Project cooperationUpdated on 5 February 2026
Compassionate Commons
Associate Professor at University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design
Norway
About
Purpose.
We are building a Nordic-European consortium for a Horizon Europe New European Bauhaus (NEB) Research & Innovation Action on how inhabitants experience neighbourhoods and how these experiences affect health, well-being, belonging, and sense of community. HORIZON-NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03.
Core idea
Neighbourhoods are living ecosystems of care. Health is shaped not only by services and infrastructure, but by how people feel, sense, and identify with their everyday environments (atmosphere, sound, materiality, nature, social rhythms).
What we test
Arts-based and spatial co-creation as rigorous research tools to surface embodied, tacit and emotional knowledge — and translate it into actionable design strategies and policy recommendations.
Why now
Ageing, isolation, inequality and climate transition require neighbourhood-scale approaches that reconnect care, culture and environment, aligned with NEB values (beautiful, sustainable, inclusive).
Our transdisciplinary team
• Jérôme Picard — Design & Architecture (UiB/KMD)
• Wolfgang Schmid — Music, Sound & Care Practices (UiB/KMD)
• Eamon O’Kane — Visual Art & Artistic Research (UiB/KMD)
Stage
- Drafting - writing the project proposal
- Completing the consortia
Topic
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02: Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03: Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being
Type
- Partner looking for consortium
Organisation
Similar opportunities
Project cooperation
- Completing the consortia
- Consortium seeking partners
- Design - setting the project scope
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02: Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03: Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being
Gisela Beatriz Fortuna
President at Creamodite
Spain
Project cooperation
Sustainability, co-creation and systems transformation
- Partner looking for consortium
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02: Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-01: Addressing homelessness through housing-led approaches aligned with the NEB
- NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-02: Understanding capital market dynamics for increased investment in NEB projects in neighbourhoods
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03: Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being
- NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-01: Structurally addressing homelessness through coordinated social infrastructure and services in neighbourhoods
Mateja Bakker
Founder and Chair at EmBold Foundation
Netherlands
Project cooperation
Offering: Methodologies for participatory, creative and inclusive NEB projects
- Completing the consortia
- Partner looking for consortium
- Design - setting the project scope
- NEB-2026-01-BUSINESS-03: Approaches to reuse vacant, obsolete or underutilised spaces
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-02: Innovative approaches for the spatial design of neighbourhoods
- NEB-2026-01-PARTICIPATION-03: Understanding inhabitant’s experiences of neighbourhoods to support their health and well-being
Gisela Beatriz Fortuna
President at Creamodite
Spain