• European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM)

    All EU languages

    This NEB lab project is a co-creation lab on trans-European Modernism to further refine and implement trans-national cooperation, best-practices, research, and capacity building. The ETOM Lab builds for a circular ecosystem on a three-year rhythm to bear and sustain plural transdisciplinary collaboration projects and to establish a decentralised and recurring EUROPEAN TRIENNIAL OF MODERNISM (ETOM) festival. With an initial emphasis on Central Europe, the project’s motto "Diverse Modernism | Modern Diversity" reflects an inclusive approach, addressing the trans-European heritage, global and future perspectives of Modernism and a variety of protagonists, involved actors, backgrounds and agencies.

    Community-led NEB Lab

  • NEB goes South

    All EU languages

    This NEB Lab project connects six south European countries which join forces to reflect about and improve education through architecture. Southern European regions deal with problems such as signs of extreme climate events, rising temperatures, overheat islands, desertification or drought. They also share rich histories and a cultural heritage in need of protection. Acknowledging this shared legacy, the NEB goes South initiative emerged as a direct response to the New European Bauhaus challenge. The project is organized by 6 schools of architecture from Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia and Greece. Its goal is to set up an open and collaborative platform for learning, debating, designing and inspiring actions combining sustainability, aesthetics and inclusion. Born in the academia, the NEB goes South wants to actively trigger a much needed change by promoting education and research-based initiatives.

    Community-led NEB Lab

  • NEB Stewardship Lab

    All EU Languages

    This academic-led NEB lab project explores and enhances the role of higher education in the New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative. The overarching purpose is to nurture the transition from climate anxiety to NEB stewardship, especially among students. Higher education institutions and other research and education-oriented organisations can participate in the project. Universities can take advantage of this opportunity to work together on the triple crisis (climate, biodiversity loss, and pollution), engage in the NEB initiative and shape the role of higher education. Other participants can consciously act on the climate and biodiversity crisis in collaboration with higher education partners and reflect on how they can apply the model to other activities.

    Community-led NEB Lab

  • New European Bauhaus on the Danube

    All EU Language

    This NEB Lab project is a think-and-do tank acting as an enabler for the green transition in the Danube region by establishing a functional cooperation of public authorities, civil society, and the private, investment and financial sectors. This NEB Lab aims to improve the capacities of cities and regions for triggering and implementing investments into more responsible land use practices as a basis for a new green and just economy. Together, stakeholders accumulate and spread knowledge about proven green and sustainable investment solutions on the ground. NEBoD Travelling Academy, offers further capacity building and place-based support to Danube cities and regions, while the investment community will be addressed through annual Danube Green Investment Forums.

    Community-led NEB Lab

  • Nordic carbon neutral Bauhaus

    All EU Languages

    This NEB Lab project is an open forum for the discussion of how architecture, design and art can help in achieving a carbon neutral and inclusive way of building and living. Through the project we aim to unleash the transformative power of creativity that can help imagining what built environment, cities and citizens of the future will be. We will approach complex questions of developing living spaces that are sustainable and at the same time inclusive and beautiful for human beings. This action is initiated and supported by the Nordic countries which pursue carbon neutrality in rapid schedule. Global warming is proceeding faster in the North than in many other regions. The rapidly changing climate is already threatening the wellbeing of our societies, nature and economy.

  • Public infrastructure for Ukraine

    EN

    Beginning with a Lithuanian initiative, "Future school for Ukraine" will explore and adapt the lessons and experiences of an architectural competition as a tool to get the best design for a Ukrainian context. Based on evaluation of the case studies, relevant ideas would end up as recommendations for local and State administrations to amend Ukrainian legislation to ensure quality processes and results when rebuilding public infrastructure in Ukraine. The initiative will result in a contract with an architectural competition winner, to design an adaptive project for a new school for Ukraine, which could be implemented, after adaptation to a specificities of a context, in various Ukrainian locations. The competition invites participants to design a new school that would provide inspiring environment to teach, learn, collaborate and create, inclusive, built using sustainable materials, innovative techniques and ensuring rational use of resources.

  • The New European Bauhaus of the mountains

    All EU Languages

    This NEB Lab project seeks to improve the quality of the built environment and citizens' quality of life in rural and mountain areas. The project aims to co-create socio-ecological transformation in mountain areas. The idea behind it is to enable a creative collaboration process between thinkers and facilitators who want to develop innovative beautiful, sustainable and inclusive solutions for complex social problems.

  • #DiCultHer International Association for the promotion of Digital Culture "Dino Buzzetti"

    EN/NL/FR/DE/IT/PT/ES

    #DiCultHer non-profit association which in accordance with the Third Sector Code in Italy, it pursues the objective of implementing cultural, scientific, technological and organizational exchange actions for the promotion of Digital Culture and cultural ownership exercised by law in Italy and internationally, with particular reference in the sector of education.

  • 012factory Spa Società Benefit

    IT

    012Academy is a program that trains entrepreneurs to create a sustainable and successful business and gives them access to our ecosystem, a place where professionals and startups develop their entrepreneurial attitude through the peer innovation approach, a method developed and registered by 012factory. The program provides original combinations of skills and knowledge for asset management that is tailored to the peculiarities of each participant’s idea and its target market. Guest advisors, together with the multidisciplinary team of 012factory, offers a fertile environment for the development of an innovative entrepreneurial venture. We aim at promoting and supporting entrepreneurship by fostering the individual and collective empowerment of young people in Southern Italy, giving them the tools and potential to grow their business in a context of high unemployment rate, along with countering the low territorial possibilities in terms of economic resources and education to entrepreneurship.

  • 24plus1/ e-EDGE

    EN/EL

    Film Weeks in the City: “Creative Cinema & Eco-friendly Filmmaking” The project can start online via e-EDGE platform (www.e-edge.gr) and could be continued live in different places. This program can be scheduled, organized and performed on several places around Thessaloniki and North Greece (and other areas in Greece or abroad) providing or even creating cultural interest and eco-friendly context and sustainability. It’s a most interesting example of giving the reason to alternate ideas on space idioms and ecology.

  • ECO²-SCHOOLS

    Alliance Sens & Economie

    ECO²-SCHOOLS : a open cooperative living lab with volunteer pilot sites in 6 climate-cultural regions willing to test, learn, consolidate, upscale in common methods and solutions, for retrofiting +150 schools per year in connection with their neighbourhoods and villages to be sustainable-inclusive-beautiful for education. By 2030, almost 2/3 of schools will need to be renovated, 1/3 are already completely obsolete. In our street, our neighbourhood, our village, we see these changes coming; shared spaces and co-managed spaces are making a comeback, mobility will be mutually accessible, short circuits and bio-canteens are the new standard. By 2030, buildings must become energy producers.

  • SALONS

    Art Academy of Latvia

    LMAA is the New Architecture School in Baltics of the Art Academy of Latvia. SALONS is envisioned and organised as a gathering place run by LMAA and the recently founded Institute of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture (LMDA). According to the authors of the idea, Salons does not have a defined venue, the events will be held regularly in various locations by inviting notable guests and looking for unexpected topics. The primary aim of Salons is to expand the local architecture scene, uncover issues related to contemporary architecture practice, and prepare for the launch of the new architecture school as a shared process that involves the diverse network of thinkers, creatives, professionals and wider society.

