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3.30 p.m.
Guided curator’s tour through the pavilion

4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m.
ASSEMBLY

Guests:
Florencia Andreola, Azzurra Muzzonigro, Julia Girardi-Hoog, Elena Neal

Gender planning is a long-established means of ensuring the quality of life in many cities. With regard to BETTER LIVING, however, we need to do more than merely create a city that is suitable for everyday life. In this context, the strategy of intersectional feminism could provide a basis for many things: a multiple view of a city’s problems, activism for an inclusive public realm, radical new housing typologies, and co-habitation with nature. A true caring city is inconceivable without an intersectional feminist perspective. This starts with the fair distribution and payment of all care work, which is fundamental to everything. BETTER LIVING & FEMINISM deals with intersectional feminist strategies for creating a BETTER LIVING for all, i.e. for a life beyond families, post-private spaces, supportive structures, and potential commons in a future caring city.

Florencia Andreola
Florencia Andreola is an independent researcher with a PhD in Architectural History from the University of Bologna. Her work combines theory and practice as it explores the intersections between architecture, the city, and gender. She is the author and editor of several publications.

Azzurra Muzzonigro
Azzurra Muzzonigro is an architect, curator, and urban researcher. She teaches Urban and Social Design at NABA and Domus Academy and holds an MSc from The Bartlett (UCL) and a PhD in Urban Studies. She is a co-founder of Waiting Posthuman Studio and the author of many publications.

In 2022, they jointly founded Sex & the City, a nonprofit organization that explores the city through a gender perspective. The association uses public programs, research, and practical projects to advocate for urban policies that prioritize the well-being of all citizens. Its key publications include Milan Gender Atlas (2021), a mapping of gendered experiences in Milan, and Free, not Brave. Women and Fear in Public Space (2024), which investigates the relationship between urban planning and women’s fear of crime in the city.

Julia Girardi-Hoog

Julia Girardi-Hoog holds a PhD in the Sociology of Architecture and has been working for Vienna City Council since 2013. She managed the EU Horizon 2020 funded project “Smarter Together” with Munich, Lyon, and Venice, which implemented inclusive smart city projects. Julia Girardi-Hoog has been Vienna’s Gender Planner since 2023 and is responsible for ensuring that the city’s public spaces and social housing respond to the needs of different target groups and, especially, vulnerable sections of society. Julia also teaches at the University of Vienna.

6 p.m.
ASC (Assemblea Sociale per la Casa) 

Screening of the film Mama Mercy (1h12, 2023) by Alessandra Cutolo in the presence of the director and some of the actresses 

11 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Spin Time presents itself:

Chiara Cacciotti, author, presents the book Qui è tutto abitato (Here everything is inhabited)
Ottavia Cernuschi, Giacomo Ruben Florenzano, Emmanuel Koami Yovogna, Sara Moutawakil presents Spin Time Fanzine At Home
Celilia Pellizzari and Rebecca Venzi from Scomodo, present the special issue L'abbandono non è vuoto (Abandonment is not empty)

3.30 p.m.
Guided curator´s tour trough the pavilion

4.30 p.m. – 6.30 p.m
OPEN ASSEMBLY
A dialogue in between members of Spin Time (Rome) and Sargfabrik (Vienna)

Guests:
Robert Korab / Sargfabrik Vienna
Chiara Caciotti, Ottavia Cernuschi, Alessandra Cutolo, Mattia Ferrari, Giulia Fiocca, Giacomo Ruben Florenzano, Emmanuel Koami Yovogna, Sara Moutawakil, Cecilia Pellizzari, Paolo Perrini and Rebecca Venzi / Santa Croce / Spin Time Labs, Rome

How do we want to live, work, and love together in the future? The AGENCY poses the question of new typologies for new forms of coexistence. Santa Croce/Spin Time, a 10-story squatted former administration building in Rome, serves as a case study. The multiple uses of Spin Time are remarkable. In addition to housing for 450 people from 27 nations, it offers more than 30 different social and cultural infrastructures such as a theater, a carpentry workshop, a restaurant, a printing workshop, a museum, a youth club, a learning workshop, the headquarters of the well-known youth magazine Scomodo and more. Protagonists from Spin Time will join a representatives of a co-housing project in Vienna to discuss possible future typologies in which the coexistence of many could be the principle that underlies all considerations. Which structures support such coexistence? What spaces, what legal means, and what policies are needed? What do the Sargfabrik in Vienna and Spin Time have in common, and what distinguishes them?

Robert Korab

Robert Korab has worked as an environmental scientist, urban planner, project developer, general planner, and property developer. With his company raum & kommunikation, he has developed and implemented more than 20 residential and commercial real estate projects, with a focus on community and co-housing initiatives. His other professional priorities have included the programming and managing of cooperative planning processes, as well as the strategic development of large real estate portfolios. Korab has served on various juries and advisory boards, including the Housing Subsidy Advisory Board of the City of Vienna and the Expert Advisory Board of the Austrian Climate and Energy Fund. Since 1992, he has been a lecturer at Austrian universities in the

REHEARSING CHANGE
What if architecture wasn‘t a solution, but a rehearsal?
Speaker: Amy Perkins (Zurich), Daniele Santucci (Zurich), Michael Obrist (Vienna), Yves Behar 

At Architecture During Art, LAUFEN brings together the curators of the Austrian, German and Swiss pavilions of the Biennale Architettura 2025—alongside designer and entrepreneur Yves Behar—for a conversation on how architecture and design can respond to climate stress, social inequality and institutional transformation. How do we create spaces—physical, political,
imagined—for coexistence in times of rupture? A d ialogue on responsibility, imagination and collective agency.

Panel moderated by Tanja Heuchele.

ARCHITECTURE DURING ART is a recurring event of thought-provoking conversations to coincide with ART BASEL, established by LAUFEN.

You can find more information about the panellists and how to register here.

Talk with Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Lorenzo Romito
Moderation: Anh-Linh Ngo

How can we readdress the issues of affordable housing and the right to the city? Michael Obrist, Sabine Pollak, and Lorenzo Romito are the curators of the Austrian Pavilion at this year’s Architecture Biennale in Venice and are presenting their project in the Austrian Cultural Forum Berlin. The project focusses on a comparison between two models – Vienna’s subsidized housing meets the self-organization of Rome’s civil society – and asks whether a combination of the two could show us new ways out of the social and ecological crisis.

The event will take place in German and English.
Please register at: Link

12 a.m.
Tour of the city with ASC, Assemblea Sociale della Casa

Meeting point: Vaporetto Station Palanca (Giudecca)
(Short-term change due to the Vogalonga)

11 a.m.
Open presentation of a range of social realities from Venice in the courtyard of the pavilion

2 p.m.
Guided curator’s tour through the pavilion

3 p.m. – 5 p.m.
Assembly Founding Event: BETTER LIVING in Venice

Guests: ASC, Microclima, OCIO, Officina Marghera, Pandora, Poveglia per tutti, ReBiennale, Rivolta, Sale Docks, Veras

The AGENCY FOR BETTER LIVING launches the series of ASSEMBLIES: What can we do and how can we act? The kick-off event of the AGENCY will embrace the social and environmental realities of Venice, our guest city. The presentation of various groups and their activities will mark the establishment of the ASSEMBLY. Guests and visitors will help to define the rules for the ASSEMBLIES: the form of discussions and procedures, the possibilities of participation, and the documentation of the process. Urgent topics will be addressed, experiences of living will be exchanged, and strategies for BETTER LIVING developed: an “Intelligens” will emerge.