Wohnzukünfte des 20. Jahrhunderts als Erbe der Gegenwart

The provision of housing is never merely a response to a basic social need. Housing is always political: it reflects ideas about citizenship, social participation, social status, and gender relations – and increasingly also about the relationship between humans and nature. The lecture examines housing policies in Vienna in the 1920s and Berlin after 1945. It focuses on mass housing policies and the associated socio-political utopias, guiding visions, and conflicts. The housing developments built during these periods were not only responses to acute housing shortages but also visions of an alternative society and future forms of communal living. What remains of these visions for the future of housing? The lecture approaches the built, contested, and partly forgotten housing utopias of the 20th century as an architectural, political, and intellectual legacy that continues to shape the present. They still influence cities today and raise questions that are more relevant than ever: How can housing be organised in a socially just way? And how can housing become ecologically sustainable in the face of the climate crisis, resource scarcity, and increasing land consumption?

Margaret Haderer is a university assistant at TU Wien (Vienna University of Technology). She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, situated at the intersection of housing policy and urban sociology, was published in 2023 by Amsterdam University Press under the title Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in Red Vienna and Cold War Berlin. Her recent research focuses on socio-ecological transformations, particularly on how these unfold in the field of housing. From 2018 to 2022, she co-led the FWF-funded project Urban Experiments for Socio-Ecological Transformation, based at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability at WU Vienna (Vienna University of Economics and Business). From 2020 to 2023, she served as a coordinating lead author of the APCC Assessment Report Structures for Climate-Friendly Living. At TU Wien, she is currently co-leading a DUT-funded project on the 15-minute city, which also addresses the provision of housing.

Der Vortrag findet in englischer Sprache und die anschließende Diskussion in deutscher Sprache statt.

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Graduiertenkolleg ‚Gewohnter Wandel. Gesellschaftliche Transformation und räumliche Materialisierung des Wohnens‘