With the words "I have pulled the emergency brake", Ulli Sima stopped the new construction of the Vienna West Expressway in 2021, thus creating the opportunity to find alternative visions for Vienna's western entrée.
The highly congested infrastructure axis - the Vienna West Entrance/West Exit - runs between the Lainzer Tiergarten and the Ferdinand-Wolf-Park. Although new construction has been halted in favor of redevelopment, this is only an interim solution. The urgent question remains how this important space, where ecological, climatic, social and infrastructural requirements collide, will be approached in the future.
On the one hand, we are looking for spatial visions (260.709 UE Entwerfen Wien West Design).
On the other hand, we are looking for visions of a sustainable social process that actively involves the human and non-human actors (260.807 UE Entwerfen Cocreation:Hacking Vienna), which meet and negotiate the space between Nikoailberg and Wolfersberg.
Actors would be, for example:
- the densely populated residential area of Hacking, which is experiencing a pressure for redensification
- the cold air flow coming down from the Nikolaiberg and the Vienna forest
- the partially renaturalized Vienna River, which nevertheless flows along the heavily constructed riverbed
- citizens' initiatives that concerned residents have organized
- politicians from different parties in the district
- various municipal departments of the city of Vienna
- transport institutions, which play a key role in the mobility axis
The aim of the design studio is to formulate a co-creative process between human and non-human actors, which will be mobilized through a final event planned by the students.
The course will reflect on the following questions:
- Can co-creative, participatory processes empower spatial transformation?
- How can co-creation between different - especially between human and non-human - actors be designed?
- What new, unusual, experimental formats can initiate a co-creation process?
The course will be coupled with the design studio "Wien West Design". Joint cross-over workshops and meetings will reflect on the complex interrelationship between building and social processes in green and open spaces and give students the opportunity to exchange ideas on research, analysis and design.
Additional input will be provided by the following experts and local actors:
- Prof.in Dipl.-Ing. Cordula Loidl-Reisch | TU Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Henrik Schultz | Hochschule Osnabrück
- Univ.Ass. Dipl.-Ing. Gunnar Grandel | future.lab
- Elisabeth Irschik | Stadt Wien MA19
Registration for space planners by mail to landscape@tuwien.ac.at (Subject: Design Co-Creation)
This course is aimed at spatial planners and architects. The projects will be worked on in mixed groups.
Format: Hybrid
Please note: In case of a changed corona situation, the format may change (e.g. change to pure distance learning).
Please take into account that for face-to-face meetings, attendance in the lecture hall/seminar room is required. Zoom meetings will be held online only. (Subject to Corona-related changes).
IMPORTANT: All students registered for Designing, please also subscribe to the excursion Cocreation: Hacking Vienna (EX 260.808).
