Posts in INITIATIVE
THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME YOU CAN AFFORD

People with low incomes in Vienna receive assistance, just as they do elsewhere. However, Vienna also invests in new housing and the renovation of old buildings, so the Viennese have an advantage of both systems. One of the differences between Vienna and other cities is that social housing flats are incorporated here in all districts and most of them are mixed with privately owned flats in the buildings. This keeps the rent down and ensures a real mish-mash of people living together.

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INTERVIEW WITH AMAAENA

“In my opinion, empathy is an infinitely complex topic. if you deal with it, you immediately come up against hard pro and con positions. I was particularly interested in the question of how empathy affects socio-political courses and social interaction. This topic is also the basis of my new collection. In the implementation of the cooperation, however, I wanted to move away from the hard political space and travel to a warm place that is characterized by empathy at eye level.”

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QM&A Open Call

“Our focus is on bringing together people who work in different disciplines and have a different perspective on Vienna’s art sector and its inclusivity. In most cases that means that we pair an artist who only recently arrived in Vienna as a migrant or refugee with an artist who has already been living in Vienna for a long time.”

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