{"id":4576,"date":"2026-09-24T17:58:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/veranstaltung\/20th-century-housing-visions-as-a-legacy-for-the-present\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T19:38:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:38:11","slug":"20th-century-housing-visions-as-a-legacy-for-the-present","status":"publish","type":"veranstaltung","link":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/veranstaltung\/20th-century-housing-visions-as-a-legacy-for-the-present\/","title":{"rendered":"20th-Century Housing Visions as a Legacy for the Present"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The provision of housing is never merely a response to a basic social need. Housing is always political as well: it reflects notions of citizenship, social participation, social status, and gender relations\u2014and, increasingly, the relationship between humans and nature. This lecture examines housing policies in Vienna during the 1920s and in Berlin after 1945. The focus is on policies of mass housing construction and the associated    <strong>sociopolitical utopias, ideals, and conflicts. The residential buildings constructed at that time were not only <\/strong>Responses to specific housing crises, but also visions for a different society and for future forms of communal living. What remains of these visions of the future of housing? This lecture views the built, contested, and\u2014in some cases\u2014forgotten housing utopias of the 20th century as an architectural, political, and ideological legacy of the present. They continue to shape cities to this day and raise questions that are more relevant than ever: How can housing be organized in a socially just manner? And how can housing become ecologically sustainable in the face of the climate crisis, resource scarcity, and land consumption?    <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Margaret Haderer <\/strong>is a research assistant at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). She earned her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Toronto. Her dissertation, which explores the intersection of housing policy and the sociology of space, was published in 2023 as a book titled <em>Rebuilding Cities and Citizens: Mass Housing in Red Vienna and Cold War Berlin<\/em> by Amsterdam University Press. In her recent research, she has focused on socio-ecological transformations and how these unfold in the realm of housing. From 2018 to 2022, she co-led the FWF project \u201cUrban Experiments for a Socio-Ecological Transformation,\u201d which was based at the Institute for Social Change and Sustainability (WU Vienna). From 2020 to 2023, she served as coordinating lead author of the APCC progress report *Structures for a Climate-Friendly Life*. At the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien), she is currently co-leading a DUT project on the \u201c15-minute city,\u201d in which the provision of housing also plays a role.       <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Venue: Marienstra\u00dfe 13 (Lecture Hall D), Weimar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The provision of housing is never merely a response to a basic social need. Housing is always political as well: it reflects notions of citizenship, social participation, social status, and gender relations\u2014and, increasingly, the relationship between humans and nature. This lecture examines housing policies in Vienna during the 1920s and in Berlin after 1945. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"event_category":[168,203],"class_list":["post-4576","veranstaltung","type-veranstaltung","status-publish","hentry","event_category-lecture-series","event_category-wintersemester-2026-27"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung\/4576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/veranstaltung"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/veranstaltung"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"event_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gewohnter-wandel.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event_category?post=4576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}