BAUHAUS Goes North

The Bauhaus Goes North (BGN) project aims to review the state of the art in respect to participatory, sustainable, and inclusive co-design for the transition to a circular and resource efficient economy in the NPA Region. Under the New European Bauhaus (NEB) it removes barriers to accelerate replication of best practice across the NPA Region. BGN will be delivered via a Living Lab initiative to co-create a Co-Design Playbook; a Replicability Index tool and Annual Best Practice Call to accelerate take-up of replicable solutions. Contributing to the NEB movement, it proposes and advances participatory, sustainable and inclusive co-design best practices. Four jointly-developed demonstrator projects - a district plan, a campus and a historic building, a sustainable island development – will illustrate and anchor diverse settings and contexts. The NEB initiative was launched to make the European Green Deal a ‘tangible experience’ - offering a new cultural approach for Europe, a systemic change that is innovative, attractive, and human centred. It has three core values guiding it 1. Sustainability (circularity, zero pollution, biodiversity) 2. Aesthetics (quality of experience, style beyond functionality) 3. Inclusion (valuing diversity, securing accessibility and affordability) The BAUHAUS Goes North project will amplify the NEB principle that how and what we build is also a part of natural and social systems - a new 'Green Imaginary' premised on a reading of circularity in architecture that transcends building or material only.