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Container gardening project – Garden@SME

Aesthetic and functional redevelopment of a part of the University of Turin that has been unused and abandoned for years, including as a waste dump. The project was oriented to two specific communities. The first, called a university citizenry community, composed by all those frequenting the university area (students, professors, technical and administrative staff), that is one of the main campuses in Turin of the University of Turin (the School of Management and Economics, acronym SME).

Co-creation of public space 2021
FURNISH – Let’s Protect the Schools

Connecting the urban and school environments in a creative way, promoting longer stays before and after school hours, and enabling its use as extensions of classrooms and playgrounds, engaging children to play, be active and learn. Providing interesting and instigating interactive prototypes to stimulate permanence in these areas.

Co-creation of public space 2021
Designing, locating and building a green solution

The goal is to sustainably improve the quality of life of the inhabitants, users and visitors of the historic site of Vieux-Lyon, as well as the other living beings who share this territory. To turn to blue-green infrastructure aims to manage more easily water quantity and water quality. Main achievements: A strong and efficient mobilization of the involved partners had been conducted according to the work plan, enabling indirect exchanges between citizens and high-school students to design and build the green solution in accordance with the citizens expectations. A green and blue solution had been created to mitigate the impacts of climate change through design and build a natural space to help cooling public space of the Place Saint-Jean as an experimentation field in Lyon, which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The focus was on a mobile gardener, which has been built into the Lyon Pressin Horticultural School and then moved into the Place Saint-Jean.

Citizen engagement activities
Weaving Superilles: Teixint Superilles

Bringing together the city’s expertise in urban planning with the citizen’s awareness through the community engagement methodology developed by Aquí. Main achievements: Weaving Superilles activities took place in three different environments, thus reaching a wide range of participants: a public park, an arts and sustainability festival and a secondary school. To increase representation from younger citizens, Aquí engaged students from a local school through a co-creation process to redesign their local plaza. Aquí has been experimenting successfully with diverse methodologies for civic participation while confronting a wide range of participants with topics of gender, functional diversity, cross-generational inclusivity, and sustainability and finally generating a local impact on the neighbourhood and cultivate co-responsibility through participatory urban design. The main impact of the project for Barcelona City is the proposed collective vision on the redesign of Joan Corrades Plaza to the City Council, which was created through the urban diagnostic exercise with a deeper engagement of the students. After identifying and prioritizing challenges together, the students designed concept ideas to address these challenges, and collaborated to propose a collective vision in line with the superilla model.

Citizen engagement activities
Activating Spaces with neuroDiverse Publics

ASD-publics will aim to explore nature-based solutions to improve playing areas for children with autism and their families. The project will pilot co-creation with the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) community to understand how spaces can be changed to create a more inclusive and multi-sensorial experience.

Co-creation of Public Space Enhance NEB 2023
Greenovate

This project will revitalise the centre of Kozani, using sustainable materials to transform green spaces for children and seniors. By engaging local businesses and young students in not only the planning and preparation phase, the project aims to preserve green spaces and foster a sense of belonging.

Co-creation of Public Space
Open Nature

Open Nature will work with the Collserola Natural Park, central to the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, to identify sites in need of ecologic and aesthetic remediation and then install elements inviting public engagement while promoting sustainability. The installations will be codesigned by students from surrounding urban schools, with limited access to nature, offering an inclusive experience to learn from the world around them.

Co-creation of Public Space
ProdMeSe, Modular Refugee Settlement Project

The settlement project, based on the outskirts of Lviv, will create new temporary homes for displaced people as a result of the war in Ukraine. Through a co-creation process, beginning with identifying needs, ideas will be explored and implemented, bringing in architects, environmental and construction experts. Homes will be created to matches the needs of refugees, as well as a housing complex that serves both the settling community and those already in the city.

Co-creation of Public Space
Recharging recovery: co-creating public space in healthcare

Focusing on green space at the heart of Ljubljana’s clinical centre, this project will follow a co-design process with patients and medical personnel to transform the space to become useful for patient recovery and the well-being of medical staff. The data gathered through these activities will be used as evidence in the upcoming climate adaptation strategy for the wider municipality of Ljubljana.

