NEW BAUHAUS STORIES

The webinar series organised by the NEBULA project

The NEBULA project is organising a series of peer learning activities to share experiences and insights about the New European Bauhaus.

A series of five webinars entitled ‘New Bauhaus Stories’ has been launched: you can find the details, registration or recording links below.

This Webinar discussed how two ongoing urban regeneration schemes are co-designed with citizens and various stakeholders from the construction value chain. Two demonstration sites will present their respective approaches:

  • Pedersgata, Stavanger, Norway [NEB-STAR project]

The Pedersgata area is a mature urban neighbourhood in the city centre of Stavanger, featuring a mix of traditional wooden houses, high-rise buildings, restaurants and shops. The district has the highest poverty rate in the city, but also strong local involvement and an artistic and creative scene. As a first phase, the NEB-STAR project is testing a series of co-design tools to involve local residents and professional stakeholders.

  • Quay district in Bruges, Belgium [Re-value project]

This district, today dominated by the legacy of industry, is planned to transform into a neighbourhood leaving room for retail sale, food vendors and local artisans, combined with living and relaxation. In this perspective, the Re-Value project is adapting and testing co-creation and participation technique, such as the innovation camp methodology, an immersive learning experience for students in team setting, to explore new solutions for a climate neutral district. This experience is part of co-creation-strategy with residents, companies and other organisations and stakeholders to initiate their role of supporting the city as a ‘Think Tank’.

The webinar was held on 14th March 2024 at 10:30.

Speakers:

Koen Timmerman, program-manager Climate, Koen.Timmerman@Brugge.be

Lies Debbaut, projectcoordinator Quai District/Re Value, Lies.Debbaut@Brugge.be

The recording can be viewed here.

This session, satellite event to the NEB Festival, aimed to review and discuss some specific projects with their authors who were awarded a NEB prize:

  • Xifré’s Rooftop: “Floating” Wild Garden

Award category (2021): Buildings renovated in a spirit of circularity

A heritage building rooftop in Barcelona was renovated with a dual purpose: architecture and ecology. Covering an early 19th-century block of ten buildings, this contemporary roof garden creates a “floating” wild space that enhances urban biodiversity and opportunities for social interaction between neighbours.

Speaker: Sergio Carratalá,, CEO and founder, MataAlta Design Studio

 

  • ERDEN PURE Walls

Award category (2021): Techniques, materials and processes for construction and design

The project from Austria uses prefabricated unstabilised rammed earth as a building material that is 100% natural and recyclable. The material is unstabilised because no cement is added to the mixture: this enables the walls, besides their natural, earthy look, to passively regulate indoor temperature and humidity. The raw material is excavated as waste product from local construction sites. ERDEN engages with local craftsmen, carpenters or ceramicists to co-design each solution.

Speaker: Martin Rauch, Founder and Managing Director, Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst GmbH

  • De Korenbloem housing project with ‘invisible care’

Award category (2022): Prioritising the places and people that need it the most

De Korenbloem is a housing project for vulnerable residents in Belgium. This “care campus” is designed for people with dementia, stroke-related disabilities, and somatic symptom disorder. It combines residential buildings with a network of facilities, such as day-care and a neighbourhood services centre. The project aims to advance adapted, multifunctional and socially integrated care systems that reduce isolation.

Speaker: Kristof Claeys, Managing director, De Korenbloem

Date: 16 April 2024.

The recording is available here.

This webinar is hosted by the BUILD UP platform

Is the New European Bauhaus compatible with a business approach?

Can we develop solutions that both embed the inspirational values of NEB – sustainable, beautiful, inclusive – and hit a competitive market?

The webinar explores these questions in company of three startups that developed NEB-by-design solutions, with the support of a dedicated mentoring and funding programme launched by the EIT Community NEB.

Natalia Vera, from Climate KIC, introduces the NEB Journey proposed by the EIT Community New European Bauhaus to support innovators and accelerate start-ups.

