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HELIX Studio from London combines design expertise with the health sector. With the help of a mobile pop-up studio, designers and hospital staff are brought together to jointly look for solutions to the complex problems of the sector, such as in palliative medicine. In Place of War from Manchester supports artists and creative enterprises in areas of war and crisis. To this end, they developed a special coaching method to help people build up their own businesses and networks to create social change through their creativity. 2015: Bisera Savoska representing the project Smarter Than You Think. Presenting an award always means to select a winner – but due to the high quality of the submissions, we also wanted to honour the following projects, which made it on the shortlist: 1D Touch from Lyon is a new streaming platform for independent creative professionals, who have difficulties in establishing themselves next to popular big players. 1D Touch is a new, fair business model, which does not focus on mass markets, but on the independent scene. 1D Touch thus makes an important contribution to maintaining creative diversity in the cultural scene. Climate for Culture from Brussels aims to assess the risks climate change poses on historical buildings. To this end, the project developed a risk assessment tool to take preventive action against the consequences of climate change. This does not only lead to economic savings, but it also helps to preserve our cultural heritage. Data Ethical Culture Observatory from Paris is an important initiative to develop digital human rights and ethics. In times of digital change, we reveal more and more personal data, and the risk of manipulation and identity theft is increasing. The project gives an important stimulus to finding an answer to one of the most important questions of today’s digital world – the question of ethics in the digital age. Deaf Magazine from Dusseldorf was put on the shortlist as a “Special Guest” due to its combination of digital and analogue media and its contribution to social inclusion. Deaf Magazine is a lifestyle magazine about the German deaf culture. It combines printed content with augmented reality segments, making it easier for hearing-impaired readers to understand written texts and content, as they communicate in a completely different sign system. Smart Citizen from Barcelona aims at empowering citizens by providing open source kits to enable them to measure the conditions of their urban environment, such as noise pollution, for example. In this way, citizens learn to strengthen their influence, leading to a new philosophy: cities are no longer planned top-down but with the involvement of their citizens. Smarter Than You Think from Brussels is a project of very high social value. It raises awareness for dyslexia by having people read a text designed to make them feel dyslexic, showing them that a reading and writing disability has nothing to do with a lack of intelligence. A truly successful contribution to social inclusion. ROOM IN A BOX from Berlin is a start-up company that produces fully recyclable furniture made of cardboard. Due to the uncertain situation on the labour market, frequent job changes and moving to different cities has become the norm. ROOM IN A BOX is the modern nomad’s companion, saves high transport costs and offers a sustainable lifestyle to an increasingly mobile generation worldwide. Waves of Energy/Ardora from Donostia/San Sebastián is an approach to increase the acceptance of cultural projects among citizens. With the innovative idea of an installation, where citizens become part of a jury deciding on the local distribution of financial subsidies, the project allows for more citizen participation and more transparency during decision-making processes. Cultural programmes are therefore not only made for but also by citizens. 2015: Jury meeting Fontus and Airo from Vienna developed two bottles capable of filling themselves with drinking water by capturing and condensing moisture from the air. Water is one of the most important resources of life on our planet, and it is already a scarce commodity leading to war and conflict. The project offers a very innovative solution as it can be used worldwide thanks to its do-it-yourself approach – especially in poor areas of conflict. 60
The N.I.C.E. Winners and the award ceremony 2015 “We were truly delighted with the quality and diversity of the projects that made it on the shortlist,” explains Charles Landry on behalf of the entire jury and right at the beginning of the award ceremony. “But also with the will and passion that were invested in these complex topics.” 2015: N.I.C.E. Award ceremony with Prof Dieter Gorny and Minister Garrelt Duin (centre). 1 st 61 THE MACHINE TO BE ANOTHER from Brazil won the first prize worth 8,000 Euros. Here, the arts and neurosciences are combined to enable a new way of embodiment of another person’s life story in a “unique and intelligent way,” as Charles Landry puts it. At the end of the event, the shortlisted projects are also delighted with their participation and stay in Essen. Kristof Retezár from Fontus and Airo from Austria says: “With the nomination for the N.I.C.E. Award, my project earned additional credibility and attention in relevant media and professional networks. The exhibition and the Forum d’Avignon Ruhr were a truly rewarding experience for me – not only in a professional sense, but also in a broader context of the Cultural and Creative Industries in Europe. I am especially grateful for getting to know other creative start-up businesses from the rest of the world, which – like myself – take the bumpy road to see their dreams fulfilled one day and be able to earn a living from it. Incidentally, I had a great time in Essen!”
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