DEPARTURE TALK 2: MAKING HEIMAT

As part of the rich program of the Vienna Design Week, the talk MAKING HEIMAT – HOW TO GO ON AFTER REFUGEE ARCHITECTURE? with Oliver Elser, curator at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt,

The German contribution to this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale addressed the impact of the refugee situation. But you don’t have to go to Venice to experience it: A database at www.makingheimat.de shows buildings for refugee accommodation and presents eight principles for a successful “arrival city”. But how to go on after this? Germany has a housing crisis, hundreds of thousands of homes are needed. What are the concepts needed to overcome this challenge? Is this the “hour of the architects”? Or just a gleeful occasion for the construction industry?