ABSTRACT
How can we combine the green deal and city ethics with culturally intelligent means? This chapter hacks into the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus between Ville and cité (Sennett). Our focus on how to experience the city by encountering alien neighbours contrasts with living in closed-up wealthy and “smart” eco-niches that might succumb to greenwashed gentrification. The diagnostic hacking proposes a vital contribution and a design challenge today to the New European Bauhaus proposal facing “greenwashing” (Machline) of green deal neighbourhoods. By applying Richard Sennet's Building and Dwelling. Ethics for the City, including diagnostic genres of the imagination of urban novels such as Sybille Berg's “GRM” and “Oval” by Elvia Wilk, we start thinking about necessary fundamental changes in the digital age in a proposal for essential legal and cultural renewal of the European way of life. This change must go beyond a mere political utopia, cultural reflections, or marketed green images. Thus, Ferdinand von Schirach's concentrates his efforts on an international call for a European constitutional convent. As a result, he adds to the 2012 Charter of the fundamental rights of the European Union's six new human rights. This call is due to climate change, new revolutionary digital technology developments, and democratic defence against autocracies. The first new proposed human right is explicitly a right to live in an environment that is healthy and protected. We add to this valid proposal soil justice as part of the Green Neighbourhood agenda.
