The European Commission is inviting people to share creative proposals, methods and insights to build beautiful, sustainable, inclusive places to live in. The initiative is the New European Bauhaus (NEB): an environmental, economic and cultural project to combine design, sustainability, accessibility, affordability and investment to help deliver the European Green Deal - a plan to make the EU's economy sustainable.
Prizes: Apply by 31 May
Open to anyone - including UAL staff, students and alumni. Individual and group work is eligible. Prizes will be made in 10 categories. Each category has 2 strands:
- Awards for existing completed examples/projects - prize is EUR 30 000 and a communication package for the New European Bauhaus Awards
- Rising Stars Awards: for concepts or ideas submitted by young talent aged 30 or less - prize is EUR 15 000 and a communication package for the New European Bauhaus Rising Stars
2021 NEB Prizes - Register and apply
Co-designing the New European Bauhaus: Submit an idea
This callout starts with the question: what would the new ideal building be? And what would beautiful, sustainable and inclusive places be like? What are the feelings, the sensations, but also the practical requirements and the materials we would use? If it was our neighbourhood, how should that look like, feel like, work like? How would we share the space and what would be our new habits?
Contributing to a shared conversation between the wider NEB community, staff and students are encouraged to submit your creative examples, ideas and challenges towards building “beautiful, sustainable, inclusive places to live together” directly to the NEB platform.
Individual or collective ideas are welcome. If you join this conversation, your answers will be your introduction to the rest of the NEB community.
UAL-wide event this Summer
We will be actively inviting all who are interested to join our UAL NEB community event in the Summer, to interrogate the concept of “beautiful, sustainable, inclusive”. The day will be an opportunity to articulate a critical point-of-view in relation to NEB’s trifold theme and it will challenge and reframe these through relevant UAL standpoints and areas of expertise.
Full details will be announced soon.
About the New European Bauhaus
- The New European Bauhaus wants to make the Green Deal a cultural, human centred and positive, “tangible” experience.
- The New European Bauhaus wants to connect different realities. The COVID crisis has shown that many topics are interlinked and that new thinking comes from breaking silos, just as the Bauhaus movement did one hundred years ago. The New European Bauhaus would like to facilitate the exchange of knowledge between people across Europe and to create an interdisciplinary project.
- The New European Bauhaus wants form to follow planet: We want to create a design movement integrating three dimensions: sustainability (including circularity), quality of experience (including aesthetics) and inclusion (including affordability). Showing that creativity is in finding affordable, inclusive and attractive solutions for our climate challenges.