Workshop 2: Innovative planning – new living
Monday, 21 November 2005, 14.00-17.30
Urania, Dachsaal, 1010 Vienna

Innovative planning methods - new housing qualities
When introducing the housing developers’ competitions in Vienna (1995) one of the main aims was to raise the quality of housing constructions without increasing the costs and rents. In fact the competitions brought about a series of innovations and higher standards in several areas (e.g. ecological housing construction). The increasing diversity of lifestyles and housing needs will call for a further differentiation of housing types and planning methods in the next years. If housing construction is understood as part of an integrated (business) location policy, future requirements will furthermore go beyond meeting the basic housing functions.

Regarding to this main theme the following research projects were presented:

• 10 Years of Developers' Competitions - Changes in Housing
• City Lifestyles - Methods and Models for Lifestyle-Oriented Housing Planning
• "Kabelwerk" - on the temporary use of housing construction areas for cultural purposes
• New housing qualities and planning strategies for urban development projects. The example of programming the Viennese development project "Airfield Aspern"

The Vienna Housing Research Days
Vienna has not only a long tradition of social housing and of successful models to adapt living space to contemporary requirements; the City of Vienna is also proud of its comprehensive research programme to continuously evaluate and redevelop its housing and urban renewal policy.

The workshop "Innovative planning – new living" represented the second workshop in a new series of events: The "Vienna Housing Research Days" provide an experts' platform for the presentation and discussion of recent research projects, realised in the framework of the Vienna Housing Research Programme. Thus, a further step towards an intensified dialogue and networking among the local and regional scientific community will be taken.

Programme
Monday, 21 November 2005

14.00 Chair and Introduction
Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, MA 50, Department for Housing Research and International Relations

14.05 Presentation of recent research findings
Current trends in British housing
Chris Moquet, Chartered Institute of Housing; Partner Calford Seaden, London

10 Years of Developers' Competitions - Changes in Housing
Michael Schluder, Architect

City Lifestyles - Methods and Models for Lifestyle-Oriented Housing Planning
Matias del Campo, ArchSpan
Gerin Trautenberger, Microgiants Industrial Design GmbH

15.45 Coffee Break

16.00 Presentation of recent research findings
"Kabelwerk" - on the temporary use of housing construction areas for cultural purposes
Rudolf Kohoutek, Verein Urbane Initiativen

New housing qualities and planning strategies for urban development projects. The example of programming the Viennese development project "Airfield Aspern"
Gottfried Pirhofer, Zukunfts.Station Wien

17.15 Presentationen "Housing Glossary - Wohnungswesen"
Wolfgang Förster, City of Vienna, MA 50, Department for Housing Research and International Relations
Astrid Kratschmann, Erste Bank AG - s Bausparkasse AG, Head of Department Housing CEE
Chris Moquet, Chartered Institute of Housing, London / Partner, Calford Seaden

17.30 Informal "Networking" & Buffet