ETH Forum Wohnungsbau 2023
Friday, 10. March 2023, 9 am - 5 pm | ETH Zürich, Zentrum (main building), Auditorium Maximum (Room HG F 30)
«Generationenwohnen – Von der Idee bis zur Umsetzung»
How will we live in the future? Climate change, digitization, aging, isolation - these are just some of the major challenges we face as a society. Community and intergenerational housing projects as social innovations respond to these and show us on a small scale what concrete local solutions can look like.
At this year's annual international conference ETH Forum Wohnungsbau "Generationenwohnen – von der Idee bis zur Umsetzung" we talked to international and national experts, outline solutions and share experiential knowledge on Friday, March 10, 2023.
Insights
How will we live in the future? Climate change, digitization, aging, isolation - these are just some of the major challenges we face as a society. Community and intergenerational housing projects as social innovations respond to this and show us on a small scale what concrete local solutions can look like. For example, many housing projects set ambitious social and environmental goals, such as creating vibrant neighborhoods or achieving a society that meets energy and climate goals.
Increasing digitalization is leading to a dissolution of the place where people live and work, resulting in new forms of coexistence both spatially and socially. In addition, we live in an aging society and are increasingly living alone. Not least because of increasing spatial mobility - family members sometimes live far away - intergenerational relationships are no longer commonplace for many. Against this background, community-oriented housing projects, especially intergenerational living, are experiencing an upswing and many see this as a form of housing for the future.
In view of a changing society, we ask ourselves together with experts how these changes are reflected in practice. What building perspectives and solutions are available to promote intergenerational relationships in neighborhoods and age or generation-appropriate living concepts? What spatial elements can architecture use to specifically promote communality and good neighborhood relations? What is particularly important to pay attention to in intergenerational living? Initiating and building intergenerational housing projects involves far-reaching questions. Cooperatives and investors from the field offer concrete insights. Together, we ask: What can housing developers do to implement intergenerational housing projects? Which criteria need to be taken into account in planning - and which in operation?
Last but not least, there is the question of social perspectives and experiential knowledge of actors in the field of "intergenerational living". Today, about one third of people over 65 live alone, with a significantly higher proportion of women. The number of childless people in old age is also increasing: one in four people between the ages of 50 and 80 in Switzerland has no biological or adopted children. According to a 2017 health survey by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (SFSO), as many as 38% of the population aged 15 and older feel lonely. A persistent feeling of loneliness can have serious effects on the health and psychological well-being of affected individuals. What is the importance of vibrant neighborhoods for all generations? How do intergenerational housing projects foster individual feelings of community and belonging?
Welcome
Prof. Hubert Klumpner, Professor of Architecture and Urban Planning D-ARCH. Director of ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE
Greeting
Dr. Julia Dannath, ETH Zurich Executive Board, PhD Psychologist and since November 2020 Vice President for Human Resources Development and Leadership at ETH Zurich
Introduction
Dr. Jennifer Duyne Barenstein, Head of ETH Wohnforum-ETH CASE and ETH MAS in Housing ETH Zurich
Potentials of inclusive architectural design
DI Dr. techn. Christiane Feuerstein, Architect and lecturer, Vienna
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Thinking care spatially - building blocks for a different architecture of coexistence
Prof. em. Dr. Barbara Zibell, Leibniz University Hannover, spatial planner StadtUmLand Zurich
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Discussion between DI Dr. techn. Christiane Feuerstein and Prof. em. Dr. Barbara Zibell
Panel I : Initiating and implementing intergenerational living
Rahel von Arx, Board of Directors of Förderverein Generationenwohnen Bern-Solothurn, Project Manager Competence Center for Non-Profit Housing
Christian Wenger, Member of the Executive Board of Real Estate Operations Pensimo Management AG, Initiator of intergenerational living projects in the institutional environment
Simon Stocker, Head of the Gerontology CH Office, former town councillor of Schaffhausen
Eva Herzog, President of Wohnbaugenossenschaften Schweiz and Member of the Council of States of the Canton of Basel-Stadt
New forms of housing - communal and cooperative
Prof. Dr. Annette Spellerberg, Professor of Urban Sociology, TU Kaiserslautern
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Towards responsible rebellion - governance and participation in collective housing for older adults
Zsuzsu Tavy, Visual anthropologist & researcher, Urban Ageing Group, The Hague University of Applied Sciences
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Intergenerational housing in a long-term perspective
Dr. Eveline Althaus, Social anthropologist, scientific project manager and deputy head of ETH Wohnforum - ETH CASE, ETH Zurich
Leonie Pock, Social anthropologist & multimedia journalist, research associate ETH Wohnforum, ETH Zurich
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Panel II : Experiential knowledge of initiators and intergenerational residents
Ulrike Amos, Coopérative Equilibre, Geneva
Verena Bruderer, Solinsieme Cooperative for New Forms of Living, St. Gallen
Tina Held, Kalkbreite and Karthago Cooperative, Zurich
Kurt Lampart, Giesserei multi-generation house, Winterthur
Claudia Thiesen, Kraftwerk1 Heizenholz, Zurich
The practice-oriented research project "Generationenwohnen in langfristiger Perspektive - von der Intention zur gelebten Umsetzung" examines generational housing projects in a long-term perspective. The resulting booklet documents 19 selected housing projects in Switzerland with regard to these questions and undertakes an initial reflection. It presents a rich sample of contemporary forms of intergenerational living and a diversity of approaches.
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«Generationenwohnen - Von der Idee bis zur Umsetzung ETH Forum Wohnungsbau»
-Translated: "Generational Living - From the Idea to Implementation ETH Forum Wohnungsbau"
-Katharina Marchal in Espazium/Tec21 from 04.04.2023 | external pageFull article
«Gemeinsam gegen Einsamkeit»
-Translated: "Together against loneliness"
-Roderick Hönig in Hochparterre from 13.03.2023 | external pageFull article
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