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The continuing urbanization trend is increasingly transforming cities into metropolitan areas. Even though metropolitan management and planning is not yet sufficiently integrated into contemporary planning practice and culture there are first attempts to develop new strategies and tools which tackle the emerging challenges of growing metropolises of the 21st century.
We see ourselves as an accelerator for creative knowledge transfer in the field of metropolitan development and network with other vibrant city regions around the world whose strategies and projects address climate change, uncontrolled growth and new demands on urban life and mobility. You have more outstanding examples to add to this map or want to share ideas? Then get in touch with us.
Climate change is having a major impact on cities and their surrounding areas, highlighting the need for new visions for the future and innovative solutions in many facets of our lives.
A coordinated approach at the metropolitan scale allows for a more efficient use of resources, strengthens regional synergies, and enables balanced development that takes into account both urban and rural areas, promotes sustainable land use, and protects natural habitats.
With “Mapping the Zero Carbon City Region”, MetroLab has developed a creative and visionary mapping approach to address the climate crisis at the metropolitan scale. It reveals multi-layered spatial phenomena and spatial relationships between the city and its surroundings, visually communicates key trends, identifies real needs for action, and illustrates how climate goals can be achieved through integrated, cross-border development, with a special focus on the Vienna metropolitan region.
Cédric Ramière
Stefan Mayr
Claudia Staubmann
Roland Krebs
Vanessa Giolai
Lena Diete
Daniel Wally
Paul Klema
The International Dialogue on Metropolitan Planning, consisting of a four-part dialogue series, kicked off in fall 2020 with the first two MetroLab Forums on mobility and urban growth. Two additional Forums on the importance of resilient urban landscapes and the new role and identity of city regions took place in early October and November 2021.
In case you missed the past events, take a look at our Vimeo channel where you can find all the video documentaries.
Be part of a creative knowledge transfer and let us know about your professional or personal perspective!
The SuperWien Metropole concept envisions the city region Vienna – Bratislava – Wiener Neustadt as a new capital for Europe. In the European context, it acts as a tool for the creation of a strong metropolitan area, while at the same time dealing with the region´s global status, managing its growth and defining its image and social concept.
The SuperWien exhibition aims to communicate new ideas for this city region that will guide further spatial planning. The visionary images primarily address the need for more regional governance and consider the area’s history and location in the centre of Europe. They suggest new opportunities that will enable the SuperWien Metropole to regain the international status it lost during the 20th century and define its new role in the future.
The site-specific intervention provides interesting insights into the morphological and functional development of Vienna‘s metropolitan region and poses provocative questions of future development. With formative conceptual graphics, the traveling exhibition generates new images of the Vienna – Bratislava – Wiener Neustadt urban region and starts a joint discussion with the interested public.
The exhibit was displayed in several public locations near train and subway stations in September and October 2021 and will continue to travel in spring 2022.
Past exhibition dates and venues:
20.-23.09.2021 Metro station Alterlaa, Liesing
18.-28.10.2021 Josef Deutsch-Platz, Mödling
Stay tuned for more opportunities to visit the traveling exhibition!
Take part in our online-survey and tell us about how your life in the SuperWien Metropole is shaping up and what visions you have for this common living space!
The methodology of the MetroLab is rooted in several previous projects following a co-creative and dialogue-oriented planning and design approach. Take a closer look at the individual projects here, or download our full portfolio for more information.
It introduces participative, integrative and creative-artistic elements and develops innovative metropolitan strategies as well as place-based solutions. Based on a co-creative and dialogue-oriented planning and design approach, it fosters not only placemaking interventions, but also the transfer of cutting-edge knowledge in creative urban planning and bureaucracy. Facing the immensity of contemporary urban challenges, the MetroLab works with an elaborated toolbox of metropolitan planning.
Superwien is a studio for architecture and urbanism based in Vienna, Austria. The office supports public and private institutions in order to achieve sustainable urban change. Besides developing strategic plans, masterplans and public space projects, Superwien specializes in participatory and dialogue-oriented planning techniques from the national to the global scale.
Lenaugasse 2/4
1080-Vienna
tel. / fax +43 1 4318261
CoCo architecture, founded by French-Austrian architects, is an internationally operating network office with three branches in France and one in Vienna, Austria. With its ambitious projects realized all around the globe the CoCo architecture and urban design studio reflects local thinking and traditional attitudes as well as modern approaches. It aims to be a catalyst for social change, putting environmental and lifestyle values at the heart of human endeavour.
La Touille / BP9 –
24 250 Cenac et Saint Julien
tel. +33(0)5 53 31 10 42
hello@metrolab.design
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Lenaugasse 2/4
1080-Vienna
tel. / fax +43 1 4318261
