Housing Experiments Revisited - Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing
Housing Experiments Revisited
16-20 September 2024
We cordially invite you to the 7th Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing from 16-20 September! This year we will explore the history of housing experiments against the current need for new solutions to social housing.In an era marked by housing shortages, new and changing demands and perplexing housing policies, we aim to delve into the revision of radical experiments, ideologies, utopias - but also dystopias – of housing that once strived for offering alternative perspectives and solutions. radikaler Experiment, Ideologien und Utopien – aber auch Dystopien – des Wohnens, die einst danach strebten, alternative Perspektiven und Lösungen anzubieten.
We are looking forward to gathering and discussing international as well as local perspectives from different disciplines around the topic. The Summer School is organised by the Research Center for New Social Housing as a collaboration between TU Wien (future.lab, Research Unit Sociology, Research Unit Housing and Design), the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Social Design Studio) and is supported by the City of Vienna, Municipal Department 50 - Strategic Projects and International Affairs. As part of public events, we provide insights into the Summer School and its international faculty:
Opening Symposium
16 September 2024, 14–18:00
TU Wien, Seminarraum Argentinierstraße,
Argentinierstraße 8, 1040 Wien, Erdgeschoss
Inputs by
Golnar Abbasi & Arvand Pourabbasi
WORKNOT! Collective of architects, educators, researchers
Kathrin Golda-Pongratz
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Urbanism, Territory and Landscape
Heidrun Holzfeind
Artist & filmmaker
Heike Oevermann & Research Team
TU Wien, Heritage Conservation and Building within Existing Fabric
Tatjana Schneider
TU Braunschweig, Institute of History and Theory of Architecture and the City GTAS
Daniela Zupan
Bauhaus Universität Weimar, European Cities & Urban Heritage
moderated by Simon Güntner, TU Wien, Research Unit of Sociology, and Christoph Reinprecht, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna
Public Keynote & Discussion
18 September 2024, 19:00
TU Wien, Kontaktraum, Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Wien
Keynote by
Ilze Wollf
Wolff Architects, Cape Town, South Africa
Responses by
Brigitte Felderer
Social Design Studio, University of Applied Arts Vienna
Julia Girardi-Hoog
Baudirektion, City of Vienna
Michael Obrist
Housing & Design, TU Wien
moderated by Bernadette Krejs, Research Unit of Housing & Design and Judith M. Lehner, Research Center for New Social Housing, TU Wien
Public Plenary & Final Discussion
20 September 2024, 13:30–15:00
TU Wien, Seminarraum AEU140, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
with Amila Širbegović (MA50, Referat für strategische Projekte und Internationales) and invited local experts on housing and urban development
More info: Website of the Summer School
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