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The new Permanent Exhibition at the Architekturzentrum Wien: Going against the current trend for increasing economic constraints on their collections, the new Permanent Exhibition of the Az W sets standards in the production and sharing of knowledge.

How can we rethink tourism in an era of climate crisis, wars, the threat of further pandemics, a shortage of skilled labour and an ongoing energy crisis, and steer it in a more sustainable direction? What is the role that spatial planning and architecture are playing in this? The exhibition sheds light on key aspects of tourism, such as mobility, city tourism, interdependencies with agriculture, climate change, the privatisation of natural beauty and the change in accomodation typologies, and explores the question of whether and how tourism development is planned. Above all, however, the exhibition looks at the potential for transformation.

Even before the Corona virus pandemic everyday reality could change overnight, and the demands placed on one's own four walls along with it. How can units be built that can be used freely while remaining flexible? The event presents inspiration from France and Austria, with Sophie Delhay and PPAG.

By now, everybody agrees that it makes sense to have greenery in the city, because it cools and cleans the air while also being pleasant to look at. But this wasn’t always the consensus. Fifty years ago, Friedensreich Hundertwasser’s ideas were ridiculed. We take a look at some of the projects in the permanent collection at the Architekturzentrum Wien and then set off in search of green oases in Vienna by underground and on foot.

Hechenblaikner gives a guided tour of the exhibition "Toourism" in a conversation with an Az W guide, while referencing his archive of photographs of contemporary Alpine tourism: an expansive, romantic rural Alpine setting for an après-ski culture that has distorted tradition beyond recognition while also leaving scars in the landscape. It is time to think about a new kind of tourism.

Every year the excitement over the country's “white strips of snow” ramps up in the media. Last year a satirical broadcast on the "Lake Neusiedl Desert" caused a wave of cancellations there. Tourism and climate change are two controversial topics everybody is talking about.

How can we rethink tourism in an era of climate crisis, wars, the threat of further pandemics, a shortage of skilled labour and an ongoing energy crisis, and steer it in a more sustainable direction? What is the role that spatial planning and architecture are playing in this? The exhibition sheds light on key aspects of tourism, such as mobility, city tourism, interdependencies with agriculture, climate change, the privatisation of natural beauty and the change in accomodation typologies, and explores the question of whether and how tourism development is planned. Above all, however, the exhibition looks at the potential for transformation.

How do people’s ideas of the countryside shape holidays between summer retreats and sports tourism, and how does tourism reshape the landscape? Az W and hdgö are offering a joint guided tour with the curator’s of both exhibitions.