Project financed by:

• Chamber of Labour Vienna (AK Wien)– Digitalisierungsfonds Arbeit 4.0

Project partners: 

• Niloufar Tajeri, Andreas Rumpfhuber (Expanded Design)

Cooperating partners:

• Austrian Federation of Limited-Profit Housing Associations (GBV), City of Vienna – Housing in Vienna (Wiener Wohnen) , Österreichisches Siedlungswerk - Housing Association (ÖSW)

The project focuses on the apartment as working space; it points to the ongoing dissolution of the boundaries between labour and dwelling. The renewal of large housing estates from the post-war period is necessary and imminent. This opens up the possibility of also addressing labour conditions in the context of thermal renovation. In developing participatory strategies of renewal, we pose the following question: What processes are needed to respond to new challenges of digital working in large residential complexes with small interventions in apartments, communal spaces and open areas? A concrete, transferable planning methodology is being developed based on the principle of small, affordable steps to keep housing costs down. The approach will be exemplarily tested on two post-war modernist housing complexes in Vienna. Together with our cooperating partners, we want to develop concrete strategies to integrate new forms of work, by means of affordable interventions in large housing complexes.

Project period: 2021-2023 

Project team: Daniele Karasz, Sladana Adamovic, Mark Scherner