ETOM 2025 pilot-Conference
Modernism#progressiveheritage
The „ETOM2025pilot Festival & Conference“ is the pilot edition for the „ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism“, a decentralized triennial festival on the diverse heritage and future of Modernism, presented by the ETOM NEB Lab, an international network and ecosystem for trans-European collaboration projects, involving more than 40 partners in 15 countries with a focus on Central Europe. The „ETOM NEB Lab“ is featured by DOCOMOMO international and ICOMOS international and acts as an official lab within the framework of the „NEB – New European Bauhaus“. The ETOM2025pilot-Festival will take place from 25 Sep to 14 Dec 2025.
About the Topic
The trans-European exploration of Modernism as a „progressive heritage“ opens up a large cosmos of joint findings and insights – concerning the current backlash against democratic and emancipatory values across Europe, and, at the same time, their importance for societal cohesion and active cultural collaboration, especially for Central Europe.
The core question is: How can we make our joint progressive heritage of Modernism productive, to derive answers for pressing current and prospective questions for a liberal and sustainable future? On the one hand this addresses the better understanding for the origins, developments, and transformations of the existing built modern environments and modern societies, and, on the other hand it concerns the understanding of the development of interpretations and agencies of these joint modern heritage and values. From history to present this implies an examination of „Disrupted Modernism(s)“ as well as in comparison the notions of diversity or ambivalences.
Following the perspective of the „New European Bauhaus“, this will essentially contribute to bridging between the objectives of the „New Green Deal“ and the larger frame of reference implicated by the term „Bauhaus“ as a label of the very diverse Modern avantgarde – to elucidate the intrinsic connection between the genesis of Modernism(s) and contemporary imperatives for resilient liberal and sustainable societies, dealing with green transformation, social cohesion and societal emancipation, democratic participation, social equality, and the unity of Europe.
Origin & Synergy
These activities of the
• ETOM2025pilot-Conference and the
• ETOM2025pilot-Festival
are the international outreach of the
• Triennale der Moderne (TDM),
an already established supra-regional German festival in Berlin, Dessau, and Weimar.
Season 2025
In 2025 both festival programs – the International one of ETOM and the German one of the TDM – will take place from 25 Sep to 14 Dec 2025 and are therefore presented within the website of the triennale-der-moderne.de.
Program Day 1
28th November, 2025
Venue: to be announced
- 13:00 Registration – venue open for public (light lunch offer)
- 14:00 Welcoming and thematic introduction
- 14:30 Assignment – „keynote panel“
(panel-talk stating the work-assignment for the conference) - 15:00 Prelude – external impulse(s): tba
- 15:15 Coffee-break
- 15:45 Section 1: Modernism – a progressive heritage
for liberal, democratic, and sustainable societies? - 15:45 Intro to section (incl. short introductions to speakers)
- 16:00 Keynotes – Impulses (3 lectures, 3 speakers, each 20 min.):
- David Crowely
- Henrieta Moravčíková
- Thomas Flierl
- 17:00 Workshop-talk –
Discussion with speakers (Q&A with audience) - 17:45 Short-break
- 18:00 Keynotes – Impulses
(3 lectures, 3 speakers, each 20 min.): requested –- Ákos Moravánszky
- Franziska Bollerey
- Jörg Haspel
- 19:00 Workshop-talk –
Discussion with speakers (Q&A with audience) - 20:00 Wrap-up (Lessons-learned Day 1)
- 20:15 Short-Break
- 20:30 Artistic performance or Evening keynote lecture
tba – e.g. Michał Murawski or Eva Illouz - 21:00 Get-together
Direct links
Top of Page | Day 1 | Day 2
Contact
ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism
triennial-of-modernism.eu
TDM – Triennale der Moderne
triennale-der-moderne.de
represented by the curators of the
TDM in Berlin and founders of ETOM
Robert K. Huber (Director | Managing Partner)
BHROX bauhaus reuse | zukunftsgeraeusche GbR
Dipl-Ing | M.Arch | M.Sc UD
bauhaus-reuse.de
robert.huber@zukunftsgeraeusche.de
Ben Buschfeld, Dipl-Designer
buschfeld.com – graphic and interface design
DOCOMOMO · DWB · ISTD · BFGG · KENB · FFHBB
LinkedIn | buschfeld.com | tautes-heim.de
Direct link to: Top of Page — Day I — Day II
Program Day 2
29th November, 2025
- 10:00 Registration – venue open for public (coffee offer)
- 10:30 Welcoming Day II (brief)
- 10:45 Interlude – external impulse(s): tba
- 11:00 Continuation – Section 1: Focus-Statements
- 11:00 Keynotes – Focus-statements
(3 statements, 3 speakers, each 10-15 min.; plus short introductions to speakers) - 11:45 Workshop-talk
- 12:15 Lessons-learned Section 1 (conclusion)
- 12:30 Lunch-break
- 13:30 Section 2: Modern neighborhoods –
in-between social cohesion and sustainable transformation? - 13:30 Intro to section (incl. short introductions to speakers)
- 13:45 Keystudies – Main presentations (several examples in comparison; 3 presentations; 3 speakers, each 20 min.)
