New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Initiative category

Identify the award category for which this initiative is being submitted
Shaping a circular industrial ecosystem and supporting life-cycle thinking

Email user
serrisimonetta@gmail.com

Basic information
Initiative title
Eidos Method

Full initiative Title
Eidos Method by Eἶδος group

Please provide a short, catchy description of your initiative to be used in communication towards the public.
Eidos Method is an innovative teaching methodology based on the valorisation of a specific company’s heritage. It potentially involves students from all educational levels (Primary School, High School, Technical School), and is based on the combination between theory and practice. Eidos’ principal aim is to preserve and increase the value of the company's historical and territorial heritage by choosing an iconic object that represents its tradition and its originality.

What was the geographical scope of your intiative?
National

Where was your intiative implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Italy

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Veneto Region and Ca Foscary University - Venice Italy

Does your initiative address mainly urban or rural issues?
It addresses urban-rural linkages

Does your initiative refer to a physical transformation of the built environment or other types of transformations (hard or soft investments)?
It refers to other types of transformations (soft investment)

Has your initiative benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

Has your initiative won an EU prize with a monetary value awarded?
No

Does your initiative has a minimum level of maturity? The minimum level of maturity is exemplified by stakeholder/ initiative promoter commitment to implement the initiative in practice and a clear methodology /approach.
No

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As an individual in partnership with other persons
Please provide the contact details for the intiative promoter (the individual or representative of the organisation authorised to represent the intiative).
- First name: Simonetta
  Last name: Serri
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Italy
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Via Chiereghin, 27
  Town: Treviso
  Postal code: 31100
  Country: Italy
  Direct Tel: +39 3773809510
  E-mail: serrisimonetta@gmail.com
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
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In case my initiative is selected as a finalist of the NEB Prizes 2023, I agree to share the name (individual and/or organisation’s), email address, website and social media accounts indicated above with other NEB Prizes finalists. I also agree to publish the name (individual and/or organisation’s), website and social media accounts indicated above next to the public description of my initiative in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
Ca Foscary University - Venice Italy - Clab

Description of the initiative
Please provide a summary of your initiative
Developed thanks to the support of Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy, as a sample for other cities and context, the "Eidos Method" based on historical research and practice, aims to improve the italian teaching method.
A)The project is articulated in three main phases:
Didactical approach: In the first phase, students can understand the main principles of historical research thanks to experts’ assistance that involves companies and territorial sources. By giving them historical tools, students are able to understand the context in which they are operating, its story and particularity. In this sense, history becomes a key to read and to discover past and future changes of a specific firm and territory.
Field research and practice: In the second phase, thanks to the gained historical knowledge from experts' aid, students can interview people from the selected territories and companies to comprehend the context in which they are operating. This phase is particularly important because of the principal purpose of this research: gaining historical and social awareness of a specific object to possibly find new approaches and solutions.
Realisation: the ending phase is designed to create an iconic object (output) that describes and represents both the history and the originality of the territory and the firm who has developed it.
B) New approaches: Through this experience students might improve their critical approach to understand how the specific product was made and conceived to recreate and improve it, according to the current ethical and economic sustainability european standards.
C) Project structure and timing: thanks to his flexibility, the Eidos method is designed for schools of all levels. In particular, it can cover an amount of time from three months (circa 200 hrs minimum applied during school-work alternation, italian PCTO to a one year project. The duration is strictly related to companies’ and schools’ will.

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with 5 key words.
Didactic

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Valorisation

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Heritage

Please indicate the main themes of your initiative with key words
Historical research

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Sustainability

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of sustainability and how these have been/will be met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Social sustainability: Eidos Methods’ will is to valorise the companies’ and artisans’ historical and territorial heritage by choosing an iconic object that represents their tradition and their originality. Through this choice Eidos actively involves people (Students, companies employees, inhabitants) to preserve and valorise the companies’ goals and to develop a common awareness of historical and economical changes in their local territory. This approach can be useful in order to find new solutions which might help the territorial development and its preservation and to create a new circular network made of people and stakeholders. In particular, the active involvement of students in the conservation might set up a close connection between them and companies who shall require their help or skills in the future.
Environment sustainability: The ending output, created by selected “actors” of the project, is conceived not only to represent the company and its territory, but to decrease its environmental impact by choosing sustainable materials.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of aesthetics and quality of experience for people (through design, positive emotions and cultural benefits) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
The Eidos Method, through its valorization of a company’s values and history through an artefact, proposes to create specific spaces (inside or outside the company) that can expose the creative and field research processes. These spaces can be designed to answer a company’s aesthetic standards and needs. Aesthetics is an automatic consequence in this process because of the strict relation to products’ realisation and creativity.

