Periodic Reporting for period 1 - NEBourhoods (Creating NEBourhoods Together. Munich-Neuperlach as test-bed for urban innovation landscapes)
Période du rapport: 2022-10-01 au 2023-12-31
Creating NEBourhoods Together Neuperlach acts as a fertilizer for state-of-the-art urban regeneration and development with the vision and principles of the New European Bauhaus (NEB). It will become a Lighthouse Demonstrator for the NEB and the EU-missions.
Our test-bed is Munich Neuperlach (NPL), a place on the ground typical for many European cities. Munich-Neuperlach is the biggest post-war urban expansion area of former West-Germany. The City of Munich has decided on urban regeneration measures and an integrated urban development plan. NEBourhoods adds to this with a unique, NEB inspired approach. We facilitate joint action and Co-creation between its inhabitants, organisations and stakeholders with the most relevant scientists and students, activists and artists, start-ups and creatives, universities, networks and platforms from Munich’s excellent innovation-ecosystem. Together the project partners nurture and accelerate NPL’s transformation into a beautiful, inclusive and sustainable future. We started with a set of ten NEB-actions tackling various challenges of urban development towards the European Green Deal, inclusive spaces, bio-diversity, new energy patterns, circularity, healthy nutrition, cultural places and more. The proposed NEB-actions are now embedded in living labs for prototyping and co-creation. A mobile MakerSpace, scholarships, a test-bed for matching start-ups with companies, hackathons and public innovation competitions aiming at solutions for urban challenges add entrepreneurial spirit and business-ideas to the transition.
NEBourhoods objectives are:
- Cultivate an inclusive, empowering and thus resilient urban innovation landscape at human scale through Quadruple-helix Co-Creation with creativity at its core
- Set-up and test a unique way to involve entrepreneurship facilitation in urban development as a game-changer that speeds-up the green transition and unlocks upscaling potential
- Co-create diverse cutting edge pilots in NPL that bring life and action the NEB principles and the Green Deal Missions
- Deliver NEBourhoods - inspiring and replicable nuclei of practices on the ground - for the future of sustainable urban development in Europe and beyond
- Contribution and nurture the New European Bauhaus vision and movement
Communication at all levels is central for NEBourhoods and for fostering the NEB-initiative.
- we are delivering input for discussions and are preparing relevant final contributions for EU, national and regional policies and the professional communities.
- we are working on the ground, raising awareness, inspiring people and stakeholders aiming at reaching out to them, picking up or initiating their desire for community, co-creation and action in the spirit of NEB.
- we have been networking across sectorial silos within the administration and beyond
- we are in dialogue with municipal and local political representatives to bring the NEB-principles and the NEBourhoods approach to their attention and gain their support.
This is the basis for our second year with implementation on the ground and upscaling and replication after the end of the project.
Public events, social media, press coverage and being present at professional events have been some of the most important means at this stage. They are planned and delivered hand in hand with all partners active for NEBourhoods. They support our "core activities": The NEB actions are designing and testing the real world solution for urban challenges in living lab settings provided for by our Transition Hub for co-creation and are linked with the entrepreneurship process.
To pick out one rather special activity: we brought the global art project INSIDE OUT of the renowned photographer JR to Neuperlach. Large portraits of inhabitants mixed with people - also the project team - working in and for Neuperlach could be seen (and partly are still) on the pillars of bridges,the walls of churches and other places. This contribution of art and creativity helped us to reach out to a wide spectrum of people and communities.
Our test-bed is Munich Neuperlach (NPL), a place on the ground typical for many European cities. Munich-Neuperlach is the biggest post-war urban expansion area of former West-Germany. The City of Munich has decided on urban regeneration measures and an integrated urban development plan. NEBourhoods adds to this with a unique, NEB inspired approach. We facilitate joint action and Co-creation between its inhabitants, organisations and stakeholders with the most relevant scientists and students, activists and artists, start-ups and creatives, universities, networks and platforms from Munich’s excellent innovation-ecosystem. Together the project partners nurture and accelerate NPL’s transformation into a beautiful, inclusive and sustainable future. We started with a set of ten NEB-actions tackling various challenges of urban development towards the European Green Deal, inclusive spaces, bio-diversity, new energy patterns, circularity, healthy nutrition, cultural places and more. The proposed NEB-actions are now embedded in living labs for prototyping and co-creation. A mobile MakerSpace, scholarships, a test-bed for matching start-ups with companies, hackathons and public innovation competitions aiming at solutions for urban challenges add entrepreneurial spirit and business-ideas to the transition.
NEBourhoods objectives are:
- Cultivate an inclusive, empowering and thus resilient urban innovation landscape at human scale through Quadruple-helix Co-Creation with creativity at its core
- Set-up and test a unique way to involve entrepreneurship facilitation in urban development as a game-changer that speeds-up the green transition and unlocks upscaling potential
- Co-create diverse cutting edge pilots in NPL that bring life and action the NEB principles and the Green Deal Missions
- Deliver NEBourhoods - inspiring and replicable nuclei of practices on the ground - for the future of sustainable urban development in Europe and beyond
- Contribution and nurture the New European Bauhaus vision and movement
Communication at all levels is central for NEBourhoods and for fostering the NEB-initiative.
- we are delivering input for discussions and are preparing relevant final contributions for EU, national and regional policies and the professional communities.
- we are working on the ground, raising awareness, inspiring people and stakeholders aiming at reaching out to them, picking up or initiating their desire for community, co-creation and action in the spirit of NEB.
- we have been networking across sectorial silos within the administration and beyond
- we are in dialogue with municipal and local political representatives to bring the NEB-principles and the NEBourhoods approach to their attention and gain their support.
This is the basis for our second year with implementation on the ground and upscaling and replication after the end of the project.
Public events, social media, press coverage and being present at professional events have been some of the most important means at this stage. They are planned and delivered hand in hand with all partners active for NEBourhoods. They support our "core activities": The NEB actions are designing and testing the real world solution for urban challenges in living lab settings provided for by our Transition Hub for co-creation and are linked with the entrepreneurship process.
To pick out one rather special activity: we brought the global art project INSIDE OUT of the renowned photographer JR to Neuperlach. Large portraits of inhabitants mixed with people - also the project team - working in and for Neuperlach could be seen (and partly are still) on the pillars of bridges,the walls of churches and other places. This contribution of art and creativity helped us to reach out to a wide spectrum of people and communities.
In its first 15 months, NEBourhoods scientific partners have been analysing the project area of Neuperlach and Surroundings with regard to
- potentials for local wild species and bio-diversity
- heat-islands and suitable types of open space that need shading for better usability
- circular practises, circularity of large office complexes
- As-built plans of the housing stock from the late 1960ies and early 70ies, the conversion and renovation potential
- the solar-potential of the area as basis for energy communities
- patterns of urban private space open for public use in the context of large office buildings and their changing functions
- potentials for local wild species and bio-diversity
- heat-islands and suitable types of open space that need shading for better usability
- circular practises, circularity of large office complexes
- As-built plans of the housing stock from the late 1960ies and early 70ies, the conversion and renovation potential
- the solar-potential of the area as basis for energy communities
- patterns of urban private space open for public use in the context of large office buildings and their changing functions
The Beneficiaries are developing tangible demonstrators, solutions, and change processes that have not yet produced measurable results since these are planned for the second half of the project. The integral work of the two processes Co-Creation and Entrepreneurial Activities embedd ten NEB-actions for urban development. Here, results leading to impact will also be realised in the second half of the project. Hence, as of the date of the mid-term report, NEBourhoods has not carried out a systematic screening of (potential) impacts from results.