NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

The Green Room is a unique and innovative space designed to enhance urban environments and promote mental health and well-being. This sustainable and inclusive space is a harmonious fusion of nature, technology and design, offering citizens a place to relax, recharge, and connect with each other. Whether you are looking for a peaceful haven in the city, an outdoor workout, or a place to meditate, the Green Room offers a low-cost solution for improving mental health and well-being for everyone.

Ceramo Civic Centre is a co-designed project for the transformation of an old majolica factory in the Valencian suburb as trigger for the physical and social regeneration of the area. Giving a new life to the building, making it a public space in which protagonism of local associations and enhancement of sense of belonging are merged, becomes a way to unite sociality, education, rediscovery of local cultural heritage and architecture in an inclusive and sustainable perspective.

Our mission is to use the power of music to inspire people and push for change. Music has the power to unite and our vision is to mobilise people with the help of music to accomplish system change. We invite young artists and activists from around Europe and provide them with a platform and the inspiration to create original music to inspire action. We will meet in Stockholm for a week of co-creation where activists and artists meet and inspire each other during Inner Development Goals summit.

La Traverse is a cooperative, multi-generational, anti-speculative and experimental living space that promotes harmony with its natural and human environment. La Traverse promotes the values of solidarity, tolerance, openness and sharing.

The Vivifica project, which means "bringing back to life", proposes to capitalize on the singular geography and the rich history of the site. Through four themes, we develop the subject of the living city: the Living City as an inhabited city , the Living City in the biological sense of 'living' and nature, the Living city as a place of effervescence of living together, the Living city, the city cycle.
By stitching the urban fabric, the project restores an overall coherence to the district.

This Home should not be a Hotel is an informative and activist experience that aims to raise awareness of the effects Airbnb has on cities. People who gravitate around Airbnb, such as tourists, citizens, and hosts, are the main users. The experience is guided by situated storytelling that presents data from Inside Airbnb, a platform that collects all Airbnb data. It's also an open-source tool that helps activism groups in sharing Airbnb data in an engaging way.

Somero city's park strategy aims to improve park functionality by bringing activities closer to more central areas and enhancing services in sparsely populated regions. The strategy allows residents to suggest activities for parks on the outskirts of the city center, and the projects can be fully funded and implemented by residents and communities. The city of Somero also provides financial support for these projects. This innovative approach allows residents to truly make the parks their own.

Keratop: an architectural biome, is a 3D-printed ceramic facade panel that responds to the current environmental situation and its need to intertwine architecture and nature. The fragment, made, questions architecture within ecology and it's meaning as a space of cultural and biodiverse reproduction. This prototype consists of a multi-part, complex 3D ceramic that acts as a plant support structure. An urban vertical biotope is formed - the attempt to architectonize the natural.

The biodiversity of our world is at risk due to climate change, pollution and a growing human population. Housing areas need to expand globally, but with the challenges of our times, we need to plan our cities in novel ways. Stormwater solutions will be a key element. The dragonfly, one of the oldest living species on our planet, can lead our way into the future and help us with solutions for city planning that are cost effective, aesthetic, eco-friendly and will preserve biodiversity.

This project try to give back forbidden, not used spaces for citizens and make that healthier spaces.