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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    San Xusto Baths

    HERITAGE, ETHNOGRAPHIC AND LANDSCAPE RECOVERY OF THE SAN XUSTO BATHS.

    the municipality of Cerdedo-Cotobade. Consellería de Medio Ambiente, Territorio y Vivienda, Xunta de Galicia., Spain
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Incubator for Place-based Ecosystems

    Incubator for Place-based Ecosystems for the revitalization of latent spaces in shrinking areas

    I started testing and developing this concept in two medium-small towns in Romania, namely Făgăraș and Reșița (30 and 75k inhabitants respectively) since 2016 gradually building networks of trust, bridging local organizations with outside expertise and sparking small scale demonstrative acts, to lead to critical yeast of ideas and successful collaborations of a network of now ready to assume longer term and higher scale aims. Since 2022, I have set the grounds to replicate this type of catalyzer work in other small urban and rural communities in Romania, engaging with a first cohort of 7 local organizations to initiate revitalization processes of space relevant for local tourism and community development. While I do intend to continue work with our basecamps, we also want to expand to a broader cohort of such networks., Romania
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    NO-GAP

    How to say NO to the GAP - Gioco d’Azzardo Patologico (pathological gambling).

    Municipalities of Romano di Lombardia, Treviglio, and Bergamo., Italy
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Putte Biophilic Design House renovation

    Putte Biophilic Design House renovation

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Belgium
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    STADTBAD Kunstforum Brandenburg

    STADTBAD Kunstforum Brandenburg - VIRTUAL BATHING - from memory to vision

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Germany, Belgium
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    Master in Circular Construction

    Máster Internacional en Construcción Sostenible y Circular de Zigurat Institute of Technology

    Spain
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    FLOW

    FLOW, Brussels first open-air swimming pool

    Flemish Government, Flemish Community Commission, Government of the Brussels-Capital Region, Municipality of Anderlecht, Belgium
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    Klimatorium

    Klimatorium - Unique architecture leads to empowering climate solutions

    Region Central Denmark, Municipality of Lemvig, Denmark
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Bar do Porto

    Bar do Porto, Corrubedo

    Galicia , Spain
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    Mostar Green Design Centre

    Underpinning the circular design learning experience

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Bosnia and Herzegovina, Netherlands
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    Beauty and sustainability for all

    Let's give all children a chance for sustaiable and beautiful world

    Poland
    Project design connects outdoor education with Dalton in an innovative way. The project creates opportunities for learning with different learning capabilities ( eg. health, mental conditions, language knowledge- Ukrainian refugees). The project let us to gain positive emotional experiences connected with communing with nature.
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    TOWARD GREEN MATERIALS

    Application of aluminium as green metal in the construction industry

    Montenegro
    The aim of the project is to shift the construction industry from using traditional materials to green materials such as aluminium alloys where it is possible. The main problem, addressed from the side of experts in the field of the construction industry, is a lack of knowledge. Advantages: infinitely recyclable which needs very little energy to recycle, completely neutral in their effect on air, soil, and water quality, the tensile strength of steel, and 70% lighter than a steel structure.
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    Natural material for a new ecosystem

    Micelio, experimentando para una economía de los productos más sostenibles, circulares e inclusivos.

    Spain
    Micelio, experimentando para una economía de los productos más sostenibles, circulares e inclusivos. Nature provides many solutions through the materials it uses, which are also cheap and accessible. In the same way, a kingdom as vast as that of fungi, together with the vast world of waste, can provide us with what we need. Our territory provides an abundance of agro-industrial waste substrates that can be reincorporated into the cycle with a high value in the design of products for children's l
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    Chamusca's Inovative School Centre

    Portugal
    Chamusca's Inovative School Centre is all about aiming education as a perfect symbiosis between technology and human touch, between studying and wellness, between science, maths and arts. Right in the heart of Portugal, Chamusca is a charming town that heads the Municipality, with few more than 8000 inhabitants and lives mainly of agriculture and services. This special School is born from the belief that the children in this municipality deserve the best oportunities to achieve a bright future.
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    Rural Entrepreneurship with Lavender

    Sustainable development through entrepreneurship with the gifts of nature

    Cyprus
    Lavender as a source of education, inspiration, skill development and capacity building for sustainable development of a rural area, based on smart specialization.
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    Library-making in dialogue

    Participatory creation of the IX Secondary School Library in Warsaw. Citizen democracy in practice.

    Poland
    The accomplished project of the IX Secondary School Library exemplifies transformation of an unused space into the multifunctional, open, inviting, comfortable, however modest place of learning. In the design process, students of the School and the Academy of Fine Arts, as well as librarians and administration staff, entered into creative multidisciplinary dialogue. As a result, social capital, cultural values and sense of belonging were enforced. Moreover, the use of resources was optimized.
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    House of Courage Civic Education Center

    Žanis Lipke Memorial civic education center House of Courage

    Latvia
    Riga Dock worker Žanis Lipke under impossible circumstances saved people who were not considered people by the authorities and neighbors under German occupation. Civic courage is something to be learned, to be taught, to be trained like a muscle, like a racehorse. The Žanis Lipke Memorial civic education center House of Courage will be a training ground for young people to build resistance to stereotyping and common casually repeated hateful myths. Let’s help lion-hearts grow their courage!
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    TEACH FOR FUTURE

    TEACH FOR FUTURE - Educational Transformation of Adults through Innovation, Technology and Entrepren

    Romania , Bulgaria
    TEACH FOR FUTURE represents an adult education intervention to improve and expand the offer of high quality learning opportunities on innovative educational themes with potential for economic growth, the acquisition and recognition of new skills and attitudes, in accordance with labor market requirements by low-skilled adults so that they respond better to the demands of the current working environment, governed by technology, interdisciplinarity, green transition and transnational cooperation.
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    FAZ com as tuas mãos - buy less do more

    The manufacture revolution is happening, design is at service of user-makers: DO IT with your hands!

    Portugal
    Change your mindset: everyday use products don't have to be made by industry. FAZ com as tuas mãos (DO IT with your hands) are easy to build designs and classes to demystify wood furniture making and empower people to do their own. Each piece is designed to be easy to build, with basic tools and easy-to-find materials in short periods of time. Your handwork provides more gratification than mass-produced goods consumption.
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    Let's Do It by the Sea

    Let's Do It by the Sea: Environmental Protection, Education, Culture

    Lithuania
    Let’s do it — let’s connect with nature. Let’s make a change and have fun. "Let’s Do It by the Sea" is an open environmental festival, where we combine environmental protection, education, and culture. Hundreds of volunteers take action and protect the coastline by fixing the dunes. Participants engage in playful learning experiences and celebrate the positive change with good music. Everyone can do it with us - just come up with an idea and act for nature together.
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