Favoriten is the 10th district of Vienna. Since the beginning of industrialisation, it has been a working-class district with a large influx of people from beyond Austria's borders. To this day it is characterised by a culturally diverse population. Cheap(er) housing, access to an (informal) labour market for people with low (formal) skills, existing networks have made Favoriten a city of arrival. Since the reorganisation of the railway, the opening of the main railway station in 2012 and the development of new districts such as the Sonnwendviertel and Neues Landgut, Inner-Favoriten has been experiencing gentrification alongside projects to upgrade public spaces such as the Supergrätzel. The exercise takes up this initial situation and investigates the potential of the Masterplan Gründerzeit to serve inclusion and participatory decision-making. While the Masterplan defines the transformation potential spatially, it does little to integrate the social and cultural immaterial dimensions of living in a culturally diverse Wilhelminian style area. Students will conduct socio-spatial analysis methods in a defined area around the Quellenstrasse to come up with a participatory process to complete the Gründerzeit Masterplan.
Organizers:
Eva Schwab, Barbara Russo, Sandra Guinand