Opening Symposium: Housing and Health - Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing 2025

Housing and Health
The Role of Dwelling in Shaping Individual, Communal and Planetary Well-Being
15-19 September 2025

We cordially invite you to the 8th Vienna International Summer School on New Social Housing from 15-19 September! This year we will critically explore the varied linkages of housing and health. Adequate housing is a precondition for good health and well-being, whilst housing deficiencies can have immediate negative consequences for physical and mental health. Historically, health and hygiene have been foundational factors for social housing and reform programs. In an era of multiple crises – from ecological disasters to public health challenges – we ask if and how housing can serve as a foundation for individual, communal, and planetary health.

We are looking forward to gathering and discussing international as well as local perspectives from different disciplines around the topic. The Summer School is organised by the Research Center for New Social Housing as a collaboration between TU Wien (future.lab, Research Unit Sociology, Research Unit Housing and Design), the University of Vienna and the University of Applied Arts Vienna (Social Design Studio) and is supported by the City of Vienna, Municipal Department 50 - Strategic Projects and International Affairs. As part of public events, we provide insights into the Summer School and its international faculty:
Opening Symposium
15 September 2025, 14–18:00

TU Wien, Seminar room ADEG
Karlsplatz 13, 1040 Vienna, Ground Floor

Inputs by

Isabelle Anguelovski
Barcelona Laboratory for Urban Environmental Justice and Sustainability, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Freya Brandl
Architect & Co-Founder of Kolokation Association, Austria

Avril Corroon
Visual Artist, Ireland

Nora Ramirez Castillo
Deputy Managing Director of Hemayat, Austria

Christian Reutlinger
Institute of Social Work and Health, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland

Beate Wimmer-Puchinger
Psychologist & former Women’s Health Officer for the City of Vienna

moderated by Bernadette Krejs, Research Unit of Housing & Design, TU Wien, and Christoph Reinprecht, Department of Sociology, University of Vienna

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