International Congresses

Urbanity and Infrastructure
5th International Congress of the IBA Stadtumbau 2010
20.7.2008 –
From the 17th to 19th September 2008 current and future concepts of urbanity and infrastructure were in the centre of the 5th International Congress of IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010. The congress provided insight in the infrastructural backstage of public squares, buildings and social routines. It is the partially invisible or inconspicuous infrastructures that ensure the day-to-day functioning of urban life. The range comprises utility networks as a technological foundation, but also educational establishments and social infrastructure.

City and Migration
4th International Congress of the IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 // 14th September 2007 in Dessau
30.10.2008 –
What role will the subject of migration play in the future of cities under the conditions of demographic change – particularly in Eastern Germany? International, national and local experts discussed this issue.

Photo: Kerstin Faber, IBA Office
City and Heritage
3rd International Congress of the IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 // 6th – 8rh September 2006 in Halle (Saale)
30.10.2008 –
Preceded by the congress issues "Civil culture and restructuring of the social" (2004) and "Profiliing of cities and strategies of their regeneration" (2005) the third International Congress of the IBA Urban Redevelopment 2010 focused on "City and Heritage: History as the future of the city“.