Technical University Vienna

  • COMMONAIR

    Participatory mapping of hotspots and cool spots on a city map
    • Project lead: Florian Teichmann
    • TU Wien
    • Address: Karlsplatz 13/E207-03
    • Telephone: +43/1/58801 - 207335
    • Topic: Weather, Politics
    • Activity: measuring
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://www.alpine-space.eu/project/commonair/
    In COMMONAIR, citizens use simple devices to measure temperature, heat stress, and air quality along their everyday routes. The shared results help better understand local climate impacts and support the development of climate adaptation measures. What are the aims of the project? COMMONAIR is a project that helps cities in the Alpine region better adapt to climate change. Together with citizens, scientists, and local authorities...

  • Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau

    • Project lead: Christian Peer
    • future.lab Research Center, TU Wien
    • Address: Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 681 2013 6273
    • Topic: Politics, Economy, Land use, Culture, Traffic
    • Activity: identifying, rating, discussing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/werkstatt-neu-leopoldau
    The research project Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau is focused on the settlement process as a workshop situation for social innovations in housing and urban development, with the aim of fostering sustainable development and creating good neighbourhoods.As an applied research project, "Werkstatt Neu Leopoldau" (Co-creation Neu Leopoldau) accompanies the settlement process of the IBA quarter in Vienna's 21st district. The phase of residents' and users' arrival in the neighbourhood is explored, which...

  • City Layers

    • Project lead: Lovro Koncar-Gamulin
    • TU Wien
    • Address: Paniglgasse 16 1040 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 58801 - 264 34
    • Topic: Health, Politics, Culture
    • Activity: Online game, photography, writing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://citylayers.visualculture.tuwien.ac.at/
    Citizen Mapping as a Practice of City-MakingThe project “City Layers: Citizen Mapping as a Practice of City-Making”, funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) introduces a contemporary framework for city-mapping which centres on citizen experience of urban space as an integrative way to contribute to more egalitarian city design. Within the frame of the Citizen Science Award 2023, the City Layers app has been developed in collaboration with...

  • GUMPI

    • Project lead: Tamara Bauer and Sebastian Harnacker
    • TU Wien future.lab Research Center and TU Wien Bibliothek
    • Address: Resselgasse 4, 1040 Wien
    • Telephone: +43 1 58801 44032
    • Topic: Politics, Land use, Traffic, Living together
    • Activity: locating, rating, discussing, observing
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/gumpi_forschung
    Youth and single parents doing urban research About the projectThe climate crisis repeatedly exposes existing weaknesses in democratic practice. On the one hand, groups that are most affected by the consequences of climate change are often underrepresented in the prevailing political and planning practice (participation crisis). On the other hand, social inequality and the exclusion of people from political decision-making processes increases the loss of trust in political decision-makers and...

  • Urban Heat Stories

    Urban Heat Stories
    • Project lead: Helena Bernhardt (TU Wien future.lab Research Center), Sebastian Harnacker (TU Wien Bibliothek)
    • TU Wien future.lab Research Center, TU Wien Library
    • Address: Resselgasse 5/15, 1040 Wien
    • Telephone: 01 58801 44032
    • Topic: Weather, Health, Land use, Water, Living together
    • Activity: measuring, identifying, discussing, writing, experimenting
    • Participation: Open participation
    • Project link: https://futurelab.tuwien.ac.at/research-center/soziale-infrastruktur/urban-heat-stories
    What are Urban Heat Stories?It will get hotter and hotter in the city over the next few years. The impact of heat can vary greatly from neighborhood to neighborhood. It depends not only on the building density or the degree of sealing in the city, but also on the age and state of health of the people and their immediate living environment.The Urban Heat Stories research project therefore collects individual heat experiences of vulnerable groups in Vienna. The aim is to make the diverse...