Category: Highlights & Events

Temporäre Nutzungen und Wohnformen beschäftigen in zunehmendem Maß auch die Raum- und Stadtplanung. Dieser Umstand zeigte sich auch auf dem diesjährigen AESOP Kongress, welcher von 9. bis 13. Juli bezeichnenderweise in Venedig stattfand und unter dem Motto “Planning for Transition” sich ganz besonders dem Umgang der Städte mit neuen und alten Herausforderungen widmete. Das Akronym AESOP steht für “Association of European Schools of Planning”, einem großen Netzwerk europäischer Universitäten mit Studiengängen der räumlichen Planung, zu denen auch die BOKU Wien gehört. “Pop-Up Environments” wurde von Projektmitarbeiter Gustav Puhr (Institut für Raumplanung, Umweltplanung und Bodenordnung) im Rahmen der Session “Housing, gentrification and socio-spatial dynamics” vorgestellt. Im der anschließenden Diskussion gaben WissenschaftlerInnen und PlanerInnen aus verschiedenen Ländern wertvolle Inputs zum Thema temporäres Wohnen. Unter anderem kamen die Wichtigkeit von Leerstandserhebungen und die Förderung des kritischen Diskurses über temporäre Wohnformen zur Sprache. Bei vielen Punkten
wurde dabei erneut eine gewisse Sonderstellung Wiens deutlich, welche z.B. auf dem großen Anteil des sozialen Wohnens fußt.

Eine Sammlung von Kurzfassungen aller Beiträge (in Englisch) der AESOP 2019 ist über folgenden Link abrufbar:
https://www.aesop2019.eu/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/AESOP-BOOK-OF-ABSTRACTS-2019.pdf

Over 600 people from all over the world attended the NGM2019 to exchange ideas regarding sustainable development within and beyond the discipline of geography. Within the session “Urban Innovation and the Rise of Projects, Platforms, and Testbeds”, the Pop-Up Housing project was introduced to the community through a presentation by Gloria Rose and Michael Ornetzeder, titled “Temporary housing projects as experimental niches for sustainable innovation”. Various existing niche concepts and observable forms of temporary living environments were compared with the aim of recognizing sensible interlinkages. Additionally, empirical examples of innovative spaces and temporary housing contexts where learning processes are currently taking place in Vienna were presented.

Meeting’s brochure and program

Abstract (page 3)

Project team member Mirjam Stocker (Institute of Landscape planning) attended the The Paradigmatic City Conference that was held in Istanbul from May 8th to 10th, 2019.  Transforming Cities was the focus of this year’s conference and an opportune occasion to present our (pop-up housing) project. She presented the project and preliminary results, summarized by her and Gerda Schneider, in the session ‘Urbanization and future cities’. The participation of scholars of very different disciplines led to interesting and enriching discussions. Especially interesting for our project were contributions such as on Boox: A framework for container settlements (Belinda Torus, Asena Kumsal Şen Bayram, Oğuz Orkun Doma, Sinan Mert Şener) and on The “new” inhabitant of the city: changing urban dynamics in Gaziantep, Turkey (Pınar Karababa Kayagil).
The participation of Mirjam was kindly facilitated by a travel grant of BOKU’s Equal Opportunities Working Party (Arbeitskreis für Gleichbehandlungsfragen (AKGL)).

We are happy to announce the launch of our website, where we will provide information and news on our pop-up housing environments project.

Please also be aware that the site is subject to change due to improvements, addition of new content or error correction.

The project team came together on 26^th and 27^th of April 2018 for a workshop to kick-off the project “Urban pop-up housing environments and their potential as local innovation systems”. The meeting offered a packed programme, focussing on creating a common project vision, deepening the understanding for the working methods of the different involved disciplines and finalising a schedule for the first months in the project. A science slam opened the stage for the PhD students to present their preliminary research results in fun and unconventional ways.

Delicious food and drinks and the marvellous surroundings of Vienna Woods invited to stay for the informal evening programme for getting to know each other and facilitated new ideas on how to tackle project opportunities and challenges to pop-up.