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European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM)

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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.
Alliance Sens & Economie

FR

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.

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Art Academy of Latvia

EN/LV

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.

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Taxonomy

European Triennial of Modernism (ETOM)

NEB goes South

NEB Stewardship Lab

New European Bauhaus on the Danube

Nordic carbon neutral Bauhaus

Public infrastructure for Ukraine

The New European Bauhaus of the mountains

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

012factory Spa Società Benefit

24plus1/ e-EDGE

Alliance Sens & Economie

Art Academy of Latvia

"Antonio Brancati" Middle School

Associação Há Baixa

Association "Art Centre NOASS"

Associazione Terzo Paesaggio

Blu Breeding and Learning Unit ETS

Brincapé

Cité du design – École supérieure d’art et design

CITUA, Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Liminal A.P.S. and MIT Italy

Living Summer School

Otwieramy szkoły (EN: We are opening the schools)

Polimi Desis Lab, Department of Design, Politecnico di Milano

RELATE research project

Santo Domingo Savio RENOVATION PROJECT

Sculpture area, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos

Smiltene Municipality

Valentino Gareri Atelier

VBS Sint-Paulus