NEB Festival 2026 Events

The conference highlights how alliances between cities, architects and social, public and cooperative housing providers are key to delivering climate-resilient and affordable neighbourhoods.

This day-long event explores system transformation at the neighbourhood scale, combining hybrid presentations with workshops.

The Move Game is a playful and inclusive outdoor board game transforming public spaces into places for movement, learning and social interaction.

SZTOS / START is an interdisciplinary STEAM showdown that revives the Bauhaus spirit, the fusion of craft, art and technology.

This event focuses on the often-overlooked early phase of public urban projects: the preparation of strong project briefs.

Move Game Požarevac takes over the public square between the elementary school and the gymnasium!

Seniors are invited to a special 'Nature Wisdom Circle'. They will take part in active co-creation, conceptualising a habitat for the merganser and a comfortable place for humans at Nemunas river embankment in Birštonas, Lithuania.

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.

Introduction with Rafaelle Fitto.

Exploring how Europe's cultural heritage can support energy-efficient, affordable and inclusive buildings at a time of climate, energy and housing crises.

BAUHAUS NOVA 2026 is a hybrid student art exhibition under the theme "Beauty Unseen," collecting creative works from students across the BAUHAUS4EU alliance.

Keynote speech by Anacláudia Rossbach, UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat).

Fluid Futures brings together artists, scientists, curators, policymakers and local actors to explore themes such as water resilience, biodiversity, pollution, community engagement and the relationship between humans and natural cycles.

This panel will explore NEB best practices that empower under-represented groups, showing how democratic participation and local, decentralised models can transform the way neighbourhoods are planned, built, and managed.

Using Ukraine’s reconstruction as example, this panel will examine how societies can rebuild under pressure while advancing sustainability, innovation, and quality.

Four experts will meet to analyze contemporary urban transformations from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The event is held as a hybrid event in Brussels, hosting a panel discussion that brings together representatives from Metsä Group, European Commission, European Parliament, the public sector and the concrete industry.

This mobile lab (June 11-14) will take participants through a landscape of contrasts: from abandoned quarries and tourist hotspots to the 'sea of plastic' and informal settlements.