NEB Systemic Narratives
NEB Systemic Narratives is a podcast emerging from the New European Bauhaus and the collective work of mapping and synthesising what NEB Lighthouse demonstrators across Europe have been creating, testing and learning. The Lighthouse projects are not only delivering outputs, they are rehearsing new ways of collaborating across sectors and disciplines, rooted in place and often carried through culture and the arts, while staying close to people and the living world. This podcast captures that practice and turns it into a narrative resource for others.
We explore systemic transformation as something you do, not something you announce. Drawing on interviews, conversations and workshops with people working inside NEB projects across Europe, we surface six practical enablers that repeatedly make change possible: Listening, Trusting, Imagining, Holding Space, Sharing Language, and Making Time. Each episode translates lived experience into insights that are legible, transferable, and still faithful to the realities of place-based change.
The podcast is produced by the team behind the NEB Systemic Narratives project. Producers: Katarina Pietrzak and Sandra Löv (Sweden), commissioned by EIT Culture & Creativity.
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Episodes
Friday Dec 19, 2025
Friday Dec 19, 2025
A voice collage on Listening, built from fieldwork across NEB projects in Europe. You will hear how listening shifts relationships, opens space for trust in tense contexts, brings hidden motivations to the surface, and helps projects align with what is emerging rather than what was planned. The collage also traces listening through culture and arts practices, and raises the question of reciprocity, what it means to give value back when communities are asked to share their stories.
Friday Dec 19, 2025
Friday Dec 19, 2025
Listening is one of the most consistent enablers of transformation across NEB Lighthouse projects. In this narrated reflection, we explore what it means to move from broadcasting to truly listening, in neighbourhood work, in project management, and even with the more-than-human world. Through patterns emerging from interviews and workshops, we see how listening helps stakeholders sit together, reveals local energy and champions, and keeps projects responsive to what is actually unfolding, often supported by artistic and sensory practices.