After successful completion of the course, students are able to recognize and analyze complex spatial and social relationships in urban development, to recognize the role of bottom-up initiatives for users and neighborhoods and to address the following questions in a reflective manner: What spatial relationships have emerged on site between users, the area and the neighborhood? Would it not make sense to protect and spatially integrate these synergies in the future in the sense of sustainable and user-sensitive urban development? And in general, is it still appropriate, during or after the pandemic, to conduct the discourse on site development, event management and intermediate or multiple use as before the pandemic?

In Vienna, urban development is working at full speed to provide space or blue, gray and green infrastructure for population growth. While in many areas of the city the redensification is hardly noticeable and mostly happens through the private sector on the existing stock - keyword attic conversion -, some neighborhoods are experiencing a radical transformation. In the so-called target areas of the urban development plan, planning and conversion processes lasting several years are being cranked up: old urban morphological structures have to give way and brownfield sites that are valuable for the city both socially and ecologically are being mercilessly redensified. One of these target areas, Erdbergermais-St. Marx, will become the focus of our summer semester investigation as part of the core course of the Landscape Architecture module. Numerous residential and office/educational buildings have been realized here in the last 20 years, and now the focus is on the development of the last large vacant area next to the Marxhalle, where the new Wien Holding Arena for 20,000 visitors - "as a replacement for the aging Stadthalle" - is being planned. The local bottom-up initiatives, the community garden St. Marx, the basketball court die Grube and the skater park St. Marx, which Wiener Standortentwicklung GMBH had involved as actors in the real estate management process, no longer find a place in the future development plans for the area.

Methods:

- Work assignments of a workshop nature, e.g. artifact analysis, actor analysis, etc.

- Knowledge exchange, in the teams as well as in the plenum

- Blocked, intensive working days every 14 days

- Hybrid teaching format

- Analyzing, working, designing on site

- Strong content integration with the LVA Freiraum und Bebauung of the module Landschaftsarchitektur

Project work in teams (small groups)

An in-depth thematic, spatial, and actor analysis.

A conceptual design diagram/program for the space under study

An in-depth reflection on the process