Mathias Mitteregger works to understand how new technologies change cities. The spectrum of his work ranges from web mapping tools, delivery services and machine learning to regionalism, mythology, superstition and prosthetics and even deals with the fundamental status of technology in public spaces. In the past years, he has focused on automated and connected vehicles and mobility in cities of the future. Mitteregger studied architecture at the TU Graz, the TU Berlin and the TU Wien. He was also a visiting researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, MIT and UCLA. He completed his dissertation in architecture theory. Currently, Mitteregger researches at the TU Wien future.lab and is working on independent projects.
Emilia M. Bruck researches and teaches at the future.lab Research Centre and the Research Unit of Local Planning at the TU Wien. Her work centers around the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary examination of the spatial effects of digital automation and connectedness in transportation. This includes several contemporary phenomena – prompted by platform-based mobility services – as well as possible automated vehicles of the future. At the centre of her research and publications are the questions of spatial transportation, urban planning actions and the design of explorative learning spaces with respect to technology-based reproduction of spatial demands. In a comparative study for her dissertation, Bruck is examining the shifting characteristics of planning in Vienna and Toronto with regard to automated mobility. She is also a member of the Urbanism Next Europe 2020 conference program committee.
Aggelos Soteropoulos is a mobility researcher at the TU Wien Institute for Spatial Planning in the Research Unit of Transportation System Planning. The focus of his research includes the impact of mobility innovations, such as automated vehicles, on the transportation network, mobility and urban development. In particular, he focuses on the convergence of technology, mobility and urban planning. Currently, he is working on several research projects on the topic and writing his doctors thesis. His interests lie in the areas of spatial analysis, transportation models and data visualisation.
Andrea Stickler is a research fellow at the TU Wien Institute for Spatial Planning in the Research Unit of Sociology, as well as the TU Wien future.lab. She studied international development, sociology and spatial planning at the University of Vienna and the TU Wien. Her research foci include transport and mobility, socio-ecological transformation processes and technical sociology. In addition to her research, she leads applied climate change mitigation projects in the climate and energy model region Schwarzatal in Lower Austria.
Martin Berger is a university professor and leader of the Research Unit of Transportation System Planning at the TU Wien Institute of Spatial Planning. He researches, designs and implements strategies for mobility for diverse spaces on all scales with a special interest in all forms of „new“ mobility. The focus of his work is mobility research.
Jens Dangschat is Professor Emeritus for Urban and Regional Sociology and Demography at the TU Wien Faculty for Architecture and Planning (1998–2016). An urban sociologist by trade, he is interested in social structures and processes as they relate to (urban) spaces. This includes socioeconomic, sociodemographic and sociocultural inequities as forms of social structuring, but also inequitable (spatial) actions as a differentiating criterion, particularly in the areas of choice of residence location (segregation), mobility and energy consumption. He was President (2009–2011) and Vice President (2011–2013) of the Austrian Association for Sociology (ÖGS) and since 1989, is a full, voting member of the Academy for Territorial Development in the Leibniz Association (Hannover), since 2006, a member of the Federal Foundation of Baukultur convention (Berlin), since 2009, a member of the board of trustees of the vhw - Federal Association for Housing and Urban Development (Berlin), and since 2011, member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the EU Joint Programming Initiative, „More Years, Better Lives“.
Rudolf Scheuvens is Professor of Local Planning and Urban Development Planning at the Institute of Spatial Planning and since 2013, Dean of the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the TU Wien. As Dean, he founded the future.lab, a platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and studies, in 2013. The future.lab creates opportunities and supports projects that encourage researchers, teachers and professionals to share knowledge openly. Rudolf Scheuvens is a member of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Spatial Planning and the local expert and owner of two architecture firms in Germany and Austria. His research focusses mainly on complex planning and development processes and on the question of affordable housing in growing cities.
Ian Banerjee has taught and researched at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at the TU Wien in the Research Unit of Sociology since 2008. His teaching and research concentrate on the current themes of international urbanism. He is interested in the various dimension of global change, urban innovation, new socio-technological formations in the context of digitalization, new urban learning cultures and the potential of automated and connected mobility for the sustainable city of the future. He was active in multilateral consultations initiated by the UN Habitat, which aimed to develop a common strategy as an answer to the global challenge of urbanisation (Habitat III/New Urban Agenda 2016).
In the past 20 years, Banerjee has gained experience in about 50 cities on four continents. He was involved in integrative urban planning, strategic spatial planning, new forms of governance, „smart urbanism“, strategies to counteract socio-spatial inequalities, the phenomenon of „digital communities“ and the significance of the immaterial aspects of daily life, such as creativity, fear, hope, etc. on planning.
For AVENUE21, he was mainly responsible for researching the innovative planning approaches of five „pioneer regions“ of automated mobility – San Francisco, Greater London, Gothenburg, Singapore and the Greater Tokyo Area. He examined and compared governance and transition approaches in these five regions to discover how city administrations can become co-developers of automated and connected transportation.
