ResearchLab Summer School for Young Researchers in Social Housing

IBA ResearchLab invites young researchers and PhD students to be part of the Vienna International Summer School on the Transformations of Large Scale Housing. A key focus of the ResearchLab New Social Housing is also on promoting young researchers from diverse academic disciplines and studies. It addresses highly qualified early-stage scientists and scholars who are tackling issues and challenges of social housing as part of their PhD work. It aims at fostering research projects that are suitable for advancing the international discourse on the status and sustainable further development of social housing.

The summer schools will take place annually in the years from 2018 to 2022 in Vienna within the framework of the IBA. In 2018, the Vienna International Summer School will have a thematic focus on the transformation of post-war large scale social housing in which young researchers of all disciplines (PhD fellows, postdoctorals, early stage researchers) are invited to put their research projects up for discussion and work together with internationally renowned scholars on the content and methodological issues.

The program of the Summer School includes the following formats:
[1] Classroom sessions where the research projects of the participants will be presented and put up for discussion among peers and faculty members.
[2] Methodological workshops where various methodological approaches to housing research, such as housing biographies and housing statistics, will be examined in more detail.
[3] Field studies which offer insights into the transformation of post-war social housing in Vienna.
[4] Public lectures and panel discussions by and with members of the international faculty.

The Vienna International Summer School is open for all disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives related to the main theme. Research projects might address social, economic or institutional transformations of large scale housing. Research might revolve around housing practice, the living in heterogeneous neighbourhoods, questions of housing policies and regulations, financing and support models and the examination of standards.

Funding:

Participation in the summer school requires no fees. Travel costs will be covered for up to 500 €. Accommodation will also be provided by the organisers in cooperation with local housing organisations.

About The ResearchLab New Social Housing:

The ResearchLab New Social Housing is organised in the form of annual summer schools with the active integration of internationally renowned scholars. The summer schools will take place annually in the years from 2018 to 2022 in Vienna within the framework of the IBA. Selected results

will be exhibited as part of the concluding presentation of the IBA_Wien in 2022 and in an international conference.