After successful completion of the course, students are able to:

• critically evaluate strategies, goals, instruments, and projects for sustainable and resilient spatial development,
• to reflect on various planning approaches and recognize current challenges in spatial development and planning activities with using theoretical concepts and models.
• In addition, students can deepen their conmetence to deal with different objectives, concepts, institutional arrangements, instruments, and processes of development planning across disciplines and to be able to analyze and apply them on different scales.
• to grasp the basic theoretical concepts of different disciplines, to apply the different planning approaches in a coordinated and linked way and to reflect them critically.
• to strengthen their ability to collect the spatially relevant knowledge required for specific planning issues from the broad spectrum of theories, strategies and instruments, to network this and to develop their own solution strategies.
• to formulate their own positions in dialogue and to concretize them, with using concrete analysis and spatial planning and to convert them into their own solution approaches, taking current challenges into account. 

In this course, the term "strategy" and "spatial development" are dealt with the background of spatial, social and political-administrative conditions with using specific examples. The conception of strategies, decision-making and participation processes are critically questioned. In addition, there is an in-depth discussion of the challenges, problems, and possible solutions of integrated development planning, which makes use of a wide range of possible plannning instruments. In an action-oriented and practice-oriented approach, there is also a in-depth examination of objectives, concepts, institutional arrangements and processes of integrated development planning, taking into account of various specialist plans on different spatial scales.

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Teaching content group Güntner/Kumnig/Karasz:

At the center of this group is the concept of "left behind" places. Despite or because of its vagueness, it is currently booming in structural policy debates and politics. Using Ternitz in southern Lower Austria as a concrete case study, we will critically examine the discourse around these terms and analyze current policies. Among other things, excursions and independent research on selected topics (such as housing, work, infrastructure and mobility, etc.) are planned. Strategies and measures of the EU, the federal government, the state and the municipality, as well as other actors, such as companies or housing associations, will be discussed. The seminar will take place on Tuesdays from 8h- 10h.

The following TUWEL room has been set up for the seminar: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=58958

 Start group Güntner/Kumnig/Karasz: 03.10.2023 8:00 - 10:00

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Lehrinhalte und Themenschwerpunkte Gruppe Bach/Giffinger WS2023/24:

Thema WS 2023: Strategies for Sustainable and Resilient Spatial Development - How can planning support urban resilience from the perspective of a local practice? 

• Development of understandings and dimensions of urban resilience
• Reading on questions of spatial development and urban resilience related strategies and analysis of case studies
• Own analysis of specific problem, challenges and corresponding strategies on urban resilience
• Critical reflection on the importance of sustainability and resilient spatial development and recommendations for better/effective strategies

Start Gruppe Bach/Giffinger:  Wednesday, 5th of October 16:00-18:00 4 to 6 pm, Seminarroom GM 7

The following TUWEL room has been set up for the seminar: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=60761 

The group Bach/Giffinger will be held in English. Seminarbeiträge in deutscher Sprache sind auch willkommen.

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Group Getzner/Knierbein/Renner (English): Formelle und informelle Kulturräume / Formal and informal cultural spaces

This seminar group is organized with Prof.s Andrea Glauser and Lisa Gaupp of the Institute of Cultural Management, Vienna University of Music and Performing Arts

Aims and teaching goals of the seminar

In this seminar, students of the Institute of Cultural Management and Gender Studies (University of Music and Performing Arts) and of the Institute of Spatial Planning (Vienna University of Technology) will work together on cultural infrastructures, with a special emphasis on music: venues, cultural centers, rehearsal rooms, music education, public/private/formal/informal spaces for music performances, audiences, publics. Research, planning, design, management, provision, funding, accessibility, regulation of music spaces as well as spatial needs and related practices of musicians from diverse backgrounds are all welcome in the seminar.

Students are expected to define research questions and scientific themes that touch upon music, space and the city: We invite you to critically debate selected literature, theories and practices, and case-studies – on the basis of your own research interests, questions and methodologies.

Students will work on their seminar papers (or other adequate research outcomes to be defined) throughout the semester, taking some basic scientific literature as a starting point to develop their own research topics. The research outcomes will be presented in the course of a joint whole-day seminar in Vienna or in a seminar venue out of town.

Potential topics of seminar papers and contributions

The seminar has an interdisciplinary focus, combining perspectives of cultural studies, urban studies, musicology, cultural management, spatial planning, architecture, urban design and infrastructure policy:

-       Cultural infrastructures, especially music and other artistic rehearsal and performance spaces, in urban and rural areas: accessibility, cultural consumption, audiences, attendance;

-       Questions and concerns of democratic access and use of diverse cultural spaces as public spaces (opera houses, rehearsal rooms, off spaces, theatres, museums, etc.), and their respective degree of institutionalization;

-       Location of cultural infrastructures, modelling of accessibility and the general ‘service quality’;

-       Kinds and organisation of formal/informal music spaces: provision of infrastructures, funding, regulation;

-       Urban strategic planning as regards cultural spaces and ateliers for musician’s daily practices, e.g Vienna’s strategy of Ankerszentren in the urban periphery (e.g. Sargfabrik Atzgersdorf);

-       Questions of music space for minority and majority society in Austrian cities and/or non-participation studies: Who is not present in music spaces and how can more egalitarian access be achieved?

-       Local and regional impacts of music spaces, and of cultural infrastructures in general (rehearsal rooms, cultural centers, performance opportunities, music clubs);

-       Significance of formal/informal (voluntary) work in groups, professional lobbies and associations;

-       Design and planning for cultural infrastructures;

-       Policy instruments to support and promote music education, rehearsals, performances;

-       Case studies of successful and unsuccessful cultural policies and infrastructure provisioning

Seminar papers will be written according to the IFIP standards of a scientific paper; guidelines can be downloaded here.

TUWEL course link: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=57668

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Group Tschirk/Voigt/Wieshofer

Der vielfältige Wandel der Landschafts- und Siedlungsräume, dynamische Veränderungen bezogen auf Mobilität, Demografie, Energieversorgung und vor allem Klima erfordern integrierte und anschauliche Konzepte und Strategien für die Transformation und Erneuerung der Räume und eine vorwiegend nach innen zu orientierende Siedlungsentwicklung.

Die inhaltlichen Schwerpunkte des Seminars umfassen:

- Theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit den Schlüsselbegriffen: strategische Planung, Nachhaltigkeit und Resilienz
- Praktische Bearbeitung komplexer Planungsprobleme in einem konkreten Forschungslaborraum
- Konzeption von Planungsansätzen, Planungsprozessen und Strategien, Entwicklung von Lösungsansätzen und raumplanerischen Konzepten

Forschungslaborraum ist der Südosten Wiens, perspektivisch im räumlichen Verbund mit Niederösterreich, dem Burgenland und darüber hinaus Ungarn. Die Bearbeitung soll entlang von Bahninfrastrukturkorridoren - als Trägerstrukturen einer nachhaltigen und resilienten Siedlungsentwicklung - erfolgen.

TUWEL-Course: https://tuwel.tuwien.ac.at/course/view.php?id=58658

• thematic input via lecture
• interactive discussions
• exchange of ideas with colleagues and practicioners
• teamwork, presentation and critival reflection
• Seminar paper, presentations, discussions

Please only register for one of the three groups.

comprehensive active participation at workshops and plenum meetings; ownstandig groupwork with corresponding scientific standard