NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

In Portugal, there has been an increase in school failure and dropout. However, it's not just student's responsibility, but also school community, socio-economic issues and the family environment. In this sense, was born Ser+Peculiar in an attempt to combat this great problem. It is intended to enhance the growth and development of children in their various areas of learning, dignify the role of the teacher and expand the role of the family in continuous growth and promoting mental health.

CONNECTING GENERATIONS is a project which aims to develop intergenerational ties through joint creative activities leading to the creation of accessible, architecturally interesting space that meets the needs of residents.
Project will be developed on several levels:
ARCHTECTURAL - creating accessible, human friendly space based on the collected experience of people
SOCIAL - elimination of biggest Seniors problem - loneliness
HISTORICAL - creating bridges between the past and the future

Recovering the traditions of craftmanship across North Macedonia, such as sewing, embroidery, wood carving, watchmaking, repairing shoes, pottery and more. Most of these artisan crafts skills are dying and fewer and fewer people decide to continue the tradition of making these kinds of products. The project aims to spark an interest in young people to continue the traditional ways of crafting, which might help them in finding a part of themselves in it and even potential career orientation.

The lack of access to open spaces for makers in Valencia, moved the design cooperative Makea to install EPPPS in a disused industrial building inside the green agricultural belt of the city.
EPPPS is an urban regeneration strategy articulated around a workspace for circular and sustainable design, that brings access to digital and conventional manufacturing technologies. With a learning-by-doing approach, it encourages the active participation of people in shaping the world around them.

First creative laboratory for contemporary dance for young choreographers in Bulgaria. The goal of the innovative educational process is to support young talents in the field of dance and give them the opportunity to join international performative networks. Participants are supported in developing their ideas and creating their own short works to present to an audience. The process is extremely important for Bulgaria, where there is still no tradition in the field of contemporary choreography.

I have initiated the admission of children with special needs in Public Music Schools in Sarajevo. Before that, never in the history of their existence (the schools) over 75 years, children with special needs couldn't attend any sort of formal music education, no matter how talented and great they were. Doing that for my own son I have spent more than 6 months to accomplish that task. I had to convince the Ministry of Education, had meetings with all the directors from all Music Schools, etc.

“A playground for everyone” aims to tackle social dynamics that perpetuate unsustainable situations of inequality, by making a transformation from an abandoned plot to the school playground and converting this space into a driver for health, co-education and coexistence in the community.
Scholars and locals who suffer with mental health difficulties collectively constructed Zona Santiago, becoming, not only a school playground, but also a communal space for Cabanyal’s neighbourhood.

T.U is 3 years integrated initiative that aims to promote social growth and educational opportunities for girls /boys between 11-17 years old towards the engagement of educational communities of 6 neighborhoods of the city of Palermo (Sicily).The educational approach is based on culture and sport as key elements to foster youthful protagonism.Partnership between public,private and third sector is fundamental to realize and to value the heritage of this initiative towards policy making processes

The program dedicated to the public school's theme is creating a "common ground" between Public Administration and students in Architecture (Politecnico di Milano) with teachers and tutors. We are exploring innovative scenarios of the complex system of schools and educational spaces. The possibility of working in a coordinated way on 24 case studies agreed with the School Building Department of the Municipality of Milan constitutes an opportunity for a research by design applied to real cases.

#CUOREDINAPOLI is a relational and educational artistic project conceived by the School of New Technologies of the Art of the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, made up of about 150 students and 7 teachers who collaborate with each other in a horizontal and transversal way. It is a repeatable format that is consolidated in an action of co-planning with the inhabitants of the "periphery of meaning", neighborhoods in the center of the city, suffer from economic, social and cultural marginalization.