Please give information about the key objectives of your initiative in terms of inclusion (ranging from accessibility and affordability for all to inclusive governing systems, design for all principles or new societal models) and how these have been met. Please highlight how the initiative can be exemplary in this context.
Inclusivity is a central part in this project because it proves how significant the role of the new generation is (Students) in the preservation and creation of past and future companies' heritage. Furthermore, it testifies the meaningful part played by inhabitants and population in the conservation of territorial and economic history.
Moreover, It shows the importance of interconnection between historical research and companies’ production, both playing a key role to reconstruct the architecture of territorial changes and to verify the necessity of sustainability in the creation of new products. Since the ending phase requires a certain amount of creativity, all the people involved (students as designers) can contribute with their inspiration to the creation of the artefact.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the initiative and civil society have been/will be involved in the initiative and what has been/will be the impact of this involvement on the initiative
Citizens and the civil society, because of Eidos methodology, are main “actors” since they are “actively” (students and companies) and “passively” (inhabitants) involved in the realisation process. This project potentially establishes a useful and close connection between the actors in finding new ways to preserve economic and territorial heritage in a sustainable way.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the initiative.
Eidos Methods’ will is to valorise the companies’ and artisans’ historical and territorial heritage by choosing an iconic object that represents their tradition and their originality. Through this choice Eidos actively involves people (Students, companies employees, inhabitants) to preserve and valorise the companies’ goals and to develop a common awareness of historical and economical changes in their local territory. This approach can be useful in order to find new solutions which might help the territorial development and its preservation and to create a new circular network made of people and stakeholders. In particular, the active involvement of students in the conservation might set up a close connection between them and companies who shall require their help or skills in the future.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your initiative. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was
Eidos puts together students' activities and companies' needs, thanks to an interdisciplinary approach made by historical research and practice.

Please highlight the innovative character of the initiative, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the initiative
Eidos, thanks to its innovative teaching method, creates a circular system by connecting all the actors involved (companies, territories, students and the population). In particular, through historical research and practice (interviews and outputs’ realisation), it is possible to increase and reevaluate the territorial sources and improve the sense of belonging. In this regard, obtaining social and historical awareness might be helpful to increase sustainability and apply better decisions in the future.

Please describe which elements of your initiative could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and contexts. This may involve, for example, aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings, etc.
Thanks its flexibility the "Eidos Method" based on historical research and practice, aims to improve the italian teaching method and it can be replicated and transferred to other contexts.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your initiative.
The project is articulated in three main phases:
Didactical approach: In the first phase, students can understand the main principles of historical research thanks to experts’ assistance that involves companies and territorial sources. By giving them historical tools, students are able to understand the context in which they are operating, its story and particularity. In this sense, history becomes a key to read and to discover past and future changes of a specific firm and territory.
Field research and practice: In the second phase, thanks to the gained historical knowledge from experts' aid, students can interview people from the selected territories and companies to comprehend the context in which they are operating. This phase is particularly important because of the principal purpose of this research: gaining historical and social awareness of a specific object to possibly find new approaches and solutions.
Realisation: the ending phase is designed to create an iconic object (output) that describes and represents both the history and the originality of the territory and the firm who has developed it.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the initiative addresses by providing local solutions
Global challenges addressed:
1)Climate change: so far as the iconic object is part of the research project we expect to use recycled or sustainable products to preserve the environment, pushing companies to reflect on their impact on the local territory.
2) Manual and Creative ability preservation: where possible, this project views students’ involvement not only as “investigative” actors and ‘’designers’’ but also as possible preservers of ancient and historical “known-how” (crafters) of products and objects. From this perspective they can understand, reply and improve the use of a specific object without deleting its iconicity and originality.

Please detail the scope of progress in the implementation of the initiative. This can include already demonstrated results/outputs related to the chosen Prizes category, and the already achieved benefits from the initiative for direct and indirect beneficiaries. This can also include a development plan of the initiative, with a particular attention to the steps envisaged in the year following the application, and including envisaged results and benefits from the initiative
We are not aware of any similar program in Europe. But this could represent an important development step because as a prototype, Eidos Group is open to new suggestions and improvements.

Please provide documents that demonstrate the maturity level of the initiative and commitment to implement the initiative in practice (e.g.: evaluation report, final or mid-term initiative report, certification, publications, building permit, grant agreement, letter of support, partnership agreement, etc.)
PDF
PDF
- pdf-1-17693.pdf
If relevant, please describe how your initiative contributes to developing new competences, especially in the context of the European competence framework on sustainability.
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