(Universidad del Desarrollo. Faculrad de Diseño, 2023) Novoa Muñoz, Mauricio; Vargas Callegari, Rodrigo
This special issue of Base, Diseño e Innovación focuses on the potential for a New Green Bauhaus from the Global South by educators, researchers and practitioners who live in or work on projects connected to that region as we hear alarming fore-casts on climate change, north-south and east-west geopoliti-cal push-pull, economic downturns, and social upheavals. The concept of a Green Bauhaus from the Global South responds to the proposal of a New European Bauhaus launched in 2020 by the European Commission with a New Green Deal ambition to become the first climate-neutral continent in the world by 2050 through decoupling growth from resource use and the aim of not leaving behind any people or territories in the process. The European Green Deal is as much an environmental and econo-mic plan, as it represents their cultural shift towards bottom-up participatory approaches and systemic and policy changes to make ecological transition closer to citizens, communities, and territories (Fetting, 2020; Rosana, 2021).