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APROP Ciutat Vella

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

APROP is an affordable, sustainable, fast and high-quality housing programme providing evicted households with emergency accommodation in their own neighbourhood. A lightweight, dry, modular and reversible construction system using reused shipping containers has been specially conceived to achieve high rates of energy efficiency and excellent architectural standards. The first APROP is already in operation in Ciutat Vella, Barcelona while two other buildings are currently under construction.
Gardens in the Air

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

A circular initiative of urban renaturalisation involving artists, scientists, architects, designers, residents of Tres Barrios-Amate and youngs from the local association A.E.S. Candelaria. An exploration of the resources and species of the neighbourhood, to imagine new relationships of sustainable prosperity through an integral process that takes the form of a vertical garden, a perfume that distils plants from the neighbourhood and a sound composition that celebrates new alliances.
Gleis 21

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

Gleis 21 is in the heart of the new quarter in Vienna: The Sonnwendviertel forms a bridge between the tenth district and the inner-city area. Visible from afar, the wooden facade already signals a contrast to the familiar urban look. The wood hybrid construction is a technical innovation with a role model. Created through participation, the residents own, operate and manage the co-housing-project collectively themselves with a great external impact.
RoSana

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

The common goal of the architects Anna Heringer and Martin Rauch, the clients and craftsmen to build the RoSana guesthouse as healthy as possible for the people and the planet. The buildings purpose is a guesthouse for the Ayurveda retreat center RoSana in Rosenheim, Germany. It’s made for people who seek mental and physical stress relieve, who want to become focused on their inner strength, recharge their energy, get grounded.
Aalborg East: From isolated to inclusive

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

No homes have been demolished, no residents have been displaced. Good, safe solutions have been found and life has changed for the better. Now Aalborg East is an area of well-being with safe areas, no crime and great economic growth. The driver has been affordable housing and resident democratic processes in strategic partnerships.
Anttila Farm Incubator

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

The Anttila Farm Incubator urban concept stems from the will to create an efficient fusion between the urban and the rural environment, offering the inhabitants the activities and peacefulness of the rural setting with the commodities and density of a semi-urban settlement. The creation of a cooperative agro-productive community is the starting point to achieve this concept by assuring the economical sustainability of the site while keeping the culture and heritage of the site.
FUTUREUM: From Black Past to Green Future

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

FUTUREUM is a green, open and sustainable platform within a revitalised block of a former coal tippler and grinding mill situated at DOV, a former industrial zone and national cultural heritage site turned into a knowledge cluster. FUTUREUM is an inclusive, shared space for experiments and creatives to celebrate the hard work of coal miners and steel producers of the past and present the visions of future work and life. FUTUREUM brings added aesthetic value and reconnects people and generations.
Pollinator Highway Installations

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions / EU Green Capital Winner 2023

The ’Place Buzz’ installations enrich the Pollinator Highway with environmentally sensitive public art designed for humans and non-humans alike, which engages with the community. The artworks highlight various sections of the longest green corridor in Tallinn by making the most of the existing space and its varied potential while making unremarkable environments vibrant. The broader concept of the Pollinator Highway is to enhance urban biodiversity, green mobility and community engagement.
Ripple

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

Ripple trialed a collaborative place-based approach to climate resilient green space in towns. We worked with a community in Ballina that had faced socio-economic challenges to see if a model of respectful support, listening and engagement could generate a positive ripple-effect. Together we built the Paradise Garden, a climate-friendly intergenerational amenity space and wildlife haven, where rainwater is slowed through a series of rills, wells and natural attenuation on its way to the river.
Sava Activities

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

Sava Activities is an adaptable waterfront public park project aiming to reintroduce the riverbanks of Zagreb’s Sava River to the daily life of the citizens. Exploring resilient and ecological solutions through participatory co-design processes, the project prioritized natural preservation; developed socio-cultural density without being necessarily urban; and envisioned providing a mutually harmonized common habitat balancing human use and natural processes.
TOVA

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

TOVA is one of the first 3d printed architectural constructions in the world, built with a Crane WASP. It can be completed within weeks using 100% local materials and labour, generating zero waste and close to zero carbon emissions. This system is replicable globally and showcases a promising response to the surge in housing emergencies. The project was developed by a team of students and researchers from the 3D Printing in Architecture programme of IAAC.
Most Mira Peace Centre

