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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    Communities for disaster risk reduction

    Prevent the increasing climate disasters affecting italian rural areas through community empowerment

    Marche region, municipalities affected by the floods in september 2022: Arcevia, Barbara, Cantiano, Frontone, Cagli, Pergola, Sassoferrato, Castellone di Suasa, Ostra, Serra Sant'Abbondio, Senigallia e Trecastelli; most of them located along the Misa river., Italy
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Under the Landscape

    Region of South Aegean Island group of Cyclades Municipality of Thera (Santorini) Community of Therasia Settlement of Agrilia, Greece
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Repaving of Annunciation Square

    Repaving of Annunciation Square, Sliema, Malta

    Sliema, Malta
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    Censis Rubliss

    Products agency focused on innovative materials, local-circular bioeconomy & thoughtful consumption.

    La Tremblade, Charente- maritime., France
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    CHANCE FOR ALL

    Walk enjoy, delight ourselves with the best of our city: All its services: All the same.

    To speak about BADAJOZ means to speak about a modern and sustainable city,full of green areas and facilities. It would be ideal for our beloved Badajoz to lead a project that was capable of eradicating poverty barriers, had many more investments in cooperation and development and all citizens had access to a world without borders, where we were all equal. , Spain
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    madaster – the cadastre for materials

    madaster is the digital library of materials and products.

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,Netherlands, Germany Switzerland, Norway
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    A CHAIR FOR TWO

    Slovenia
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Planeta Kampus

    Planeta Kampus

    The campus of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen, Czechia
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    From grey into bluegreengrey

    Reconnecting with nature and its processes in our streetscapes

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

    Abacus

    CROSS-BORDER/INTERNATIONAL,France
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    CARTUJA_QANAT

    Recovering the street life in a climate changing world

    Spain
    A new governance model for the public-private transformation of the city and the generation of a LIVING LABORATORY FOR CHANGE through ECOINNOVATION to accelerate the urban transformation in its public and private component. The effective combination of the cultural legacy of the Mediterranean environment, such as wind towers, QANATS, the use of porous materials such as ceramics, fountains, etc. With the latest scientific advances in engineering, materials and construction.
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    VIVID

    Vivid - a curtain that traces time

    Luxembourg , Germany
    Vivid is a monochrome curtain made of naturally and synthetically dyed yarn. When the textiles are exposed to sunlight, the natural colors fade while the stable synthetic colors retain their hues, gently revealing an intricate pattern. The shifting color has the poetic power of tracing time and strengthens the emotional relationship people experience with their belongings: incorporating change and encouraging longevity.
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    Fendi Factory

    Italy
    A raised garden conceived to mend a long-standing rift in the terrain and recreate the hillside of the site in which it's located. This is what the new Fendi Factory in Bagno a Ripoli looks like. The concept aims to define the conditions for a renewed visual collaboration between architecture and environment: from the green roof to the courtyards the idea was to transform the entire site into a new and extended garden also with the purpose of improving the quality of the working spaces.
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    TEMPORARY INHABITANTS

    New outreach services for resilient mountain areas

    Italy
    The project experiments with new outreach services in mountainous areas through new creative languages that educate and generate opportunities in the extreme periphery. Beyond the cities, the countryside and the mountains, there are isolated communities that resist depopulation. The integrated actions were: .Participatory outfitting of public spaces to create work spaces .Awareness raising for sustainable mobility .Creative residencies to bring skills back to mountain territories
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    Enying Green Revival

    Sustainable development of Enying city's historical green centre

    Hungary
    „Enying Green City” is a special example of sustainable urban development, since our studios were leading the whole process from creating a strategy, building a participatory based planning process till the end of the construction and supporting the re-connection of locals with the renewed sites. We finished the set of small scale wooden installations in 2022 by two pro bono pieces to help the local community after recent years’ high inflation hindering the completion of the original project.
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    Croatian Coral Centre Zlarin

    Croatian Coral Centre Zlarin (CCCZ)

    Croatia
    The guiding idea of the “Croatian Coral Centre Zlarin” is an innovative centre that encompasses the challenges of a small island community focusing on maritime protection and preserving a certain habitat. Specifically, the project focuses on the importance of coral preservation in order to sustain the biodiversity of the Šibenik archipelago and communicating the peculiarities of the island lifestyle, so closely connected to nature and the sea, compared to life on mainland.
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    DOMANI: experimental housing model.

    DOMANI is an idea for living the future: an experimental prototype for regenerating the city.

    Italy
    DOMANI is the name of an experimental housing model, a simple architecture based by circular economy principles. A house with a design by layers, that can be assembled and disassembled, and with a structure that enhances the effectiveness of the compositional choices thanks to the efficiency of the technological choices.
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    People in Place

    Renovating historic workers’ villas keeping in place their resident population

    Portugal
    Dealing with a housing crisis, the Lisbon City Council does not give up fulfilling a right of the Portuguese constitution: the right to housing. Sometimes located in neighbourhoods highly demanded by the market, several workers’ villas form a bubble where time and the effects of urbanisation stopped being in a fast decay process. To renovate these, the housing and construction departments unite efforts guaranteeing that the residents (a vulnerable population) stay in place during the works.
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    "Trees to the Skies" Land Art Project

    Trees to the Skies : (Die Bäume zum Himmel) : Giant Wishing Trees

    Germany
    "Trees to the Skies" is a land art project that transforms an urban forest into a place of wonder and hope. Many mature ash, birch, and maple trees are wrapped from the base to the fork in colorful fabric and become giant wishing trees. Visitors are invited to hug the colorful trees, make a wish, and wander around the magical art trail to explore the forest and reconnect with nature.
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    MusOepen

    MusOepen

    Italy
    The MuseOpen project is a real path of investigation aimed at deepening our knowledge of the environment and to propose new ways to relate to it. The activities are organized in the internal and external spaces of the Natural Science Museum, with a series of multidisciplinary initiatives which involved a multiplicity of public and private entities. An entomological exhibition curated by the Faenza speleological group, scientific insights, talks, projections films, educational workshops ecc.
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