- 14:45 Q&A with audience
- 15:00 Coffee-break
- 15:30 Focus sessions
(two sessions in parallel breakout rooms) - 15:30 Focus session A – Breakout-room
- 15:30 Intro
- 15:45 Keystudies – Focus presentations (focus each on one object/project; 3 presentations, 3 speakers, each 10 min.)
- 16:15 Workshop-talk
- 16:45 Lessons-learned (Focus Session A)
- 15:30 Focus session B – Breakout-room
- 15:30 Intro
- 15:45 Keystudies – Focus presentations (focus each on one object/project; 3 presentations, 3 speakers, each 10 min.)
- 16:15 Workshop-talk
- 16:45 Lessons-learned (Focus Session B)
- 17:00 Short-break
- 17:15 Forum discussion – with speakers (Q&A with audience)
- 17:45 Lessons-learned (Section 2)
- 18:00 Wrap-up & Outlook (Day 1 & Day 2)
- 18:15 Evening closing lecture
tba – e.g. Michał Murawski or Eva Illouz
Direct link to: Top of Page — Day I — Day II
About the project
ETOM NEB Lab – New European Bauhaus Lab
on Trans-European Modernism and its Progressive Heritage with focus on Central-Europe
The ETOM NEB Lab — is a co-creation Lab on trans-European Modernism – from its architectural and built heritage to its heritage of ideas and its diverse and ambivalent legacies – to evolve and realize transnational cooperation, best-practice, research, and capacity building. The ETOM NEB Lab is an official Lab of the „New European Bauhaus“ (NEB) and the first NEB project on the topic of Modernism, founded in the framework of the „ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism“. ETOM represents a circular ecosystem on a three-year rhythm to bear and sustain plural transdisciplinary collaboration projects and to establish the decentralized and recurring ETOM festival. The overall objective is to explore, unlock, and maintain the diverse potentials and resilience of emancipatory values of Modernism, as a cultural domain and progressive heritage (#progressiveheritage) – to make it productive for contemporary planetary questions for a sustainable future. The growing network involves more than 40 partners from 15 countries, including around 10 official NEB community members, on a heterogeneous and transsectoral background, with emphasis on Central Europe.
ETOM festival – As target and starting point for ETOM’s circular ecosystem and the work of the „ETOM NEB Lab“, the recurring ETOM festival reinvents the conventional schemes of Biennials or Triennials, to interlink actors, joint activities, and exchange formats across Europe for a multi-local and decentral festival of public and professional offers. To sustainably develop and pursue the topic of ETOM, the festival fosters public dialogue to bridge between professional and civic target groups and audiences. This approach is activated and continuously maintained by the Lab, with regular meetups and partner-events within the three-years cycle, with curated encounters within Milestone-projects and -conferences, and with the recurring triennial ETOM festival.
CREDITS – The „ETOM NEB Lab“ was created by the NEB members BHROX bauhaus reuse / zukunftsgeraeusche, KÉK – The Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Center, ICOMOS international, National Gallery Prague, Slovak Design Center, Estonian Academy of Arts, and ACE – Architects’ Council of Europe, as well as buschfeld.com, jointly acting as the Coordination Group of the Lab. The ETOM initiative was founded by BHROX bauhaus reuse / zukunftsgeraeusche and buschfeld.com during the COVID-19 pandemic, being the initiators and starting the basis for the trans-European creation of the „ETOM NEB Lab“. The ETOM initiative originates as the transnational spin-off to the superregional „Triennial of Modernism“ (TDM) in the cities of Berlin, Dessau, and Weimar and takes place parallel and in association with the festival in Germany. The development of the „ETOM NEB Lab“ and ETOM network has been accompanied and supported by the German Federal Ministry of Housing, Urban Development and Building (BMWSB), hosting the German NEB National Contact Point (NCP), and especially by the Berlin Monument Authority (LDA). The international network activities are featured in a triangular cooperation with DOCOMOMO, ICOMOS and ETOM.
Contact
ETOM – European Triennial of Modernism
triennial-of-modernism.eu
TDM – Triennale der Moderne
www.triennale-der-moderne.de
represented by the curators of the
TDM in Berlin and founders of ETOM
BHROX bauhaus reuse | zukunftsgeraeusche GbR
Robert K. Huber (Director | Managing Partner)
Dipl-Ing | M.Arch | M.Sc UD
bauhaus-reuse.de
robert.huber@zukunftsgeraeusche.de
buschfeld.com – graphic and interface design
Ben Buschfeld, Dipl-Designer
DOCOMOMO · DWB · ISTD · BFGG · KENB
buschfeld.com | tautes-heim.de
tdm@buschfeld.com