NEB Festival 2026 Events

Step into the NEB Stewardship Lab and unleash your imagination to discover your inner hero!

Grow microgreens and mushrooms in this interactive gardening workshop. Visitors will get demonstrations of circular food practices, a hands-on experience, and a ‘taste-and’talk’ session.

Explore the tools, materials, processes, and ideas behind the making of the ‘From Tagus to the Tile’ project with Fahrenheit.works. Participants will be able to engage members of the project on how they reimagined Lisbon’s azulejo tiles.

erience the exemplary renovation of Peterbos 9, a social housing block transformed while residents remained in occupation.

This interactive workshop brings the NEB Academy Alliance and its partners together to explore how the Alliance learns, tests and scales.

We Who Do Not Belong combines Zimbabwean rhythmic traditions and contemporary performance to explore migration, identity, and belonging.

Manuela Pauk reimagines coins made out of metal as seed bombs, with an experience that blurs the boundary between gallery and landscape and between humans, insects, and plants.

Make lamp shades, window curtains, decorations and other interior elements from sustainable materials like paper made from dried plants.

How can my living environment support my future project?
To search for answers to this question, we propose workshops of collective resonance, mediated by an interdisciplinary team that connects social science and dance.

Europe's housing crisis is still met mainly with new construction, yet costs, carbon limits, land scarcity and capacity gaps make this insufficient.

The Americas collection brings together more than 40,000 works, presenting a panorama of the different civilisations that developed from Alaska in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south over a period of 5,000 years.

This performance workshop invites participants to feel the sensations that weave through our everyday moments and appreciate how different elements come together to influence our lives, including the tensions and conflicts we hold within.

Architecture & Climate: Living Together at 50°C explores how architecture must evolve as climate change pushes temperatures to 50°C.

This takes place on 11 June in Erfurt, Germany, as a satellite event dedicated to the New European Bauhaus.

Build the Future Career Day takes place on 11 June in Ukraine, bridging technical skills with sustainable recovery.

The event explores social sustainability in contemporary work environments, focusing on how organisational practices, including remote and hybrid work, and spatial design interact to shape inclusive and fair organisations.

Discover how everyday materials can become mini growing systems. Join us for a hands-on workshop where you'll learn simple urban cultivation techniques and create your own take-home growing project.

Join this fast-paced, hands-on session inspired by Ignite NEB, where citizens come together to rethink real-life challenges. Participants only need their perspective and lived experience. It’s not about perfect solutions, but about experiencing how change begins.

NEB-LAB Eco²-schools invites visitors into a living lab where they discover 5 pilot initiatives and take part in experimental 'test activities'.