NEB Festival 2026 Events

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

Rooted in the philosophy of materieunite, this forum brings together architects, designers, industry leaders and researchers to explore how circular materials can shape temporary and adaptive architecture.

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.

Move Game Mol takes over the public square next the elementary school.

Held in Valverde de Burguillos (280 inhabitants) under the motto 'Thinking, transforming, living in the rural world', this event combines a late-show format with live interviews and music, participatory workshops, and community activities.

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.

Yconic students have researched how the existing housing stock contributes to excess energy consumption, GHG emissions, and climate change, while undermining health and well-being.

Introduction with Audrey Henry

This session of the strategic Plan Regenera Madrid is part of the strategic plan Regenera Madrid, developed by the General Directorate of Urban Regeneration of Madrid City Council.

The event deals with urban microclimate mitigation solutions and the role of culture and heritage in citizen science for adaptive regeneration actions.

Keynote speech: Eamon Ryan

This online event presents New European Bauhaus-aligned research, tools and approaches from INHERIT and sister projects supporting heritage retrofit and management.

While cultural and creative activities, like film shoots, festivals or music tours, can have a big carbon footprint, these sectors also have a crucial role to play in influencing attitudes and supporting the just, inclusive, clean transition.

This is a one-day New European Bauhaus satellite event organised by the Coimbra Bauhaus Local Chapter and coordinated by the University of Coimbra, Portugal.

Open Neighbourhoods is a forum that takes place on 12–14 June 2026 in Pankow-Buch, Berlin, during the New European Bauhaus Festival.

The NEB Academy is evolving into the innovation engine of the NEB, developing connections, tools, and instruments to ensure that knowledge produced is channelled towards skilling activities, capacity-building, and applied innovation.

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.

The Timber Construction Living Lab transforms a section of the Landesgartenschau into an open‑air research space where a modular roundwood pavilion is built through public participation.