Klasse Klima awarded with the New European Bauhaus Rising Stars Award

We are delighted to announce that the European Commission has honoured the work of Klasse Klima presenting them with the New European Bauhaus Rising Stars Award in the category Interdisciplinary education models. One of the Klasse Klima members represented the group and attended the prize ceremony in Brussels.

Klasse Klima applied for the award in critical reference to the educational model of the historical Bauhaus, a modern art and design academy with a lasting impact on design history — and on the environment. The Bauhaus promoted the entanglement of creative practice with industrial capitalism and hence, with climate destruction. Intellectually and methodologically, it is a mistaken reference for the New European Bauhaus, a policy and funding program that mobilizes design, art and architecture for climate action. In their current shape, both the New European Bauhaus and the European Green Deal aim for modernization instead of profound, climate-just transformation.

About Klasse Klima

Since 2019, Klasse Klima has been creating transdisciplinary spaces for the unlearning of unecological creative practice and for the exploration of the agency of art and design towards climate justice. Klasse Klima will use the award of 15,000€ to expand on its local engagement by building a transnational network of like-minded initiatives. As a part of this, the group will also continue to critically engage with the EU’s initiatives by conceiving translocal spaces for their constructive negotiation. Klasse Klima stated this stance on the New European Bauhaus in the award application.

ELIA warmly congratulates the students at ELIA member institution Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) on their win, and wishes the collective all the best!

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