1.  Politics: The IBA_Vienna as a Housing Policy Think-Thank

The IBA_Vienna is positioned as a counterpart to existing think-tanks which contend that subsidised housing restricts competition and it will supply the basis and arguments for subsidised housing across a wide front. Vienna wishes to secure social housing and the social district as a future-oriented and sustainable socio-political instrument and aims in this way to accept its international responsibility. This aim is to be met through in-depth theoretical examination (see level 2) and publications and statements based on this, produced in cooperation with Viennese Housing Research and in consultation with those in positions of political responsibility. 

2.  Knowledge and Communication: The IBA_Vienna as a conceptual Discourse Space

Approaches to the theory of planning that aim at innovations in the fields of social housing and district development will be developed further in a focused way with the involvement of local and international experts and will be introduced to the practical implementation as a requirement (see level 3). To achieve this, in addition to the IBA talks already introduced, further suitable formats for discussion and the preparation of projects will be initiated.

3.  Projects: The IBA_Vienna as a Laboratory

Ultimately, the IBA_Vienna will be visible only if, building on the basis of its political, scientific and communicative activities, it implements concrete projects. On the one hand these will be new buildings or restoration projects; in this regards, the demands of the IBA_Vienna must be integrated in urban planning processes, property developer competitions and other IBA competitions and in the planning of restoration work; on the other hand there will be a focus on cooperation and monitoring projects at different levels, which, in the form of research commissions, symposia, discussion events, publications etc., reach a wider (specialist) public.

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