Enhance NEB 2023 Co-creation of Public Space
STATION SOFIA – New Greenways for Old Railway

STATION SOFIA will demonstrate the revitalisation potential of the unused railway territories and buildings of Stochna Gara and to guide their sustainable transformation to an inclusive, innovative and multifunctional urban space. This will be achieved through a holistic discussion around a common vision for the future use of this post-industrial heritage, engaging neighbours, institutional stakeholders and diverse experts.

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OURCITY

OURCITY brings together the citizens and designers to co-create a user-friendly, playful public space in the city of Kerava. The intervention is co-designed by designers from Parkly (FI) and Traffic Designer (PL) based on the citizen engagement process, planned and facilitated by the designers. The target group of the project is young people to increase their involvement in urban design and use public spaces. Furthermore the project focuses on developing ideas for winter placemaking and more active use of urban spaces throughout the year. The co-creation process with young people is expected to produce playful and creative ideas to use rain and darkness as an inspiration rather than an obstacle. The partnering city of Kerava will appoint a site for the intervention with a focus on pedestrianised zones to support their strategy of city wellbeing in the long term.

Co-create NEB 2023
PLATEIA

PLATEIA will bring together formal and informal communities to regenerate a plaza, in the periphery of Rome, Torpignattara/Marranella, built on top of a parking space, which has never been planned and never used at its best potential. The idea of the project is to bring together an art foundation, an ecomuseum, and a group of architects to redesign this area. They will collaborate with the neighbourhood committee and Pisacane school, which both have a history of engagement with the communities living there. This new partnership will set up a new model of urban governance based on solidarity, inclusion, participation, and environmental sustainability. Through the use of participatory design, the intervention will be mainly be based on the axis “Regaining sense of community and belonging”, but deeply interconnected with “Reconnecting with nature”, focusing on re-greening the area.

Co-create NEB 2023
CoolCo: Cooling Corners and Corridors

With CoolCo’s, our aim is to facilitate the co-creation of small-scale sustainable and just spaces to counteract the urban heat island effect in European cities, and as a first pilot, in Józsefváros, the 8th municipal district of Budapest. CoolCo’s stand for CoolingCorners and CoolingCorridors - to better adapt cities to the threat of climate change. In a co-design process, selected heat mitigating modulesrepresenting sustainable urban design are flexibly combined to form corners and corridors functioning as heat shelters within existing urban environment and infrastructure. The CoolCo’s are accessible for everyone, but especially target heat vulnerable groups like elderly people, children, women, low-income households, disabled people or animals. The small-scale solution thereby depicts a quick-win response to the threat of urban heat waves.

Co-create NEB 2023
Bring Nature Home

Bring nature home (BNH) is an initiative developed by ILD aimed at converting an underutilised urban space from Iasi into a community asset through biophilic design principles. The project proposes an alternative to mainstream urban regeneration practices, forging identity building and re-connecting people with nature. By bringing in people of all ages (kids, teenagers, adults andpensioners) to identify problems and propose solutions the project will offer the opportunity to create a strong community and facilitate knowledge exchange between generations. Through the project, a transformation concept will be developed, put into practice as a temporary design proposal and translated into a replicable framework in the form of a handbook that could be used by relevant actors for the regeneration of underutilised urban spaces.

Connect NEB 2023
Cabra Figa Community Park

This project arises from the desire to go further in terms of citizen engagement in a Participatory Budgeting Program winner project. This new park at Cabra Figa - a neighbourhood of illegal origin, nowadays divided into two municipalities and with a landscape marked by large industries - will be the first public green space in this territory. The proposed participatory process aims to give the inhabitants an opportunity to play a major role in the co-design and co-stewardship of a project that will be constructed in 2023, funded by the municipality(200.000€). Through a multilevel approach that gathers different stakeholders - inhabitants, public and private sector -, and specific activities and methodologies focused on the identified target groups (residents and children), we want to transform how urban planning is done towards a more collaborative, sustainable and inclusive way.

