This year’s Summer
School focuses on the theme Housing & Data Justice. Emerging scholars, practitioners, and critical thinkers from
the social sciences, architecture, art, urban planning, social design, law, and other disciplines will come together to examine
and discuss housing as a field increasingly shaped by data and digitalization.
The focus is on how data, digital systems,
and artificial intelligence are transforming the governance, access, design, and everyday experience of housing. The Summer
School takes a critical look at these developments, examines their impacts and risks, and explores how knowledge, decision-making,
and practices in housing can be made more transparent, democratic, and socially just.
Monday,
14 September 2026, 2:00–6:00 pm
Public Opening Symposium
Inputs by
- Clemens
Apprich: Department of Media Theory, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Romola Sanyal: Department of Geography and
Environment, London School of Economics
- Liuhuaying Yang: Complexity Science Hub
- Cosima Terrasse: French Artist
and Director, based in Vienna, part of the Laokoon Group
- Kecia Rust: Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa
Moderated
by Simon Güntner (HAW Hamburg/ TU Wien) and Christina Schraml (Department of Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna).
Wednesday, 16 September 2016, 7 pm
Public Lecture & Discussion
Lecture
by
Marina Otero Verzier, Harvard Graduate School of Design: On Clouds and Early Fruiting
Trees: Data Centres at Planetary Limits
Responses by
- Brigitte Felderer: Department
of Social Design, University of Applied Arts Vienna
- Michael Obrist: Research Unit of Housing & Design, TU Wien
- Christoph
Reinprecht: Department of Sociology, University of Vienna
Moderated by Bernadette Krejs (Research Unit of Housing
& Design, TU Wien) and Judith M. Lehner (Research Center for New Social Housing, TU Wien).
Friday,
18 September 2026, 1:30–3 pm
Public Plenary & Final Discussion
Snapshot
presentations by participants and discussion with City of Vienna representatives and local housing experts.
