In the third episode, Bernadette Kreijs and Johannes Suitner discussed new forms of living, the circular economy and new usage requirements in existing buildings with Isabel Glogar, Peter Fatinger, Bernadette Luger and Lisa Schmidt-Colinet!

Bernadette Krejs is an architect and researcher currently working at the Department of Housing and Design at TU Wien. Her work spans a transdisciplinary research field between architecture, housing, and visual culture. She is part of the queer feminist collective ClaimingSpaces* and is the author and editor of numerous publications. She was awarded the Margarete Schütte Lihotzky Project Scholarship in 2023 and is a LINA Fellow 2023.

Johannes Suitner is a trained spatial planner working at TU Wien. His research investigates how abstract transformation goals are translated into concrete urban strategies and projects, why local transformations succeed or fail, and how politics and planning themselves transform in the process. Since January 2024, he holds the position “Urban & Regional Transformation” at the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning.

Isabel Glogar has been researching and teaching since 2019 as a Senior Researcher (Postdoc) at the Chair of Urban Design at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), focusing on collaborative housing, cooperative urban planning and design, and (climate-)equitable urban development. Since 2014, she has also worked independently with her office Ofhaus – Office for Housing and Urban Studies in Vienna, specializing in architecture, housing, and urban research.

Peter Fattinger has been teaching and researching at TU Wien since 2000, where he also founded the design.build studio. In addition to his teaching at the Department of Housing at TU Wien, he co-founded an architecture office in 2005 with Veronika Orso (fattinger-orso.com).

Bernadette Luger heads the Office for Resource Efficiency and Sustainability in Construction within the City of Vienna’s Magistrate Directorate and leads the DoTank Circular City Vienna 2020–2030 (DTCC30) program. She is an internationally trained architect and expert in integrative urban development.

Lisa Schmidt-Colinet is an architect and part of the Vienna-based office schmidt-colinet • schmoeger, working on housing projects as well as exhibitions, films, and research projects. She teaches at the Institute for Art and Architecture (IKA) at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and is part of its leadership team. She is also co-initiator and planner of the cooperative housing group Living for Future, a self-managed housing initiative.

Information about the podcast
The podcast ZUKUNFT STADT is a project of the Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at TU Wien. It is produced through a collaboration between the future.lab and the Department of Local Spatial Planning at TU Wien.

Concept and production, audio and editing: Lukas Bast, Lena Hohenkamp, and Madlyn Miessgang
Intro music: Jakob Kotal