Urban Future Talks: ‘10 years of Seestadt – an Update’

Under the title ‘10 years of Seestadt – an Update’, we will look at the development of this ambitious project and discuss what lessons can be learnt for future urban planning. The occasion for the panel discussion is the publication – ‘Seestadt Aspern – A district in the making’, the publication of the 2022 urbanization monitoring, as well as the interim report EVA.   

10 years of Seestadt

Seestadt Aspern was planned as a multifunctional district for 20,000 residents with 20,000 jobs as part of a PPP (public-private partnership) model. Since the first residents moved in in autumn 2014, Seestadt has developed into a lively district.   

• But what is it really like to live there?   
• What challenges and opportunities has this flagship urban development project thrown up?   
• How can what has been achieved be transferred to future urban development projects?   

At this specialist event, we will reflect on the concept and everyday life in the Seestadt. Discuss with experts which questions Seestadt has answered for the challenges of modern housing and urban planning and which construction sites are still open. 

Our panellists:

	Cornelia Dlabaja has been involved in researching the Seestadt since 2014 and has overseen colonization monitoring since 2015. Her dissertation examines the development of the neighborhood ethnographically. Her book ‘Die Seestadt Aspern – Ein Stadtteil im Werden’ was published by Böhlau Verlag in 2024. She has been an Endowed Professor for sustainable urban and tourism development at FHWien der WKW since 2023.
© Amélie Chapalain	Katharina Kirsch-Soriano da Silva is head of Caritas Wien neighbourhood work and a lecturer at TU Wien and FH Campus Wien. Her work focuses on social housing, participation in urban development and urban regeneration, community work and civic engagement. She has been supporting the Seestadt aspern neighbourhood management since 2014 and is also part of the settlement monitoring research team, which has researched the settlement process and the socio-spatial development of Seestadt in several surveys and studies.
© Luiza Puiu	Gerhard Schuster is Chairman of the Management Board of Wien 3420 aspern Development AG, which is significantly involved in the development of the Seestadt. He has been Chairman of the Management Board since 2014 and is responsible for sales, marketing, communications and human resources.

As part of the ‘Urban Future Talks’ series, current research findings and topics from the fields of research and practice are discussed. The series is aimed at an interested public and an expert audience.  

Registration is requested! We look forward to an insightful evening and interesting discussions at the subsequent get-together.   

Cornelia Dlabaja, organizer
and the team of the Tourism & Hospitality Management Study Programs