Process development

Fine gears drive the machinery of the city. The processes in the back- ground of neighborhood development may seem abstract because they are difficult to represent in pictures. But the rules according to which they function and, above all, the question of who is allowed to participate in them can be clearly read in the built result.

Within these processes, the concepts of top-down and bottom-up interlock; here, planning can be dynamic and open or precise. Communication is always essential. From the very beginning, the IBA_Vienna, in cooperation with competent process facilitators, has entered this field as a moderator and initiator. Different formats such as workshops, neighborhood workshops and discussion rounds were tailored precisely to the constellation of actors. Among them are property developers, citizens, development companies, landowners, neighborhood management and representatives of politics, business and civil society.

The cooperation between these actors can take different forms: Urban development contracts and cooperative procedures on a higher level, and more and more often concrete process development in the neighborhood, with the district management as an important mediator for the reality of life of the residents on site. In this way, processes become a living, visible reality.