  • "Antonio Brancati" Middle School

    IT

    This new school, created through a co-design process, is built on an abandoned urban area. By this urban renovation the school offers a practical approach to social sustainability, not only as an excellent green building. It's a pilot project with the aim of encouraging a holistic approach towards circular economy principles to ensure the building design responds to environmental protection, health and well-being, and create a sense of community. This project also demonstrates that the Green Public Procurement process where environmental requirements are made mandatory within the tendering process using predetermined award criteria is essential for delivering environmental social value, influencing the market towards sustainable materials and products whilst also improving new skills on green jobs.

  • Associação Há Baixa

    EN/PT

    Associação Há Baixa is a collective created by a group of architecture, design and multimedia students from the University of Coimbra (Portugal), with the motto 'to experiment and practice by helping'. Saco da Baixa (Bag of the City Centre) is a project created by Associação Há Baixa in 2021, which was born from the desire to (re)activate community ties between the older and migrant inhabitants of the Historic Centre of Coimbra, as well as between them and the university community and with those who visit the city. Furthermore, the project aims to create spaces for intergenerational encounters between the inhabitants of the Historic Centre of Coimbra and minimise the isolation of older people. Sewing, embroidery, graphic and media design, textile design, serigraphy or illustration comprise the Saco da Baixa project. It is a new idea of mixing and valuing diverse knowledge: through artistic training workshops, it encourages practices of co-creation of unique objects because they are manually made around conversations, exchanges of expertise, different life experiences and affections, valuing life experience and know-how.

  • Association "Art Centre NOASS"

    EN/LV

    Riga is the home for the floating art center NOASS - an NGO, an initiative of creative locals with a goal to create an inclusive meeting place for the community, arts and culture. The physical place is a flexible floating berth that is used as a venue, stage, place for enjoyment of nature. During the pandemic it proved to be one of the rare public places that was capable to function (as a partly open air venue) also during times of gathering restrictions. The unique location and unique buildings of the NOASS bring many challenges. NOASS aims to work towards improving: functionality of the beloved community center (NGO) NOASS in Riga, Latvia. We expect to find and implement an innovative solution for revitalization, functionality and flexibility of the park, and transform from a seasonal venue to a community gathering point that can function all-year-long.

  • Associazione Terzo Paesaggio

    IT

    MadreProject, Scuola del pane e dei luoghi (School of places and bread-making) is a collective effort from Terzo Paesaggio, a non-profit organisation specialised in regeneration through culture. MadreProject is a one-of-a-kind school inviting participants to approach bread as a keystone to connect local communities, places and practices. The program wants to have a positive impact by training people with an entrepreneurial spirit (not only breadmakers) to be capable of making bread, designing and interacting with the whole life cycle through a horizontal, self-reflective and practical teaching approach. The school intends to approach and deal with all the challenges faced in all the environments and by all the actors involved in the production and supply chain: the growers, the breadmakers, the consumers, just to name a few, by intercepting each one of them throughout the entire course.

  • Blu Breeding and Learning Unit ETS

    IT

    Genoa’s deindustrialization and loss of economic prominence have led to a constant loss of inhabitants, an increasingly older population. Now is a city that finds no place on the map of the cultural imagery. Genoa needs to reinvent itself, starting from its fringe condition with the problems and opportunities that come with it. We want to bring these motivations through creating a meeting and training hub that invites thought activists, contemporary designers, creators from all over Europe to tell their stories in Genoa and to introduce them to the city. The location that will be the actual place of this project will be a bathing establishment in the Genoa waterfront converted back to a school and open to all 365 days a year. Whether it is in the field of food, fashion, cultural production, architecture, journalism, sea economy or agriculture. More than ever, we need to open a school of design and philosophy of the sea, of the hill, of exchange.

  • Brincapé

    PT

    Brincapé is a community-based social intervention initiative run by a Play Consortium, which was created in the historic area of ​​Lisbon in 2018 and aims to provide more time, more space and diversity of play so that children can live in their neighborhoods and their city in a more active, healthy and participatory way. We want children to have transformed playgrounds, with more equipment that allows them to let their imagination run wild. We want playing outside to be natural, safe and stimulating again. Where much of the motor and social learning has a special place to happen.

  • Cité du design – École supérieure d’art et design

    FR

    The local project Cité du design 2025 is led by the local authority Saint-Etienne Métropole which aims at transforming the historic area of the Manufacture into a new pole of attraction, the school ESADSE (Higher School of Art and Design of Saint-Etienne) proposes to co-design a part of the district (gardens, students’ room, recuperation centre, Marius Patinaud street, Claudius Ravachol / Patinaud / Dali crossing). The school team led by Professor Elizabeth Guyon works closely with the professionals, companies, local authorities, the inhabitants, in a transversal and cross disciplinary methodology. Indeed, “Cité du design 2025: bringing life through design” experiment is a concrete project, useful for the territory, implying citizens, community centres, youth centres, schools, popular education associations, local companies, cultural sites.

  • CITUA, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

    EN

    The research intends to intertwine the fields of educational space, architecture and urban design, as well as sustainable development. Making the city the object of education means overcoming the limits of superficiality and partiality that are often present in direct and spontaneous learning about the urban environment, deepening the informal knowledge of the city, learning to use urban resources, to interpret the processes that shape the territory, to understand its dynamics. The main question that we ask is: Is education a true measure to a fairer and more inclusive urban environment? We believe that the answer is yes. This research is being developed in the research center CITUA (IST) in the research line ‘Knowledge Environments’ that considers the diversity of spaces for access, dissemination and transfer of knowledge. It considers the understanding of these spaces in an interdisciplinary, integrated and comprehensive way, in the interaction between architecture, city, education/pedagogy, construction, sustainability and culture, to inform and stimulate debate, explore new environments and support future interventions.

  • Liminal A.P.S. and MIT Italy

    EN/IT

    Rebuilding the Edge is a faculty–led workshop experience for MIT students that will take place in June 2022 in the Italian region of Abruzzo. Students will be invited to think about the future of Italian inner and southern areas, as well as the relationship between regional infrastructure projects and small communities affected by them. Rebuilding the Edge will focus on the issues faced by small municipalities along the Sulmona–Carpinone rail line, where a public-private partnership is beginning to revive rail activity after decades of disinvestment. For two-and-a-half weeks, students will have the opportunity to experience the territory traversed by the rail line, working out of a popup research outpost within the recently renovated station at Roccaraso. The experience will allow students to engage with the particular territories and circumstances along one rail line in the Italian Apennines, and take away larger lessons about methodologies of design research, and the degrees to which design can play a role in addressing issues of social consequence.