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

Most Mira Peace Centre fosters sustainable peace in war-torn Prijedor and Bosnia & Herzegovina, transforming a ruined site between two divided villages into a vibrant destination for arts and reconciliation. Since 2009, Most Mira bring together thousands of young people of all ethnicities through creative peacebuilding programs. Designed through educational participatory workshops with the community, this sustainable rammed earth Peace Centre will be a permanent home for year-round activities.
FOLK concept

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

FOLK concept is a project summarizing several years of scientific and research activities concerning rural architectural fabric. The subject gives a second life to buildings characteristic for the countryside, which are a unique phenomenon of using decorative relief blocks in their construction. The project and concept include pro-ecological and sustainable adaptation of Polish buildings as places of public use, integrating rural communities, promoting the treasures of Polish cultural heritage.
HOMELESS HOUSING

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Homelessness is an increasing problem in Denmark. Reports show that the problem can be eliminated by 2030 with the right strategies. Therefore, I have developed a proposal for a permanent, aesthetic, sustainable, and proper solution for people without a home. Building on the Housing First strategy and with eye for a minimal budget, I have designed these high quality modular houses ready to be implement anywhere needed.
INHABITING AN ENCLOSED LANDSCAPE

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

The material isolation of the Balearic Islands made its inhabitants develop their own material culture out of the island’s limited resources. This enclosed landscape gave shape to sustainable techniques that deeply align with our current search for circularity and can thus be brought into the future. Together with the Balearic Institute of Housing, we are developing a 10 social housing units scheme that updates sandstone and timber construction while taking advantage of its sustainable nature.
Porto di Mare Eco-District (Milan)

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Is it possible to combine economic, social and environmental aspects in a sustainable urban regeneration process? How can algorithms and modelling strategies match and satisfy community needs? Porto di Mare Eco-District project combines a multi-scale design, focused on a bottom-up holistic approach, acting on people and transforming users into more sensible agents. The outcome is a replicable approach for similar urban rural contexts, to be used at 360-degrees.
Reclaim Žižkov

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Reclaim Žižkov aims to support a sustainable urban environment by building a community based on collective living, a shared lifestyle that reduces the individual’s consumption of space and resources. The project focuses on environmental sustainability through two main objectives – reducing the spatial and material requirements an individual needs and renovating unused municipal buildings. We can provide high living standards and lower economic burdens while reducing the environmental footprint of an individual by combining common amenities. This covers everyday activities such as washing or caring for children, as well as occasional situations such as guest accommodation, home office work, or gardening. Working with the municipality, Reclaim Žižkov also aims to reuse vacant municipal buildings. These buildings are very often suitable for housing but remain empty due to the lack of active interest in their renewal. The ‘renovation wave’ is a key strategy to meet the EU’s climate targets. By refurbishing existing unoccupied buildings in Žižkov, the embodied energy needed to produce essential housing in Prague is greatly reduced. Through the collective living network, Reclaim Žižkov is able to redistribute resources to where they’re needed. Collectives can efficiently use existing material and refurbish or even extend their buildings using consolidated material from the network.
Symbiotic Urban Movement

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

The symbiotic urban movement tackles two of the largest societal challenges at the moment; the housing crisis and the need for an energy-neutral built environment. The concept aims at renovating the existing housing stock while also densifying with the use of bio-based modular top-up extensions. By applying the concept, the existing building can live on for another lifetime as an energy-neutral building where existing and new residents can live happily together.
The Fres(co)h Model

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

"The Fres(co)h Model" is a participatory architectural experimentation within the "Baltea Lido" project. Promoted by Via Baltea community hub co-managers, the project aims to transform the street in front of the community hub into a pedestrian space, accessible and suitable for everyone. An urban road that turns into a public square thanks to flexible temporary installations inspired by the theme of the seaside,to activate an open, green and pedestrian space for all citizens.
Topolò/Topolove – The Village as House

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Have you ever lived in a village, as if it was your house? Have you ever dreamed in the woods, as if they were your garden? Imagining the revitalization of the village of Topolò (Italy) as if it was a house – where each tiny house is a room of a bigger house - the village itself – means to tackle the problem of the empty village as a complex ecology, inventing new uses for abandoned spaces and thinking about the new community inhabiting and taking care of them.
Volkshilfe hafen*

