Ringvorlesung Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf Neues Soziales Wohnen

VO Transdisciplinary Perspectives on New Social Housing
Master’s Course Spatial Planning and Regional Planning
Elective Module 5: Society, Everyday Life and Space | 280.A22 | 3 ECTS
From Wednesday 19.10., 6:00–8:00 pm
Lecture Hall 7 Schütte-Lihotzky – ARCH

The lecture series, conceived by the Research Center for New Social Housing, is intended to familiarize students from different fields of study with the complexity of housing research and practice. In view of the currently urgently needed innovations in housing construction (e.g. for climate-appropriate building, affordability, social justice), mono-disciplinary approaches can only demonstrate insufficient solution strategies. Developing a common understanding of what is regarded as a problem and identifying different (disciplinary, practical, everyday, scientific) perspectives in the discourse are essential in order to be able to pose, answer and work on questions surrounding housing through transdisciplinary learning processes.

A multitude of disciplines devote themselves to housing construction and dwelling as a practice in their research. In recent years, housing research has received increased attention, not least in order to identify and investigate relevant questions where crises (climate crisis, financial crisis, care crisis, war, etc.) impact the housing market (financialization, rising energy costs in housing, scarcity of resources in the construction sector, housing shortage, …).

Practice surrounding housing production (housing policies, design concepts, funding mechanisms, etc.) and community work in housing (eviction prevention, conflict management, administration, care/work of care, …) in turn generates essential bodies of knowledge that contribute to finding solutions for current global challenges.

The lecture is dedicated to bringing together different scientific and practice-related perspectives in order to approach the complexity of dwelling, housing construction and urban development. The Research Center for New Social Housing is coordinated by Judith M. Lehner and is a cooperation of the future.lab (Prof. Rudolf Scheuvens) with the Department of Sociology (Prof. Simon Güntner) and the Research Unit Housing and Design (Prof. Michael Obrist) as well as the University of Vienna (Prof. Christoph Reinprecht).

Within the framework of a lecture series, speakers from the field of housing research (different Vienna universities) and from Vienna’s housing practice (City of Vienna, developers, associations, administration, …) are invited to short lectures in which they present on the respective topic. On the basis of two short lectures each from a research and a practice perspective, a transdisciplinary discussion format on various thematic fields of housing emerges.

Speakers from the fields of housing research and Vienna’s housing practice include Prof. Dragana Damjanovic (TU Wien), Prof. Rudolf Scheuvens (TU Wien), Daniel Glaser (MA59), Prof. Arthur Kanonier (TU Wien), Gregor Puscher (wohnfond_wien), Thomas Romm (forschen, planen, bauen), Arno Rabl (wohnpartner), Alexa Färber (University of Vienna) and Robert Musil (Austrian Academy of Sciences).