  • Living Summer School

    EN

    The Living Summer School (LSS) is a yearly week-long educational program promoting social and territorial innovation in and around the city of Kortrijk, Flanders. Young creatives, designers, and entrepreneurs collaborate with a network of local partners and experts. Together, they envision social impact concepts and design prototypes addressing relevant local territorial challenges. Each year we choose themes within general global trends and link them to hyper local case studies. In 2022, we are planning a new edition: Living Blocks, with temporary and modular housing as the central theme. We believe that there is an urgent need to combine creative, entrepreneurial and design thinking approaches to tackle the complex social and geographic crises our territories are witnessing. The Living Summer School Project is part of the broader ecosystem of Start@K, a strategic partnership aimed at increasing the innovation potential of young people in the Kortrijk area. It is the first and only free educational opportunity opened to young locals in Kortrijk without any barriers. Young people under 30 from all backgrounds are welcomed, whether they are studying, working, unemployed, and independently from their backgrounds or area of interest.

  • Otwieramy szkoły (EN: We are opening the schools)

    PL

    Due to the war in Ukraine we urgently need extra spaces to give children (and Ukrainian teachers, too) a calming daily routine. We are going to organize the first pop-up school for Ukrainian children in an office building, in Warsaw. IMMOFINANZ, one of the largest investors on the Warsaw office market, has temporarily put at our disposal an entire floor (1,240 m2) in its myhive Mokotów Two office building. Architects from XYstudio [http://www.xystudio.pl], are working on adapting the space. The project is joined by companies that will provide materials, contractors and the school equipment. The school will be operated by an experienced Ukrainian teacher and director, under the patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine in Poland and the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine. Ukrainian school give Ukrainian teachers an opportunity to find a job in Poland. What is equally important, it relieves the Polish educational system, which suffers from a teacher deficit.

  • Polimi Desis Lab, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

    EN

    This application presents the research activity carried out in recent years by the Polimi Desis Lab, a research team of the Department of Design at Politecnico di Milano, that adopts a strategic and systemic approach to design, with a focus on space and service design, in specific contexts, involving local communities. These methodologies provide productive co-creation tools to harness the creativity of users and other stakeholders, collecting tangible artefacts built by them and harnessing their engagement as full participants in the design of educational services. The “EQUI_06” project, which started in March 2022 and is currently ongoing, aims to promote equity and quality in childcare services through the formulation of guidelines for implementing Integrated Poles 0-6. The objective is to unify the two segments, crèches and kindergartens, to share services, spaces and resources through the participatory redesign of some spaces of a selected Educational Unit in Milan.

  • RELATE research project

    EN/SR

    Voices across disciplines are calling for educational change, reconceptualization of schools and schooling. RELATE team of experts in architecture, urbanism, pedagogy, and educational psychology aims to examine the pedagogical potential of architecture and urban sites as outside curricula, or pedagogies that exist outside of formal educational institutions, and develop an outside curriculum participatory planning tool in the form of a game. Combining literature review with an online questionnaire the study will identify the sites internationally, and pair case study approach with field research to provide in-depth critical analysis and empirical evidence. The project's findings could continually inform the strategy and resultant action plans, on how innovative use of existing infrastructure could impact educational outcomes, enrich local educational offer, empower and inform neighbourhoods to actively agitate for locally relevant educational content, support lifelong, inclusive and intergenerational learning, and reduce expenditures on new infrastructure.

  • Santo Domingo Savio RENOVATION PROJECT

    ES

    Since its founding in the years 70, school Santo Domingo Savio has experienced continuous transformation, adaptation and growth of its facilities. In the Secretary Office, every use has been modified in order to provide direct sunlight and ventilation through the façade. These modifications have re-structured, optimized and re-organized the school’s entrance and exit. Sort of a reception hall has been built, full of neutral colors, wooden tones and vegetation that transmits calm at the arrival. We designed some moving panels on which messages and announcements can be written. Every new door has been designed with rounded holed windows that allow interaction at different heights. Younger kids will see one thing, whilst older students will see another as they grow up. Still, interaction will always exist, and all students are aware that the school and those spaces also belong to them partly. We are all aware that our society is constantly changing. Our school adapts to the new demands and works to add new First Stage Preschool’s classrooms.

  • Sculpture area, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

    ES

    PROPOSAL FOR A SCULPTURE INTERVENTION WHERE THE CASA DE VACAS WAS LOCATED IN ARANJUEZ THE HISTORICAL SOTOS. Ana Balboa and Marta Linaza Sculpture Department Phd Teachers Project aims to recover the area occupied by the Casa de Vacas and the surrounding space to convert it into a recreation place for Aranjuez's citizens, while bringing to memory the past of this Villa. The project will be developed in several phases and will be conduct through University teachers and students, Aranjuez City Hall, and IMIDRA which is a research on rural and agrarian centre linked to Madrid Community and with Aranjuez. The location is a World Heritage Cultural Landscape. Students and teachers will build the monument that ultimately wants to be a space for reflection from art about the need to preserve the memory of places seeking a balance between development and conservation. The ultimate goal of the project is for the city of Aranjuez and specifically the Rey Juan Carlos University to have a place for students to exhibit their works, papers and research that they carry out throughout the Degree and Master. This place would become a reference for students and, in the long run, a space for actions and connections between both institutions where the findings of artistic research could be shared with society to involve them.

  • Smiltene Municipality

    LV

    The idea of the project "Creative Quarter Pils 9" is to establish multifunctional, inclusive and vibrant area by adapting and reconstructing once active but now slightly neglected industrial territory in heart of town of Smiltene. It is located in the town center of Smiltene, surrounded by two parks, residential buildings, and lake Vidusezers. It is crossed by the river Abuls and it opens a chance to develop an attractive waterfront next to the buildings to be reconstructed. It is densely built up and consists of buildings from two periods - beginning of 20th century (former water mill) and also Soviet era buildings which were used as metalworking factory from 1966 till 1993. This shall become an area where citizens could meet, learn and organize training, do new and exciting things, develop small businesses, strengthen local community and engage themselves in a way that takes us one step closer to reaching full potential of the area and playing important role by contributing to the development of Smiltene municipality. The project is seen as a human-centered model for collective urban development focused on education, inclusion and accessibility.

  • Valentino Gareri Atelier

    EN

    The prototype of a modular school for sub-Saharan regions provides a sustainable, modular and flexible school, easy to build, with low costs of construction and made by local materials which perfectly adapts with the context and surrounding. The modular elements with triangular geometry have structural function and provide support for the roof. Each element contains a planter-box where vegetation can grow and, through wires trellis, spread out on top of the roof providing a sustainable sunshade and reducing the building heating. Photovoltaic and solar panels can be installed on top of each triangular module. These elements work also as rain-water collectors. Under each planter-box there is 1m3 water tank (traditional local tanks can be used). The modular nature of the proposal allows for future school extensions by adding one or more modules. Moreover each module is a prototype of sustainable and self-energy efficient component which can be adopted also for different functions, such as medical centers, workshops and temporary accommodations for teachers and doctors.