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Volkshilfe Hafen is a eco-housing project offering a safe and communal living environment for women, single mothers and their children. The project aims to promote a supportive and lively housing community profiting from a diverse mix of socioeconomical and cultural backgrounds. Especially women at risk of poverty and homelessness but also senior citizens and students can find a home. The community work program provides opportunities for social interaction.
ERDEN PURE Walls

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

Rammed earth has long been shunned in Europe. As we modernised our materials, we began to see earthen construction as undeveloped, unrefined. We associated it with poor architecture. Building standards eventually codified this attitude. But rammed earth can no longer be seen as undeveloped. PURE walls are prefabricated building elements that are 100% natural, 100% recyclable, passively control indoor climate, and offer a haptic materiality perfectly matched to contemporary architecture.
ERDEN PURE Walls

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

Rammed earth has long been shunned in Europe. As we modernised our materials, we began to see earthen construction as undeveloped, unrefined. We associated it with poor architecture. Building standards eventually codified this attitude. But rammed earth can no longer be seen as undeveloped. PURE walls are prefabricated building elements that are 100% natural, 100% recyclable, passively control indoor climate, and offer a haptic materiality perfectly matched to contemporary architecture.
Genius loci - digital mapping tool

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

Genius Loci is the creation of interactive digital maps that create data bank to inform the future urban development of Šančiai district. The maps are a tactic to safeguard against repeated violations of the the public interest by Municipal and private developers in which places are seen as 'tabula rasa' in which profit value is extracted. Each map reflects the local people, place, stories and nature as created by local people. Together, the maps create conditions for more active participation in democratic processes, strengthening and enabling collective citizenship. The target group of the project is the activation and energization of the residents of Šančiai. Objective: Design and realize a digital tool for local people to spotlight their unique neighbourhood features using a Memory Map, a Present (sociotopic) Map and a Nature Map and create a new data set to inform future urban vision. Results: Šančiai community are more bonded having been activated by participation in map making and stronger civil society capacity nurtured. New data set created provides information for more sustainable urban vision of the neighbourhood.
R-Urban Bagneux

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

Genius Loci is the creation of interactive digital maps that create data bank to inform the future urban development of Šančiai district. The maps are a tactic to safeguard against repeated violations of the the public interest by Municipal and private developers in which places are seen as 'tabula rasa' in which profit value is extracted. Each map reflects the local people, place, stories and nature as created by local people. Together, the maps create conditions for more active participation in democratic processes, strengthening and enabling collective citizenship. The target group of the project is the activation and energization of the residents of Šančiai. Objective: Design and realize a digital tool for local people to spotlight their unique neighbourhood features using a Memory Map, a Present (sociotopic) Map and a Nature Map and create a new data set to inform future urban vision. Results: Šančiai community are more bonded having been activated by participation in map making and stronger civil society capacity nurtured. New data set created provides information for more sustainable urban vision of the neighbourhood.
ULIA GARDEN

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

Our community garden project, Ulia Garden, is focused on transforming a former plant nursery into a community garden managed by local citizens. This project is driven by urban regeneration and agroecological community action. It is nurtured by the voluntary work of many people who, by getting their hands in the soil, seek to weave new relationships between committed citizens, integrate the care of nature as a central concept, and share the beautiful essence of life and a common project.
Xifré’s Rooftop: “Floating” Wild Garden

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

This project has been a fantastic opportunity to reintroduce nature to the heart of Barcelona. The Xifré Rooftop is a dual purpose renovation project, in terms of both heritage and ecology. Covering an early 19th-century block of ten buildings, this contemporary roof garden creates a “floating” wild space that enhances urban biodiversity and opportunities for social interaction between neighbours. Furthermore, the rooftop elements of the building have been carefully respected and restored.
Community Garden in Podgorica

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

Located in the Tološi Forest, where 50+ year-old evergreen trees tower overhead, is a multispeciated, multipurpose nature ecosystem. For decades, the locals called it "Thorn Field." Today, Urbana Basta Podgorica is a community garden in Montenegro's capital which provides: - a diverse natural environment; - food for the socially disadvantaged and for garden volunteers; - an enriched community that welcomes all peoples; and - a unique microclimate that minimizes urban adverse weather.
De Serre (The Greenhouse)

