Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing 15–19 September 2025

HOUSING & HEALTH – The Role of Dwelling in Shaping Individual, Communal and Planetary Well-Being

During the 8th Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing scholars, practitioners, artists, and activists will explore the varied linkages between planetary inhabitation, housing security and affordability, physical and mental health, and social well-being, attending to the manifold dimensions and regional situatedness of housing and health.        
Monday, 15 September 2025, 14:00–18:00
OPENING SYMPOSIUM
TU Wien, Seminar room ADEG,
Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
 
Inputs by
Isabelle Anguelovski
Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Freya Brandl
Architect & Co-Founder of Kolokation Association, Austria
Avril Coroon
Visual Artist, Ireland
Nora Ramirez Castillo
Deputy Managing Director of Hemayat, Austria
Christian Reutlinger
Institute of Social Work and Health, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Beate Wimmer-Puchinger
Psychologist & former Women’s Health Officer for the City of Vienna
moderated by Bernadette Krejs, Research Unit of
Housing & Design, TU Wien, and Christoph Reinprecht, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna

Wednesday, 17 September 2025, 19:00
PUBLIC LECTURE
University of Applied Arts Vienna, Hörsaal 1, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien
 
Lecture by
Izumi Kuroishi
School of Cultural and Creative Studies, Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan
 
Responses by
Brigitte Felderer, Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna, and Simon Güntner, HAW Hamburg
 
moderated by Judith M. Lehner, Research Center for New Social Housing, TU Wien
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Event
HOUSING & HEALTH Summer School
15. September 2025 - 19. September 2025
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, TU Wien
PUBLIC LECTURE
17. September 2025, 19:00
Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien, Hörsaal 1, Oskar-Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Wien