“A co-creation space where architects, artists, students, engineers and designers work together to make it happen”
About the Project
In 2020 the EU Commission launched the “New European Bauhaus”, which aims to engage and involve more European citizens in creating a climate-neutral, sustainable European continent by 2050.
The Design Council's contribution to this important process has been to initiate talks with a number of exciting people who have met in different ways – ‘Walk & Talks’, ‘The Dinner Talk’ or the ‘Virtual & Vinous’ – with the aim of discussing our four questions listed in the prepared TalkMenu on the right.
A number of exciting quotes, conversation fragments and pictures have come out of this, which we have gathered here on this page. We hope there will be many more Bauhaus Conversations in the coming months. Perhaps you'd like to join, too?
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What do you think a sustainable, climate-neutral Europe in 2050 could look like?
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What do you think normal life will look like in 2050?
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What do you think we can do together specifically - and across Europe - to make this happen?
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What do you see as good examples and ideas - where you live - that could inspire the New European Bauhaus Movement?
How to start your Bauhaus Conversation
Choose your format
As a host, you can choose from three different formats: Walk & Talks, the Dinner Talk or the Virtual & Vinous Conversation.
Download our guide here - which will help you host your first BauhausConversation
Invite people to join
We have created an invitation that is easy to customise and send to the person or people you would like to hold a Bauhaus Conversation with.
ConversationMenu
All formats use the same ConversationMenu, which features four questions for the conversation to be based around.
Notes
As soon as you have finished your BauhausConversation, you can submit your ideas, thoughts and quotes to us here:
We have participated so far
Christina Halskov
Laust Lauridsen
Patrik Gustavson
Kasper Salto
Susanne Justesen
Lene Dammand Lund
Claus Mølgaard
Boris Berlin
Thomas Madsen-Mygdal
Lena Valez Madsen
Ditte Lysgaard
Thomas Bentzen
Boris Berlin
Claus Mølgaard
Caroline Lindberg
Kenneth Hviid
Niels Jakubiak
Lars Thøgersen
Jan Dahl Andersen
Henrik Gommesen
Bryndis Stefansdottir
Ida Engholm
Pernille Stockmarr
Anders Michelsen
Elsebeth Gerner Nielsen
Søren Nielsen
Alma Nielsen
Thit Juul
Anders Brix
Riem Zouzou
Lene Damsbo Brix
Philip Heide
Sofie Piil Grau
Kristian Kolding
Adam Mørk
Anne-Sophie Rørth
Peter Lawaetz
Lone Feifer
Camilla van Deurs
Pernille Berg
Signe Sand
Steffen Petersen
Ditte Lysgaard
Johnny Svendborg
Gitte Just
Anna Rich
Birgitte Boesen
Graves Simonsen
Anders Koefoed
Jamie Wallace
Anne Qvist
Karen Blincoe
Sune Kjems
Gry Friis Guldberg
Sune Kjems
Luise Noring
Stine Fausing
Lasse Offenberg
Jens Frahm-Rasmussen
Anne Due Kirkegaard
Christian Bason
Christian Olesen
Mads Quistgaard
Ida Engholm
Karsten Ravn
Henrik Taudorf Lorensen
Mathilde Aggerbo
Maria Flora Middelboe Andersen
Next step
Since the EU Commission launched the visionary New European Bauhaus last year, ideas, thoughts and initiatives have blossomed across Europe, all focusing on how together we can create a better, greener and climate-neutral Europe by 2050.
There is also a lot happening in Denmark. For example, BLOX and DI have brought together a larger group of players across the construction industry (including the Design Council) - where they are currently working on bringing Denmark into the European playing field. The Design Council also wants to put Denmark on the field and we want to ensure that DESIGN plays an important role in the New Bauhaus movement, which is really beginning to flourish around Europe.
So the next step for us - and for our Bauhaus Conversations - is to reach beyond Denmark's borders and use an English version of our ConversationMenu to start talks with other global citizens, both in Europe and in the rest of the world. This will hopefully allow us to gather even more perspectives, reflections and ideas around the sustainable and climate-neutral Europe of the future.
We hope you'd like to join?
A bit of background:
When the EU launched the New European Bauhaus vision, the Design Council set up its own Bauhaus Group, which quickly decided that this would be an important area for the Design Council. It was a vision that we could fully endorse.
It led to us setting up a fast-working project group consisting of Susanne Justesen and Mads Quistgaard, which in early January was able to introduce the Design Council's New Bauhaus Concept (a ConversationMenu with four questions, a ConversationGuide with three formats, and a DocumentationPackage that could collect images, quotes, fragments and reflections from each of the conversations held).
At the beginning of March, we were then able to introduce this website, which we hope will help attract even more people to join the ConversationMovement towards our Europe of the future. Meanwhile, we also hope that this site serves as inspiration both in Denmark and in the rest of Europe when it comes to finding topics and themes for discussion as part of our ongoing work with the New European Bauhaus.
We hope to shortly introduce an English version of this site to allow BauhausConversation to be held in a more international context. More on that soon ....
If you have any questions or would like to know more, please contact Susanne Justesen from the Danish Design Council.