Connect NEB 2023
New European Bauhaus Living Corridor

The NEB Living Corridor (LC) project is a partnership between the University and City of Turin. It aims at amplifying the existing co-designed space through building an inclusive, multi-stakeholder corridor to enhance the vitality of communities and the environment.It will consist of a physical internal street that links together several stakeholders that are present in the area: the City, the School of Management and Economics of UniTo, and three associations working with vulnerable and elderly people. The NEB LC @SME will follow a holistic approach to sustainability, incorporating both social and environmental objectives into the engagement activities that aim to drive more inclusive nature-based solutions for food production. In providing a spatial link between buildings, and a social link across generations, the citizenry who work and study can engage with local communities in the area, fostering greater solidarity around food security, care for public spaces and mental wellbeing.

Enhance NEB 2023
RAPID 3D model of Dudullu Metro Station

The new Istanbul Mobility Lab within the Dudullu Metro Station specialized on the theme of future mobility to design and create solutions to the city’s existing transportation and mobility problems with citizens and entrepreneurs.

Co-creation of public space 2021
Zejtun Public Space

The activity focus on the main central public space found in Zejtun, namely Misrah Girgor Bonici. The main square has been for centuries considered as the main space for the community members to meet up, to socialize, to do daily errands and participate in NGOs and practice the active citizenship aspect of the locality. This project enhance citizen participation through a citizen engagement tool for co-design and planning of public space offering real-life transition experiments in urban streets in combination with alternative mobility concepts.

Co-creation of public space 2021
Lugoj – For kids, by kids

Aiming to improve the public realm and encourage active urban mobility, while at the same empowering children/teenagers to get involved in shaping the urban community they wish to have. Through digitalization and grassroots democracy, the project aims to help the town of Lugoj regain its reputation of being a "bike town". Main achievements: The main output of the project is the visualised ArcGIS based Interactive and Story Maps, which offers the possibility to visualize in real-time the information and data collected (entered) by the students involved in the project. [Interactive problem map ; Interactive Solution Map, Story Map]. Through the activities the young citizens (pupils) and the municipality of Lugoj (end-user) became aware, educated on the active role both stakeholders can play in improving the quality of the city and empowered them to act. All of the project outcomes & solutions proposed and the interactive maps delivered to the municipality of Lugoj.

Citizen engagement activities
FOODLIE

Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of artists, experts, students and gardeners, this project will aim to bring to life to local heritage sites. The project will use gardening, traditional artworks and prototypes that educate the public of the ‘old ways’, whilst offering new ways for sustainable food production.

Co-creation of Public Space
Image your city: utilising urban co-designing and NEB principles to make stronger communities

Local citizens of Kosice and newly arrived refugees from Ukraine will work together to create and improve the surrounding area of temporary refugee shelters. Murals, video-mapping and art projects will be utilised with the hope that the sustainable interventions can be scaled for use in other cities

Co-creation of Public Space
Cultural Campus: co-creating our future spaces

The proposal is a significant step in a multi-year urban transformation process: the evolution of the former Frankfurt university campus into a Cultural Campus. The goal is to create a Living Lab that allows local residents to partake in this neighbourhood transformation and actively shape their public space.

Co-create NEB 2024
Sobrotherhood

Sobrotherhood: Rebuld the lost sense of community in the neighbourhood of Sobreiro by reconnecting with nature through biophilic design. The project aims to model and test in Sobreiro the activation of self-sustainable socio-economic ecosystems at district level, relying on the pluralist potential of the marginal perspectives, biophilic design and the NEB guiding framework. Trhough co-create works, crafter with selected group of 55+ community representatives, further tailored with the youngsters from the neighbouring schools and tested on site will inspire creation of green jobs and environmental initiatives in the area.

Co-create NEB 2024
Community Garden App Feasibility Study

Creating an open dialogue about the impressions of and needs for information about community gardens to understand how this (location, responsible persons, activities) might be best delivered. Main achievements: The outcomes of the activity included responses to questionnaires, opinions collected using focus groups, and comments from policymakers and local authorities obtained by interviews. The project identified there is an appetite for community gardens activities amongst the various groups, but those with higher qualifications (graduate and above) are concerned about time to participate, whilst those with low educational status (high school) do not know how to access the information, in both cases despite the desire to participate/ engage with such initiatives. Thus, information about community gardens – regardless of how it is delivered (i.e., website or app) – needs to be accessible and engage citizens from different socioeconomic groups, and participation needs to be flexible and inclusive.