  • VBS Sint-Paulus

    EN/NL

    The playground project Klimaatspeelplaats in Sint-Paulus Kortrijk was one of the 23 projects selected for the Flemish Environment Department's Proeftuin Ontharding. Through this campaign, the Flemish government is committed to both climate adaptation and mitigation. The school made a commitment to connect 90% of the roofs to a new rainwater system where reuse and infiltration into the soil are paramount. In addition, the entire playground+ car park (4000 m²) was demolished and reconstructed. The rainwater that will fall on that paving will be collected and released into the ground via an infiltration system. For the redevelopment of its playground, St Paul's worked on a comprehensive participatory process involving children, teachers, parents, contractors, play and landscape designers. The children see this process happening and consequently learn about it. For our school, it was important to consider the heat stress caused by abundant sunshine on a bare concrete surface. Planting trees and limiting concrete surface will provide shade and coolness over time. In addition, air quality in and around our school is also important. Trees help to capture our CO2 emissions, retain it and thus help to filter the air. Water is essential to our story. The softening of our playground ensures that rainwater is collected, recovered and infiltrated. We help raising groundwater levels by helping the water to infiltrate in the soil.

  • Keeping it Modern Birr School

    EN

    Building on a specific project example in Ireland, we are developing a social value based methodology for conservation and retrofit of twentieth century school buildings. St Brendan’s Community School in Birr, Co. Offaly by the architects Peter and Mary Doyle is an internationally recognised exemplar of post-war modernism located in Ireland. Like many buildings of this period, St Brendan’s School needs to be renewed, particularly to meet acceptable environmental standards and energy usage. The aim of the Masterplan is to ensure the school’s continued use, and sensitively upgrade the building environmentally. This Masterplan and Retrofit Research builds on Conservation Management Plan (CMP) research undertaken by John McLaughlin Architects with Dr. Gary A. Boyd of Queens University Belfast under the Getty Foundation ‘Keeping It Modern’ initiative 2018.

  • Aka | Architecture Kids Athens

    EN/EL

    Aka| ARCHITECTURE KIDS ATHENS is an architectural centre for children and young people. Aka was founded as a non-profit organisation with the purpose of raising the awareness of children and young people for architectural culture as well as the urban and natural environment in which they live. Aka curates seminars, lectures, exhibitions and other events devoted to architectural and urban culture in Athens. Through workshops and other activities, we help children and young people to better understand the environment in which they live and to realize that they are not passive recipients but active participants in its formation, thus contributing to the education of responsible and informed future citizens. Through the active agency of children and young people, we aim to bring the general public in contact with architectural design and to underline its importance for our daily lives with the ultimate goal of creating spaces that better serve our common needs.

  • Che Design School

    MNE

    Che Design School is a design school for adults and children in Montenegro. We believe that design and design-thinking can bring together people of different nationalities, different ages, political views and religions in the name of solving common tasks and sustainable development of our society. Design, design-education as well as purposeful and meaningful actions of the local design- community can lead to quality changes in environment and improvement of the quality of life in Western Balkans. Design can become a powerful catalyst of integration of Western Balkans into European Union and world community! Integration of design-thinking principles into all related parts of human activities (such as politics, diplomacy, jurisprudence, family law and others) can normalize international relationships and result in creation of stable mutually beneficial relationship between separate countries and sustainable development of the world.

  • Make in Cloisters

    IT

    "Make in Chiostri - Learning by doing" project is an educational and training path, designed and realised by the Open Laboratory of Reggio Emilia, in collaboration with local experts and professionals such as: architect/designer, filmmaker, cook, pedagogue and atelierista. The main aim of the project is to promote digital making, design and art, as an opportunity to learn transversal and digital skills, combining beauty and aesthetics, science and technology (STEAM). The “Make in Chiostri” project foresees different workshops, based on Non-formal Education, cooperation and problem solving, enhancing non-cognitive skills. Thanks to this project, the Open Laboratory of the Cloisters of San Pietro became a “learning community”, a hub for innovation and the promotion of new, open, integrated, creative and flexible educational opportunities.

  • Department of Technology and Entrepreneurship in Wood Industry, Warsaw University of Life Sciences

    EN/PL

    We want to teach our students that with an innovative approach using creative design you can turn wood waste into a high quality furniture product thus shaping your environment in a beautiful and sustainable way. Although the environment is being destroyed with rubbish, we can also help the earth by managing waste in new beautiful long life product. We are doing research on promoting sustainability through upcycling of wood production residues. Extending the life cycle of wood raw material by turning production residues into high-quality furniture and interior design products using eco-design methods. Students are expected to make design projects, mock-ups, prototypes or copies of their furniture tailored to a specific ecological aesthetic. The project is a transformation towards an ecological and digital one that will foster the inclusion of the academic community in the shaping of the space. The final long-term beneficiary of the entire project and programme is our community, society, and our children, who will thus be able to live in a more beautiful and sustainable environment.

  • The Walking Body (TWB)

    EN/PT

    The Walking Body (TWB) is a week-long set of artistic activities about walking in the urban fabric of Guimarães. It goes along with walkshops, artist presentations, a pop up exhibition, a round table and a symposium. On a local level it invites emerging artists/students of various disciplines (theatre, fine arts) and the inhabitants of the city to interact with the city and to walk together, inspired by in situ walkshops with international artists. The week of events is focused on the act of «Walking as an artistic practice», exploring imagination and creativity in the city and its surroundings. Main focus is the sharing of experiences and knowledge by means of walkshops, between artists and participants, involving its diverse strata and their particular knowledge, understanding cultural, social, political and economic potential, as such being more than an artistic event but a week long dialogue between artists, students and local communities reimagining the city by walking together.

  • Spazio alla Scuola

    IT

    Lombardia region promotes the project “Spazio alla Scuola” with the aim of implementing exemplarity and innovation in primary and secondary schools to radically transform the places by integrating design, teaching, openness to the territory and sustainability. The initiative is born from the conviction that the Italian school building stock is obsolete and requires urgent intervention. Most of the buildings were erected between the 70s and the 80s, reflecting an aesthetic and functional mentality that is nowadays deemed anachronistic, especially in terms of structural limitations, social integration, sustainability and, energy efficiency. “Spazio alla Scuola” therefore supports the building of quality schools efficiently integrated into the region’s urban fabric. This support entails taking care of the entire process, from the accurate definition of the intervention’s priorities to the careful overview of all the project’s phases, supporting the dialogue with the involved educational communities in all phases.

  • MA Spatial Planning, GPE, Radboud University

    EN/NL

    In the setting of the MA Spatial Planning course 'Comparative Spatial Planning' (MPL027, running over four weeks with an international class attendance of about 100 students), the theme ‘beauty of transition’ is an invitation to participants to elaborate on aspects of beauty and aesthetics as cultural dimensions and as part and parcel of local transition strategies. It further invites students to explore the potential of beauty and aesthetics in transition strategies. Important questions emerge in this context, for instance, concerning the role of vernacular, locally authentic practises or how participation as an element of such strategies could inspire the adoption of local forms of knowledge and aesthetic appreciation. We do not want to suggest a simple return to a ‘beautification’ of cities, for our times. What we want to suggest is to pay attention to beauty and aesthetics as cultural dimensions of local transition strategies.

