A new cultural project, called "New European Bauhaus", was initiated to embrace a circular economy and strength the EU’s actions for sustainability, environmental and social benefits in the architecture, urbanism, engineering, arts and design sector by the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen in October 2020. The arts can indeed play a major role in ‘societal challenges’—as problem accelerator. In einem Gastbeitrag für die „Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung“ verwies von der Leyen auf das Ziel, Europa bis 2050 zum „ersten klimaneutralen Kontinent“ zu machen. A world served by an economy that cuts emissions, boosts competitiveness, reduces energy poverty, creates rewarding jobs and improves quality of life. También puedes leer en República Inmobiliaria: The cosmopolitans had to flee for the Nazis and found themselves exiled across the world, spreading progressive concepts. DESSAU, Germany — Ursula von der Leyen wants Europe to tap into its inner avant-garde. We need new beginnings. Get alerts on Climate change when a new story is published Get alerts What von der Leyen implicitly suggests here, is that Europeans need to come up with a new institutional form that can steer the ecological and digital challenges. Das neue Europäische Bauhaus ist eine kreative interdisziplinäre Initiative, die einen Ort der Begegnung schaffen soll, wo an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Kultur, sozialer Inklusion, Wissenschaft und Technologie künftige Lebensweisen gestaltet werden. Caught between the geo-political forces of the US and China, this what a resourceful European initiative should take up. There are many EU affiliated research centres, but none of them comes close to the arts. FORTUNE is a trademark of Fortune Media IP Limited, registered in the U.S. and other countries. This is why we will set up a New European Bauhaus—a co-creation space where architects, artists, students, engineers, designers work together to make that happen. We need to put the powerful digital tools that we have to work, to solve the planetary challenges humanity is facing. In a recent Press statement, the European Commission’s President, Ursula von der Leyen, presented “The New European Bauhaus” movement. And we need to give our systemic change its own distinct aesthetic—to match style with sustainability. [9] https://www.politico.eu/article/bauhaus-von-der-leyen-green-recycle/. [8] The emphasis on a positive attitude runs away from very real conflicts in society that need to be faced before we can start to implement blueprints. Putting rhetoric aside, this is the first time the European Commission launches a proposal to set up a network of (five) art schools. It will be a radical task for Europe to face Silicon Valley venture capital rhetoric as a major obstacle for change. Von der Leyen will „Bauhaus-Bewegung“ für Nachhaltigkeit. It created a new engineering style of the world from an economic, technical, social and artistic point of view. 21 October 2020, 7:01am. Peter Thiel suggests Bitcoin may be ‘a Chinese financial weapon against the U.S.’, A quarter of U.S. adults are now fully vaccinated. In her inaugural State of the Union speech from September 16, 2020, she pledged to revive the historical Bauhaus – the experimental art school that married artistic form with functional design, founded a century ago in Weimar, Germany. And among the most famous — hence von der Leyen’s reference to it — was the original Bauhaus, which was founded in Weimar in 1919 and thrived for 14 years until the Nazis shut it down. The deconstruction of the Bauhaus 1.0 ethic and aesthetic should remain an important background for any project that proclaims itself a new Bauhaus. Quotes delayed at least 15 minutes. Rather it seems more like an acceleration of the already largely failed late 1990’s model. Gansing concludes that “because of the massification and neo-liberalization of art and design art could now be integrated as a ‘creative’ element into all subjects, while not itself being a subject of rigorous study. “When done properly, the cause of contributing to a better world will spark and harness optimism, enthusiasm and idealism from professionals and citizens alike – not just for the energy transition but also for tackling the ills of the present economy. Dafür schwebe ihr ein „neues europäisches Bauhaus“ in Anlehnung an die bekannte Weimarer Kunstschule vor. This is even more the case in 2020. [8] See Mieke Gerritzen & Geert Lovink, Made in China, Designed in California, Criticised in Europe, Design Manifesto, BIS Publishers, Amsterdam, 2020. Von der Leyen made her new Bauhaus proposal amid remarks about a European Green Deal and a proposal for the European Union (EU) to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by … [6], visualizations of Waag’s public stack and Raworth’s