learning projects in Spain. The purpose is to contribute to a better environment , creating not only an innovative learning space close to nature but on top being a reference model to learn about efficiency and sustainability, enabling its users to become participants.

Retrival is a Belgian Social Cooperative working in waste management. For 7 years, Retrival is a Belgian leader in selective deconstruction. We maximise reuse of all the waste entrusted to us.

We stored for a year all the deconstruction waste collected on our fieldworks. And in collaboration with our trainees and workers, we reimplemented a part of these materials in our brand new offices.This is now the demonstrative showroom of the https://www.cornermat.be : our building materials.

What about a place where tourism meets local culture, where tourists meet citizens? A place of exchange, connection, inclusion and requalification.

Originated from the deep gap between tourist and cultural industries in Italy, Cultural Resorts want to promote a new business model combining tourist resorts and cultural centers, trying to foster a new, sustainable sense of tourism.

Trash Peak emerge from the moral obligation each surfer has to take care of the enviroment where he is happy, the ocean. Our beaches are crowded with tons of plastic that poisson our seasides.

In the consumerist times we live our brand choose to reuse materials instead of producing new ones. The basis of this project is to produce sustainable and acologic surfboards from the recycled plastics collected from the beach by using 3D printing technologies.