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“But more is needed than reducing emissions. The Green Deal must also be a new cultural project for Europe!” The CDU politician wrote. “We have to reconcile design and sustainability.” Architects, artists, students, systems scientists, engineers, and designers should work together for this.
The Bauhaus, founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, remains today an icon of modernism, the most influential school of architecture, art and design. Later it moved to Dessau and finally Berlin until it was closed in 1933 under pressure from the Nazis.
“The Bauhaus literally helped shape the social and economic transition to industrial society and the 20th century,” von der Leyen wrote. “One hundred years later we are faced with new global challenges: climate change, digitization and an increase in the earth’s population to 10 billion people by 2050.”
According to von der Leyen’s ideas, the “new European Bauhaus” should “stimulate the necessary social discourse on new construction methods and forms of design”. Look for “practical answers” to the question of what modern life might look like in harmony with nature. Digitization should also make use of it: “The goal is fully climate-neutral and more livable cities.”
Von der Leyen announced that five projects should emerge in various EU countries over the next two years. “Everyone is committed to the issue of sustainability, but they set different priorities. These range from natural building materials and energy efficiency to arts and culture, demographics, future-oriented mobility and resource-saving digital innovation.”
