#redvienna

[erthala]

Red Vienna was one of the most extraordinary housing initiatives developed in the world.

[araconnects]

The necessity of communal experimentation with childlike wonder | Red Vienna’s approach to learning, structure and design signaled an awareness that the intellect alone could not come to know all things. The use of the senses was and remains indispensable for the reception of knowledge. It was and is necessary to carry out experiments, and act on objects, to determine connections | This weekend 10 writers from 10 different countries explore #RedVienna : an innovative health and welfare policy that provided holistically for ALL citizens. Vienna is regularly voted “the most livable city in the world” largely due to the achievements of this period, the impact of which continues to be felt today: in beautiful yet functional design imitated across the world, healthcare, human rights, the sharing economy, the development of leisure recreation time, cultural pastimes, minimalist pleasures, and in access to truly clean drinking and swimming water in a city of more public green space than buildings, which offers its residents over 200,000 subsidized flats shamelessly enjoyed all over the city (at Wien Museum MUSA) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzQA8gFgaIP/?igshid=3l3jig11zlc6

[walmat]

*Press conference 'Das rote Wien'/ Red Vienna @wienmuseum * First of all: very nice Exhibition Design! Vienna's first free municipal election,  held in 1919, results in an absolute majority for the Social Democratic Party. A reform project commences, attracting abroad and fierce antagonism from opponents at home. The goal is far-reaching democratization of society as well as the dramatic improvement of workers' conditions. The initial situation is catastrophic. In the wake of World War I, Vienna is in a state of massive crisis. Housing is the central issue. A revolutionary fiscal policy, built around a luxury tax, provides funding for the creation of over 60,000 apartments along with numerous social, leisure, and cultural facilities by 1934. The exhibition reaches from Wienmuseum to over a dozen locations across the city. Structured around a series of themes, these “walkable objects” are accessible temporarily, revealing Red Vienna’s rich architectural heritage – the built utopia that has become part of Vienna’s urban landscape. 1 Exhibition View 2 Model of a kitchen scullery 2019 for an urban settlement dwelling 1923 Design Margarete Lihotzky 3,4 Model of a chair for an urban settlement dwelling 1923 Design Margarete Lihotzky 5 Neurath Elephant Trademark with which Otto Neurath signed many of his letters. 6 Fanfares Instruments of the Viennese Worker's Gymnastics Association which were presumably used at the 1931 Worker's Olympics. . . #Wienmuseum #dasrotewien #redvienna #viennanow #socialhousing #austrianhistory #igersaustria #igersvienna #artinvienna #ArtsyVisualStorytelling #artsycontentcreator #visualstoryteller #walmatwien #ig_ometry #exhibitiondesign (at Wien Museum MUSA) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bw6x62-hZzh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=pautsakugvdk

[viennajacobin]

University of Vienna, Hörsaal 24. June 7, 2016.

The poll is up for our June meeting (last monthly meeting of the ‘15-’16 academic year!) and the candidate topics are as follows

"Organizing in Physical and Virtual Spaces" (discussion of strategies for organizing social movements in the digital age)

"Socialism and Strategy: The Eric Olin Wright/Dylan Riley Debate" (Should capitalism be "smashed" or "eroded"? Do we need a "roadmap" to socialism, or rather a "compass" pointing us in that direction? What's really at stake in these questions anyway?)

"Devolution and the Left" (Devolution, the statutory granting of central government powers to subnational bodies (such as in Scotland and Wales in the UK), has alternatively been praised by the left and called a neoliberal straitjacket. Which assessment is true?)