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Event

Caring for the City – Day 1

September 25, 2025 | 9:00 am – 6:30 pm
FHWien der WKW
Währinger Gürtel 97, 1180 Vienna

The program for the first day of the conference can be found here.

The “Caring for the City” conference starts on Thursday with the following program:

9:00 am – 9:30 am Morning Session: Overview and Opening

Chair: Cornelia Dlabaja, Florian Aubke

9:30 am – 11:00 am Panel 1: Caring for the city – in times of multiple crisis

Chair: Cornelia Dlabaja, Julia Girardi-Hoog

Panel 2: Urban Experimentation: „Careful“ urban transformations beyond ecomodernist imaginaries

Chair: Alexander Hamedinger, Johannes Suitner

 
11:00 am – 11:30 am Coffee Break and Poster Presentation
   
11:30 am – 1:00 pm Panel 3: Caring for the Citizens – Social Justice and Participation

Chair: Christoph Stoik, Raphaela Kogler

Panel 4: How Tourism is transforming the urban fabric

Chair: Johannes Novy, Daniela Wagner

Workshop – Care councils as catalysts for caring cities

Chair: Michaela Moser

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm Lunch Break
   
2:00 pm – 3:30 pm Panel 5: Touristification and Challenges of urban tourism

Chair: Dario Bertocchi

Panel 6: Sustainable tourism and regional development in times of climate crisis

Chair: Yvonne Franz, Maria Katelieva 

 
3:30 pm – 3:50 pm Coffee Break    
3:50 pm – 4:45 pm Wiener Kaffeehaus 1: Wrap-up-Session
   
5:00 pm – 6:30 pm Round table 1: Rethinking regional development and tourism

As part of the round table, research, administration and regional policy will discuss challenges and solutions for sustainable regional development. With Yvonne Franz (Universität Wien), Stephan Auer-Stüger (Städtebund), Dr. Karoline Wiegerink (Professor of City Hospitality, Hotelschool The Hague), Silvio Heinze (Klubobmann Grüne), Giovanna Marconi (IUAV), Jan Šifra (Büro Milk)