BIG founder Bjarke Ingels, architect Shigeru Ban and artist Olafur Eliasson are among the "distinguished thinkers and practitioners" that have been selected as ambassadors for the EU's New European Bauhaus.
The creatives will work together as part of a high-level roundtable for the new Bauhaus initiative, which is being established to move Europe towards a circular economy.
New European Bauhaus, which is named after the hugely influential German design school founded by Walter Gropius in 1919, forms part of the European Union's sustainability-driven coronavirus recovery plan called NextGenerationEU.
The project will also help deliver the European Green Deal ? a set of policies set out by the European Commission to make Europe climate neutral by 2050. 18 specialists will become "community ambassadors"
Danish architect Ingels, Japanese architect Ban and Danish-Icelandic artist are among the 18 specialists from a variety of fields to have been selected as members of the roundtable.
As part of it, they are expected to act as community ambassadors for the New European Bauhaus, "bringing inspiration" to the project while helping to establish and facilitate its framework.
Above: Ursula von der Leyen announced plans in 2020. Top image: Bjarke Ingels, Shigeru Ban and Olafur Eliasson are among its 18 ambassadors
"A high-level roundtable with distinguished thinkers and practitioners, established through a series of semi-structured interviews, wil...