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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Rhythm and Means in the Public Space

    Rhythm and Means in the Public Space - Summer School

    Polovragi Municipality (Gorj County, Jiu Conurbation, Romania), Romania
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Mediterranean Dream, Our School Yard

    Co-creation project for the renaturalization of the Mar Mediterraneo school in Almeria (Spain)

    Andalucia/Almeria, Spain
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    Reet Aus UPMADE collection

    First UPMADE certified industrially upcycled fashion collection in Europe

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Estonia, Poland
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    Fabmobil

    Fabmobil - a rolling digital education lab for rural and decentralized areas in East Germany

    Saxony and Lusatia. Mainly rural areas and decentralized regions effected by the transformation process started by stopping coal mining., Germany
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    CASA SOLARE (SOLAR HOUSE)

    An afterschool for children. A model for a sustainable house for the neighborhood

    The municipality of Ravenna is funding the project through a pact between the municipality itself and our association (Ortisti di strada). This kind of pact is a national project and is called "patto per i beni comuni" (pact for commons). They help us financially and we take care of a building that was once abandoned., Italy
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Reappropriation of the Plaza de España

    Redistribution of urban spaces, promoting citizen empowerment and sustainnability

    Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Prague spots

    Prague spots

    Prague, Czechia
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    Upcycling Concept Store

    Concept Store for upcycled clothing and accessories

    Germany
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    MAGICAL REALISM

    MAGICAL REALISM: Complexity, Diversity and Nature's Contribution to Humanity

    Venice, Italy (2021) and Feltre, Italy (2022), Italy
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Dream flowers

    Dream flowers

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Croatia, Malta
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    OSS

    Our Sound Space

    Sweden
    Our Sound Space (OSS) is an interactive sound installation at Fleminsberg Campus (Huddinge) that invites you to tune in and via your smartphone shape the sonic environment of that public space. You can select different soundscapes and chill out to the refreshing and regenerative effects of the soundscapes of your choice, selecting different combinations of soundscapes from natural environments (melting iceberg, forest, riverside etc.) to man-made sounds (heart bit, children playing, ect).
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    Mendel's Greenhouse

    G.J. Mendel's Legacy to Science, Culture and Humanity

    Czechia
    On the 200th anniversary of Gregor Mendel's birth, Augustinian Abbey in Brno, Czech Republic, brought back to life Mendel´s Greenhouse. The design by CHYBIK+KRISTOF architects is deeply rooted in his work and continuing his legacy of a dialogue between science and faith is needed especially in these difficult times. Honoring this figure, stigmatized for his origins and faith by the political regimes of the past is important for reconciliation with the past and to find a sense of belonging.
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    Wooden Frame Flat

    Spain
    The house is similar to its pre-existence, but it acquires, with its geometric singularity, the illusion of living in an expansive and three-dimensional place through the drawing of its architectural plans. Almudena, the new owner and user is a young lawyer who has managed to assert herself vitally through a new housing concept. This apartment aims to use the intimate, the work and the cultural in a diluted and flexible way to integrate into our post-pandemic socio-economic structures.
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    Recovering Aiguamolls de l’Empordà

    Torre Mornau Renaturalization: wetlands and brackish lagoons at Aiguamolls de l’Empordà

    Spain
    The Emporda’s wetlands are a unique biological reserve in the North of Catalonia. In this area Torre d’En Mornau includes 118 hectares of brackish lagoons, crop fields with 5345 sqm of build area. The intervention included the recovery of the existing buildings and improving the situation of the natural brackish lagoons and wetlands as biodiversity reserve while recovering also some traditional uses of the existing buildings by reintroducing the endangered Vaca de L’Albera cow breed.
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    Aalborg East: From isolated to inclusive

    Aalborg East: How a strategic masterplan can turn an area from isolated to inclusive

    Denmark
    Once a deprived residential district in Denmark's fourth-largest city, Aalborg East is now safe, with redesigned outdoor spaces, improved public lighting, new services and shops. Social housing has been renovated while remaining affordable and other homes have been built to develop diversity in the neighbourhood. Tenants, local associations, businesses and their staff were involved in the process from initial ideas to implementation, making this redevelopment a model of co-creation.
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    Circle of sustainability & creativity

    Kyklos - a lab for a circular neighborhood of creativity, community and cohesion through co-design

    Greece
    Kyklos ‘The Circle’: renovating and reviving a building along social and environmental circularity principles and practices, prioritizing equally people, nature and the surroundings. Kyklos is a community space and lab for the creation of a circular neighborhood, with the building as a reference point. It is the practical application of beautiful design for a circular purpose. It combines functionality and sustainability with aesthetics to provide a new community use for an abandoned building.
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    FUTURE HOME

    FUTURE HOME — living for tomorrow

    Germany
    The construction and building sector is closely linked to the challenges of other transformation areas. The requirements for sustainable construction include energy efficiency and climate neutrality, preservation of biodiversity, conservation of resources and use of renewable raw materials, sustainable procurement of products and services including compliance with human rights in the supply chain. All these requirements must be addressed. With these aims in mind, the FUTURE HOME developed.
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    Sporos Regeneration Institute

    Greece
    Our Mission is the regeneration of the environment, of culture and of human relations. Through our plethora of projects and educational tools we aim to reconnect people of all backgrounds and ages with nature and to teach them how to live more sustainable, healthier lives while caring for each other and nature.
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    Great Faia Brava Reserve

    Great Faia Brava- An impulse for Biodiversity and Rewilding in Vale do Côa and International Douro

    Portugal
    ATN was created in 2000, leading to the establishment of Faia Brava a few years later as the first and growing privately owned nature reserve with a recently-obtained status of Private Protected Area (APP).ATN aims to put nature conservation into action and further develop the natural values of the area. ATN aims to enhance the Natura 2000 goals and species through active management, and doing so, also involves local communities to help and enhance the old mosaic landscape of the villages.
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    PAX - Patios de la Axerquía

    PAX - Patios de la Axerquía Strategy

    Spain
    PAX is an initiative promoted by architects and anthropologists trying to reinforce a Heritage Community for urban regeneration and the reuse of traditional typologies in Córdoba, with social innovation strategies. PAX acts as a vector of civil society trying to promote a change in the collective imaginary to empower citizens and create residential opportunities through cooperative processes to safeguard the coexistence in patio-houses as an alternative to depopulation and touristification.
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