open to public

Friday 29.10.10

Forum Factory, Besselstraße 14, Admission: 5€, including both Friday and Saturday Forum Factory

The experimentcity europe platform’s first event is held in the context of the EXPERIMENTDAYS 10, a combination of international conference, project market, excursions and workshops.

Complemented by an interactive website, the event represents the beginning of a new European platform for collaborative housing in urban neighborhoods. Specifically, EXPERIMENTDAYS 10 aims to investigatewhat strategies both governmental and grassroots actors in a variety of European cities are using to support participatory housing projects.

In the framework of the 2010 European Year against Poverty andSocial Exclusion, experimentcity will explore questions of affordabiltiy and social inclusion, as well aspoltical, social and economic conditions supportive to collaborative and innovative housing projects.

Furthermore, through the development of common tools and terms, the conference aims to advance an improved and ongoing exchange among European partners.

experimentcity addresses the following issues:

What are urban actors in each of the participating cities, such as policy-makers, researchers, developers and activists, doing to support a diversity of sustainable, non-speculative andaffordable housing projects? experimentcity will compare best practices and model strategies.

Specifically experimentcity asks about:

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS: What political and social frameworks are neccesary to enable collaborative housing projects, including a range of cooperative, ownership and rental models?

FINANCING: What forms of innovative financing and non-profit, non-speculative land and building ownershipmodels are being developed?

LAND + REAL ESTATE: How are cities using their own land and buildings to support collaborative housing projects?

DIVERSITY: What efforts are being made to increase social inclusion especially concerning lower-income groups in collaborative housing projects?

Schedule:

17:30 Official opening of experimentcity International Conference and EXPERIMENTDAYS 10 Project Exhibition (Projektbörse).

Maria Krautzberger, Permanent Secretary for Transport and Urban Planning, Berlin

17:40 Introduction of Exhibition, Conference, and EU perspective

Dr. Michael LaFond, id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability: experimentcity, Berlin
Anna Meroni, Design and Innovation for Sustainability (DIS), INDACO, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Moderation: Dan Borden, EXBERLINER, save berlin

18:00 Comparing Model-Cooperation-Strategies for sustainable, non-speculative and affordable, collaborative housing projects

Reiner Nagel, Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin
Petra Hendrich, Initiative für gemeinschaftlisches Bauen und Wohnen,Vienna, Austria
Dick Urban Vestbro, Kollektivhus NU,Stockholm, Sweden

19:00 Discussion

19:30 Break

20:00 Learning from German Cities

Rolf Novy-Huy, Stiftung trias, Hattingen (Ruhr)

20:20 Learning from the Kiez – the Blumengroßmarkt case study

Florian Schmidt, Kreativquartier Südliche Friedrichstadt,
Initiative Berliner Kunsthalle am Blumengroßmarkt

21:00 Conclusions

open to public

Friday 29.10.10

Forum Factory, Besselstraße 14, Admission: 5€, including both Friday and Saturday Forum Factory

The experimentcity europe platform’s first event is held in the context of the EXPERIMENTDAYS 10, a combination of international conference, project market, excursions and workshops.

Complemented by an interactive website, the event represents the beginning of a new European platform for collaborative housing in urban neighborhoods. Specifically, EXPERIMENTDAYS 10 aims to investigatewhat strategies both governmental and grassroots actors in a variety of European cities are using to support participatory housing projects.

In the framework of the 2010 European Year against Poverty andSocial Exclusion, experimentcity will explore questions of affordabiltiy and social inclusion, as well aspoltical, social and economic conditions supportive to collaborative and innovative housing projects.

Furthermore, through the development of common tools and terms, the conference aims to advance an improved and ongoing exchange among European partners.

experimentcity addresses the following issues:

What are urban actors in each of the participating cities, such as policy-makers, researchers, developers and activists, doing to support a diversity of sustainable, non-speculative andaffordable housing projects? experimentcity will compare best practices and model strategies.

Specifically experimentcity asks about:

POLITICAL AND SOCIAL FRAMEWORKS: What political and social frameworks are neccesary to enable collaborative housing projects, including a range of cooperative, ownership and rental models?

FINANCING: What forms of innovative financing and non-profit, non-speculative land and building ownershipmodels are being developed?

LAND + REAL ESTATE: How are cities using their own land and buildings to support collaborative housing projects?

DIVERSITY: What efforts are being made to increase social inclusion especially concerning lower-income groups in collaborative housing projects?

Schedule:

17:30 Official opening of experimentcity International Conference and EXPERIMENTDAYS 10 Project Exhibition (Projektbörse).

Maria Krautzberger, Permanent Secretary for Transport and Urban Planning, Berlin

17:40 Introduction of Exhibition, Conference, and EU perspective

Dr. Michael LaFond, id22: Institute for Creative Sustainability: experimentcity, Berlin
Anna Meroni, Design and Innovation for Sustainability (DIS), INDACO, Politecnico di Milano, Italy

Moderation: Dan Borden, EXBERLINER, save berlin

18:00 Comparing Model-Cooperation-Strategies for sustainable, non-speculative and affordable, collaborative housing projects

Reiner Nagel, Senate Department for Urban Development, Berlin
Petra Hendrich, Initiative für gemeinschaftlisches Bauen und Wohnen,Vienna, Austria
Dick Urban Vestbro, Kollektivhus NU,Stockholm, Sweden

19:00 Discussion

19:30 Break

20:00 Learning from German Cities

Rolf Novy-Huy, Stiftung trias, Hattingen (Ruhr)

20:20 Learning from the Kiez – the Blumengroßmarkt case study

Florian Schmidt, Kreativquartier Südliche Friedrichstadt,
Initiative Berliner Kunsthalle am Blumengroßmarkt

21:00 Conclusions