#38 HouseEurope! Field Trips: Research in Teaching for the Building Transition

In the third episode of the mini-series on HouseEurope!, the focus shifts to concrete projects. As part of the interdisciplinary master’s course Field Trips, students engaged with specific projects from the HouseEurope! Renovation Atlas. In their contributions, they offer insights into their explorations and demonstrate how diverse the perspectives and aspects of existing building transformation can be.

Contributions:

Prefabricated Housing and Perspectives (Bordeaux Group)
Leonie Böhm, Laura Elisa Glatz, Anabel Neuner, Anna-Lena Rehfisch

Exhibiting Identities (Brussels Group 1)
Edda Böhm, Matteo Stark, Franziska Wehle, Klara Weinhold

Transformation through COOPeration (Brussels Group 2)
Cristina Alexa, Max Ganser, Viivi Huusko

From Harbor to Home? (Copenhagen Group)
Anastasia Khabarova, Hannah Speer, Jan-Christian Benk, Teodora Boneva

The Matadero File (Madrid Group)
Laura Sandner, Elisabeth Schröer, Michele Siladji

Rijeka Teče (Rijeka Group)
Angelika Bauer, Anja Berlinger, Lucienne Trummer, Valentina Gruber

HouseEurope! is a parliamentary citizens’ initiative at the European level. Its aim is to reduce the demolition of buildings and instead promote renovation, reuse, and transformation. The initiative is based on the conviction that the existing building stock is not only an ecological resource, but also a cultural and social one.

This episode is part of a mini-series on the HouseEurope! initiative, curated by Madlyn Miessgang and Verena Konrad. All information about HouseEurope!, as well as the opportunity to sign the initiative, can be found at: https://www.houseeurope.eu

All radio pieces by the students were already broadcast in August on A Palaver on Radio Orange:
https://www.apalaver.com/sendungs-archiv/258/fieldtrips-10-yes-to-renovate

More information about the projects and the Field Trips can be found on the future.lab website:
https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/lehre/field-trips-10-yes-to-renovation

Course coordinators:
future.lab Visiting Professor Verena Konrad and Madlyn Miessgang.
Additional contributors: Rudolf Scheuvens (Field Trips concept and initiator), Zara Pfeifer (photography), Wojciech Czaja (journalist), David Pasek (architecture and radio producer).

The Field Trips are funded by the Immobilien Privatstiftung. We would like to thank them for their support!

Podcast credits
Episode #38
Concept and hosting: Madlyn Miessgang, Verena Konrad
Recording, audio, and editing: Lisa-Marie Kramer, Madlyn Miessgang, Nico Schleicher
Photos: Credits are held by the respective student groups of Field Trips 2025

With contributions by Angelika Bauer, Jan-Christian Benk, Anja Berlinger, Edda Böhm, Leonie Böhm, Teodora Boneva, Max Ganser, Laura Elisa Glatz, Valentina Gruber, Viivi Huusko, Anastasia Khabarova, Cristina Alexa, Anabel Neuner, Anna-Lena Rehfisch, Laura Sandner, Elisabeth Schröer, Michele Siladji, Hannah Speer, Matteo Stark, Lucienne Trummer, Franziska Wehle, and Klara Weinhold.

ZUKUNFT STADT Podcast – Production:
Lukas Bast, Larissa Benk, Lisa-Marie Kramer, Lena Hohenkamp, Madlyn Miessgang, and Nico Schleicher

Intro music: Jakob Kotal

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.