Programme 2024
Monday, Sept. 16
11-13:00
Welcome Session
14:00-18:00
Public Opening Symposium
TU Wien, Seminarraum Argentinierstraße
Argentinierstraße 8, 1040 Vienna
14:00 Introduction and moderation by Simon Güntner and Christoph
Reinprecht from the curatorial team of the Summer School
14:15 Tatjana Schneider (TU Braunschweig, History and Theory of Architecture and the City)
“Not building a wall but making a brick”
14:45 Kathrin Golda-Pongratz (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Department of Urbanism, Territory &Landscape)
“Housing as a Verb and Process”
15:15 Heidrun Holzfeind (Artist & Filmmaker)
“Machines for Living – on my documentary trilogy about modernist residential buildings in Rome, Warsaw and Newark”
15:55 Coffee break
16:15 Heike Oevermann & Research Team (TU Wien, Heritage Conservation and Building within Existing Fabric)
“Social(ist) housing of the past – heritage values of the present”
16:45 Daniela Zupan (Bauhaus Universität Weimar, European Cities & Urban Heritage)
“The reinvention of housing experiments and the rise of (right-wing) authoritarianism in postsocialist Europe”
17:14 Golnar Abbasi and Arvand Pourabbasi (WORKNOT! Collective of architects, educators, researchers)
“The Minimum Dwelling: Framed Livelihoods, Solidarities, and Properties”
17:45 Wrap-up
moderated by Simon Güntner, Research Unit of Sociology, TU Wien, and Christoph Reinprecht, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna
Tuesday, Sept. 17
9:00 -18:00
Classroom Sessions
Wednesday, Sept. 18
9:00-17:30
Field trips and workshop
19:00 – 22:00
Public Keynote & Discussion
TU Wien, Kontaktraum,
Gußhausstraße 27-29, 1040 Wien
Keynote by
Ilze Wollf
Wolff Architects (Cape Town), Chair in the Department of Architecture at the University of Liverpool
Ilze Wolff co-directs Wolff Architects with Heinrich Wolff, a practice concerned with an architecture of consequence. Their built work includes public infrastructure projects, cultural educational buildings, exhibition architecture and urban interventions of repair and restoration. She is the founding editor of the publication and research platform pumflet: art, architecture and stuff which focuses on the black social and spatial imaginaries. She is a Dean’s Visiting A. Professor at Columbia University GSAPP (2023/24 ) and a Professor of Practice in Architecture at the University of Liverpool (2023 – present). pumflet and the work of the practice has been included in various international exhibitions including the Venice Architecture Biennale, Shenzhen Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, the Chicago Architecture Biennale and the São Paulo Art Biennale. In 2023 the practice was awarded an honourable mention for their work ‘Tectonic Shifts’ at the 18th Venice Architectural Biennale, curated by Lesley Lokko
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
Thursday, Sept. 19
09:00-18:00
Field trips and Workshop
Friday, Sept. 20
9:00-13:00
Workshop and Group Work
13:30-15:00 Uhr
Public Plenary & Final Discussion
TU Wien, Luft Pavillon, Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
with Amila Širbegović (MA50, Referat für strategische Projekte und Internationales) and invited local experts on housing and urban development
15:30-16:00
Closing Session
The programme of the International Summer School includes the following formats:
- CLASSROOM SESSIONS: The research projects of the participants will be presented and put up for discussion among peers and members of an international Faculty. The aim is to reflect, refine and deepen one’s own work and research approach with peers and internationally renowned scholars from different disciplines and universities.
- WORKSHOPS: Various methodological approaches to housing research, such as housing biographies, housing statistics and socio-spatial analysis to participatory methods at the interface between research, architecture, art and community work will be examined in more detail along with the prospects of mixed designs.
- FIELD TRIPS: On-site field trips and walks with stakeholders, local actors and practitioners offer insights into the manifestation of the summer school’s topic in Vienna.
- LECTURES: Public lectures and a panel discussion by and with members of the international faculty on current questions of housing research