Although NEB and other sister initiatives contribute actively and substantially to the EU’s ecological transition and their success and impact are recognised, they often struggle with precarious or low funding situations. Based on the experience of our collective practices we will map and analyze the behind-the-scenes of such projects, with a special focus on what kind of economic reasoning and acting makes such projects viable and potentially resilient in the long-term. 

To shed  light on these often invisible struggles we draw on community economies approach, i.e. an approach championed by economic geographers J.K. Gibson-Graham that places the well-being of people and nature at its core. 

The project unfolds around three interrelated activities: network creation, online seminars, and a spring school. Tools that accompany the seminars are developed to map the specific aspects of our economic relations that we want to address and analyze. The seminars are followed by a live gathering in Rovereto to create a shared corpus of knowledge, supported by a network of diverse communities, to be further used by citizen-led initiatives and public administrators across Europe.

Map your Initiative!

OPEN-ACCESS PEDAGOGICAL MATERIALS

Coming soon. We're working to compile the mapping tools and resources featured in our webinars into one comprehensive publication. This package will be available for download, enabling you to access and utilize these invaluable resources for your own initiatives. Stay tuned for updates on its release!

Useful references:

• Manifesto for Living in the Anthropocene
  by  Katherine Gibson, Deborah Bird Rose, and Ruth Fincher
• Design(ers) against Precarity: Proposals for Everyday Actions,
  by Bianca Elzenbaumer
• Free, Fair and Alive. The Insurgent Power of the Commons
  by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich
• Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
• Introduction to community economies via the Community Economies Institute

About

New European Bauhaus meets Community Economies is a two-year Erasmus+ project that engages with diverse bottom-up community initiatives recognized by New European Bauhaus Price through the lens of a theoretical framework rooted in community economies. Two of the 2022 prize finalists, Forno Vagabondo (ITA) and Krater (SLO) joined in taking the initiative of connecting and empowering the diverse communities’ efforts in grounding the ecological transition. By identification and sharing of a diverse range of successful economic strategies and tactics we aim at providing a detailed study of the ways in which these economic strategies were launched and how they contribute to make the projects and organizations sustainable over time. 

Although NEB and other sister initiatives contribute actively and substantially to the EU’s ecological transition and their success and impact are recognised, they often struggle with precarious or low funding situations. Based on the experience of our collective practices we will map and analyze the behind-the-scenes of such projects, with a special focus on what kind of economic reasoning and acting makes such projects viable and potentially resilient in the long-term. 

To shed  light on these often invisible struggles we draw on community economies approach, i.e. an approach championed by economic geographers J.K. Gibson-Graham that places the well-being of people and nature at its core. 

The project unfolds around three interrelated activities: network creation, online seminars, and a spring school. Tools that accompany the seminars are developed to map the specific aspects of our economic relations that we want to address and analyze. The seminars are followed by a live gathering in Rovereto to create a shared corpus of knowledge, supported by a network of diverse communities, to be further used by citizen-led initiatives and public administrators across Europe.

Spring School

A 4-day community economies spring school will take place in Rovereto (IT) in 2025. To support network consolidation, the school will provide a space to refine how we share the mapped practices and learnings. More info in autumn!