Then three startups present their projects, how the support received help them reach one step further, and what comes next:

  • Geoffrey Eberle introduces the NEST solution (Spain), a façade panel technology that creates living spaces for the fauna and flora within the urban environment, while improving building’s acoustic and thermal performance.
  • Anastasya Syvolob tells us about GEODESIC.LIFE, a Ukrainian startup that commercialises affordable prefabricated eco-friendly dome homes
  • Moujan Mahdian presents IMPERFECT (Belgium), an online platform enabling circular construction with streamlined audits of reclaimed materials and integrated environmental impact tracking.

Participants finally propose recommendations for entrepreneurs and applicants wishing to follow their path.

View the recording here.

To achieve 2050 targets, buildings’ energy needs must be reduced massively to improve their energy performance in line with the Energy Efficiency First Principle. To that end, existing buildings need to transform into energy-efficient buildings, with a circular approach and a reduction of whole life-cycle carbon. But they also have to better answer occupants needs and account for social inclusion.

A number of EU funded projects are currently developing and demonstrating solutions for the deep renovation of buildings, to unlock the EU Renovation Wave. They develop different types of innovative renovation packages, circular and digitalised approaches, as well as novel business models and marketplaces.

This webinar gives you the opportunity to meet 5 of those projects and discuss how their innovations go beyond energy efficiency and embrace the values of the New European Bauhaus: sustainability, inclusiveness and aesthetics.

The participating projects are:

  • REHOUSE: Sustainable, inclusive and aesthetical renovation: experience from ReHOUSE Italian demonstration
  • DRASTIC: Towards circular renovation solutions in Germany and Estonia – case studies of individual housing and apartment buildings
  • E-SAFE: Harmonizing Resilience, Sustainability, and Inclusion: The e-SAFE Project’s Approach for Aesthetic, Energy -Efficient, and Earthquake-Safe Co-Designed Renovations
  • InCUBE: Solutions and processes to make the renovation sustainable, inclusive and aesthetical
  • FORTESIE: Digital currency powered Smart PerFORrmance contracTs for Efficiency, Sustainable, Inclusive, Energy use

Date: 4th June 2024 – 12:00

Link to the recording and synthesis.

Education and research were at the heart of the original Bauhaus school founded by Walter Gropius in Germany. Many years later, the Bauhaus school inspired the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative launched by the European Commission in 2021. In the Bauhaus spirit of combining art and science, industry and design, the NEB core values have been defined as Beautiful, Sustainable and Together, supported by the working principles of participatory process, multi-level engagement and transdisciplinary approach.

In the 5th webinar of the New Bauhaus Stories series, four NEB education and research projects will share their stories, how they incorporate the NEB values and working principles into their activities, and what the challenges and opportunities are for NEB in research and education for the coming future. The four initiatives are presented below.

  1. BAUHAUS4EU is a European university alliance that aims to create a shared campus with joint activities in teaching, research and transfer to support a resilient, sustainable, inclusive and beautiful development of their institutions and regions.

  2. NEBINARs – New European Bauhaus ACE Initiative for Young Architects. The aim of the program is to disseminate knowledge about NEB to a wide audience, especially young architects. The program is dedicated in particular to the Baltic and Balkan countries. The open formula of the program does not exclude the participation of organisations from other European countries.

  3. The project “UREHERIT: Architects for Heritage in Ukraine. Recreating Identity and Memory” addresses the topics of evaluation, preservation, and restoration of the urban and architectural heritage in Ukraine during and after the war, treating it as a resource for sustainable cultural, social, environmental, and economic recovery.

  4. Cultuur&Campus Putselaan: a sustainable hub of arts, research, learning and community as catalyst for territorial transitions.

Date: 23 October 2024

Recording link here.


Below is an overview of the webinar planning – links to recordings and registration pages are in the individual webinar descriptions above.