After successful completion of the course, students are able to use the following methods:

- scientific working methods

- methods of urban analysis

- Stadtlektüre (= the art of making the urban and rural speak)

Weekly Feedback: Tuesday afternoon - exact schedule to follow!

fig. left: Bobek & Lichtenberger, 1978
fig. right: Die wilde Siedlung Bretteldorf um 1935 © ÖNB/Wien 505.474-B

Vienna, a city of slums and "wild" settlements? In cooperation with the current research project "Wien Informell – Informelle Stadtproduktion 1945–1992", the seminar is dedicated to the often repressed history of "wild" Vienna, the unplanned urbanization in the 20th century and its traces that still exist in many places today. Where and how did and still does informal urban production take place? How did the settlements develop spatially, socially and legally? What was formalized or cleared and when? In city walks, urban analyses, literature research and through texts and maps we will follow the traces of the wild settlers.

Introduction and learning of the basics of scientific work (methodology, scientific writing, citing, publishing, ...)

Forschungsprojekt Wien Informell (2021): http://www.städtebau.at/forschung/projekte_plattformen/wien-informell/

AzW Symposium “Bretteldorf Revisited” (2018): https://www.azw.at/de/termin/bretteldorf-revisited/

dérive (2018): http://www.derive.at/index.php?p_case=1&issue_No=71

regular active participation (attendance is required!)

short presentation of the work in our plenum

writing of a seminar paper

German spoken and written at university level