Programme Workshop Innsbruck 23.04 – 01.06.2012
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Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Programme Workshop Innsbruck 23.04 – 01.06.2012 BetreuerInnen: Ulla Hell Reinhard Honold Maria Schneider Task Reconstruction of an alpine village On the example of Obertilliach: What can urban thinking architects propose in rural regions, which are threatened by emigration, to enable an equilibrated economical, cultural and social life on the standard and height of our time – by maintaining the natural and scenic qualities? Which steps can contribute that the young ones do not want to move away as a matter of principles but rather bring into the region their energy and knowledge in order to participate from there to the global social discussion? How can architecture contribute to a positive communication between the members of different generations? Introduction Since approximately three decades Europe finds itself in a fundamental process of change. The social conditions are shifting, people are getting older and the classical image of „the family“ is pushed to the background. In parallel social competences and responsibilities are getting less important through the growth of wealth. Globalization conditions a mixture of religions and nationalities and therefore a loss of ethnic and traditional values. Ecologic factors in order to protect the environment have to be pushed forward. Future prospects predict that many people will not be able to afford their actual standard of living. Climate change, exploding costs of energy and the obligation to achieve the Kyoto Protocol, which was decided at The 11th of December 1997, are questions of the energy conservation and central themes of our society. Energy production or energy efficiency as simple topic is not enough. We have to react immediately, the PEAK- Oil is getting closer very fast, climate change happens; the consequences of the actual economic crises are quite unpredictable at the moment. Globally as well as regionally we observe a strong tendency towards a rural depopulation, in parallel is happening an urban depopulation: people benefit on one hand from the urban infrastructures and atmospheres but on the other hand they are seeking their house with garden in the middle of nature. The consequences are a sprawl in the peripheries of the cities (Speckguertel), traffic intense agglomerations and so-called “Zwischenstaedte” (“In-between-cities”, Thomas Sieverts), which lead to an immense use of land and to a high traffic volume on one hand and to formations of ghettos on the other. Univ.-Prof. Arch. DI Dr. Maria Schneider Dean of Studies Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Fon: +43 512 507 6964 Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck Fax: +43 512 507 2954 Technikerstrasse 13 · A-6020 Innsbruck mail: [email protected] Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Page 2 Many regions are confronted with changing local and global basic conditions. Far too often developments in economy, society and ecology are not recognized in time. Through political, economic and private interests such developments become a huge potential of conflicts and are often corrected only punctually. Holistic and sustainable solutions are not worked out and realized. Only if a region is flexible enough to adapt to the constant changing social, political and ecological parameters a positive development can take place. Even though those problems are evident and known enough, in spatial development systematic and holistic solutions can be barely found. Settlements, cities, regions and countries have to face those developments and assume sustainable responsibilities. We are therefore invited to work out and realize future innovative scenarios for an affordable social and ecologic living environment- for urban but as well rural areas. A constructive and innovative approach against the endless growing cities is the regionalization, the reactivation and revival of selected regions, depending on the potential of the location. Holistic concepts for infrastructure, mobility, building in and with nature and the use of regenerative energies are needed as well as a value creation in the region itself. A second approach is an interdisciplinary collaboration and cooperation of different professionals (architects, urban and landscape planners, engineers, sociologists, geographers, etc.) with politics, economy and universities. Last but not least a planning and implementation in terms of “Regional Governance” in the spatial development is needed as well as an awareness raising of the stakeholders. Programme 23.04. 