NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Liminal Lab is a research laboratory spread across rural Italy that aims to transform small municipalities, their historical heritage, and underutilized infrastructure, into places of learning and research in order to develop strategic projects for the territories concerned. The initiative is a time of participatory brainstorming on the critical issues of small towns and the potentials through which they can be repositioned as active agents in the creation of tomorrow's culture.

We believe that design and design-thinking can bring together people of different nationalities, different ages, political views and religions in the name of solving common tasks and sustainable development of our society.
We believe that design, design-education as well as purposeful and meaningful actions of the local design- community can lead to quality changes in environment and improvement of the quality of life in Western Balkans.

Tasnad Urban Garden Project rethinks the way green public spaces can provide an identity-centered educational experience raising awareness on the local endangered botanical heritage, while at same time addressing the needs for outdoors sports activities for modern healthy individuals of all ages. The mid-term goal is to support a paradigm shift and encourage both the locals and visitors of the Garden to support nature-based projects through educational means.

“A house is a mountain is as hat” is an accessible, tactile and easy to read Children's Book about architecture that explores "the house" in its many dimensions. It introduces concepts about the built environment and the power of architecture - how it can be created, used and transformed consciously, in harmony with the planet. With colors and relief, large letters and Braille, is available in libraries and bookshops and may also be read by children who are blind or low vision.

"We Are the Flood" is a creative and interdisciplinary research, training and transformation platform on the climate crisis, anthropogenic interference and ecological transition implemented by a science museum, the MUSE of Trento (Italy).
Starting from water as a symbol of the climate crisis, “We Are the Flood” wants to trigger through emotions and the universality of art a change of perspective that can reflect on a global scale to imagine desirable futures.

Customers will have a pivotal role in making the circular economy work. Their customer experience should be joyful and effortless. The Circular Experience Library offers 72 free UX design patterns to service- and ux designers and companies. This toolkit can be used to develop ideas and build prototypes for circular services fast. The aim is to accelerate the adaption of circular services by customers and lower the costs for companies and experience designers developing them

Our initiative aims at preparing students and workforce for the changes brought about by the Circular economy, we want to learn them to understand the system, embrace and plan for it in their domains of professional interest. Since there is significant skills gap we aim to support closing the skills gap between the present skills of the workforce and the future skills in demand for smooth transition toward circular economy.

The way of our functioning as individual human beings is reflected in our movements, the solutions we choose, which can teach us about ourselves and our fellow human beings. It is an intense learning and self-reflective process, which gives us the opportunity to change our habits and open up to the world in an honest way. The liberating power of improvisation contributes to creating new and productive forms of the dialogue between body and mind. These statements are our starting point.

G4A is the one multidisciplinary masterpiece in which each citizen of Bosnia and Herzegovina can enjoy. Creation of unique urban Garden in 2023 in front of the space for high schools for children with disabilities will provide the platform for education, intergenerational exchange of knowledge and cooperation between children and elderly, and it is meant to be a role model for other local communities – in the meaning that green spaces can be put in functional use.

A proposal of educational game focused on the creativity of Nature. A game that
encourages to draw, think, connect concepts and ideas, enhance creativity, work
together, in connection with nature and its elements.