Planning: The Future of Space

The urbanize! – Festival for Urban Explorations celebrates its 25th anniversary and takes this as an opportunity to dedicate itself to the topics of “rhythms, cycles, and time regimes of the city.” The Az W congratulates and invites you as co-host of the second festival evening.

Temporality—the question of the possible relations between past, present, and future—has always been inscribed in planning, both as a discipline of knowledge and as a field of action. Hardly any other discipline is so strongly shaped by a linear conception of time and simplified causal relationships. What approaches exist in planning to meet the challenge of allowing openness, responding to acute problems, taking ecological questions into account, and acknowledging the polyphony of democratic participation? How can we deal with the apparent discrepancies between long-term, large-scale planning projects and the necessity of reacting quickly to the climate crisis and other challenges? What might an intelligent and creative way of engaging with the existing look like?

With:
Bas Heessels, OKRA, Utrecht
Nicole Kirchberger, Climate and Energy Fund Austria, Vienna
Ute Schneider, Vienna University of Technology, Zurich/ Vienna
Moderator: Maik Novotny, architecture journalist, Vienna

A cooperation between the Az W and the urbanize! – Festival for Urban Explorations