11.00 Welcome at the Institute of Urban Design and Regional Planning (3rd floor) Lecture - Maria Schneider Introduction of the project – Reinhard Honold Introduction of oneself Installation of the working place in the seminar room HSB7, Ground Floor in the Building of the Department of Civil Engineering Sciences Welcome party Workshop Obertilliach 24.04. Going to Obertilliach Train Departure: Innsbruck Station 07.00 Arrival: Sillian Station 10.00 Bus Departure: Sillian Station (Bus 4416) 10.16 Arrival: Obertilliach Busstop 10.37 Accommodation Hotel Andreas Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Page 3 12.30 Meeting Point at Hotel Andreas (There we have a seminar room, where the lectures will be hold and where you can work) 13.00 Welcome Mayor Matthias Scherer Lecture Hannes Mitterdorfer 16.00 Tour through Obertilliach with Josef Lugger, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Tourism, Obertilliach, CEO of the Hotel Unterwöger, Obertilliach 18.00 Lecture Hansjörg Viertler / Hans Schmieder 20.00 Dinner 25.04. 9.00 Departure Villgratental Tour through Villgratental with Hans Schett Sightseeing factory of sheep wool, .... afterwords Work 18.00 Reflection meeting (thoughts and first ideas) grouping 20.00 Dinner 26.04. 9.00 Visiting of special places (hamlets or Maria Luggau, etc.) 12.00 Work Going to Innsbruck Bus Departure: Obertilliach Busstop (Bus 4416) 16.18 Arrival: Sillian Station 16.36 Train Departure: Sillian Station 17.56 Arrival: Innsbruck Station 21.00 27.04. – 01.05. Work 02.05. 8.00 Excursion Ötztal (Sölden, Ober- und Hochgurgl) Meeting Point – Technikerstrasse 13 at the busstop 03.05. 10.00 Lecture Arnold Klotz 11.00 Lecture Wolfgang Andexlinger 12.00 Review (compulsary attendance) Presentation: Visualization of the 1. Ideas (poster) Detailed definition of the assignment (groups) 04.05 – 07.05. Work 07.05. 10.00 Workshop with Keith Mascarenhas Topic: Is Architecture a conversation or a Monolog Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Page 4 08.05. 12.00 Lectures Ulla Hell and Reinhard Honold 14.00 Review (possibility) 09.05. Work 10.05. 12.00 Lecture Bart Lootsma 13.00 Lecture Martin Mutschlechner 14.00 Review (compulsary attendance) Presentation of the projects – ideas, implementation, design (poster) 11.05. – 15.05. Work 16.05. 12.00 Midterm (Plakat) Guests: Jäger, Machne, Mutschlechner, Holger, … 17.05. – 21.05. Work 22.05. 12.00 Review (compulsary attendance) (PP or poster) 23.05. Work 24.05. 12.00 Review (compulsary attendance) (PP) 25.05. – 30.05. Work 31.05. 14.00 Final Presentation (PP as well as poster, maybe a model) Hand over of CD (PP inclusive poster and maybe photos of the model) Final party Charges Hotel - Gasthof Andreas – Accommodation with breakfast and dinner – free Trips in East Tyrol (Villgraten, etc.) – Transportation is free Train and Bus “Innsbruck – Obertilliach” – you have to pay (You have to be early enough at the station in Innsbruck or you buy the tickets the day before. I think it is possible to buy the tickets from Innsbruck to Obertilliach and back at the railway station in Innsbruck, Meeting Point is in Obertilliach) Excursion with the bus to Ötztal – transportation is free Institute of Urban and Regional Planning Page 5 Information East Tyrol Geographically spoken, the region of East Tyrol may be seen as a kind of island. The inner alpine region of East Tyrol is far removed from the great alpine transit routes and all great flows of tourists pass it by. Even if the situation is less dramatic than in some regions of the French and Italian Alps, some villages and towns could rightly be seen as lacking in infrastructure. The population is shrinking due to emigration. Despite certain structural weaknesses, East Tyrol is a functioning agricultural region dominated by sustainable tourism and a decent level of economic strength in the fields of small and medium-sized businesses in the area of Lienz. East Tyrol certainly does not have any tourist hubs like Kitzbühel, Sölden, or Ischgl in North Tyrol, nor such a highly-developed agriculture as South Tyrol with its expansive apple and wine cultivations. Even if East Tyrol is a culturally highly developed region, some developments come to these regions somewhat late or can be observed to a lesser degree, which is doubtless due to its geographical situation. That is why the region has its own (agri)cultural landscapes, its somewhat idiosyncratic village and town structures and its very own ways of life steeped in tradition. Regionalization Regionalization as term is not used very often. „Region“ is also note to be defined by quantitative definitions. ”Regions” could be seen as territorially or politically informed areas or as culturally or religiously informed areas and therefore we have many different regions in the world, which all have their characters. Those characters have to be maintained and have to be brought to an updated ecological, technical and technological standard in order to give society the chance to find an identification and a potential of creating its living