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Guest Lecture: History of Modern Japanese Collective Housing

On Nov. 27, 2024 at 19:00pm Professor Toshio Ôtsuki from the University of Tokyo will talk about "History of Modern Japanese Collective Housing and the Need to Learn from the Succession of Collective Housing in Europe" at TU Wien, Festsaal

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Guest Lecture

History of Modern Japanese Collective Housing and the Need to Learn from the Succession of Collective Housing in Europe

We want to invite intereseted students and colleagues to Prof. Otsuki's lecture on "History of Modern Japanese Collective Housing and the Need to Learn from the Succession of Collective Housing in Europe" which takes place on Nov. 27, 20224 at 19:00pm at the Festsaal in the main building at TU Wien, Karlsplatz 13.

This event is related to the conference "20th Century Housing Heritage in Europe: Conserving, Participating, and Adapting, opens an external URL in a new window". The conference focusses on housing concepts and built settlements of the 20th century, which often explicitly addressed hygienical, ecological, communal, and social issues and necessities. We ask how these heritage values can be conserved for the sake of sustainable futures. Forms of use, social interaction, and participation might contribute to the care and careful adaptation of such sites, but also create conflicts. Various actors—from business, politics, conservation, and civil society—define, appropriate, and manage this housing heritage and need to be involved. The conference also examines housing and climate policies, development pressure, and vacancy as powerful contexts.