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

De Serre is a neighbourhood workshop where local residents can meet, set up initiatives, develop their talents, dedicate themselves to the neighbourhood and take steps towards work or training. It is a partnership between numerous local partners, social workers, outreaching workers from mental healthcare, volunteers, local residents and the City of Ghent. One visitor said this about De Serre and that maybe says it all. ‘You get space and opportunities, even if you are not a perfect visitor’
FERCAM Echo Labs - Supply chain crafts

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

FERCAM Echo Labs is a concrete example of industrial symbiosis that experiments production processes with low environmental impact and high social value, through a global approach and local projects. It uses a network of profit and non-profit companies and associations to feed a circular economy supply chain capable of utilising used wood avoiding its shredding or incineration. It trains fragile individuals, such as asylum seekers, to become skilled craftsmen able to build new beauty from waste
SuperBarrio App

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

SuperBarrio is a videogame for public space co-design. Superbarrio uses gamification strategies, attracting a larger audience, increasing engagement and developing virtuous relationships between citizens and neighborhoods. It has an intuitive interface where users can visualise the 3D of the area to be codesigned, select some design possibilities (e.g. planting trees, integrating bike stations), visualise them in the 3D and visualise indicators related to the impact of their selections.
Avles Simperilipsis

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

“Avles Simperilipsis” is a pedagogical program with architectural interventions aiming to raise the school community’s awareness of equality and inclusion, focusing on gender, through the study of the schoolyard. A schoolyard is a place, where exclusion phenomena based on gender stereotypes and hierarchical structures are often observed. Therefore, the goal is to approach equality by co-creating sustainable and beautiful yards that respond to a greater diversity of children’s needs and desires.
Building Beyond Borders

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

We are a research group of architecture&design enthusiasts who believes that construction can be done differently. We are a collective who explores new possible paths to challenge the constraints of our professions. We believe in architecture as a social and political act; In its effects on society as a fundamental part of the process and in the act of building as a tool for innovation andresistance. We dream of building beyond humans, a future for all. We are building beyond borders.
Floating University Berlin

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

Floating University Berlin is a natureculture learning site located in a polluted rainwater retention basin servicing the former Tempelhof Airport. The rainwater basin is polluted yet is an oasis for urban wildlife. "Floating" inside the rainwater basin, association of over 50 artists, designers, architects, scientists, engineers, neighbors, and kids came together to construct an experiemental educational campus. We are in mid-way in a two year program called "Natureculture Pedagogies".
Klimaatspeelplaats

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

At the playground of the Sint-Paulus School in Kortrijk, Belgium, children come back into contact with nature. Playing and learning comes first. Thanks to a well-aimed and sustainable project, the city school has succeeded in transforming its concrete surface into a stimulating green play and learning landscape where play nature, a large dose of play stimuli and biodiversity have found their place. Adventurous play is allowed, free play gets every opportunity, discovering and learning is a must.
materieunite

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Recycled materials, digital production, parametric project design and made in Italy are at the core of materieunite. We design and create permanent and temporary spaces through using recycled cardboard and other materials which are either recyclable or recovered from supply chain waste.
Modular Shutter Gardens

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Modular shutter garden increases the thermal insulation performance of the window by reducing the building's heating and cooling energy demand. Because of its cellular dynamic structure, the product provides the user with the opportunity of indoor daylight control. The product is made from fully recyclable, reusable natural materials from the European environment. The frame will be made out of reclaimed larch wood with high durability. The felt for the cells will be made natural wool and will meet EU organic standards. Other substances, such as the walnut oil for the wood, shall also be organically produced and non-toxic to the environment. The transport effort of the entire supply chain should be kept as low as possible through the regionality of the required materials. In addition, strict attention is to be paid to ensuring that the manufacturing and delivery process follows the model of the German Supply Chain Act. The production principle of the modular shutter garden system is based on the approach of guaranteeing the longevity of the product. The maintenance process is to be explained to the users in more detail by means of advisory services and information from the manufacturer. When maintenance can no longer be guaranteed, the system can be uninstalled and will be further processed and recycled by the manufacturer.
NEST

