Conference “Caring for the City”

is a sociologist and educational scientist. Since 2012 she has been a Lecturer and Researcher at the Department of Sociology (University of Vienna) and in the Center of Sociology (TU Wien). She is an expert in qualitative, participatory and visual methods and wants to give citizens and vulnerable people a voice in her projects, publications and edited books. Together with colleagues she is the head of the Urban Research Section of the Austrian Society for Sociology.

is an adjunct faculty at FHWien der WKW. He is particularly interested in tourism as a space for exchange, learning, activism, and to reclaim control over our lives. His most recent work includes The Creative Tourist: A Eudaimonic Perspective (Emerald Publishing, 2024).

is a policy advisor at the Department for Urban Affairs and Housing at the Chamber of Labour in Vienna. As a sociologist and social worker she reflects urban life in the context of social inequality, participation and inclusion.

is an urban sociologist who is based in Amsterdam and works as an Associate Professor at ARC Research Center of the Inholland UAS. Since 2000 she has carried out (international) research on various topics, such as: residents and their attitudes towards tourism, tourism policymaking, inclusive leisure design and co-designing (wellbeing), leisure and tourism concepts.

studied spatial planning at the TU Wien. Her research focuses on collaborative spaces, vacancy, urban neighbourhoods and rural areas. Since 2017 she has been involved in developing the platform WeLocally/imGrätzl. Since 2021 she teaches and researches at TU Wien, currently as a university assistant at the Research Unit for Local Planning.

is Assistant Professor for Urban and Regional Transformations at TU Wien. He is an expert on local sustainability transformations, urban experimentation, social innovation, and transformative planning.

holds a bachelor’s in architecture and a master’s degree in urban design as well as a PhD in Architecture and Urbanism. She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Architecture and Urbanism at ISCTE-IUL in Lisbon and Director of the PhD program in Architecture of Contemporary Metropolitan Territories. Furthermore, she is scientific coordinator and researcher at Vitruvius FabLab-IUL and DINÃMIA’CET ISCTE-IUL research center. Besides she is Co-Director of the MDI – Master in Digital Innovation for Design Practices partnership SCTE-IUL and the Faculty of Architecture at Porto University. 

studied Architecture (BSc) and Urban Planning in Developing Countries (MA) in Venice and holds a PhD in Regional Planning and Public Policies. She is researcher and SSIM Unesco Chair on the Social and Spatial Inclusion of International Migrants – Urban Policies and Practices. Furthermore she is founder and coordinator of Urban ID Network, a multidisciplinary network of jr researchers and scholars working on the urban impacts of international migration and member of TurkMIS Group (Turkish migration studies) and COMPAS (Center on Migration, Policy and Society), University of Oxford. 

is a researcher and lecturer in the field of sustainable tourism and destination management. For her PhD, she focused on intangible cultural heritage and its use in tourism, as well as on regional development and community-based tourism. She has a strong methodological interest in qualitative research methods (grounded theory, ethnography) and transdisciplinary approaches. Maria has worked on several international research projects addressing sustainable regional development through the application of transdisciplinary methods

is a lecturer at FHWien der WKW University of Applied Sciences in Vienna, Austria. Her research interests lie in the areas of creative tourism and special interest tourism. In specific, Sophie attempts to explore different perspectives of niche tourism experiences through qualitative research methods. Furthermore, she teaches in areas of digital tourism, project management and basics of marketing at the Bachelor Tourism-Management at FHWien der WKW.