21 NEB Housing projects: lessons learned and replicable actions
A catalogue of blueprints providing inspiration and guidance for housing development
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A collaborative garden that grows community
Ulia Garden is a place led by women, dedicated to citizens, and born from a voluntary work, willing to encourage a more liveable, social and…
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Play Accessible Communities: Co designing mobility hubs in İzmir
Data, a tabletop game, and three months of collaboration: how İzmir co designed a mobility hub with its most overlooked users.
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Funding freshwater and nature restoration: twelve Off-the-Shelf Instruments
EU-funded project MERLIN created a portfolio of replicable financing solutions to help restoration teams identify and apply innovative finan…
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PAC Playbook: Data + game for mobility hubs
A replicable methodology using spatial data and co-design games to turn micro-mobility hubs into inclusive, healthy public spaces.
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Barcelona Xifré’s Rooftop: A Wild Garden above the City
A wild garden on a 19th-century rooftop, bringing neighbours together while cutting energy use and respecting heritage
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Turning urban waste into circular soap
A regenerative soap made from human activity wastes, reducing urban waste while challenging our notions of disgust and value.
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Picturesque inclusive renovation in Margherita di Savoia.
The renovation actively involved tenants and stakeholders, representing a sustainable model of integration across research, innovation and s…
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A circular, cost-efficient Nature-based Solution for climate-resilient buildings
An innovative prototype consisting of a greywater recycling station and a vertical hydroponic garden, supported by the Metabuilding project,…
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Social housing renovation: a policy brief
The SUPERSHINE Project proposes a “Just Renovation Framework” to tackle energy poverty and building stock’s ageing.
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Cooperative housing in Valencia
A cooperative housing pilot in Valencia’s Jesús district that combined training, co-design and community engagement to form a promoter group
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Erden PURE Walls: 100% earth, 0% concrete
Prefabricated rammed earth walls. 100% natural, fully recyclable, zero cement. A circular alternative to concrete.
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URBiNAT Catalogue of Nature-Based Solutions
A digital catalogue helping cities co-create Healthy Corridors through material and immaterial nature-based solutions.
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Usersence: Understanding the Visitor Experience in Heritage Sites
A user-centred evaluation tool that helps heritage sites improve visitor experience through structured data collection
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Outdoor Space Mapping
Developed by the DESIRE project, Outdoor Space Mapping is a tool employed to engage citizens in envisioning how the outdoor space of a local…
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UP/DOWN: Reconnecting communities along the Osam River
A youth-led residency upstream, a river cleanup downstream, and a festival that reunited a Bulgarian village and town
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HERIcraft: Bring heritage to life in Minecraft
HERIcraft provides guided Minecraft sessions where young people and residents co-design new ideas for local heritage sites
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Decision support system for urban transformation
A digital planning tool that integrates technical, financial, environmental, and social data for evidence-based decision-making in urban and…
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Welcome to our Elderly Futures
A participatory art experience transformed public conversations on ageing into collective future-making
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Inclusive Museums: Addressing Neurodivergence in Cultural Spaces
The initiative aimed to foster inclusive cultural spaces by integrating neurodiversity into space design and by raising awareness of cultura…
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Laguna nel Bicchiere: Reviving Venice’s forgotten vineyards
Restoring hidden vineyards, gardens, and orchards to give Venetians a sense of belonging while preserving heritage and facing climate challe…
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Sustainable and inclusive library renovation in Zoersel
Through co-design, the municipality of Zoersel has launched the sustainable renovation of a library and affordable housing units
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Superbarrio - DesignYourHeritage
Superbarrio - DesignYourHeritage is a gamified digital tool developed by the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia to empower cit…
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Escape Room KLIMA
An innovative participatory activity to raise awareness about energy, sustainability, and collective energy management
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Why Language Matters in Climate Action
The CALECHE lexicon project explored how to align words and their interpretation across different countries, organisation types and discipli…
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De Korenbloem: A care campus that blends into the neighbourhood
Home-like housing and community facilities for vulnerable people with dementia, stroke-related disabilities and somatic disorders, integrate…
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IMPERFECT enables construction actors to benefit from circularity
Imperfect helps renovation and deconstruction teams unlock the hidden value in buildings by streamlining material audits and circularity.
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Managing Urban Spaces Together digital system
MUST is a participatory system combining a tangible table and a web based platform. It empowers citizens and planners to co‑design urban reg…
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NEST Façade: Biodiversity-Integrating Building Skin
An innovative façade solution that transforms buildings into living habitats, improving biodiversity and climate resilience
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drOp Integrated Methodology for Neighbourhood’s Renovation (IRM)
IRM aims to transform social housing districts into inclusive smart neighbourhoods in a phased process to support the cities in their proces…
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Zoöp: giving a voice to nature in decision-making
Zoöperation, i.e. ‘zoë’ (‘life) + ‘cooperation’: a governance model and learning process fostering collaboration between human and nature.
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EkiElkar- drOp’s energy community in Santa Ana, Ermua
A citizen-led energy community in Ermua’s Santa Ana district combines solar generation, digital tools, and social innovation to drive an inc…
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Barcode: visualising land-use for collaborative urban planning
A digital tool displaying the spatial and programmatic layout of the city or neighbourhood, showing how space is occupied
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Solar power shading structure
The shading structure developed by NEBourhoods is a prototype made of bamboo and wood providing a multifunctional urban space and delivering…
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Animal-Aided Design Toolbox
Methodology to integrate wildlife considerations into the architectural and urban development process from the very beginning, rather than a…
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Think it, Sketch it, Show it!
A 6-step toolkit on co-designing with young people, developed within the Desire project
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40 Co-Creation Tools, Tested in the Context of Urban Planning
A portfolio of 40 co-creation tools — from digital to place-based, from art to entrepreneurship and education — tested by NEB-STAR in three …
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Inclusive renovation process for a housing block in Riga, Latvia
Transformation of an old social housing block into an attractive, inclusive living environment thanks to the Desire project
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Co-designing Urban Development Projects in Stavanger, Norway
How 16 participatory co-design tools were tested in Stavanger's Pedersgata district to inform urban regeneration aligned with New European B…
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