NEB Prizes 2023: All Applications

Fair Sculpture encourages and helps empower youth, with a focus on youths who are less exposed to different kinds of art and culture. Fair Sculpture consists of
two branches, in which participation is free for participants. One branch is a weekly afternoon school for kids and youngsters in the facilities of the Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki where they work with artists. The second is a residency branch, where artists are invited to hold an art residency in a school in rural areas of Finland.

BEPI: innovative, accessible and sustainable boat to slowly discover Venice and its lagoon from the water, to give equal access to both "able and disabled" persons, for citizens, scholars and visitors. BEPI offers a learning alternative to the poor mass tourism experience, and to the vectors polluting the lagoon ecosystem. Designed by a team of Italian professionals including the key constructor who will invest the 75% of the cost, in a inclusive process with local and international stakeholders

In the heart of the Apennines, the first immersive, applied and professional school specialised on inner mountain areas. Participants develop the necessary skills to accompany communities and administrations towards a real ecological transition, and to seize the political, cultural and socio-economic opportunities involved in inner areas neopopulation. The objective of NEO is to channel expertise into inner areas, so that they become decentralised hubs in which to design an alternative future.

“I didn’t know I was interested in architecture” is an impression often heard from visitors of Tools for Better Living. The festival, organised by the Outsider Magazine, is not just another forum for architects and related professionals. It has evolved into a multi-faceted, interdisciplinary program, and includes events with speakers from various fields, international competitions and practical workshops, all aimed at finding creative and sustainable solutions for issues of contemporary living.

MOVING GROUND as initiated by The Duncan Dance Research Center, is a platform that connects dance, education, community engagement and environmental action embodying the practice of permaculture principles: care for the earth, care for the people and awareness of limits to growth. The project addresses a densely built environment and a neglected open space in Athens, within a cultural heritage site associated with the birth of modern dance.

Pollution and littering have garnered much attention in recent years due to their negative effect on animal habitats, the overall environment, and the climate. The EcoHunt combines education and gamification to tackle the pollution problem by mobile app for de-littering via a Treasure hunt-style game. The app varied missions and incentives drive its users to clean their surrounding environment, by daily list of commonly found litter is generated.

We grow together with the nature

Collective intelligence + Smartphone App + Collaborative Cloud = Public Augmented Reality Audio Map

blind.wiki*EDU is a community-based smartphone project that invites Students who are blind or partially sighted to map their findings of their EHEA Campuses and cities.

By sharing geolocated audio recordings via the blind.wiki*EDU smartphone app, EHEA Students create a collective map of their surroundings with accessibility tips, storytelling posts, sensory impressions and soundscapes.

The planet needs new paradigms to re-evaluate a confused relationship between architecture and nature. Meeting Nature Halfway is an initiative by Studio Colletti, Department of Experimental Architecture, Innsbruck Austria, that engages architects, and the public, to think how buildings can be designed more intelligently – i.e., by implementing digital, computational, and robotic technologies – and how they can be made more intelligent – e.g., by rendering them more responsive to the environment.

Cēsis Youth and Children's Vote was a pilot-project taking place alongside Latvia's Parliamentary elections on October 1, 2022. Aimed at revitalizing civic engagement, by providing a platform for democracy and encouraging the younger generation of Cēsis to have a say in the development of their town, it boosted the voter turnout in the general elections. The Cēsis Municipality co-created the project with the Design Department of the Latvian Academy of Arts and the Central Election Commission.