NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Culture for Climate is a grassroots initiative aimed at greening the cultural sector. The group consists of 9 women: employees of cultural institutions, NGO's and independent artists and curators.Our aim is to promote pro-environmental attitudes. We believe that our activities will contribute to indispensable changes in regulations in culture field. Culture for Climate is also a collectively built knowledge resource which was collected in a form of ecological guide with free access.

"Esparto grass died when plastic was born". In 2018 we promoted philosophical discussions about beauty in Villarejo de Salvanés, where the imaginary of esparto, almost lost, was again considered.
So, we launched HABITAR EL ESPARTO to recover this Intangible Cultural Heritage through artistic residences in an informative space that links artisans, artists, designers, schools...A community collaborative pathway has been followed with relevant results. An opportunity for naturocultural change.

On a site of an old asphalt factory, now being transformed, we are engaged in a redefinition of a character that is important to reconnect citizens with nature: The Garden Caretaker. A role that embodies cross-disciplinary skills unfolding through the intersection of art, storytelling, biodiversity and citizens engagement, facilitating social art pieces that seek to stimulate and strengthen multi-species-communities, hereby introducing art as a method for social and ecological regeneration.

Save the seed, plant the tree. Save the youth, plant the future.

Floating University Berlin is a natureculture learning site created by over 50 artists, designers, architects, scientists, engineers, neighbours and kids. It is located in a polluted rainwater retention basin of the former Tempelhof Airport. It is simultaneously a working infrastructure of the city's water system and a home to wetland plants, birds, frogs, bats and foxes. The experimental educational campus was built with low-impact materials and includes various water filtration systems. Today it offers a broad range of cultural and educational programs around peoples' relationships with the city and the more-than-human world.

The initiatives of the Bulgarian communities in the Republic of Serbia will be promoted and upgraded: Panchevo, Novi Sad and Ivanovo, united by the pursuit of a more sustainable and inclusive future by carrying out traditional and new activities: Bulgariada Festival, Scientific Round Table on Cultural and Historical Heritage, Connecting Bulgarians and Serbs, Shop Salad Festival, Folklore Festival “Golden accordion”, informal trainings on the topic of Sustainability, Folklore and Nature.

Mouraria Composta is a community composting project that uses an electro-mechanical technique to transform organic waste into compost for use in the community's green spaces and for donation to participants. In a participatory model, it seeks to activate the local community, with more than 50 nationalities, using an environmentally creative and sustainable response to mobilize the inclusion of more vulnerable inhabitants, namely migrants and refugees.

This project is a 12,8m-long footbridge made of structural wicker. It was designed for the first edition of Les Utopies Constructives that will stand in 2023 in the city of Richelieu (FRANCE).

Faro Cratere: a resilience strategy vs the earthquake that almost destroyed 140 towns in central Italy in 2016, and still threatens the very existence of the local communities: a bottom-up participatory process that involves them and helps to safeguard their identity, memory, and future. Building an archive of the memory of life and work in the historic towns. Enhancing the "human capital" of the dispersed community that left the old towns, and bridging it to the one will enter them when rebuild

An elastic gridshell is an efficient constructive typology for crossing large spans with little material. A flat elastic grid is built before buckling the structure into shape, in active and post-formed bending.
Kagome is made 100% of wood : its laths are interlaced to form a japanese traditionnal pattern, called Kagome, which makes the structure naturally braced. This pavillion is standing at the Parc de la Butte du Chapeau Rouge, a public square in the working-class area of Paris.