ECOLUTION is international platform for development and support of young designers who are working in a field of sustainable design and to develop international career in the fashion industry via restoring a sense of belonging by showing how a new, renovated, regenerated or restored environment through clothing and style can relate to contemporary demographic realities, dynamics in culture and arts and lifestyles.
Becoming Lumbardhi is the ongoing process of reviving Lumbardhi Cinema and its historic neighbourhood, through a gradual restoration, diverse community participation, bottom-up institution-building and interdisciplinary programs. By jointly creating a public space and a center for visual art, cinema, music, research and education, Lumbardhi inspires a sense of belonging, generates discussions and knowledge about the city, supports civil society and stimulates artistic and critical imagination.
The Danube Design Lab empowers disadvantaged students from vocational schools to create new, sustainable public spaces along the Danube river in Ruse (Bulgaria). This provides opportunities for these often disenfranchised young people to be more included socially and develop professional networks. Each pop up architectural creation - made with recyclable materials such as wood, metal, fabric and mulch - allows residents to mingle, enjoy art together and reconnect with a part of the riverside that was long neglected.
ÎntreVecini regenerates the community spirit, creating offline micro-communities, on the block of flats terraces, to form sustainable local hubs in Romanian cities.
After successfully finishing the pilot project, this year IntreVecini will install a minimum of 10 kits for 10 blocks free of charge, carrying out more than 100 interactive-activities around sustainability. Every project starts with installing Photovoltaic on a bloc of flats to engage the neighbours in a journey of change-making.
Wind energy generates 21% of Germany's gross electricity, but what happens to the rotor blades after they are used? 7500 rotor blades are yearly disposed in Germany. Rethink Rotor is a collaborative project between Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and OX2Architekten. The students from different departments have dealt with the topic of recycling rotor blades and thus created Rethink Rotor. Through the expertise of different fields we have found a functional way to reuse rotor blades.
The city center of Leeuwarden colored green for 100 days. Between May 7 and August 14, 2022 more than 1,000 trees walked through the city. This 'walking' forest was set in motion by hundreds of participants and has given the trees - and therefore nature - a voice. With a packed program and huge press coverage , Bosk has drawn attention to the most important aspects of looking differently at the relationship between human beings and nature. Bosk revealed the strength of radical imagination.
The Project addresses one of the main constraints limiting successful development of adventure tourism in the cross-border Ohrid Lake region. The main goal of the Action was to contribute to the development of adventure tourism in this region, by establishing for the first time an efficient voluntary Mountain Rescue Service in the cross-border region, equipped and trained according to international practices and ICAR recommendations, thus increasing the safety of domestic and foreign visitors.
A significant centric area of the city was rebuilt with a common concept: the aim of the project was to create a sustainable, inclusive space for the community, which tells important stories of the city. The project area includes the oldest street of the city and its surroundings: a park by the river containing two playgrounds, an open square, plenty of green space, the old Castle, and the Museum; and the old Cinema.
The 20km dinner took place at the annual Silicon Vilstal Experience festival on the 24th of September 2022. The festival offers a wide range of workshops, lectures, performances, and interactive activities for all ages, focusing on innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity. The 20 km is an experience dinner event with a menu whose ingredients come only from within a 20km radius of the venue. The aim is to raise awareness of regional products and sustainability.
Organisation of participatory workcamps in the Pequeur square in Anderlecht (a dense, popular and highly mineralised district), in order to create links, raise awareness of ecology, improve the quality of life for humans and non-humans alike and transform it into a resilient ecosystem. The workcamps consisted mainly of the demineralise 10 tree pits in order to enlarge them, with soil regeneration and collective planting, as well as the creation of protective furniture (infiltration barriers)
