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

Presentations as download
Theodor Winters: Quartiersmanagement in Berlin (pdf, German only, 9.005 KB)
W. Stempfer/T. Lukas: Exkursionsbericht: Quartiersarbeit in Hamburg
(pdf, German only, 3.847 KB)
P. Görgl/M. Maicher: Analyse von Bewohnerforen als innovatives Mittel in der Wohnbauforschung (pdf, German only, 6.807 KB)
Daniele Kárász: Our Stories - unsere Geschichte(n) (pdf, German only, 2.968 KB)

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 uses 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 will be 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 will be presented. A guest lecture from Berlin and an study tour report from Hamburg show examples of successful area management in Germany.

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

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.

This workshop represents the 11th part in a 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.

Programm

Wednesday, 30 November 2011