Co-creation of public space 2021
Stories from both sides: towards a collective narrative and vision for the Neiva River mouth

Build-up a collective narrative and vision for the Neiva River mouth, in the Northern littoral coast of Portugal, for the re-design of the local population interaction with the natural surrounding protected areas.

Co-creation of public space 2021
VegetART-ing Schools

Enhance citizen participation through the collaborative ideation and design of artistic prototypes of nature-based solutions to achieve climate resilience. It is founded upon a rich social ecosystem and pilot initiative Cyborg Garden. The Cyborg Garden aims to naturate the outdoor spaces at the Centre of Contemporary Creation Matadero Madrid and its surrounding neighbourhoods and to collectively formulate a climate change adaptation strategy that can contribute to transform Matadero into a desirable space: a cyborg garden for trialling forms of co-existence between humans and non-humans.

Co-creation of public space 2021
Adopt the Ugly Foodling

Main goal of the project: Create awareness among young consumers about the reasons and challenges of food waste and bring them together with more experienced consumers (elderly) who spend their youth in different conditions (nonabundance of food, participation to food producing etc.). The Ugly Foodling represents food that is still edible or still has value, but it ends up to the rubbish.

Citizen engagement activities
EC Boost Mataró Lab

Main goal of the project: Boosting of future local energy communities among vulnerable consumers of the neighbourhood of Cerdanyola, a deprived area in Mataró. Supporting an open business model for selfconsumption installations in energy communities for social economy entities (commercials, technicians, mediators, ethical banks, etc.), catapulting the contribution of entities with social and environmental value, in cooperation with the municipality and the citizens.

Citizen engagement activities
The Collaborative Kitchen

Main goal of the project: Increasing the circularity of the food donation system in Reggio Emilia by engaging people and organisations in a cocreation process to rethink the system of food donation — not only to reduce food waste, but also to include and nourish people and communities.

Citizen engagement activities
Adáma

By involving experts from the fields of humanities, environmental sciences, cultural and creative professionals ‘Adáma’ aims to engage citizens in Elusis, Greece, through cultural practices, to co-recognise urgent local challenges, co-envision a sustainable future, and co-design a roll out strategy, as a communitycentred approach to address the recognized challenges.

Co-creation of Public Space
CONNECT, Community for Timisoara

Working across Timisoara, this project will aim to integrate Ukrainian refugees, particularly women, into the community by raising awareness of the role foreign people have played in the development of the city. This will be explored through gatherings that take an artistic and social lens, using sustainable materials to connect art to history and to build bonds between communities.

Co-creation of Public Space
EITra: Elderly on Track

The EITra project aims to enhance mobility within seniors’ networks, improving their physical and mental health, as well as fostering social inclusion. This will be done by evaluating their interactions with their physical environment and helping create healthy habits and social networks.

Co-creation of Public Space
Harbor Highlight Actions: reconnecting citizens with the beauty of the river

Harbor will utilise summer workshops and learning explorations to design and animate shipyard districts, interweaving art and innovation and exploring the shared heritage of the Seine in Paris. The project will prioritise vulnerable communities, such as younger people and the elderly, as well as directly connecting citizens to professionals and policymakers.

Co-creation of Public Space
Porto Think Tank

Focusing on Porto’s 24 Lavadouros (communal wash houses), this project will transform these architectural artifacts, historically linked to women, through consultation with localcommunities to explore new ways of sustainable use.

Co-creation of Public Space
Recreate

Focusing on the locality of Senglea, this project will work with local citizens to transform unused public spaces through nature-based solutions, such as gardening. The project aims tocreate stronger relationships between active citizen groups and the local council.

Co-creation of Public Space
DROPS - Design And Re-engagement of Public Water Sources on The Island of Zlarin

The purpose of our project “DROPS - Design And Re-engagement of Public Water Sources on The Island of Zlarin” is to regain a sense of wonder in the community of Zlarin of the natural resources the island gifts them with and which they depend upon. The main objective is the re-valorization of water systems and the water basin on the island through community engagement achieved by knowledge sharing of sustainable models of water use. We designed the project so as to embody the values of sustainability, inclusion and aesthetics by reaching the local community, Zlarin islanders and citizens of Šibenik, waking up their potential through getting them in touch with the outside experts and giving them space to showcase their own expertise regarding the theme of water on the island. We will achieve the social and innovation impact with the economic one to be reached in the long term through sustainable tourism.

