Results
March 2025

Replication Handbook for the EU's Lighthouse Demonstrator for the New European Bauhaus, "Creating NEBourhoods Together".
17 January 2025

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

This handbook focuses on the use of entrepreneurial thinking in formats for students to address urban challenges in the context of neighborhood development. It outlines which types of challenges are suitable, which methods are appropriate for generating challenges, and the role local stakeholders should play in the challenge-generation process. The manual is written in a way that allows the methodology to be applied in other cities as well.
30 July 2024

DELIVERABLE. The report summarises the second round of the NEBourhoods "Hacking Neuperlach" 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 a motor 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, the city administration and especially civil society in urban development projects? How can tangible solutions be developed to initiate sustainable transformation? This handbook outlines the necessary steps and illustrates them with examples.
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.
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.
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.
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.
September 2024
With the aid of design models, this short film explains how timber winter gardens can be used to renovate residential buildings. Above all, the short film allows viewers to immerse themselves in new living environments that have not yet existed in large housing estates. Discover how buildings can be modified so that afterwards the flats can be used in a variety of ways.
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.
26 February 2025 (draft version)

The handbook introduces a transferable certification framework that helps the owners of Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS) to adopt an active and cooperative role in reprogramming public private spaces for public use.
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.
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.
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.
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.