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

Myassa Kraitt (Chairperson)

Kira Kirsch (Deputy Chairperson)

Carlos Toledo (Treasurer)

Esra Özmen

Gabu Heindl

Simon Inou

Ivana Pilic

WHW

THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD FROM 2011 TILL 2022 WERE

Cornelia Kogoj (Treasurer, Deputy Treasurer), General Secretary of the Minorities Initiative, curator

Luisa Ziaja (Deputy Secretary, Secretary), curator, author, editor

Eva Meran (Secretary), curator

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 Kişlal, (Chairwoman), director, dramatist, scriptwriter, artistic director of the theater project „daskunst“

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