R A D I C A L H O U S I N G ?!
Hosted by Christina Schraml (content and curatorial concept)
with support by Brigitte Felderer (co-thinking) and Martin Färber (design)
01.06. - 04.6.2016
Vienna is booming. Within the past 15 years, the city has experienced a rapid population influx and demographers agree that by 2030 the two-million-inhabitant mark will be cracked. However, the growing demand for residential space is being met by an increasingly short supply. Even though Vienna is often referred to as a paradise on earth due to its strong social housing policy, in recent years the pressure on the housing market has dramatically increased. In search for alternative solutions to the current housing dilemma, more and more citizens take the situation into their own hands.
The focus week on Radical Housing?! explores alternative approaches to housing developed bottom-up and along the lines of self-empowerment, affordability and solidarity. For this purpose, a living room installation will be set up at the shopping mall Wien Mitte for an entire week. The stand seeks to promote the importance and value of the right to (affordable) housing. It will feature various key activists and and case studies in the (alternative) housing debate, students of the Social Design studio, and anyone who would like to exchange experiences and discuss the notion of ?Radical Housing?!?.
Programme
Wed 01. June
10.00 – Opening Ceremony: We are moving in…
11.00 – The inner and outer colors of Mexican urbanism: the path to recognize the Otherness - an input on Housing in Mexico by Lutz Keferstein // Universidad Autonoma de Queretaro
14.00 – WTF is a Baugruppe? with Constance Weiser // Plattform Gemeinsam Bauen Wohnen
16.00 – Tea Time with DI Kurt Hofstetter // Stv. Projektkoordinator IBA_Wien – Neues soziales Wohnen
17.00 – Spekulationsbingo - a game about the increasing neoliberalisation of Vienna’s housing market with stadt[lo?s]
Thur 02. June
10.00 – On the right to housing - a Breakfast with Michael Klein // dérive
12.00 – Lunch Time with Gerald Straub
14.00 – Industrial Housing - with architect Michael Wallraff // Wallraff Architecture
16.00 – Tea Time with Bogomir Doringer
17.00 – WTF is a Mietshäuser Syndikat and how to become a HabiTÄTER/IN? Talk with Members of HABITAT
20.00 – HABITAT STAMMTISCH der Wiener Hausprojekt-Initiativen with Stadtklan and SchloR
Fr 03. June
10.00 – Affordable housing?! - Insights from Paris and Istanbul - a Breakfast with Dilruba Erkan // Université Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne
12.00 – New Ways of Living: Vienna versus Ho-Chi-Minh City - Lunch talk with Qu? Chi Trinh
14.00 – WTF is a Baugruppe? with Ernst Gruber // Plattform Gemeinsam Bauen Wohnen
17.00 – The role of off-spaces as extended living rooms in the city - a discussion on the example of the Kulturverein mo.ë with Alisa Beck, Valerie Bosse (both mo.ë) and Clemens Nocker (architect)
Sat 04. June
10.00 – Excursion “Housing Utopia” with Corina Forthuber and students of the department space&designstrategies // Kunstuniversität Linz
17.00 – Closing Ceremony: Mexican Late Lunch with Lutz Keferstein and Andrea Navarrette and our Guests of the department space&design strategies // Kunstuniversität Linz