The ‘Creatives for Vienna – Making Spaces’ competition is entering its final spurt, the ‘Wild im West’ vacant building project is starting a second round in spring and the ground-breaking ceremony for the new F23 in Liesing. Also in this newsletter: webinars on the topic of business premises, news from research and a job with us.
Creatives for Vienna: Submit until next week!
Concepts can still be submitted until Wednesday, February 15, 2023, as part of the ‘Creatives for Vienna’ competition. Under the motto ‘Making Spaces’, the Vienna Business Agency is inviting entries for the development and further development of spaces for creative uses. 10 projects can win, the winning concepts will each receive prize money of 15,000 euros.
In addition to its own rooms, four additional rooms are being advertised for use as part of this competition, for which concepts can be developed and submitted.
Those interested in submitting a project can receive free advice and networking with potential project partners through the Kreative Räume Wien.
All information on the competition can be found at wirtschaftsagentur.at.
Announcement: Wild in the West goes into the second round
Wow, how time flies: Back in December, the district newspaper visited the colorful vacant lot development and interim use of Wild im West – together with us and the owners of the space. Fortunately, we can now once again announce this to everyone in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus and beyond: The project will enter a second season in April.
We are really looking forward to spring and congratulate the great team behind this fantastic project!
Thanks to the Bezirkszeitung for the report. For the latest information on Wild im West, follow the project on Facebook or Instagram.
F23: Groundbreaking ceremony in Liesing
It will take a little longer, but then the F23 – after the renovation – will be back in a big way. Launched as an interim use, the F23 cultural initiative did a great job in the former coffin factory in Breitenfurter Straße from 2015 to 2021. Now the large factory is being renovated and converted and the entire neighborhood is being developed.
The factory was built between 1913 and 1916 as the “Maschinen-, Kisten- und Holzwarenfabrik M. Koffmahn” according to plans by Hubert Gessner, a student of Otto Wagner. In 1966, the Stadtwerke took over the building and adapted it for coffin production, which was closed in 2013.
Of the initial 40,000m², the listed part of the factory has been left standing in 2022 and will be renovated – probably by 2024. In the meantime, however, the cultural initiative in Vienna’s southernmost district is not bored: the team performs on an empty floor in the post office on Liesinger Platz and in the salon right next to the factory on Breitenfurterstraße. The declared aim of F23 is to make art and culture possible and tangible in all its forms, while always keeping the social component in mind.
All information can be found at www.f23.at.
Webinars: Tips & tricks on the subject of business premises
Our cooperation partners from the Freie-Lokale-Team, the location service of the Vienna Chamber of Commerce, are once again offering a series of free webinars. In February and March, the topics will be subsidies, finding a location for gastronomy, retail and business facilities.
All information and dates here (no WKÖ membership required) at www.freielokale.at.
Research: Vacancy activation as a social innovation
How can spaces be activated so that they offer added value to the local community as attractive places and at the same time become part of a sustainable transformation? As part of the Open Network Meeting on April 27, 2022, the TU WIEN Innovation Workshop focused on the topic of temporary use as a social innovation in urban development.
Input was provided by Uli Fries from Kreative Räume Wien, Christoph Grud from Bäckerei in Innsbruck and Leonie Jung-Irrgang from A.R.E.A.L. in Vienna. The exciting follow-up is now summarized on a few pages. Read or download here.
Another reading tip for those interested in urban exploration: ‘Mix: Possible! Experimental neighborhood development using the example of Nordbahnhof Vienna’!
The book is based on the four-year experimental intervention in the Nordbahnviertel, one of Vienna’s largest development areas. It describes the temporary use of the Nordbahnhalle. It was realized as an experimental interim use in the context of applied research and teaching. We also feature in the book.
E-book: https://birkhauser.com/de/books/9783035625967
There is also a podcast edition of nordpost, the podcast at Nordbahnhof: listen here
On our own behalf: Team reinforcement wanted
We are looking for support in the areas of project assistance, marketing and public relations from April. Are you interested in this field, do you enjoy communicating and are you able to keep track of complicated issues? Can you imagine working in a small, interdisciplinary team from the fields of art and culture, urban development, architecture, law and communication? We look forward to receiving applications by February 19, 2023.
Further information on the call for entries here.