Workshop 11: Talking brings people together - strategies for unstressed neighbourship
Wednesday, 30 November 2011, 14.00-18.00
followed by 25th anniversary of mobile area managementin Vienna
Wolke 19, Ares-Tower, Donau-City-Straße 11, 1220 Vienna

The workshop theme
The quality of life in housing districts depends on a number of different factors: Adequate green space and high housing standard, but also community building, successful conflict management or effective tenants' consulting. Targeted area management may have a positive influence on several of these factors. The 11th Vienna Housing Research Day used the 25th anniversary of the "mobile area management" in Vienna as an occasion to discuss about present and future challenges in these questions.

Amongst others the focus was on the following issues:

• Which measures and framework conditions are needed to successfully manage and moderate transformation processes?
• How to facilitate and foster communication between residents?
• How to strengthen the sense of responsibility and individual initiative in the neighbourhood ?

Against this background recent research results as well as field reports from the district service in Vienna were presented. A guest lecture from Berlin and an study tour report from Hamburg showed examples of successful area management in Germany.

The workshop was followed by a panel discussion on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of mobile area management in Vienna.

Programm
Wednesday, 30 November 2011

14.00 Welcome and introduction
Michael Ludwig, Executive City Councillor for Housing, Housing Construction and Urban Renewal

Moderation
Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, MA 50, Department for Housing Research and International Relations

14.15 Learning from neighbours - Area management in Germany
Guest lecture: Tenants' consulting and district management - experiences from Berlin
Theodor Winters, Managing Director S.T.E.R.N. - Association for gentle urban renewal, Berlin

Study tour report: Area management in Hamburg
Wolfgang Stempfer & Teresa Lukas, Vienna Area Renewal Office GB*12

Discussion

15.30 Coffee break

16.00 Dialogue, community, identity - area management in Vienna
Analysis of tenants' fora as innovative instrument for housing research
Peter Görgl & Markus Maicher, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Urban and Regional Studies

Our Stories. Oral history as element for creating identities and fostering communities - a pilot project in Monte Laa
Daniele Kárász, search and shape, institute for landscape / architecture / social anthropology

Discussion

Movie presentation: Transformation - the future of the fin de siecle city
Erich Raith, University of Technology, Vienna
Kurt Smetana, Area Renewal Office, Vienna-Ottakring

17.35 Coffee Break

18.00 25th anniversary of mobile area management in Vienna
Panel debate

19.30 Cocktail & Networking