17.6.2024
Cities are facing multiple challenges of transformation: climate and biodiversity crisis, migration, demographic change, to name but a few. How are existing buildings and materials being dealt with today? What opportunities for conversion or further use do vacant or obsolete structures offer? To what extent do planning and conversion processes need to be rethought in order to respond to current needs and social goals – such as the conservation of resources? Which “new” practices need to be learned and which “old” practices should be unlearned?
Exhibition ‘Field Trips – Transformation of the Inventory’
As part of the field trips organized by the future.lab/ Faculty of Architecture and Spatial Planning at the Vienna University of Technology, students were sent on a research trip. Five teams of students went on expeditions to Aarhus, Basel/Pratteln, Naples, Riga and Zurich, exploring projects and districts that promise exciting approaches to the transformation of existing buildings and were able to bring exciting results back to Vienna.
Talk: Uli Fries discusses the results with other Viennese experts
Selected results of the project will be presented from June 26 to 29 as part of the Climate Biennale at Nordwestbahnhof. On Wednesday, June 26, the opening will include a tour (5:00 pm) and a discussion (6:30 pm) in which key findings on the transformation of the existing building stock will be discussed with Uli Fries from Kreative Räume Wien and other Viennese experts and the audience.
WHEN: Wednesday 06/26/2024 to Saturday, 06/29/2024
Opening: 17:00 | Panel discussion: 18:30
WHERE: Area of the Vienna Climate Biennale I Nordwestbahnstraße 16, 1200 Vienna
Further information can be found at futurelab.tuwien.ac.at.