• Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    De Korenbloem

    Pilot project Invisible Care – De Korenbloem, Kortrijk (Belgium)

    Belgium
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    @The masterplan was developed by Sergison Bates Architects and Studio Jan Vermeulen i.c.w. Tom Thys Architecten. Project A was designed by Sergison Bates Architects. Project B was designed by Studio Jan Vermeulen i.c.w. Tom Thys Architecten, 2020
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Old Resin Factory

    Old Resin Factory. Co-creation and cultural development in rural environments

    Spain
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    @Asociación Amarillo109, 2021
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    PIACENZA'S BOTANICAL COMPLEX

    Proposing redevelopment of an abandoned area in the city of Piacenza in Italy

    Italy
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    @Rebay, 2021
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    hOUT

    Homelessness and design for social change

    hOUT
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    @Albano, 2021
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Genius loci - digital mapping tool

    Genius loci: a digital mapping tool for ethical urbanisation

    Lithuania
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    @Žemųjų Šančių bendruomenė, 2022
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  • Reconnecting with nature

    Parkly - places, people and urban nature

    Parkly is a modular and circular solution for greener and happier public places and liveable cities

    Finland
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    @Parkly , 2021
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  • Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

    CoolCo’s - Cooling Corners & Corridors

    CoolCo’s offer small-scale, modular and co-designed solutions to adapt cities to heat impacts.

    Hungary
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    @Ghira, 2021
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  • Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

    Roman Urban Wood economy promotion

    Roman trees wood saved as craft and art and Carbon preservation

    Italy
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    @FrancoPaolinelli, 2022
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Racine - cooking for hair

    Helping people with curly and afro hair to reappropriate their hair through eco-friendly approaches.

    France
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    @TCHATAT Kuidja, 2022
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  • Regaining a sense of belonging

    Jardins de Ca l'Aranyó

    Spain
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    @VíctorRahola, 2021
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    Reconnecting with nature

    @Learnlife, 2021
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    Barcelona Eco Hub

    Barcelona Eco Hub , a sustainability and innovation Centre open to the entire community

    Spain
    Barcelona Eco Hub is a sustainability and innovation Centre in Castelldefels open to the entire community.  The building has achieved the Passivhaus Premium certification as one of the first innovative learning projects in Spain. The purpose is to contribute to a better environment , creating not only an innovative learning space close to nature but on top being a reference model to learn about efficiency and sustainability, enabling its users to become participants.
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    @Art Complex ANEL, 2020
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    Art Complex ANEL

    Art Complex ANEL - nature, spirituality and their connection with art

    Bulgaria
    ANEL Art Complex is located south of the town of Sozopol, Bulgaria, a natural phenomenon with many fjords, the most beautiful and picturesque part of the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. It is located in a place kissed by God. During the construction of the complex a unique symbiosis between architecture and nature was achieved. It has a remarkable botanical garden and a unique for Bulgaria sculptural exhibition with works by the most famous Bulgarian artists in the field of plastic art. 
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    @Parkly , 2021
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    Parkly - places, people and urban nature

    Parkly is a modular and circular solution for greener and happier public places and liveable cities

    Finland
    Parkly transforms public places from grey to green, and makes them more social and fun with a modular solution. Parkly pocket parks are lively and buzzing places that attract both people and pollinators. Parkly is circular by design and the modular solution makes it easy to add urban green, plants and small trees in all kinds of urban environments. Parkly’s mission is to fast track sustainable urban change by connecting places, people and nature.
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    @POLAU-pôle arts & urbanisme, 2021
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    Le parlement de Loire

    The Loire parliament approach | Let us welcome the voices of nature into our parliaments

    France
    How about a parliament for the river ? This is the unifying idea behind the Loire parliament approach. For the past 3 years, POLAU organized hearings (led by Camille de Toledo, writer), public events, arts&sciences residencies to imagine a fictitious institution representing both humans and non-humans. This pioneer initiative involves a large community to the river’s stakes, to a legal status for elements of nature. It participates in turning around methods of territorial engineering.
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    @Batlleiroig, 2020
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    The Forest Path

    A new model of cemetery in an exceptional environment

    Spain
    The Forest Path is an intervention based on respect and conservation of the environment in the natural setting of Collserola Park. An ecological, attractive and suitable construction for the burial of the ashes that biodegrades 100% in one generation. It is an extension of the Roques Blanques regional cemetery; a cemetery, with more than 30 years of history, that has known how to adapt to changes by adopting new paradigms of burial.
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    @Martin Pribila, 2021
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    Living in nature

    Leave fields for crops. Build instead in unused slopes and make new field on your housetop.

    Slovakia
    MoleHouse uses slope to make better connection to your neighbour by excluding fences and making privacy with nature morfology instead. Building homes in an abandoned slope sites that are difficult to maintain can leave fields for crops. With viewsfrom slope to nature, you will be rewarded with better mental health. As MoleHouse is made in slope, there is new field growing up on your roof with own healthy food by teaching kids. MoleHouse uses recycling and natural materials as foamglass, clay..
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    @Asociación Landares, 2021
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    Landares Festival

    Landares Festival 2021 and 2020 editions

    Spain
    Landares Festival is a one-week gathering of people working to explore the potential of land art as a means to investigate new forms of sustainable relationships between human beings and nature. It takes place in a rural area, where participants, visitors and local population are invited to create artistic installations and performances with natural on-site materials, zero waste and locally inspired contents.
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    @roth & čerina, 2021
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    Wetland Visitor Centre and Observatories

    Visitor Centre and Remote Wildlife Observatories in the Lonja field, Croatia

    Croatia
    Exploring the protected landscape of Lonjsko polje, one of Europe’s largest wetlands, is planned through a network of entry-points and observatories placed within it. The visitor centre samples rural morphologies, creating a new social focus within the village. The observatories connote centuries of anthropogenic and natural symbioses, of a border condition, in a bestiarium of markers and vistas. They become a ludic element of the landscape, a new species echoing the locally familiar.
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    @Lower Silesia Art Incubator, 2020
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    TowerTopia - Saturated Garden

    TowerTopia - Saturated Garden as "Other Space"

    Poland
    TowerTopia has been created as a space where art, creativity and nature coexist, giving a shelter to many species of flora and fauna in this oasis on the edge of the farmlands. The creators of the garden setting strives to make the horticultural, artistic experiences accessible to communities within Lower Silesia region. Planning and building signifies human responsibility for creating the public and private spaces and then looking after that, which exists for the order of beauty of space.
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    @KUKO Kollektiv für Kulturökologie, 2021
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    FREIRAUMLABOR

    FREIRAUMLABOR. Eine sozio-ökologische Kulturinitiative am Dammweg

    Germany
    FREIRAUMLABOR is a Berlin-Neukölln based inclusive, interdisciplinary and above all creative research and documentation initiative. Together with the local neighbourhood, we want to capture, understand and discuss ideas on how a future use of the former school garden at Neuköllner Dammweg could look like within the context of its history as a green educational space and the current infrastructural needs formulated by the authorities.
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