Common Ownership and Nonsolution: Contexts, Conflicts, and Co-existence

Viennese architect, urbanist and activist Gabu Heindl presents her most recent work focusing on the theme 'Designing space for new ways of living together'. Gabu Heindl is founder of GABU Heindl Architecture and Professor of Architecture Cities Economies at University Kassel. Her attentive and critical reflection on an equal and just social co-existence in the pursuit of a sustainable future, are strongly represented in her practice, research, and teaching. In doing so, she regularly questions the hegemonic and neo-liberal appropriation of urban development and public space.

Her office GABU Heindl Architecture focuses on public space, public buildings, common-ownership and non-market housing. From 2013 to 2017 she was chair of the ÖGFA – Austrian Society for Architecture.

As chair of Architecture Cities Economies at University Kassel, Gabu Heindl heads the research on is diverse economies with regards to affordable Housing and Infrastructure; Climate - True cost of climate action; and Participation - Radical democratic project development. She obtained a doctorate in Vienna and studied architecture in Vienna, Tokyo and Princeton.

Gabu Heindl lectures frequently and has published numerous articles and books including Building Critique, Architecture and its Discontents, Spector Books 2019 and the monograph Stadtkonflikte. Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung, Mandelbaum 2020 (2022 3rd edition).