verein zur förderung der stadtbenutzung

The “Verein zur Förderung der Stadtbenutzung” (“The Association for the Promotion of City Use”) was founded in 2011, as the supporting association of the new cultural project, WIENWOCHE.  The development and promotion of socio-political and cultural latitude for artistic, socio-cultural and civil society participants – also in the sense of reclaiming urban space - will be the focus of activities.

The members of the board are:

• Gabu Heindl (Deputy Treasurer)
• Simon Inou 
• Asli Kislal (Chairwoman)
• Eva Meran (Secretary)
• Esra Özmen (Deputy Chairperson)
• Ivana Pilic (Treasurer)
• Markus Wailand (Deputy Secretary)

„The members of the board from 2016 till 2018 were:

• Cornelia Kogoj (Treasurer), General Secretary of the Minorities Initiative, curator
• Luisa Ziaja (Deputy Secretary), curator, author, editor

„The members of the board from 2011 till 2016 were:

• Martin Fritz (Treasurer), curator, advisor and publicist
• Simon Inou (Deputy Secretary), journalist, co-founder of afrikanet.info and the communication campaign Black Austria, managing director of M-MEDIA
• Asli Kislal, (Chairwoman), director, dramatist, scriptwriter, artistic director of the theatre project „daskunst“
• Cornelia Kogoj (Deputy Treasurer), General Secretary of the Minorities Initiative, curator
• Marissa Lôbo, artist and activist in the Black and Migrant movement, chairwoman of the association "Forum Interkulturalität"
• Markus Wailand (Deputy Chairperson), director, author and producer of documentary, short and TV films
• Luisa Ziaja, (Secretary), curator, author, editor