Results
March 2025

Replication Handbook for "Creating NEBourhoods Together", the EU's Lighthouse Demonstrator for the New European Bauhaus.
March 2025
The development of sustainable and liveable cities succeeds only through strong neighbourhoods. As a lighthouse project for the New European Bauhaus, Creating NEBourhoods Together has been working with the people of Neuperlach. Through co-creative processes, ideas and prototypes ranging from solar energy communities to cultural venues for young people, shade roofs, mobility meeting points and nesting places for animals have been developed by the community members. The film presents the results and introduces the people behind the ideas in the hope that they will inspire others to follow their example!
17 January 2025

DELIVERABLE. A report on the potential of collaborating with artists and creative professionals in urban experimentation and how this collaboration has been anchored in NEBourhoods as a prototype of reflexive governance. The designs are shown and contextualised within the co-creative process.
Entrepreneurship

This handbook covers the use of entrepreneurial thinking in student-focused formats to address urban challenges that arise in the context of neighborhood development. It describes which types of challenges are suitable, which methods are appropriate for generating such challenges, and the role local stakeholders could play in the process of winning challenges. The manual is designed to allow the methodology to be applied in other cities as well.
30 July 2024

DELIVERABLE. The report summarises the second round of the "Hacking Neuperlach" NEBourhoods format. It provides an overview of the objectives, challenges and solutions developed by students. In order to be able to view the results in context, the introduction explains why entrepreneurial education can serve as an engine for urban development and what challenges and opportunities arise in the process. A look at the project's internal development enables external actors to replicate the format.
30 January 2025

How does one involve academia, businesses, city administration and especially civil society in urban development projects? How can tangible outcomes be developed and implemented to initiate the sustainable transformation of urban districts? This handbook outlines the necessary steps, illustrated with examples, and is designed so that the methodology can be applied in other cities as well.
March 2025
Designing Biodiverse Cities: Incorporating wildlife into architecture and open-space and urban planning.
Studio Animal-Aided Design
NEB-Action Animal-Aided Design

The Toolbox contains a catalogue of construction, planting and maintenance measures that are tailored to the needs of 14 selected target species. These measures are intended for new buildings and open spaces as well as for refurbishments and the adaptation of green space maintenance in Neuperlach.
March 2025
Sun Protection Prototype: Shade and energy In public spaces – strategies for creating shade for urban heat islands.
TUM Chair for Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design in collaboration with str.ucture GmbH
NEB Action Public Power

DELIVERABLE. Analysis of and solutions for the reduction of urban temperatures in Neuperlach. The results highlight hotspots, effective strategies and the potential of PV-integrated canopies for improving the microclimate.
March 2025
A new culture of re-thinking utilisation: Strategies for a socially responsible, economical and energetic refurbishment and spatial expansion of residential buildings in need of renovation.
TUM Chair of Architectural Design, Rebuilding and Conservation in collaboration with the OTH Regensburg Department of Design Construction and Digitally Supported Realisation
September 2024
With the aid of design models, this short film explains how timber-built winter gardens can be used in the renovation of residential buildings. Above all, the short film allows viewers to immerse themselves in new living environments that have not been seen before in large housing estates. Discover how buildings can be modified so that afterwards the flats can be used in a variety of ways.
March 2025
Nutrition, Greening, Health – systemic and practical development of food landscapes using edible plants in the city.
Green City e. V. with Munich Nutrition Advisory Association and Munich Sustainability Initiative
6 September 2024

INTERIM REPORT. Sustainable school provisioning, community gardens, NEBourhoods gardening modules and a mobile kitchen: An interim report about the processes and outcomes of the NEB Action "Let's Plant a Tasty NEWperlach" covering the period from January to August 2024.
NEB Action Growing a Tasty Neuperlach

A cookbook of Neuperlach dishes has been created to promote regional and organic food. The cookbook invites you to rediscover your own neighbourhood and meet new people by cooking and eating together.
NEB Action Growing a Tasty Neuperlach

The hexagonal modular raised beds were developed together with the neighbourhood. These building modules are an attractive and practical alternative to standard raised beds, as they create a distinct horticultural landscape, complete with seating and features such as shading, water retention and irrigation.
March 2025
Roadmap to circularity for commercial buildings: About new uses for their spaces, their integration into the neighbourhood and material loops.
TUM Chair of Energy Efficient and Sustainable Design and Building
NEB Action Circular Neuperlach

