What if today's debates about housing did not reflexively start with build, build, build, but with a reflection on the opportunity to vitalize vacant real estate with new forms of living and working? Vacant properties offer significant starting points for a community to experimentally search for answers to the social and ecological demands of our time.
A social and ecological world begins in the "art of living together" (The Con-vivialist Manifesto), which must show how individual and societal needs can be brought into a balance of sustainability. The transformation of vacancy encourages and requires the exploration of new forms of social coexistence beyond the logic of growth.
In concrete terms, this raises the question of how residents as well as the homeless and refugees can be involved in activating vacant buildings. How can people be motivated and empowered to take on the challenging issue of repair and reconstruction in self-help? What kind of public welfare oriented framework do such housing policy approaches need? And more generally, what sociological and political perspective does a comprehensive common good economy need?
12:00 pm
INTRODUCTION
Susanne Wartzeck, President of the BDA, Dipperz / Berlin
Juliane Greb, Curator of the German contribution "Open due to reconstruction".
PROJECT IMPULSE
Chiara Buratti, Assemblea Sociale per la Casa, Venice
TALK
Prof. Dr. Frank Adloff, Chair of Sociology, in particular Dynamics and Regulation of Economy and Society, University of Hamburg
Juliane Greb, Curator of the German contribution "Open due to reconstruction".
Matthias Marschner, Architect BDA, hirner & riehl architects and urban planners, Munich
Susanne Wartzeck, President of the BDA, Dipperz / Berlin
