Programme

Moderator: Kerstin Pluch, TU Wien

9:00 h Opening and Introduction

Harald Waiglein, Director General for Economic Policy and Financial Markets, Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF)
Rudolf Scheuvens, Dean of Faculty of Architecture and Planning, TU Wien

Session 1: Affordable Housing and Sustainable Urban Mobility

9:15 h – 10:00 h
Henriette Vamberg, Partner Gehl Architects, Copenhague: The Walkable City - Case studies of Latin America (keynote)

Coffee Break

10:15 h – 11:30 h
Alvaro Uribe, Universidad de Panamá: Metro Panamá and the Challenges of the Fragmented City
Tamara Egger, TU Wien: The Urban Design Lab Methodology and the Collico case of Valdivia, Chile
Andrés Blanco, Sectorial Coordinator Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, IDB: Managing urban growth through Social Rental-Housing

11:30 h – 12:00 h
Joint discussion with the previous speakers and Andreas Trisko, Head of MA18 - Urban Development and Planning, City of Vienna.
Moderator: Roland Krebs, Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, IDB

12:00 h – 14:00 h Lunch

Session 2: City Making and Urban Management

14:00 h – 14:45 h
Doris Tarchópulos, Municipal Planning Department Medellín, Colombia: Medellín: Challenges, Plans and Urban Projects (keynote)
Coffee Break

15:00 h – 16:15 h
Lea A. Rüfenacht, ETH Zürich Urban Think Tank Chair: Promoting Culture, Innovation and Urban Sustainability – La Fábrica de Cultura en Barranquilla, Colombia
Wolfgang Loibl, Austrian Institute of Technology: The IDB - Urban Growth Simulator
Horacio Terraza, Sectorial Coordinator Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, IDB: Multisectoral Urban Development. Lessons Learned from the Tegucigalpa Case

16:15 h – 16:45 h
Joint discussion with the previous speakers and Eva Kail, Gender Expert, Executive Group for Construction and Technology, Urban Planning Group, City of Vienna (sharing experience).
Moderator: Andreas Hofer, Institute of Urban Design, TU Wien.

Coffee Break

Session 3: Implementation Challenge – How to create Urban Reality?

17:00 h – 18:00 h
Round Table Discussion
Doris Tarchópulos, Urban Planning Department Medellin, Columbia
Andres Blanco, Sectorial Coordinator Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative, IDB
Alain Geiger, Urban Development Coordinator, SECO
Eva Kail, Gender Expert, Executive Group for Construction and Technology, Urban Planning Group, City of Vienna
Katharina Bernard, Business Development and Marketing, Doppelmayr
Moderator: Veronika Baumgartner, International Financial Institutions Division, Federal Ministry of Finance (BMF), Austria

Note: During the event, photo, video and audio recordings will be made by the Vienna University of Technology and the Federal Ministry of Finance.