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

NEST is an ecological façade system which would be made through sustainable ceramic/clay 3d printing techniques. Façade panels are tailored to create specific environment that will allow the passive or low maintenance growth of the plants or places to nest for desirable species of insects, birds and bats, while maintaining the high performance of the building and healthier micro-climate. We offer a solution that either upgrades existing buildings or is incorporated into new build.
Noi Ortadini Community Garden in Matera

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

There used to be an abandoned green area in Matera’s periphery. In the lockdown, a young biology graduate living right next felt the need to be in nature and open spaces, so he started growing vegetables and planting trees. Friends and neighbours joined him to learn about agriculture, socialise, build a compost bin and a gazebo. The space became lively; the Municipality granted its adoption to Noi Ortadini. Now gardeners feel the need for new architectural elements to keep on with activities.
Retrofitting the UNESCO site of Ivrea

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Latest EU programs related to energy efficiency underline the need for retrofitting existing buildings, responsible for 40% of EU final energy consumption. This proposition deals with the issue of rethinking the common practices in the retrofitting of modern heritage, integrating the thermal improvement with the architectural preservation and inclusiveness. We aim to demonstrate that it is an advisable solution, applying our idea to three emblematic buildings in the UNESCO site of Ivrea.
SAGA - a healing journey through play

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

In Copenhagen only 3% of all playgrounds are handicap-friendly - resulting in unequal play for all children. At the playground SAGA you will go through a magical path surrounded by wild Icelandic nature with rehabilitation elements as a part of the universe. Included in the design process was the former patient Saga, a half-icelandic girl who at 9 went through a traumatic injury. Through co-creation Saga became the inspiration to create an sensoric learning experience accessible for all.
Zero waste house - ŽALEC, SLOVENIA

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

The Zero Waste House project is rooted in circular economy, community and ecology. These concepts inform the architecture of the buildings and the use of urban spaces. The ZW House is a project of renovation and adaptation to climate change. It explores the notion of commons by including the community. Form follows function, is a common thread weaving through the design principles of the ZW House. It merges the heritage of the space with innovative, modern and accessible building practices.
ESSERI URBANI

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

ESSERI URBANI elects art as a mean of reading the contemporary world, but also as a tool to take action on reality. It opens the curatorial practice and the artistic exercise to new possibilities: it’s an opportunity for research and experimentation, to bring together communities, landscapes and local architectures with contemporary artistic languages. The Festival takes place in the streets in a sort of widespread museum, with free admission and multimedia content accessible through QR code.
LA FÁBRIKA DE TODA LA VIDA

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

After being abandoned for years, an old cement factory is now a collaborative space for free culture. Located in a rural municipality of Spain, La Fábrika has become a landmark for an open network of creators, thinkers and social agents throughout the territory. Over the course of our ten years of activity, more than 3.000 people have contributed to regenerate the space. Together we build, meet and explore.
Regeneration of beach dune systems

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

The project for the improvement and protection of the dune systems on the metropolitan beaches is a measure to mitigate the effects of climate change along the coastline in the south of Barcelona. The project is part of an integrated management of the beaches and consists of a series of actions aimed at regenerating, protecting and improving these spaces, and changing people’s perception to reinforce their attachment to the beaches, recognising them as local natural areas with many values.
REPLAY

NEB Prizes: NEB Awards

REPLAY is a project led by Zero Waste Lab and Precious Plastic Portugal, which aims to stop the disposal of toys in landfills and incinerators, and promote the creation of municipal circular networks of collection, repair and recycling of good-quality toy materials, driven by community members and creatives, towards empowered webs of complementarity.
Innovation Model of Craft Revitalisation

NEB Prizes: NEB Champions

The innovation model allows one to get the experience of craft work. Combining the elements of tradition and modernity gives a sense of creation and influence physical reality. The main idea of this revitalization project is: less products, more experience. The experience is understood as accessible for everyone because the project is about maximum social inclusion. It’s concerns the crafts in 21st century’s economy and the development of the creative competence of the whole world’s citizens.
A house is a mountain is a hat

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

“A house is a mountain is as hat” is an accessible, tactile and easy to read Children's Book about architecture that explores "the house" in its many dimensions. It introduces concepts about the built environment and the power of architecture - how it can be created, used and transformed consciously, in harmony with the planet. With colors and relief, large letters and Braille, is available in libraries and bookshops and may also be read by children who are blind or low vision.
Becoming Lumbardhi