  • Reading Futures for Societal Change

    EN/SW

    Reading Futures for Societal Change is an initiative within Future-making Academy from Collaborative Future Making research platform and Forum for Social Innovation at Malmö University. The project invites actors from all sectors of society to a reading circle with a focus on complexity, future-making, and collaboration. The initiative address how critical imagination can challenge basic assumptions, norms and structures to widen the perspectives on what constitutes socially, culturally, ecologically and economically sustainable futures, engaging not only professionals and policy makers, but also citizens and civil society. It is an integral part of Future-making Academy to also develop our own methods of facilitating learning and building capacity in complex systems. The project is open ended, an ongoing prototyping in search of advancing knowledge and skills through connecting research and practice. Our work draws upon multidisciplinary, critical perspectives from the humanities and social sciences. We combine these perspectives with design research methods that are collaborative and constructive, such as making and prototyping.

  • NGO "Pasaules kulturu telpa Tukuma"

    EN/LV

    At the beginning of this year, the open stage of TM Open Stage was opened in the yard of the former A.Zeberg malt factory. The aim of the TM Opens Stage project is to create a platform for free expression for anyone interested, which started this year with musical and literary performances. The synergy between the participants and the audience was fantastic, everyone said they felt a sense of togetherness and fulfillment, which encouraged them to continue and create this event as a monthly event, allowing them to get to know the place, feel a special atmosphere, learn the talents of their peers and see themselves as the development potential of the place. We see this project as a potential for inspiring cultural life and creativity, building a community of residents, strengthening freedom of speech and democracy, and we also see here a potential for creating an educational, aesthetic, functional and sustainable cultural place.

  • TRIANGULAR

    EN/PT

    TRIANGULAR is a collaborative project between the undergraduate Degree in Visual Arts (LAV) of the School of Architecture, Art and Design of the University of Minho (EAAD), the International Centre for the Arts José de Guimarães (CIAJG), and the cultural association Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura (CAAA). It is directly involved in the area of Visual Arts and particularly in the development and application of new pedagogical methodologies for the teaching/learning process of artistic practice, artistic making, and aesthetic appreciation (knowing how to interpret a work of art). TRIANGULAR operates as an active link between the pedagogical and cultural practices directed mainly to the University, the cultural institutions of the city, and its public. In this sense, TRIANGULAR aims to create a new network of relations and neighbourhoods based on existing cultural dynamics and to test new methods of teaching and learning.

  • Danube Design Lab

    BG

    In this project, called Danube Design Lab, vocational school students lead placemaking to restore the connection between the town of Ruse and its river. In Ruse, deindustrialization has left the river detached from the city, while career and social opportunities for youth have diminished. The Lab empowers socially excluded youth to change their environment. With help from mentors and in dialogue with officials, vocational school students design public space that opens the riverfront for people. Students learn how to find allies to realize their vision, and they become social entrepreneurs who activate urban and civic development. The Danube Design Lab employs placemaking as a creative mechanism to integrate them both into the urban and social fabric. Students will collaborate with officials in a series of workshops. They will receive guidance on policy and urbanism, and they will enter into debate with officials to find viable, sustainable solutions.

  • MUZA - Mobilna, Učinkovita, Zdrava, Arhitektura

    HR

    Buildings form the tissue of the built environment. On the threshold of a new technological era, it seems important to refocus on the physical world around us. To raise awareness, a state-of-the-art NZEB mobile house called MUZA - Mobilna, Učinkovita, Zdrava, Arhitektura (Eng: Mobile, Efficient, Healthy, Architecture) was developed by a Croatian team as part of the H2020 project “The nZEB Roadshow”. MUZA is designed, built and equipped like a real building with the latest innovative materials, products, technologies and ideas to provide a real experience of NZEB and modern lifestyle. Through active engagement, participants learned first-hand what NZEB really is and gained insight into the benefits and opportunities. The construction industry, non-governmental organisations, and public authorities recognized the value of MUZA and its intended goals by strongly supporting MUZA and the roadshow activities. In addition, inclusion has been achieved at various levels (interdisciplinary approach to design and construction, public participation, citizen engagement, social awareness, linking urban and rural areas, etc.).

  • Avles Simperilipsis

    EL

    “Avles Simperilipsis” (Inclusive Schoolyards) is a pedagogical program with architectural interventions aiming to raise the awareness of the school community towards equality and inclusion, focusing on gender, through the study of the schoolyard. The program seeks to support teachers and students to observe and realize the dynamics of the yard and redefine its role using participatory methods and tools. The teachers were trained to see the space through the “lens of gender” and support their students to do so as well via specifically designed educational activities. During the last part of this phase, the students elaborated comprehensive architectural proposals (via collages, sketches, 3d models, etc.) for their schoolyards to become more inclusive and provide diverse stimuli to all the children. After the completion of the educational phase of the program in the 5 schools, we received the necessary funds to implement the proposed architectural interventions in 2 of the participant schools . We aim to co-create equal spaces for more dynamic (i.e. climbing, balance, etc) and less tense activities (i.e. drawing, discussing, etc) so that football does not monopolize and conquer all the space. The main objective is to approach equality by enhancing the spatial qualities of the yard that can respond to a greater variety of children’s needs and desires, in an informative and participatory way.

  • Lyceum Passos Manuel

    PT

    Lyceum Passos Manuel is the first secondary school building built in Portugal. The intervention - developed by addressing three fundamental challenges: to re-infrastructure the building and outdoor spaces, to introduce new learning facilities, and to respectfully locate a new dining hall and a new multipurpose sports facility, with the overall aim to retaining the cultural significance of this valuable heritage place - was carried out as part of a wider national modernization program aiming at providing 21st-century learning environments. The objective is to update the physical environment, preserving the historic values and identity elements, while enabling educators to implement change in their teaching methods and providing students with a friendly and warm environment, with contemporary technologies in a historic building. The challenge involved the Parque Escolar team, students, teachers, non-teaching staff, directors and administrative staff, parents, alumni (who still use the campus) and the local community (who use the facility spaces, such as the gymnasiums and sports pitch) All were involved in the designed strategy, and the output is aimed for all, so that all may contribute to the production positive outcomes.

  • WERKstattPALAST

    EN/DE

    The format WERKstattPALAST, was a practical approach to create a "multidirectional access". A critical discourse between science and society is often only possible in this highly sensitive field of tension. An artistic research practice has been developed out of art, that is able to question and criticise science without falling into the realm of conspiracy theory or general scepticism about science. The temporary, physical location of the project can be seen as an inviting and scalable starting point from which an immaterial network will be established that will deal with issues of sustainable (infra-) structures in our society - beyond the projects duration in 2022. Developing a place where different understandings can be exchanged is the main concern of KIT Innovation HUB - Prevention in Construction and the art initiative ato. We call for a cross-disciplinary and cross-thematic platform where representatives from science, art and citizens can meet at eye level. It is important to create places for different approaches and opinions; whose encounters not only reveal differentiation but also common ground.

  • LaMouseion

    EN/NL/FR

    Born out of a worldwide pandemic, LaMouseion offers a new locus of experiment where young people can search for new insights, test new ideas and gain new knowledge about current and future societies. It is motivated by the belief in art as a catalyst for mutual understanding and as a guiding light in our search for answers to the significant great challenges of the 21st century – particularly the relationship between nature and culture and sustainable community development. Embedded in LABIOMISTA, a 24ha artwork, LaMouseion is a contemporary re-creation of the Mouseion, the legendary center for arts and science. As in ancient Greece, it brings together different disciplines in their tireless quest for answers, knowledge, and wisdom. Developed as an antidote to an overly monocultural curriculum, its modus operandi is 'crossing', ‘cross-breeding’ or ‘fusing’ (nature x culture, local x global, art x science x community, past x present x future).

