New European Bauhaus Prizes 2023

Project category

Identify the award category for which this project is being submitted
Regaining a sense of belonging

Email user
ortsmitte@siliconvilstal.de

Basic information
Project title
20 km Dinner

Full Project Title
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Please provide a short, catchy description of your project to be used in communication towards the public.
The 20km dinner took place at the annual Silicon Vilstal Experience festival on the 24th of September 2022. The festival offers a wide range of workshops, lectures, performances, and interactive activities for all ages, focusing on innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity. The 20 km is an experience dinner event with a menu whose ingredients come only from within a 20km radius of the venue. The aim is to raise awareness of regional products and sustainability.

What was the geographical scope of your project?
Local

Where was your project implemented?
Member State(s) and Western Balkans
Germany

If relevant, insert names of region(s)/municipality(ies) involved
Lower Bavaria, Holzhausen

Does your project address mainly urban or rural issues?
Mainly rural

Does your project 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 project benefited from EU programmes and/or funds?
No

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

Is your project fully completed
Yes

Please indicate a date (mm/yy)
2022-09-24

On whose behalf are you submitting the application?
As a representative of an organization, in partnership with other organisations
If you are submitting this project as part of a group, please provide the contact details of the other individuals or organisations
- Name of the organisation(s): Silicon Vilstal, YYEESS Design, Freude am Essen, Inés Lauber
  Type of organisation: Non-profit organisation
  First name of representative: Natascha
  Last name of representative: Brunner
  Gender: Female
  Nationality: Germany
  Function: Community Manager
  Address (country of permanent residence for individuals or address of the organisation)<br/>Street and number: Hauptstraße 15
  Town: Geisenhausen
  Postal code: 84144
  Country: Germany
  Direct Tel: +49 173 5401889
  E-mail: ortsmitte@siliconvilstal.de
  Website: https://siliconvilstal.de/
Social Media accounts (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, etc.)
- URL: https://www.instagram.com/siliconvilstal/?hl=de
  Social media handle and associated hashtag(s): @siliconvilstal
- URL: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=silicon+vilstal
- URL: https://www.linkedin.com/company/siliconvilstal/mycompany/
In case my project 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 project in the channels of the European Commission.
Yes

How did you hear about the New European Bauhaus Prizes?
NEB Newsletter

Description of the project
Please provide a summary of your project.
The 20km dinner took place at the annual Silicon Vilstal Experience festival on the 24th of September 2022. The festival offers a wide range of workshops, lectures, performances, and interactive activities for all ages, focusing on innovation, entrepreneurial spirit and creativity. The EU has awarded the Silicon Vilstal Experience Festival as a „European Social Economy Region“ event in 2019 – 2021. Silicon Vilstal is also the first German partner of the New European Bauhaus.

The 20 km is an experience dinner event with a menu whose ingredients come only from within a 20km radius of the venue. The aim is to raise awareness for regional products and sustainability. The culinary journey wanders through the immediate region: strolls across the fields and through the vegetable garden to taste freshly caught fish and learns to taste biodiversity. Guests are invited to experience the stories surrounding the producers and products for themselves in an unconventional way - they will be playfully involved in the events, but still spoiled by the hosts. The ingredients for this special evening come from a maximum radius of 20 km, making it very special as the focus lies on regional and seasonal food that is brought to the guests to get to know the products of the region they are living in. The aim is, through staging, to tell the stories of the landscape, producers, products, and seasons, with images and with interactive components.

Please indicate the main themes of your project with 5 key words.
food experience

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
regionality

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
saisonality

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
food

Please indicate the main themes of your project with key words
sustainability

Please give information about the key objectives of your project in terms of sustainability and how these have been met. Please highlight how the project can be exemplary in this context.
How and what we eat impacts our environment tremendously so sustainability is naturally a key pillar of the 20km Dinner. The products with which the dinner is prepared are all local within a 20km range from the event venue. It showcases the quality of local products and what kind of flavours you can find in front of your doorsteps. You don´t need food that is imported and transported through half of the globe which produces emissions. Under the motto: "Taste and preserve biodiversity" all guests were very thrilled. This was the first 20 km Dinner we hosted and we will host more in the future. We hope to be a good example for others who want to use the concept and host their own 20 Km dinner to educate about local products and sustainability.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project 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 project can be exemplary in this context.
The 20km dinner was not only about the local products but the dinner was also an "experience" dinner with also a lot for the eyes. The food designer Inés Lauber led through the evening and always explained the food combinations she created together with the "Freude am Essen" Team. Aesthetics played a curial role throughout the whole evening. In the beginning guests "picked" small appetizers in an artificial garden made of wooden poles with distance indications to the source of the products. For the first course, the guests ate directly from the table which was covered with paper "edible soil" (dark crumbs), which served as the soil for garden herbs and kettle potatoes. For the main course fish with vegetables was served in vessels symbolizing a garden pond. Dessert was a variation of local fruits and also the guests could "taste" the difference between regional fruits beforehand, which they peeled and ate raw. See the attached photos for the aesthetics of the dinner. This is only an example of a dinner specifically in our region. In other regions, the dinner would be completely different, depending on the local products of the region. Put it can be carried out in the same way everywhere.

