Disruptive Consciousness · Advisory
A European connective infrastructure for the Art · Science · Technology · Society tetrad.
Built in Europe. Held in Europe.
Initiated and coordinated by GERICS · Climate Service Center Germany, Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon
First conversation · New European Bauhaus, Joint Research Centre · 11 September 2026
The film
89 seconds, with sound.
01 · The challenge
What is missing is the connection between them.
Across disciplines, institutions, communities and borders.
GERICS · Climate Service Center Germany
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02 · The gap
Existing networks help people meet. Very few of those meetings become projects. Connections stay personal: when one person leaves, the access often leaves with them.
Fragmentation increases the time, the effort and the uncertainty required to create cross-disciplinary work.
Portraits of Climate (2024–25), University of Hamburg · NEB LIFE projects · City Climate meets CreativeCoding (2024)
It works when someone brings the right people together and holds the process. Today, that someone is a coincidence.
uni-hamburg.de · cinea.ec.europa.eu · citysciencelab.hamburg
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03 · The mechanism
It starts from a real-world challenge and assembles the capabilities needed to address it: scientific, creative, technological and societal. Bring the right perspectives together before solutions are defined.
ART
Opening sensory and personal ways of seeing, imagining and communicating.
SCIENCE
Knowledge, evidence and understanding.
TECHNOLOGY
Innovative, practical solutions and scalable implementation.
SOCIETY
Lived realities, needs, legitimacy and adoption.
Built in Europe. Held in Europe.
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04 · The first proof
Scientists, artists, designers, technology actors, and the cities and regions that carry the concrete challenges.
LAUNCH = FIRST PROOF
The installation invites visitors to experience the platform at large scale, connect with European actors, and become part of the network on the spot. It does not explain what it enables; it lets visitors test it themselves.
First 90 days: a curated community, first challenges, first documented collaborations, and what we learn from them.
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05 · How it is built
Initiator, coordinating organisation and scientific anchor. Access to climate-relevant networks and institutional credibility.
Strategic framing, stakeholder process, co-design and moderation, and the design and operation of the connective layer.
The actors themselves. They make the system valuable. The infrastructure only makes them findable to each other.
The platform replaces no existing network, institution or programme. It connects them across their established boundaries.
Built in Europe. Held in Europe.
Roles as proposed for discussion.
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06 · A role for the New European Bauhaus
The NEB has built a European community around sustainability, inclusion and quality of experience.
The opportunity is to explore how this infrastructure could help mobilise the NEB community, and the wider European ecosystem, around concrete transformation challenges.
Strategic partner
Connector into the NEB ecosystem
Co-creator of the European community
Partner at the founding workshop
October / November 2026
Borut Cink · Šarūnas Zableckis — New European Bauhaus Unit, Joint Research Centre
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