NEB Festival 2026 Events

Tides of the City invites artists, designers, researchers, and creative hubs to join a Europe-wide initiative re-imagining the relationship between cities and their rivers.

For many, the NEB is closely associated with built urban areas. In this face-to-face event in central Brussels, a panel of speakers will highlight places where urban and rural characteristics co-exist.

Our topics and competences spans from design education to technology and engineering, and artists as well as perspectives on sustainability from anthropology and history.

This event is dedicated to young students and will take place at the Łukasiewicz Institute of Microelectronics and Photonics (IMiF), Poland.

For the entire duration of the New European Bauhaus Festival, visitors can discover the original installation Infinite Cloud, displayed in the Small Narthex of the Art & History Museum. The piece is a colourful suspended cloud made of 1,000 paper cranes.

For the entire duration of the New European Bauhaus Festival, visitors can discover the original installation Golden Rectangles E-Chain, displayed in the Small Narthex of the Art & History Museum.

This NEB Satellite Matchmaking Event brings together third-sector organisations, New European Bauhaus practitioners, researchers and technical partners to explore how inclusion can be embedded in the New European Bauhaus.

Viana STARTS: A Living Lab for the New European Bauhaus opens the renovation site of the former Municipal Slaughterhouse of Viana do Castelo, Portugal.

French-Chinese artistic duo Benoit+Bo work between China and Europe. Since meeting in 2002 in Tianjin, China, the artists’ work has been shaped by dialogue between cultures, personal experiences, the Chinese zodiac, popular traditions and contemporary transformation.

French-Chinese artistic duo Benoit+Bo work between China and Europe. Since meeting in 2002 in Tianjin, China, the artists’ work has been shaped by dialogue between cultures, personal experiences, the Chinese zodiac, popular traditions and contemporary transformation.

Introduction with Mikel Landabaso

A profound transformation of materials, processes, business models and skills is needed to achieve climate-neutral and circular construction.

Moving from research evidence to practice, we examine how craft and creativity supports wellbeing across different stages of life.

This panel will explore how adaptive reuse and social innovation can transform empty or underused buildings into affordable, community-oriented living spaces.

The event marks the concluding moment of the first BIP ONAC cycle.

Basque Biodesign Center BDC, will open its doors on 10 June at 12:00 and 16:00 as part of the New European Bauhaus Festival.

Care Is Infrastructure explores how cities can design care-ready workplaces and urban environments for an ageing Europe.

The INSE’2026 event highlights the need for long-term, life-cycle thinking within the industrial ecosystem, with a strong focus on the construction sector. It promotes innovative construction technologies and advanced materials that support low-carbon, climate-resilient built environments.

Construction Forum brings together experts, decision-makers and researchers from the real estate and construction sector to explore how responsible, knowledge-based decision-making can support the sustainability transition.