Please give information about the key objectives of your project 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 project can be exemplary in this context.
The project unites the different partners that are organizing the event with local farmers who are included in the food experience design event. The 20km makes locally produced food accessible for the guests. To make the event more affordable it was sponsored by the "Genussregion Niederbayern". The dinner was accessible to everyone. Also for this aspect, the project is exemplary for including local farmers and local products in the event.

Please explain the way citizens benefiting from or affected by the project and civil society have been involved in the project and what has been the impact of this involvement on the project
As already mentioned local farmers and companies were involved in the creation and benefited from the visibility. They get to know the local products that are available in their region in a creative way and hopefully also think more about sustainability and where the products are from they are buying.

Please explain how different stakeholders at various levels (local, regional, national, European) were engaged in the design and implementation of the project. Please highlight what the added value of their engagement was.
Local farmers delivered the food for the event and the dinner was hosted by regional companies (Silicon Vilstal, Freude am Essen, YYEESS design). The food design was made by a food designer from Berlin (national). The event was part of the Silicon Vilstal Experience Festival, which is hosted by Silicon Vilstal, an innovation platform that acts on a regional, but also European level. Silicon Vilstal is recognized as a Social Economy Cluster by the European Commission and is also the first member of the New European Bauhaus in Germany. The Silicon Vilstal Experience Festival has been acknowledged as a Social Economy Region event in 2019-2021. Contributors to the festival from Europe also attended the 20km Dinner.
The added value of the engagement from all made the evening an unforgettable event and marked it as a starting point for more events just like that. With the help of creativity sustainable practices could be experienced by everyone.

Please explain which disciplines and/ or knowledge fields were reflected in the design and implementation of your project. Please explain how representatives of these different fields interacted with each other, and what the added value of this process was.
The different disciplines that were united in the project were agriculture, food design, preparation of food, event management and communication and design. All the representatives of the different fields interacted with each other when creating this event. The farmers delivered food to the cook, the cook invented the recipes with the help of the food designer, the food designer planned the evening with the help of the event management and the design company designed the flyer and communication material. The added value of this process was, that all the different disciplines are working together and creating an event that has purpose and impact.

Please give information on the results, outcomes and impacts achieved by your project in relation to the category you apply for. This includes also benefits from the project for direct and indirect beneficiaries
The 20 km dinner was highly praised by all the guests, that attended the evening. Everybody enjoyed the food experience as the staging of the evening was very unique. The outcome and impact of this one evening are that there are more 20 km Dinners hosted in the future. We are already planning a 20 km for 2023. The evening also highlighted how sustainability in rural areas can be combined into a creative and eventful evening everybody enjoys. Direct beneficiaries are people from rural areas who have unique dining experiences while getting to know their region better. Indirect beneficiaries are local farmers which generate more awareness for their products.

Please provide documents showing the results, outcomes and impacts of your project
Both
PDF
- pdf-1-837.pdf
- pdf-1-837_0.pdf
Web link
- https://www.heimatunternehmen.bayern/nachrichten/ein-gelungenes-20-kilometer-dinner
Please highlight the innovative character of the project, when compared to mainstream actions in the field of the project
The innovative character of the project is that sustainable practices are made experienceable and tangible with the help of the creative industry. As we lose our connection to where our food is actually coming from, the 20 km raises awareness of how fun and also delicious food from the local area can be. Making a dinner more interactive and tangible for the guests is very unique and will hopefully stay in their minds.

Please describe the methodology or approach used in your project.
Our approach was to use local products and create a dinner around them that is interactive, tangible and unique.

Please describe which elements of your project could be replicated or transferred to other places, groups of beneficiaries and context. This may involve for example aspects of the methodology, technology, processes, products, learnings etc.
The whole concept could be replicated and we would be happy to see 20 km dinners happening in all over Europe.

Please explain what kind of global challenges the project addresses by providing local solutions
Local biodiversity is strengthened by the increased use of local products. Also, fewer products need to be transported from far away, saving emissions. Furthermore, the local population does not need to drive far into the next city to have unique dinner experiences, again saving emissions.
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