[Toscana] Peer Review Form

In this section, you are invited to assess the pilot solution according to the three core values of the New European Bauhaus (NEB) framework.

Although the pilot may align most strongly with one of the listed ambitions, it may also contribute to other areas of the NEB Compass. Please keep this in mind when selecting the ambitions and what they achieved in this form.

Beyond personal preferences, the New European Bauhaus puts a project’s creative process at the centre of what makes it beautiful. A beautiful project emerges when its authors invest collective sensitivity, intelligence, and competences into creating a positive and enriching experience for people, beyond functionality. A project that is genuinely attentive to its context and users encourages mutual care and can be a powerful driver for change.

The basic sustainability ambition in the Compass is concerned with conventional features like the ability to preserve or prolong usability, and the next level considers the entire system of a project. The highest ambition is to regenerate and reconnect to nature.

The third core value of the New European Bauhaus builds on the concept of inclusion and enriches it with the concepts of equality, accessibility and affordability. Starting from these fundamental features, the Compass identifies growing levels of ambition, keeping the focus on the essential idea of granting and securing equal access to opportunities and resources for all and encouraging exchanges across cultures, genders and ages.

This principle refers to the degree to which the communities affected by the project are involved in the design, decision-making and implementation phases. It starts from the premise that a NEB project will always involve civil society or representatives of social groups (‘the stakeholders’) within a highly participatory framework.

A Multi-level engagement across scales, fields and time is necessary to anticipate the effects that global issues can have on the local dimension, and vice versa (e.g. the effects of national air quality regulations on local environments, the impact of an activity launched at neighbourhood level for cleaning the oceans…).

NEB projects should aim to bring together knowledge from different fields and practitioners from various fields. They work on solutions that affect different aspects of a project – social, economic, cultural, artistic, architectural, ecological etc. Transdisciplinary ways of working also encourage solutions that can be applied in a variety of disciplines and fields and are not limited to one area only.