NEB Festival 2026 Events

UrbCitizenPower Thematic Working Group on the New European Bauhaus is a 90-minute online session bridging policy and practice by featuring expert keynotes on how citizen empowerment drives sustainable and inclusive urban change.

FAIR Projects in Action. Interactive hands-on workshops led by FAIR exhibitors

Participatory creative ateliers to make, experiment and create together

Living Waters Forum-Fest emerges from the deep relationship between water, life, and space in Esposende, Portugal.

Live music, dance, theatre, storytelling and more (Lunch break)

This event combines field research with mindfulness and artistic experience. Observation of nature is slowed through conscious use of the senses, breathing and attentive presence in a place.

Circular economy in construction at Rotor DC

From Non-Place to Third Place brings together community traces, digital art and urban dialogue at Paribu Art in Söğütlüçeşme, Istanbul, Turkey.

Materiatek Satellite Event hosts an afternoon event in Brussels dedicated to circular design and sustainable materials.

RE-CODING VILLAGES reimagines two historic villages in the Italian Apennines, Castel Del Giudice and Gagliano Aterno, as European living labs to address the systemic crisis of left-behind places.

From algorithm to artisan: Crafting new lifestyles for a circular future

Panel discussion, providing wrap up reflections and strategic insights to conclude the FORUM

Designing with water: building resilient and beautiful cities

Keynote Speech

Introductory speech from Commissioner Jessika Roswall

CitySenZ presents COST Action CA23145 as a living laboratory to rethink European cities through their lived and sensory qualities.

s on the regeneration and contemporary valorisation of minor urban centres, rural inner areas, and traditional and vernacular architecture that are often marginalised in mainstream planning, design and policy frameworks.

Led by STARHAUS, this satellite event explores open innovation within the New European Bauhaus, focusing on participatory design, co-creation and inclusive governance that turn New European Bauhaus values into social, cultural and economic impact.

This event brings together landscape planners, urban designers, civil society initiatives and policy-related perspectives in Vienna to discuss concrete approaches for integrating green infrastructure into dense urban contexts.