superwien

Roland Krebs from superwien, together with Hans Karssenberg from , contributed a chapter to the new book Trustmaking: A Guidebook on Youth Empowerment in Urban Transformation, edited by the Trustmaking Collective.

Titled “Rethinking Placemaking”, the chapter explores how trust can be actively built through placemaking practices, highlighting concrete tools at and their application in superwien’s work in Vienna and in urban contexts worldwide.

A careful addition to current debates on urban transformation, based on creativity, collaboration, and meaningful place-based design.

On Friday, third-semester Master’s students presented their work at the GB* urban renewal office. The office is overseeing the neighbourhood’s involvement in the major development project on the former railway site known as „Nordwestbahnhof“.

Representatives from the City of Vienna and the Federal Railway Company (ÖBB) as well as other urban planning experts from University of Vienna and TU Wien were invited to evaluate the students‘ suggestions for the developments situated in the vibrant center of the new neighborhood around the extension of Wallensteinstraße.

A big thank you to your great guest critics: Andreas Trisko (Head of MA 18 – Municipal Department 18 for Urban Development and Planning), Ruth Höpler (TU Wien Future.lab), Philip Krassnitzer (University of Vienna, Department of Spatial Research and Spatial Planning), Martin Scheiflinger (ÖBB-Immobilienmanagement GmbH – Real Estate Management), Theresa Stadelmayer and Ivica Pasalic (both ÖBB Housing Programme), Karl Dwulit (Deputy 20th District Manager), Antonia Dika (Head of the Urban Renewal Office responsible for Nordwestbahnhof), and Andrea Rieger-Jandl (Head of the Master’s Programme in Architecture and Green Building at Hochschule Campus Wien)