Donut Economy. However, the fact that Bauhaus 1.0 was “inherently not inclusive,” as an open letter of the Maastricht Jan van Eyk academy claims,[3] should not stop us. People should be able to feel, see and experience the European Green Deal. The president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has announced plans to create a "New European Bauhaus", embracing a circular economy and strengthening the EU’s actions for sustainability, environmental and social benefits in the architecture, urbanism, engineering, arts and design sector. The European University Institute in Florence, founded in 1972, exclusively focusses on post-graduate teaching and research in the social sciences, excluding the arts and humanities completely. Contemporary arts can do a better than merely being a motor of gentrification of creative ‘smart cities’, in which real-estate is the only game in town. Powered and implemented by Interactive Data Managed Solutions. ... Bauhaus enthusiasts might be disappointed to … Von der Leyen stellt neues Europäisches Bauhaus vor EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen stellte heute das neue europäische Bauhaus vor, das sie in ihrer Rede zur Lage der Union angekündigt hatte. Plans for the New European Bauhaus were revealed by European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen in 2020 during her inaugural State of the Union address to the European parliament. EU president Ursula von der Leyen wants Europe to tap into its inner avant-garde. By Geert Lovink, first published by the Berlin magazine The Arts of the Working Class, here. K3, for example, was part of a new university in a largely working-class city, and this reflected in the way subjects were taught, opening up to the digital realm.” So, before we start to roll of Greta Thunberg Art Schools, it might be good to reflect on how the avant-gardist élan of the countless art & technology ‘new media’ programs quickly made way for entrepreneurial web/app design courses that catered for Silicon Valley platforms—instead of creating alternatives themselves. Existing national art academies, design schools, technical universities and humanities departments have so far failed to come up with such a transnational concept. Use of this site constitutes acceptance of our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy | CA Notice at Collection and Privacy Notice | Do Not Sell My Personal Information | Ad Choices  [7] Criticality is something Europe should claim and be proud of. Market data provided by Interactive Data. [5] Quotes from private email exchange, November 20, 2020. By Geert Lovink, December 16, 2020 at 11:55 am. In the late 1990s Malmö model the artist-designer was more of a mediator and producer than the creative genius of the Bauhaus generation. Every movement has its own look and feel. ), The Critical Makers Reader, (Un)Learning Technology, The Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, 2019. It is productive force that invites us to reflect and bring in other voices. EU president Ursula von der Leyen wants Europe to tap into its inner avant-garde. To confront its mainstream institutions, that were ferociously trying to preserve themselves and dismiss such curious endeavours. [9] And lest we forget: the staff of Bauhaus 1.0 was hardly German. Die Europäische Kommission hat heute (Montag) die Gestaltungsphase der Initiative „Ein neues Europäisches Bauhaus“ eingeleitet, die Präsidentin von der Leyen in ihrer Rede zur Lage der Union 2020 angestoßen hatte. Look at the artistic research done in the critical maker labs. So, what happens when we start with Tim Morton’s ‘dark ecology’, instead of rushing into the ruthless promotion of ‘positive energy’ that ‘creative designers’ are supposed to express. How can art education become more relevant and cease to produce precarious artists, curators and critics? Today, the European Union sees a chance to create a new common aesthetic born out of a need to renovate and construct more energy-efficient buildings. “ The New European Bauhaus movement is intended to be a bridge between the world of science and technology and the world of art and culture … it is about a new European Green Deal aesthetic combining good design with sustainability.” — President of the European Commission Ursula Von der Leyen The aim of Bauhaus 2.0 cannot be to create a handful of European billionaires and even further increase inequality. Gansing believes K3 allowed for a new form of trans-disciplinarity to emerge, that is now the standard template for all the creative industries style educational programs that emerged in the past period. Their objective was to democratize the experience of aesthetics and design through affordable commodity objects for the masses. In an interview in a German book on sustainability and universal basic income, Schnellnhuber