The symposium Cooperative Conditions features key persons in the culture of building and housing production in Vienna, Zürich and Munich. Cities that are characterized by innovative architecture, affordable and innovative forms of living together, effective regulations and policy instruments. The symposium explores the successes of cooperative self-organization of citizens. It celebrates its architecture and realizations, but explicitly from the perspective of the institutional and municipal conditions that are necessary to accomplish this: cooperative conditions.
These three cities all have a strong history of affordable housing and citizen-owned cooperatives. All three also have borne witness to a thriving and expanding cooperative sector, contributing to the quality and affordability of urban living. We look into how each city has shaped its own conditions for this cooperative housing. In all three places we find a shared understanding and a mutual recognition between the urban institutions and citizens initiatives.
The symposium challenges participants to find patterns and translate these to conditions for our own cities and the Dutch context. We invite all who are drafting the agenda for the next four years – be it as politicians, as policy makers, as banks, as contractors or as developers, architects and activists. The housing crisis is an urgent challenge for new city administrations everywhere. Cooperatives are increasingly recognized as a fundamental and viable answer to the challenges that the housing crisis presents. This symposium invites us to take the next step: how can we prepare the ground and demand and shape cooperative conditions together?
Program outline
9.00 Registration
9.30 Welcome and introduction, Arie Lengkeek & Peter Kuenzli
10.00 3 cities, 3 perspectives: Munich, Vienna, Zürich
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Parallel sessions: three worktables
Conversations with cooperatives, architects and policy-makers from each city, starting from a concrete project.
15.45 Tea break
16.15 Closing session with Dutch experts Derk Loorbbach (curator IABR IT’S ABOUT TIME, Director DRIFT), Ana Dzokic, Darinka Czischke, Anne Kockelkorn
, Desiree Uitzetter (directeur gebiedsontwikkeling BPD, voorzitter NEPROM
) Arjen Gielen (directeur St. Volkshuisvestingsfonds Nederland (SVN)
), Aart Cooiman (Rabobank)
17.15 Drinks
Spoken language: English.
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