Innovation Journey

Duration

6 Months

Number of Participants

Type

DISCOVERY flex

Impact

Enabling a collaborative movement to unlock the human-centric future of building and society.

The Overview

Reimagining Bauhaus

Visionale explores how everyday spaces can serve everyone with dignity. In six LABs, students, practitioners, and community members co-created with focus groups of older adults, single households, and people with physical impairments. They listened to lived experience, mapped barriers, and turned insights into opportunity areas, design theses, and first prototypes. Results were shared at the NEW bauhaus VISIONALE to invite feedback and partners, forming a practical toolkit: an insight library, thesis cards, and prototypes.

The Story

How we met.

Our project began with a shared ambition to re-energize Bauhaus’s human-centric spirit. This spark quickly evolved into a collaborative movement, driven by the necessity to build with people and shape a truly human future.

The Problem

Bridging the Human-Centric Gap

Planning and construction often happen far from the people who will live with the results, leaving key voices such as older adults, single households, and people with impairments underrepresented. Under time and cost pressure, teams default to standardized solutions and bolt on accessibility or social connection at the end. The outcome is spaces that are technically sound yet unwelcoming, with lost social value. To honor the New European Bauhaus values of beautiful, sustainable, together, we must move from building for people to building with them through co-creation and continuous learning from day one.

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Project

Initiation

We started by aligning partners around one challenge: how can everyday spaces better serve everyone? Together, we set scope, success metrics, and a simple timeline. Roles, research ethics, and accessibility standards were agreed up front. We mapped key stakeholders and prepared recruitment, consent, and documentation so the team could move quickly and transparently.

Problem Space

Exploration

Exploration took place inside six themed LABs with students, experts, and community members. Together with focus groups of older adults, single households, and people with physical impairments, the LABs mapped everyday barriers and workarounds. Through short interviews, guided discussions, and simple exercises, teams collected stories, photos, and observations. They then clustered the material into clear themes and opportunity areas that informed the first design theses.

Solution

Creation

Using those shared insights, the six LABs shifted into making. Mixed teams generated ideas, storyboarded future scenarios, and built quick prototypes while focus group participants and specialists gave live feedback. With a simple lens of desirability, feasibility, and sustainability, the LABs prioritized options and distilled the strongest directions into concise theses and concept narratives.

Breakthrough

Execution

This process culminated in an initial event, the Visionale. There, every LAB shared results and invited feedback and partners. The outcome is a practical toolkit: an insight library, thesis cards, and early prototypes that guide the next collaborations. These assets now feed into the work toward the New Bauhaus fair.

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