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

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.
Casas e Lugares do Sentir - Craft Lab

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

“Casas e Lugares do Sentir”, created by the Fundão Municipality in a protocol with UNESCO, aim to stimulate, conserve, and preserve the territory and its material and immaterial heritage, in a territory rich in traditions and knowledge, which is urgent to preserve, promote and make known to others. Thus, it aims the safeguarding of traditions and transmission of knowledge, locally based and traditional, bringing generations closer together and empowering more people to live in rural territories.
Danube Design Lab Ruse

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

The Danube Design Lab turns disadvantaged students into social entrepreneurs who can realise their visions for the city. It employs these young people’s valuable design and construction skills to generate sustainable and inclusive solutions for the neglected riverside . At the same time, it presents a model for participatory urbanism with authorities and youth acting together, in a multi-level process.
Insitute for design of Qality of Life

NEB Prizes: NEB Education Champions

VISKAĻI is a social innovation platform for creators of future. We co-design better quality of life and create tools for societal development, based on sustainability, inclusion, placemaking and non-formal education. Inspired by the Bauhaus movement, based on the New European Bauhaus values, VISKAĻI provides 15 000 sq.m. of space and holds nurturing framework for countless social innovation forms in the former faculty of Aeronautics, Riga, Latvia.
Biophotovoltaics for nature and people

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

This project will allow us to share scientific knowledge about a new renewable energy production technology: Biophotovoltaics. Communicating the value and potential of natural ecosystems and creating opportunities for people to interact, we propose an innovating urban construction prototype of green areas with Biophotovoltaics technology applied. The methodology will be adaptable and replicable in any part of the world.
Community Center - Pyžamo

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Pyžamo Community Center ("Pyjama" is the name of the former bar in the area) is a pilot project of a modular public building in the city of Trnava. Based on intensive dialogue with the city leadership and participatory planning with residents, we designed a shared, multi-generational space for all. In our proposal, we create a vibrant space for the local community. A neglected and underused area will be revitalized into a valuable public space.
Flaux - Flower Matter

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Flaux is an innovative textile material under the project ‘Flower Matter’, an ongoing research of ways to valorise flower waste sustainably. We aim to provide a solution to cut this waste stream by diverting flower waste from landfills into environmentally responsible materials, directing recyclable wastes that come with flowers into their proper recycling processes, offering alternatives for unsustainable materials and enabling circularity in the industry.
Klasse Klima

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

All art and design universities must address the climate crisis. This is Klasse Klima's mission, a student-led seminar series and education collective based at University of the Arts Berlin. We are building a transnational network with groups from other art schools, connecting them through innovative digital infrastructure and a fluid joint corpus of transformative knowledge and practices: a synergetic push towards a sustainable and inclusive shift in aesthetic education in Europe and beyond!
Nature’s Library

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Nature’s Library is a nucleus of peace, surrounded by elements of nature expressing the cycles of water and growth. It brings back to life the historical period when an Augustinian monastery existed on the site and connects it with the present by inviting different community groups to interact in one space. The installation merges into the fabric of the historic ensemble by collecting and reusing rainwater and providing the local community with an opportunity to grow herbs and spices.
Rico srl

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

What we would like to do is to create final products that can be completely and 100% recycled in a continuous way. Ideally, one day, we would like to purchase back the broken or not used anymore product from our customers and use these materials who came back to produce other products in order to become self-sufficient and to achieve the objective “zero environmental impact”.
Roofscapes

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Roofscapes transforms untapped pitched roofs into green and accessible spaces as a way to mitigate urban heat islands, anchor biodiversity, catch stormwater, and provide new outdoor spaces in European city centers. Thanks to prefabricated timber modules and without demolishing existing buildings, Roofscapes helps European cities adapt to our century’s social and environmental challenges.
Symbiotic Spaces Collective

NEB Prizes: NEB Rising Stars

Symbiotic Spaces Collective is a transdisciplinary project, which is investigating the possiblities of multispecies habitats for urban wild-life. SSC explores the use of technology, like 3D printing with local clays, on a purpose that is not human centered but life centered. The work is motivated by pressing questions about the future of biodiversity, and the relationship of humans to the critters that that that keep our ecosystems alive.

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