Co-create NEB 2023
Minante

‘Minante Watermill’ aims to improve the natural and cultural heritage experience in the public space surrounding an out-of-use watermill, at the Neiva river (Northern Coastal Portugal), through a co-creation process with the local community, The project departs from a participatory process held in 2021, when the local population identified the ‘Minante’ watermill as a site close to their hearts, culture and memories, conveying their strong wishes for the improvement of this deteriorating heritage and its natural surroundings. It will result in a prototype composed of 4 to 6 small-scale and low-fi interventions, enriching this public space as an interactive and contemplative experience, while reciprocally supporting the codesign of a vision for the Minante watermill building future requalification, and feed existing municipal plans for the Neiva river upcoming rehabilitation.

Co-create NEB 2023
ELDERS

ELDERS: Empowering active living and driving elderly recreation and self-sufficiency.ELDERS enhances the eldery's social inclusion and wellbeing by identifying, testing and improving walking routes in Masquefa through participatory processes.

Co-create NEB 2024
GO AERSCHOT!

This project is an innovative attempt of revitalising public space through co-creative and sustainable workshops involving sex workers and neighbours. The outcome will be the creation and implementation of artistic elements to beautify the urban landscape and activate public space, as well as to raise awareness about climate change amongst vulnerable groups.

Co-create NEB 2024
Danube Design Lab for Collaborative City Planning

In Ruse, Bulgaria, the Danube remains disconnected from the city: the river’s natural and cultural heritage is not part of people’s lives. At the same time, Ruse falls within a “civic desert” where citizens, especially youth, do not believe they have a say in local decision-making. The Danube Design Lab for collaborative city planning brings together youth from vocational schools, civic organisations, and officials in a multi-generational dialogue about the river. Youth at risk of exclusion, together with local leaders, design solutions for reviving the riverfront. Through a series of collaborative workshops, young people become agents of change and create inclusive, vibrant spaces where people can reconnect with the Danube. Students also act as ambassadors in their communities for the role citizens can play in changing their environment.

Connect NEB 2023
Frontignano Art Walks

FAW is a process of rethinking the way of living remote mountain areas according to NEB values and principles. Art is the engine of this process, enabling citizens to identify challenges and codesign, together with resident artists, land artworks grounded in community’s spirit and landscape to stimulate reflections on the relationship man/nature in such areas. This methodology – that combines aesthetics, sustainability and inclusion – is tested in the village of Frontignano, in the Sibillini National Park in the Marche Region. The area is suffering the consequences of the terrible earthquake of 2016/2017 and citizens are struggling with lack of services and opportunities, trying to ground their recovery on sustainable tourism and culture. FAW can represent an opportunity for this needed place and for developing a good practice to be upscaled and replicated in similar contexts.

Connect NEB 2023
Connecting Seveso

This project intends to start a participatory process between different stakeholders incl. public administrators with the aim of co-designing a Strategic Development Plan for the green areas relating to the Seveso river, adopting an approach based on universal design to promote the adoption by municipalities of multi-objective solutions, facilitating access ot the river and fostering a sense of community attachment.

Connect NEB 2024
FishArt

FishArt promotes a radically participatry art and education process supporting the requalification of the Fishermen's Harbour in the coastal city of Anzio. It raises awareness and public acceptance of sustainable behaviours against marine and coastal pollution and promotes the synergic and co-creative transformation of a functional but degraded public space into a place for community life.

Connect NEB 2024
HARBOR - Highlight Actions Re-connecting citizens with the Beauty of Rivers and Seas

HARBOR was deployed in 2022 in Paris where it addressed the reactivation and revaluation of the banks of the Seine through the construction of 19th century inspired wooden boats by different groups at risk of social exclusion. Now, HARBORS-BCN aims to replicate its methodology in Barcelona, involving children and youth in the investigation of Barcelona's historical relationship with the Miditerranean Sea to learn about the city's maritime heritage.

Enhance NEB 2023
Spread the LOTs: mentorship programme for two new libraries of things

Using our expertise to support the establishment of new Library of Thingss in Slovenian cities.

Enhance NEB 2023

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