Smart Living for All Generations

A redensification in the form of an additional residential building is planned for the area of the complex, which also offers a great deal of potential for modernising the housing and living environment for the existing tenants. The project follows a modernisation concept that was developed in a participatory manner with the residents in an exploratory project that has already been completed and has taken their needs into account. A particular focus is on the age- and generation-appropriate design of the project as well as the further sensitive monitoring of the transformation processes through communication and participation for the residents.
The demonstration project comprises various bundles of measures that combine social, technological, structural and climate and energy-related aspects, thus enabling innovations and new insights for the context under consideration. The Competence Center for Social Work is responsible for the accompanying research in this demonstration project of Caritas Vienna, Stadtteilarbeit and the housing association "SCHWARZATAL", in particular with regard to the communication and participation processes in the planned transformations.