  • Makea Coop. V.

    EN/ES

    EPPPS - Espacio para el Prototipado y la Producción de Proyectos Sostenibles (Space for Prototyping and Production of Sustainable Projects) is a laboratory and a platform for new forms of design. It is a space for collective learning and experimental production, knowledge transfer and the formation of transdisciplinary networks that help us to address the great challenges of today from different areas of design practice (ecology and sustainability, citizen innovation, circular economy, health and care, new models of production and consumption, knowledge and open source). EPPPS supports the development of local industry, the creation of employment alternatives and the interaction of professionals from different fields to give rise to new collaborations. And all this, sharing technology and knowledge. That is, making the most of resources. And, therefore, making design a sustainable discipline.

  • Wonders Everywhere

    EN/RS

    "Wonders Everywhere" is a unique and creative project that was conceived as an exploration of possible connections between traditional techniques and innovative approaches in artistic interior design. The project was conceived by the Laboratory for Architecture and Visual language, Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Serbia and done in collaboration with "Sava Žebeljan" primary school from Crepaja, Serbia. The project "Wonders Everywhere" is based on the networking of different structures - rural and urban areas, craft and artistic work, traditional techniques and innovative artistic approaches. These networking events will offer a platform for sharing experiences as well as for further research thanks to the insights gained from this project. Also, this project was a memorable and meaningful addition to the school environment that will be enjoyed by students and staff alike.

  • Project Consortium of NIILS - New Approaches for Inclusive Informal Learning Spaces (ERASMUS+ Cooperation Partnership in Higher Education)

    EN/DE

    NIILS addresses informal and non-conventional learning spaces in higher education. The focus is on physical and hybrid learning spaces provided by the university, third parties or personally. These include informal campus spaces, home learning environments, public spaces, learning cafés, public transport, outdoor spaces, natural landscapes etc. Existing inequalities in access to technical equipment and internet (“digital divide”) but also to physical-spatial environments conducive to learning and well-being can pose barriers on students in higher education, depending on their socio-economic background, gender, age, disabilities and geographical location. NIILS aims to provide data on informal and non-conventional physical and hybrid learning spaces available for and used by higher education students from different social groups in different European countries and regions. By developing recommendations and guidelines for learners, lecturers, university administration and other stakeholders, it aims to mitigate existing inequalities and promote technologically enhanced inclusive informal learning environments, which are conducive to learning and users’ well-being in higher education.

  • The Art of Gazing (Umění (č)umění)

    CZ

    Our project has a name that is a pun in Czech language: The Art of Gazing (Umění (č)umění) mentions the "art twice" as "art" is part of "gazing". I decided to provide local children with an opportunity to "leave parents at home" once a month and I take a group of kids from 6 to 12 to the city center where we visit one or usually two current exhibitions. We spend the whole Sunday together, we have a lunch in some nice Café or restaurant and we are getting in touch with the current scene of visual arts in the city. We travel by train - which is the most green and fast way how to get to the center, and when we reach it, we walk and try to avoid other transfers.

  • Arks Foundation

    EN/CZ

    The overall goal is to save Schindler’s Ark to form a Museum of Survivors and learning hub in the heart of Europe. Schindler’s Ark was a concentration camp where 1200 Jews on Schindler’s List were saved, as shown in the film by Stephen Spielberg. Schindler’s Ark was stolen by the Nazis from the Low-Beer family in 1938. The Low-Beer family bought back the ruined factory in 2018 and in partnership with the local community formed the Arks Foundation. They co-designed the project for a museum and the testimony activities led by local guides. This project leverages the infrastructure plans for a new museum building, to equip it as a museum of survivors. It implements testimony, iWALK and permanent digital place-based and virtual learning in the unique place where the events occurred. The digital media and testimony activities are used, training local guides, to reach the expected 100-200,000 visitors per year for the Schindler’s Ark Museum.

  • Associação de Desenvolvimento Local Terra do Lagarto

    PT

    "Lizards in the afternoon: Art as an activating agent of crafts and traditions", is presented as an artistic-cultural program that aims at the reactivation and subsequent preservation of the workshop knowledge of Vilar de Amargo village. We see the urgency of safeguarding the material and immaterial heritage of Portuguese handicrafts, which survives by the hand of rare, aged but resilient craftsmen with no successors interested in its continuity. This project is based on varied activities, in a central intersection of the materials of clay and wool with the customs, festivities and territory of the village – also these, part of a tradition with urgency of preservation. The reactivation/preservation of the tradition is supported by the Local Development Association Terra do Lagarto, which in 2017 rescued from oblivion, with the support of the population, the festivity "Entrudo Lagarteiro", in which this program fits alongside other events in the region.

  • Art on Wheels

    EN/LV

    “Art on Wheels” is a collaborative project by Art Center NOASS (Latvia) and Fargefabrikken (Norway) to make contemporary art accessible to children in remote regions of Latvia and Norway. The mobile exhibition features four innovative, interactive artworks co-created with school pupils, traveling to towns and schools with a celebratory, circus-like atmosphere. Accompanied by an educational program led by an art mediator, the project encourages children to engage with art, ask questions, and develop critical thinking. Informative videos created by pupils further enhance accessibility and relatability for young audiences. The initiative addresses the cultural divide, as 32% of Latvians face barriers to cultural access due to distance or other factors. Ultimately, it aims to foster creativity, collaboration, and joy in the digital age, offering a positive first encounter with contemporary art.

  • Center of Education for Environment and Sustainability of Syros-Hermoupolis

    EL

    Our proposal includes the transformation of a city park into a non-formal classroom-of sustainability. We propose the construction of 17 wooden stepladders that will represent the 17 indicators of sustainable development. Each ladder will have five steps which will correspond to criteria for covering the indicators. The criteria will be indicative. The classroom will be open to students but will be open to the entire local community and visitors. Each group based on their experience from living in the area will decide if our city covers the 17 sustainability indicators.

  • CENTRAD - Diputación de Lugo

    ES

    Permaculture is a holistic system based on patrons and characteristics from natural ecosystems, involving ethics and action designing. It includes different topics: building, technology, economy, culture, community governance, agriculture and, boosting values and know-how related to those issues, education. Besides, permaculture has emerged as an answer to face global warming, biodiversity loss and social networks degradation. Education is the cornerstone of this approach, helping local communities to incorporate it to his activities. Consequently, Public Administration is called to play a central role in this purpose owing to its competencies. This is the context in which the project ESPAZO PERMACULTURAL -LUGAR DE REQUE was born. Lugar de Reque has a prime location, so close to Rato’s river, in Lugo, in the environment of a basketry centre, which building would be used. The project is focus on transforming this environment, 3.300m2 size, into a meeting place where developing activities aligned with a permaculture vision, emerging as an example of environmental respect and adaptation.

