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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Un-Un Project

    The project aims to use stone found in illegal landfills to create furniture and design objects.

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

    Rehabilitations with the FDQ

    Studies of rehabilitation of degraded housing in an agreement with the Fabrique des Quartiers

    Lille Metropolis, in North of France, France
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    The Trash Traveler

    Raising awareness with fun, creativity and the extraordinary together with the community!

    It's a national wide project, trying to reach all communities to take part in raising awareness about environmental issues., Portugal
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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

    STEM*Lab

    STEM*Lab - Discover, Include, Inspire, Empower

    1. Lombardy (Municipality of Milan, Municipality of Cremona) 2. Piedmont (Municipality of Turin, Municipality of Settimo Torinese, Municipality of Cuneo) 3. Campania (Municipality of Naples, Municipality of Ercolano) 4. Sicily (Municipality of Palermo, Municipality of Partinico), Italy
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Precollinear Park

    Precollinear Park — A placemaking experience in Turin

    Piedmont, Turin, Italy
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    Towards Urban Democratic Adaptation

    Adaptation districts towards prioritized urban interventions in cities with limited green spaces.

    Metropolitan Area of Athens, Attica Region, Greece
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Focus

    Focus: a civic observatory inside nature

    Italy
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Rhapsody in West

    Residential building with amenities Rhapsody in West, Amsterdam

    Amsterdam West, Kolenkit neighbourhood, Netherlands
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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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    Rebranding Selija

    Rebranding Selija. Catalyst of community growth - Identity. Empathy.

    Latvia
    NGO project about changing the identity of the region. It is based on local tradition, aesthetics and lifestyle and produces a lively, modern, social and visual reality. Identity signs for 34 communities, cooperation network with 40 participants, forums, discussion groups and an exciting information space. Model for community tourism. A confident voice of the communities at the state level helps to achieve the recognisability of the region increase and develops a culture program for Selija.
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    Operation Rivers

    Operation Rivers - Exploring to take care

    Italy
    Volunteering, bottom-up participation, sense of belonging to the territories and orientation towards sustinable development are the keywords of our project. With our project, "Operation Rivers: exploring to take care" we wanted to integrate actions based on civic volunteering and experiences of citizen science through activism and the sense of care for the most important natural rivers of the region of Veneto, involved in the project: Adige, Po, Bacchiglione, Brenta, Sile, Piave and Livenza.
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    Innovation Model of Craft Revitalisation

    From research to business. How to keep heritage alive.Sustainable Business Model, long-term solution

    Poland , Poland
    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.
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    Cortili in azione

    Cortili in azione - La bellezza come bene comune

    Italy
    Cortili in azione empowers residents in the Nichelino and Sangone neighborhoods of Turin, Italy to transform the schoolyard into communal spaces through collaborative and participatory design methodologies. This allows children, parents, teachers, and residents to exchange knowledge and experiences, have fun, and strengthen the social fabric of a commuter town.
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    ecoBirdy

    Design based on social and environmental responsibility.

    Belgium , Netherlands
    ecoBirdy is a Belgian award-winning company that created a system to transform old plastic toys into high-quality kids’ furniture. Started as a research project, it evolved into a business that saves tons of plastic waste per year, giving it a new, circular life. The addition of furniture for grown-ups and Tableware offers new solutions for multiple plastic waste streams. International museums have ecoBirdy designs in their permanent collections, as examples of circular design.
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    ArtBrunch

    „In the begginning there was the garden”_ArtBrunch_Botanical Garden in Budapest

    Hungary
    Art exhibitions in ELTE Botanical Garden (first in 21.06.11-04.12 and the second in 22.23.04-31.05) The main goal for our newly founded initiative was to make visual arts easily accessible but also more experiental to a wider, generic audience by creating a location specific, innovative exhibition which had been put into a vegetal frame that takes the observer by surprise. This way the audience can free their minds and break away from the common exibitional spaces of art galleries and museums.
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    THE DUO PROJECT

    DOMESTIC AND ARTISTIC CRAFTS - REVITALIZATION OF THE BARBER HAIR SALON OZBIČ

    Slovenia
    The former barber and hairdressing salon Ozbič, is the most completely preserved artisan salons in Slovenia from the period between the two world wars. Carefully restored, with original equipment and details, selected contents and exceptional respect for the past, which has been written in it for almost a century. With its unusual and unique appearance, the house on the corner enlivens the old town center of Postojna and the cultural heritage of this craft in the local area and beyond.
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    Open Data from Spanish Vulnerable-hoods

    Open Data from Spain’s Urban Analyses of Vulnerable Neighbourhoods between 1991 and 2011

    Spain
    Spain’s Urban Analyses of Vulnerable Neighbourhoods have examined urban vulnerability in its 147 largest cities through expressly elaborated neighbourhood-scale delimitations. The open data project developed here is based on these analyses and makes them available to the public on the e-ScienceData portal. The analyses are part of the Observatory of Urban Vulnerability of the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and serve as a starting point for the design of urban public policies.
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    Racconti per Ricominciare

    Racconti per Ricominciare - The Sunset Tales Theatre Festival

    Croatia
    Created and realized by Vesuvioteatro, "Racconti per Ricominciare" is a multi-venue eco-friendly performing arts festival that takes place in National Cultural Heritage of South of Italy. During the Festival, some of the most evocative locations in Campania are transformed into natural theaters for site-specific performances staged at sunset, in perfect symbiosis both with ancient architectures and natural landscapes. Recognized as National Theatre Festival by Italian Ministry of Culture.
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    FLOW

    FLOW, Brussels first open-air swimming pool

    Belgium
    POOL IS COOL has been advocating for the reintroduction of outdoor swimming in Brussels since 2015. In 2021 they opened FLOW, the first public outdoor pool in the city in forty years, designed and built by Decoratelier Jozef Wouters. As a prototype for more permanent solutions, FLOW addresses the urgency of the lack of open-air swimming in the European capital. FLOW also fulfils a number of social ambitions, such as employing young people from Brussels who are keen to contribute to the project.
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