Unbauhaus: A collective response to New European Bauhaus

UAL is curating a half-day public event on July 7 entitled unbauhaus. We invite you to join us as we share a collective response to the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus (NEB). The initiative is a call to shape the future of Europe as a creative and interdisciplinary movement in the making. Aiming to connect the European Green Deal to our living spaces, NEB calls for us “to imagine and build together a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful for our eyes minds, and souls.” Unbauhaus responds to the call by offering a range of critical and creative perspectives on NEB’s values – ‘beautiful, sustainable, inclusive’. 

 

 

Event Details:  

 

The 3-hour event will be structured as a series of short talks followed by a roundtable discussion with external guest speakers. Short talks will be given by a many creative practitioners and academics from across UAL, spanning a wide range of fields and perspectives, intersectional positions and identities. Collectively, we will explore these 3 questions which have been developed to clarify what creative universities such as UAL, connected to diverse systems and practices with partners and collaborators across the world, have to offer: 

 

Beyond Beauty: How can we imagine and create objects, practices, structures and places that acknowledge and address exclusions, absences and silences? 

 

Matters of Inclusion: What formats and forms of sensory and creative engagements can be imagined and realised to bring about inclusive and diverse participation, deliberation and agencies? 

 

More than Sustainability: What equitable, circular, anticipatory relations between non- and human beings (past, present and future) and Earth ecologies can be imagined and realised? 

 

Speakers include: