This Coordinated and Support Action supports the “100 climate-neutral and smart cities” mission, proposing an approach to design that is attentive to circularity principles and open to artists, creatives, makers and other organizations. Starting from architecture, design and art, DESIRE will create an open learning environment, defined by principles, methods and guidelines that support the design of an irresistible circular society.

DESIRE is one of the six “demonstrator” projects of the New European Bauhaus initiative. Its principles and methodologies will be tested in 8 urban spaces and neighbourhoods in 5 different European countries: Denmark, Italy, Latvia, Slovenia and the Netherlands.

DESIRE will work in and with these contexts, focusing on three challenges: creating forms of inclusive housing; building a “symbiotic relationship” in urban transformation areas for the optimization of material flows; “reconciling cities with nature” for designing liveable habitats and functional ecosystems in a multispecies perspective, rebalancing land use to accommodate the generation of resources and biodiversity.

The project was kicked off in October 2022 and involves the Department of Design with a team led by prof. Alessandro Deserti.

The project is funded under the topic:

HORIZON-MISS-2021-NEB-01-01 – Support the deployment of lighthouse demonstrators for the New European Bauhaus initiative in the context of Horizon Europe missions

For more info about the project visit: www.irresistiblecircularsociety.eu