  • Connect Your City (member of IASIS NGO)

    EL

    CONNECT YOUR CITY (CYC) is a Youth Center Network, operating under the auspicies of IASIS NGO, aimed at young people from 16 to 30 years old. Its goal is the empowerment of young people and especially the ones coming from social vulnerable groups through entertainment, education, and pre-vocational training services. We currently operate seven (7) Youth Centers, two (2) in the Municipality of Athens, one (1) in the Municipality of New Philadelphia, one (1) in the Municipality of Maroussi, one in Porto Rafti, one (1) in Cyprus and one ( 1) in Brussels, as well as one (1) hostel for European Volunteers, who through the program of the European Voluntary Service (EVS) who are part of our projects for six months. CYC is running the Connect your City Mobile App, which is an innovative application that combines youth empowerment and fun to motivate young people to engage in a variety of topics and explore different aspects of themselves. Players complete recreational, educational and volunteer activities and upon completion earn points that are redeemable for gifts and privileges from the NGO.

  • Fab City Hamburg

    EN/DE

    The Fab City Hamburg is part of a global network of about 50 Fab Cities. One of its main goals is the shift towards a local circular economy and the promotion of a new production and consumption paradigm based on the convergence of the digital and physical realms through digital fabrication tools & the internet. The Fab City Hamburg is a network of about 20 Labs, including Fab-, Textile-, and Bio- Labs, SMEs, research and public institutions. The Labs are places for education, prototyping and small series of production. In the last years, the awareness of circular design and sustainable practices has strongly emerged in the community of practices of these labs. The project's aim is to develop educational programs on circular design and sustainable practices for different publics.

  • LWL-Industriemuseum Ziegelei Lage

    EN/DE

    The historic factory buildings of the former Sylbach brickworks on the periphery of Lage form the centerpiece of the LWL Industrial Museum Brickworks Lage in the Lippe region. The viewing, media and consumption habits of our audience have changed, which the museum must now address with new didactic approaches. This includes a more participatory approach that takes into account the local environment. The prospective permanent exhibition will focus on the living environment of visitors and ask: "How do we want to live together in the future? How will we build (sustainably) in the future? Which raw materials have a future? How can we help shape these processes? Starting in 2025, visitors to the museum will be able to engage with the topics of building, architecture, living, coexistence and urban development in different time periods. Through this approach, we promote the creative competence of our visitors. Also a new museum education center will be created. This will include a "MakerSpace" where the museum acts as a third place, offering space and opportunities to meet and develop things together. With the new exhibition and new themes, as well as a link to the digital space, we are aiming to develop a supra-regional appeal and at the same time to further bind the regular regional audience.

  • The Creative Dimension

    EN/FI

    The Creative Dimension (CD) cooperation platform aims at forming a new phenomenon-based learning environment for culture and creative fields that embeds the mission and actions of the New European Bauhaus initiative into its core operation. CD is located at the new Creative Campus of Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Arabianranta district. Campus hosts fourteen degree programmes in different cultural and creative fields — the largest cultural concentration in Finland. Culture and creative industries (CCI) can play crucial roles in solving wicked problems and building more meaningful and sustainable ways of living. CD aims to discover new ways to cultivate methods for transdisciplinary collaboration and agile piloting with the local community (citizens, NGOs, companies and the public sector) to implement more meaningful and sustainable living in urban areas. CD aims to open up campus facilities and facilitate cooperation as a local orchestrator. In addition, CD pursues linking local actors to the NEB innovation ecosystem of partners and other community members. Metropolia recognises its role as a NEB partner to act locally as a problem-based, transdisciplinary catalyst and facilitator toward sustainable transformations.

  • Music Theatre InTernational

    EN/IT

    The #InTransito project is an opportunity for us to experiment and co-create inside the Tiburtina Rail Station activities in collaboration with creative young people and with the territory of the 4th Municipality District. The so-called "bubbles" of the station are very interesting spaces still partially used and which, in our opinion, should host not only commercial activities, but become the permanent home of a Community Center or Cultural Hot Spot in which to host creative activities together with those of the green economy, in a hermeneutic and transdisciplinary modality, integrated in a sustainable vision of urban regeneration. This potential "Rome Creative Community center" would transform the Tiburtina Rail Station not only into a transit place for distracted and hurry travelers and commuters, but also in a place for re-generation and enjoyment of creative activities, even more if in inclusive and sustainable terms, through a social innovation project participated by the local community, institution, business companies and civil society organizations.

  • New European Bauhaus Forum Bosnia and Herzegovina

    EN

    Mostar Green Design Centre (GDC), developed by Sarajevo Green Design Foundation (SGDF), is shaping to become a knowledge exchange and an experimental learning hub for students, architectural professionals, the building industry and public authorities in Bosnia and Herzegovina and beyond, in the SEE neighbourhood. GDC is set up as a unique European innovation park to showcase green and circular building concepts in South East Europe and is listed by the EU Horizon 2020 BAMB project as one of five pioneering Circular Buildings in Europe. GDC is a place to exchange, share and demonstrate knowledge about the future generation of architecture. By transforming a formerly devastated historic military structure and location into a centre of creativity and innovation, the Green Design Center introduces a new program into Mostar’s social, spatial, educational and economic infrastructure. Such an intervention provides a connective medium for the community, local authority and professional engagement navigating beyond the complex legacies of the conflict in the 1990s which left the city with damaged and ruinous structures. GDC is a “beacon of light” in Mostar that sparks and reinforces the creative and innovative strength of the city as a valuable medium for redefining common spaces where a historic site serves as a cohesive force to overcome past divisions, unify and develop common visions for future of the city and communities through co-creation, co-existence and co-innovation.

  • NUCLIO Change Makers

    EN/PT

    Change Makers is a Maker Space and a project dedicated to bringing innovation in education and the development of important skills to schools and to the community. It aims to empower all citizens to increase their digital and scientific profile as well as other important life skills such as creativity, inovative spirit, entreperneurship, citizenship, etc. The project opens its doors to the community, where citizens can participate in workshops and develop projects with the support of professionals of a diverse set of fields. It also collaborates with schools, offering teacher training opportunities as well as the development of projects with students, with the aim of developing solutions to relevant community problems, while linking this process with the school curricula. These projects foster the opening of the school to the community, increasing the flow of knowledge and support between schools and their surrounding environment.

  • School of Architecture La Salle - Ramon Llull Univeristy (coordinator A-Place)

    EN

    “A-Place” is a platform for creation, debate and experimentation about the sense of belonging and identity which groups from multiple backgrounds and cultures hold within their social and physical environments. In our multicultural societies, the notion of place is not limited to a given space and time, but crosses spatial and temporal boundaries. The purpose of “A-Place” is to design and implement art-centred placemaking activities in six European cities –Barcelona, Bologna, Brussels, Lisbon, Ljubljana, and Nicosia– to foster community cultural development by connecting meanings and experiences associated to place. Through site-specific art, creative spatial practises, cultural projects and educational activities embedded in communities, “A-Place” is engaging a variety of stakeholders (residents, artists, architects, students, policy-makers) in a process of reflection through actions about the meaning of and value of creating places. A main objective of A-Place is to create cross-disciplinary learning spaces arising from the confluence of creative placemaking practices with educational programmes at different levels, from school to higher education, in order to overcome boundaries between academia and society, and between disciplines. The activities and outcomes are being archived in an online repository which is becoming a learning resource for future projects aiming at transforming spaces into meaningful places with the collaboration of communities.

