Trustmaking: A guidebook on youth empowerment in urban transformation

Elina Kränzle develops projects and processes for co-designing urban culture and public spaces for everyone. Her interdisciplinary research and practice focus on a politics of public space that bridges lived experiences, discourses and social contexts. She is a  doctoral  candidate  at  the research center URBAN, TU Wien and Senior Scientist at the Social Design Studio, University of Applied  Arts  Vienna, where  she coordinates the Trustmaking ULL in Vienna.

Judith M. Lehner is a senior scientist working at the intersection of theory and practice in architecture, urban studies, and housing research. Her work focuses on urban transformation processes in times of crisis, collective housing, and social infrastructure. She leads the Research Center for New Social Housing at TU Wien, an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary platform, and serves as the main project coordinator for the ENUTC project Trustmaking at the Social Design Studio, University of Applied Arts Vienna. She studied architecture at TU Wien (Austria), ETSA Sevilla (Spain), and the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), completing her doctorate at HafenCity University Hamburg with a dissertation on urban voids and housing cooperatives in Latin America. Her research interests include fostering academic networks beyond disciplinary boundaries and exploring the intersections between planning routines and everyday spatial practices. She has written and co-edited several books, including Die urbane Leere: Neue disziplinäre Perspektiven auf Transformationsprozesse in Europa und Lateinamerika (Jovis) and The Social Dimension of Social Housing (Spector Books).

Marcel Musch is the Director of the Rotterdam Academy of Architecture and Urban Design (RAVB). He graduated as an architect from Delft University of Technology and has worked as an urban designer and consultant at several offices and municipalities among  them the City of Rotterdam and BVR Consultants. He was a researcher at Eindhoven University of Technology, focusing on Urban Design and Urban Architecture. In Eindhoven he initiated the TU/e Urban Labs, a platform for adapted research with external partners, integrating research, education, and practice. Research themes included climate adaptive urbanism, healthy urbanism, heritage and urban transformation. He leads the Dutch team of the ENUTC-project Trustmaking at TU Delft. He has written about the Transformation of Religious Heritage (Ruimte en Wonen), Cultural Incubators (Boekman) and Broad Value Approach in Planning (Plandag). He is a member of the advisory program board of CLICKNL, the National Dutch Knowledge and Innovation Network of the Creative Industry. Current research projects include Adequate Housing for People without a Home (NWA) and Creating Space for the Creative Industry (RAAK).