Welcome to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space!

The Interdisciplinary Centre for Urban Culture and Public Space contributes a unique and international urban studies perspective to TU Wien’s research and teaching agendas. As part of the Faculty for Architecture and Planning, the centre versed in urban co-production, co-research and co-teaching has been established as a new institution situated in an international network of urban scholars. It is our aim to discover existing potentials in fields connecting the study of urban life with an expertise in urban form, touching analytical perspectives on public space, urban culture, housing, and others. In collaboration with public institutions, civil society actors and with those engaged in public, social or civic innovation, we provide a range of key scientific publications, stimulate debates and take a position to enhance practices of democratisation as regards present urban development. Starting from 1st January 2024, the centre returns as 9th research unit (E280-09) to the faculty’s Institute of Spatial Planning with which it has been affiliated since its beginnings in 2009. We would like to warmly thank the team of the Faculty’s Future Lab (E285) which kindly hosted the centre between 2019 and 2023.

Our Objective

  • Through its work and education, the Centre contributes a unique and international urban studies perspective to the research and teaching agendas of TU Wien.

     

  • We teach at the intersection of urban life and expertise in urban design. We focus analytically on public space and how it impacts i.e. urban culture and housing.

  • In collaboration with public institutions, civil society actors and those engaged in public, social or civic innovation, we offer a series of important scientific publications.

News

  • Happy New Year: A New Research Centre at the Institute of Spatial Planning starting 2024 !

  • Planning & Spatial Effects of Social Infrastructures

  • YOUTH –
    Research Project

  • TACTICS –
    Erasmus Mundus

  • Urban Planning Journal –
    Sabine Knierbein & Richard Pfeifer

Latest Publications

LIBRARY

Tuesday     10.00 – 17.00
Thursday    09.00 – 17.00
Friday         10.00 – 15.00

Use of the library by appointment only.

CONTACT

T +43 (0) 1 58801-280 091
E office(at)skuor.tuwien.ac.at

For information please contact office(at)skuor.tuwien.ac.at.at or +43 (0) 1 58801-280 091.