DELIVERABLE. The roadmap describes a methodology for transforming existing buildings in a neighborhood-oriented and circular manner. It includes a series of workshops, policy recommendations and example methods for the analysis and programming of new uses.
28 March 2024 (draft version)

DELIVERABLE. This final report provides an overview of the NEB Action "Reprogramming Public-Private Spaces". It summarises the objectives, methodology and transferability of Urban Space Check and explains the adaptations made during the research process.
28 November 2024 (draft version)

DELIVERABLE. The development of a digital toolbox for citizen participation in the field of mobility is described. We learn from experimental co-creation formats and develop tools with a focus on situated knowledge and collaborative exploration.
March 2025
Building envelopes as diverse habitats for humans, plants, animals and microorganisms to promote biodiversity in the city.
TUM Chair for Terrestrial Ecology as part of the ECOLOPES (ECOlogical building enveLOPES) research project
NEB Action ECOLOPES

DELIVERABLE. The design process and construction of the Multispecies Facade and the Plant Building Blocks shown in Neuperlach are described. The aims, ideas and practical and legal requirements for their construction are explained to facilitate replication.
March 2025
Joint development of "NEBourhood Hubs" as multifunctional mobility centres.
TUM Chair of Architectural Informatics
11 March 2025 (draft version)

DELIVERABLE. The co-creative siting, design and implementation of two multifunctional NEBourhoods Hubs. Various co-creation formats are described, along with the practical challenges of implementing the hubs.
March 2025
Energy communities as a standard model for the joint production, consumption, storage, sharing and marketing of the energy supply of a neighbourhood.
Junior research group Cleanvelope / TUM Chair for Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design
6 November 2024 (draft version)

DELIVERABLE. Guide for the co-creative implementation of energy communities: Using the documented founding process of Energiegemeinschaften München as an example, this guide demonstrates how new initiatives can be practically implemented through workshops, tools, and clearly structured procedures.
6 November 2024 (draft version)

DELIVERABLE. This documents the theoretical foundations for the development of the Energiegemeinschaften München. The contents provide the conceptual basis for the subsequent co-creative implementation described in D5.7.
March 2025
The mobile bicycle cinema and film lab on the move through the district with young people from Neuperlach.
HM Department of Architecture, Chair of Urban Design and Critical Urban Theory in collaboration with Münchner Kammerspiele
March 2025
Finding New Pearls: Young people design their city.
HM Department of Architecture, Chair of Urban Design and Critical Urban Theory in collaboration with the Münchner Kammerspiele
More information
12 September 2024
During the NEBourhoods Deep Dive, Andrea Gebhard, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hauck, Sebastian Clark Koth, Prof. Dr. Werner Lang, Prof. Dr. Ferdinand Ludwig, Marlene Stechl and Prof Dr Wolfgang Weisser took guests of DLD Nature on a journey through Munich-Neuperlach and other places where the concept of people, animals and nature existing side by side has already been successfully designed jointly with citizens: Local approaches to the Green Deal's grand vision.
August 2024

There is an article on NEBourhoods in the current publication by the Institut für Städtebau und Wohnungswesen (ISW) (Institute for Urban Planning and Housing): "Beispielhafte Projekte der Quartiersentwicklung", ed. Prof. Julian Wékel, David Ohnsorge, pp. 222–227.
26 February 2024

Try it out, learn and scale, evaluate & iterate, for the benefit of all: the "NEB Alliance Manifesto" is an invitation to all groups to work together on shaping a climate-positive, actionable future for our cities and communities. We therefore invite you to join the NEB Alliance and endorse our manifesto!
14 February 2024, first edition

This publication is CrAFt's contribution towards climate-positive cities and communities with local collaboration at the core.
The CrAFt Cookbook outlines seven stages for urban transformation, covering everything from conceptualisation to execution, documentation and replication. Each stage highlights key principles and joint strategies, with real-life examples from CrAFt Cities, to inspire other cities' initiatives.
Further information can be found on CrAFt's website
8 January 2024

The "New European Bauhaus Toolbox" is a collection of practical co-design tools, workshops, and good examples of how to implement New European Bauhaus values effectively. The NEB Toolbox serves as a comprehensive resource for public and private authorities and other project leads, enabling them to kickstart transformative actions.
21 November 2022

A guiding framework for decision and project makers who wish to apply the principles and criteria of the NEB to their activities: The Compass explains how values, working principles, and associated ambitions influence the transformation process. It suggests directions for the development of NEB projects and lays the foundation for more detailed assessment tools.