A New European Bauhaus for a Culture of Transversality and Sustainability

Abstract

This article provides a critical study of a New European Bauhaus initiative in the context of transversality, relational nature and sustainability of construction, architecture and civil engineering. Social and environmental factors in this ecosystem of innovation are highlighted, as well as the perspectives of actors within it. The relationships between art, technology and science of historical Bauhaus are assessed. The investigation of transversality was carried out using a visual tool developed by the authors, CATI, considering sustainability as the backbone. The New European Bauhaus is a pool of innovation that is supported by governments, academia, industry, society and the (natural) environment. It aims at social, environmental and cultural sustainability and includes ideas of social transformation. It is necessary to absorb the impact and overwhelming cultural consequences of previous and current Industrial Revolutions, principally relying on cyber–physical systems to generate spaces and collective intelligence. The climate crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic have increased the need for new approaches, expanding the concept of smart cities to smart territories, taking into account participation in society and general inclusivity.

Asistentes digitales en la experiencia del patrimonio cultural: Beacons en el Museo Naval de Madrid

“…Actualmente, se anuncia la quinta revolución industrial (European Commission, 2021) que tiene en cuenta principalmente la sostenibilidad ambiental y social, frente a la prioridad de los aspectos económicos-tecnológicos de la industria 4.0., lo que conlleva nuevos desafíos en todas los campos. Se ha de fomentar la aproximación al conocimiento y la cultura, favorecer la comunicación entre entornos y transversalidad entre disciplinas (Rosado-García et al, 2021). Resulta imperativo interpretar y aprovechar las relaciones entre la tecnología, el arte y la ciencia en su proyección a la sociedad (Rosado-García & García-García, 2022).…”

New European Bauhaus for a Circular Economy and Waste Management: The Lived Experience of a Community Container Garden at the University of Turin

“…However, many bottom-up interventions have to rely strongly on some forms of top-down initiative [17]. In the case of NEB, this is not thought to undermine the strength of the collective intervention, but rather to provide a structure towards the creation of public space, within a society that is defined by relations [6]. Aureli and Del Baldo [18] call for participatory governance models to "pursue the common good", suggesting that it is easier for such projects to be successful when they are small, with a strong focus on people and on sustainable use of facilities.…”

“…It represents a multistakeholder, inter-generational engagement hub that links students, academic staff, the local elderly community, and expert gardeners, under a commoning spirit [3]. In the paper, we start from Bauman's liquid modernity framework [4], which underlines some of the negative trends of our times that initiatives like the Orto are trying to actively fight against, to expand the literature on the application of the New European Bauhaus, so far marginally explored [5][6][7]. Specifically, we analyze how co-designing of the garden creates stakeholder engagement and community solidarity, through food production and consumption that follow circularity principles and good waste management practices.…”

A Roadmap for Craft Understanding, Education, Training, and Preservation

“…Applied Art and Design schools stand in the middle offering traditional and novel technique learning. The core ideas implicit within the Bauhaus are reimagined, retrofitting them for the modern age and its challenges [79][80][81][82].…”