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New Article Explores How Bauhaus Bites Can Bridge the European Landscape Convention and the New European Bauhaus
11 May 2026
The European Landscape Convention (ELC) and the New European Bauhaus (NEB) are two key European frameworks for the sustainable development of landscapes and built environments. Despite sharing significant common ground, they remain largely disconnected in practice, with missed potential for leveraging their synergies. A new open-access article by Bauhaus Bites partners explores how co-created urban food system transformation could be the missing bridge.
In “Enhancing Landscape Convention for Climate Resilience with New European Bauhaus Values and Principles”, published in the latest issue of the Journal of European Landscapes, colleagues from NTNU (Slađana Lazarević, Deborah Navarra and Annemie Wyckmans) and the City of Zagreb (Iva Bedenko and Branka Mrakužić) examine how the Bauhaus Bites approach to co-creative food environment transformation provides a roadmap for integrating these two frameworks. Using Zagreb’s Bauhaus Bites project as a case study, the article proposes a triangulated framework linking the ELC and NEB through sustainable urban food systems and the project’s 3P model, People, Places and Policies, showing how landscape transformation can be not only spatial and ecological, but also civic, cultural and institutional.
Four key transferable insights emerged from the Zagreb case study:
- Landscape should be understood as infrastructure, with food environments supporting ecological transition and adaptive reuse of post-industrial and residual urban spaces.
- Food is a powerful entry point for change, culturally rooted and able to reimagine everyday landscapes as productive, participatory and meaningful.
- Co-creation builds agency and ownership, with citizen engagement, especially of marginalised groups, strengthening democratic governance of shared spaces.
- Policy needs feedback loops, linking on-the-ground action to local planning frameworks to ensure lasting impact.
Amidst growing climate challenges, food insecurity and inequalities in European cities, the need for integrated and holistic frameworks is greater than ever. These results show how the approaches Bauhaus Bites is developing can help meet this challenge.
All Bauhaus Bites project outputs, including scientific publications, are made available open access in line with the project’s principle of democratising new knowledge.