talks about his Bauhaus idea and his hobby horse; wood architecture. Dark ecology, the critique of platform capitalism and the history of racism and colonialism will only be few of the many first year courses. Most importantly, we should never forget why it failed to be a become the truly democratic artistic force it proposed itself to be. In der Gestaltungsphase soll nun das Konzept der Initiative entstehen. In taking a ‘building something better’ approach, the co-creation projects can be called Bauhaus (even though they are not based on Bauhaus architecture).” https://www.merit.unu.edu/building-back-a-better-world-a-plea-for-a-bauhaus-initiative/. Instead, we should aim for a granular-scale repairing of a world that is broken in so many respects, all the while treating this reparative art and design as truly transformative. The growing reluctance to employ facial recognition software is a brilliant example of this turn. All rights reserved. Bauhaus 1.0 emerged from a similar crisis-ridden Europe. [2] See: Loes Bogers & Letizia Chiappini (ed. Ursula Von der Leyen The New European Bauhaus is a creative and interdisciplinary initiative, convening a space of encounter to design future ways of living, situated at the crossroads between art, culture, social inclusion, science and technology. Through such a ‘digitization’ the growing gap between cities and countryside could also be reduced. We invite [...]. S&P Index data is the property of Chicago Mercantile Exchange Inc. and its licensors. Mixtures of art, science, education and public policy can hardly be called German. In order to face the urgency of the ‘stack of crises’, we should find out how to zoom out, bring in difference, question authority, work on hard problems, avoid consensus at all cost, embrace the weird, and remain paranoid first. In line with the pioneers a century ago, we need to stop building and create architectures (as the phrase said back then). By now, we know whom the Bauhaus movement excluded and why, as well as the underlying philosophical logic that made it so easily adopted by forces that needed these exclusions. This approach collides with the secrecy of the patent-based science approach and copyright-centric forms of knowledge production. [1] If he would become minister, he would found a “Bauhaus of the Earth” based in Brandenburg. However, what’s mostly remembered are the modernist architecture nightmares. of Silvio Lorusso), The critique that the historical Bauhaus wasn’t green, excluded women and did not make explicit post-colonial statements are easy to make. What’s important is what difference prototypes of integral education and research initiatives can make today. This initiative of Migrant 2 Migrant (M2M), Radio Patapoe and Stichting Hulpkaravaan aims to bolster the communication capacity of refugees, to make their voices heard and create [...], Download as PDF Sad By Design, Remixed We Are Not Sick is proud to announce the availability for immediate remixing of all source material from their album Sad By Design at the Internet Archive. EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen will eine „neue Europäische Bauhaus-Bewegung“ anstoßen, um Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz voranzubringen. “This is the Europeanization of a German development model,” Max Welch Guerra commented in Politico. We should also extend this approach to the digital realm and apply ‘radical care’ methods to AI, blockchain and other ‘big data’ solutions. From an IT perspective Schnellnhuber wooden fetish marks an interesting ‘post-digital’ turn (and let’s talk about the latest invention of fluid wood here as well). Trotz massiver Kritik wegen der Missachtung der Menschenrechte in der Türkei startet die EU einen neuen Dialog mit Ankara. Their staff also had to confront a traditionalist, conservative establishment born out of the values of ‘old Europe’. Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, discusses the Green Deal in her State of the Union address on Sept. 16. 18.10.2020 08.19 18. This is the material turn in digital culture (and vice versa). It is intended to be a bridge between the world of science and technology and the world of art and culture. The network of ‘rainbow houses’ can do a better job. Von der Leyen’s proposal for a Bauhaus that could work on ‘creative’ solutions for the climate crisis can be traced back to the German climate researcher John Schnellnhuber. [7] Example could be René Kemp and Joost van Haaften’s policy brief, written in response to  der Leyen’s Bauhaus proposal. K3 was good at breaking the elitism of art education in terms of admission. FORTUNE may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Gansing: “One could say that a thousand digital Bauhauses already emerged. Und es wird helfen, das 21. Instead of data protection we can argue for data prevention.