  • School of Design, Anhalt University

    EN/DE

    This is taking place within higher education. Together with students we developed an evolving and structured approach to teaching design theory to 1st year BA design students. Our intrinsically cybernetic and constructivist approach connects theory and practice in an applied manner, encouraging students to locate problems they observe in their environment, at the university, at home or in town. In this process they learn about both academic and professional design methods and models, how to apply them, how to design and test prototypes, and how to reflect and connect their learning experiences to existing design theory. Additionally, student feedback is used to redesign our seminar.

  • Supercluster

    EN

    Supercluster brings people and places together through located and digital forms of activism to walk, talk, create, learn, play and map in and about our more than human planet and in and about their places and communities. We create educational methods with diverse stakeholders in local and global contexts for documenting, archiving, analyzing, visualizing, mapping and sharing people’s stories, practices and embodied knowledge of the environment and place-making. We work with interactive, locative, screen and audio-based web technologies. What emerges from our collective work is an inquiry into how technologies may be used to understand people’s experiences of connection/disconnection from place, or the ecosystems they are part of and affect, particularly in a time of mass migration and global climatic change.

  • Tomas Bata University in Zlín

    EN/CZ

    The bachelor's degree program Creative industries and digital culture (hereinafter also "KODK") is based on the continuous interest of applicants and their successful application in practice in the field of cultural and creative industries (hereinafter also "CCI") and media production, based on the relevance of the educational content and the requirements of the labor market. The aim of the study is to provide knowledge and skills aimed at enabling the student to open up to a new and dynamically developing digital direction in the CCI sectors, and to succeed professionally in a rapidly changing cultural and creative world. It opens up new possibilities for profiling where the student has more prerequisites for production and management in the field of CCI based on the relevance of the educational content and the requirements of the labor market. Educational and creative activity is based on contemporary findings in the field of production and management of the artistic practice, applies management procedures proven in Czech and foreign cultural and creative industries, and further develops and specifies them toward a digital, accessible, and sustainable culture.

  • TU Dublin

    EN

    Led by the Faculty of Engineering & Built Environment at TU Dublin, Design + Construct Sustainable Building Centre (D+C SBC) is a university-wide project to develop an innovative learning environment for collaborative and transdisciplinary education, engagement and research. D+C SBC is TU Dublin’s response to addressing critical skills shortages and capacity issues in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) sector and to deliver on Ireland’s Programme for Government Project 2040 with specific reference to policies and actions outlined in the ‘Climate Action Plan 2021-Securing our Future’ and ‘Housing for All- a New Housing Plan for Ireland to 2030’. Renovating an existing TU Dublin unused building, D+C SBC will provide approx. 6,430 m2 of educational space for applied and practice-based activities at all levels and will be supported by a suite of educational offerings, promoting accessibility, diversity and life-long learning pathways, aligned with TU Dublin’s Strategic Objectives and the University’s Education Model (UEM). The facility will be a research centre and demonstrator and a teaching tool for the green built environment supporting the learning of skills for retrofit, circular economy based and carbon neutral design, modern methods of construction, design for manufacture, digital construction, sustainable materials and design for disassembly.

  • TULE, Technical University of Madrid

    EN/ES

    This project aims to introduce nature based solutions in schools and their surroundings to improve environmental quality and quality of life for the children and all members of the educational community. We focused on schools as strategic places for catalyzing change in a community and as impact-distributors. TULE is a interdisciplinary group of researchers from the Technical University of Madrid with expertise in urban forestry, urban green infrastructure, noise monitoring, water quality analysis and solutions and sports and health impacts. We work together with three key cities: Madrid, Parla and Pinto that have identify a group of candidate schools and are ready to implement a change and improve the schools playgrounds or the schools surroundings. This project has chosen educational centers distributed in different neighborhoods and urban typologies of the city. The selection criteria have been the existence of an active educational community, the approval of the residents and the urban context in which it is located, which allows the innovative concepts of “school street” and “school plaza” to be developed.

  • University of Évora

    PT

    The University of Évora is the second oldest in Portugal, occupying several buildings, mostly historic one, scattered around the city of Évora. Being Évora the European Capital of Culture 2027, it becomes urgent to involve communities in the processes of thought and transformation of the city, Europe and the world, with the University having a key role in promoting initiatives of co-design, public participation, participatory art and citizen science. In 2020, the _ARTERIA_LAB_ is born in the University of Évora, a creative laboratory dedicated to experimentation and transdisciplinary research at the crossroads between the arts, science, technology and design, seeking to respond to societal challenges through co-design practices. In terms of infrastructure, it is constituted by a maker space open to the community. The maker space occupies a provisional space, with limited conditions, particularly in terms of space, which hinders the implementation of participatory practices. In 2023 it is planned to transfer the maker space to a new space, with INTERREG POCTEP funding. This space, will have a creative arena, with space for talks, conferences, small shows, exhibitions, performances, workshop screenings and hackathons; a space for work and group dynamics; a meeting room with videoconference; potential space for incubation of creatives.

  • FIABA (University of Florence, Department of Architecture)

    IT

    Schools’ open spaces, especially those of high schools, are often neglected in Italy. But as the pandemic has demonstrated, open-air education is a great opportunity to pursue a healthier lifestyle, improve learning and teaching activities, and change social behaviours in a more sustainable way. FIABA “Firenze impara ad abitare con gli adolescenti”/FIABA “Florence learns to live with adolescents” is a project led by the Department of Architecture (DIDA) of the University of Florence (official partner of the New European Bauhaus) that deals with the design and creation of a better school environment and, at the same time, with the rising of a new mentality, starting from young people. FIABA aims to develop a methodology to strengthen the role of schools as “living labs” for the city in transition, towards a more sustainable, beautiful, and inclusive built environment. FIABA develops interactive workshops with students of two schools of Florence to 1) educate to the city of transition, 2) co-design the city of transition 3) experiment with the city of transition through spatial transformation in the schools.

  • Wertewandel e.V. Projekt Lauch Gemeinsam Gestalten

    DE

    Together with local education institutions, LAUSch moderates solution design processes for local challenges. In an innovative, dialogical process, educational services are developed that fit the realities of the respective users, are easy to implement and thus create the basic prerequisite for ecological change. The dialogical process aims to reach groups that are not yet sensitized to sustainable developmet. With a cooperation with the architecture students from the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences we used design thinking processes to start a dialogue about public spaces and created artistic interventions.

  • Library-making in dialogue: IX Secondary School Library

    Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, Faculty of Interior Design

    The accomplished project of the IX Secondary School Library exemplifies transformation of an unused space into the multifunctional, open, inviting, comfortable, however modest place of learning. In the design process, students of the School and the Academy of Fine Arts, as well as librarians and administration staff, entered into creative multidisciplinary dialogue. As a result, social capital, cultural values and sense of belonging were enforced. Moreover, the use of resources was optimized.