Laboratories of Tomorrow. Towards a Cultural Regeneration project for Europe

Over five decades, independent cultural centers have emerged as quiet laboratories of possibility—places where scarcity became a catalyst for innovation and where the existing was reimagined not as constraint, but as potential. Through long-term socio-spatial strategies and sustained experimentation, they have traced an alternative trajectory for Europe: one grounded in regeneration, care, and attention to fragile contexts.
Long before the New European Bauhaus took institutional shape, these centers were already outlining its cultural and territorial horizon. Today, the accumulation of their practices, trials, and transformations reveals vital pathways toward a Post-Extractive Landscape—where the future takes root in the material, social, and cultural resources already present.