Chair for Architectural Informatics Department of Architecture Technichal University of Munich markethousingtheofmapDiscrimination chartsDiscriminationstoriesPersonal mapDiscriminationNEUPERLACH,DISCRIMINATIONCURRENTTHESHOWSSITUATIONABOUTHOUSINGMARKETAFTERYEARSPRIVATISATIONPUBLICHOUSING YOURADD EXPERIENCE CREATE AWARENESS! ACCEPTED TONEGOTIATE BACKGROUND? IFYESFROMWHICHCOUNTRIES? DIFFERENTBACKGROUND?YOUWOULDLESS/MORE,IFYOU beliefreligion/ diseasechronicaldisability/ mapof rentalpricespatternsownershipofmap ofmapdiscrimination archiveofdiscriminati-onstories discriminationcharts Contra- Immobilien Carlos Ivorra, Ece Tamer
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Started from the pre-defined topics of property issue and equitable housing, our research showed us the defficiency of data bases to cover all the aspects of housing and property issue, by only representing the material aspects in a way that confirms the level of comfort that was supplied in this sector.
However, also from personal experiences, we are aware that the issue of housing starts with the question of if you are able to get a place to live in at the first place, let alone the comfort and the greenery surrounds you. This seemengly available comfort levels of housing is unfortunately not as available as everyone for many. With the process of privatization of the formerly social housing stock, the equalisation that was created for the less priviledged ones puts this question in a higher level of importance, including the situation and changes of property ownership patterns, effecting directly the renter-landlord dynamics, and the ability of less priviledged people to find housing. And the invisibility of this issue with the lack of concrete data representation, pushes it to a place that is harder to discuss the possible solutions for the human right to housing.
we focused on discrimination in the housing market, starting from but not limited with Neuperlach.
Therefore, we wanted to create a collaborative interactive platform to amplify the problems and realities of the housing market as well as to find/ discuss possible solutions. Being the biggest problem of the housing sector as we see, discrimination is the focus of the platform and further data on property ownership patterns and rental prices as well as existing data sets are included in the project, which functions as an interactive page for people to colalborate and create a counter cartopgraphy which aims to be inclusive rather than creating a communal identity or characteristics, for everyone to join and enable a equitable representation in addition to the existing data bases on the issues of equitable housing and property issue.
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the social aspect, first important information we came across was the privatization of the social housing stock in Neuperlach that existed since 1960-70s for the Guestworkers at that time. And Neuperlach has gone through big changes of ownership from public to private,(between 2017 to 2020 7.000 socially funded apartments were privatized). Then we researched more about the current state of the property ownership and housing situation in the area, as well as comparing it to the Munich city in general.
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On the one hand we kept analyzing and mapping the density, transportation, typology, and facility distribution in the area, on the other hand kept on etnographic research about the housing situation and what people find most problematic and least. In the existing reportsfrom municipalities, we didn‘t see anything specific on this issue, however there were mentions about lock-in effect on specific neghborhoods, meaning that it is only possible to live in a one certain place for certain demographics. Nevertheless, this conversation also haven‘t been carried on.
On the technical aspect when researching what geo-data and remote sensing means and how do they work, we came acroos with terms such as participatory gegraphic information systems and collective mapping, accepting the defficiencies of existing data sources for urban and regional models, therefore trying to find a new, collective and inclusive ways to create data bases for equitable representation of the realities. That was a point we would like to
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Also the di erent variety of building typologies, leads into a di erent density in the area. Due to the low density of a 1- oor single family house, passing by the typical 5- oors buildings and ending in the tall towers of more than 10 Itoors.isalso possible to nd some areas with no density at all as there is only commercial or industrial activity taking place in those sites. Due to being a residential area, the majority of the space will have at least low density as there are people living barely everywhere, but there can also be found some spaces that have no density or that the density is higher because of social housing developed infrastructure.
Building typologies area diagram about the di erent ones found in Neuerplach. As the map shows, there is a huge variation of typologies; not only within the residentail ones, but also involving other of di erent uses such us the industrial activity.
The combination and intercalation of this typologies, leads into a huge variety of uses and users in the area. From the single family houses for accommodated people, to the social ats in the tallest buildings located in the central ring. By using this scramble of building typologies in the entire area, it can be seen a social and economical diversity as there can be found every kind of activity in Neuperlach without having to leave the neighbourhood. But all these typologies do not erase the principal purpose this area was builded; the residential one and acting as a “dorm-city” for Munich.
Social infrastructures in Neuperlach and surroundings and evaluation of the density of these activities.
These activities are not well fomented and the instalations to do them, they are nt well prepared to these activities. So there it is a lack of quantity and quality of these social activities.
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There are some areas that have an elevated ensity of this activities but it is only elevated if we compare it into the ones in the neighbourhood.
Building oor area of the buildings in Neuperlach to research the footprint marked of the human-made objects in the area and to see if there is any relationship between building that are located next to each other.
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U-Bahn stops radius of interaction of 300 and 750 meters Bus stops radius of interaction of 300 and 750 meters Taxi stops radius of interaction of 300 and 750 meters S-Bahn stops radius of interaction of 300 and 750 meters
S-Bahn stops only cover the the end the sbah and ubahn are make the change. managed in the area as the entire accessible by walking to any bus stops Taxi stops also are accessible and bahn stops to get into any area as covered by public transportation.
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It can be found some spaces from nature entering the city as the forest land and some former military areas as long as you go away from the neighbourhood. But there are some secondary uses such as commercial, industrial, farmland at the very end of the city; and some green and open areas dedicated to leisure and sport activities.
Analysis of the Theodor-Heuss-Platz in the center of Neuerplach of the di erent public, private and mixed spaces between buildings and open Inareas.this area there is a confusing idea of the public property due to most of it belonging to private buildings, and leading into a confusing open space about property. In the map it is shown an approximation of the ownership in the area by a in person research and more information founded in public sites.
Land use in Neuperlach and its surroundings. The dominant one is obvusly the residential as this is conceptualized as a “dorm-city” for Munich and people who live here are majority workers.
By watching at the radius of interaction maps on the right of the page, U-Bahn stops completely cover the entire Neuperlach an you can get into one of these by walking less than 15 minutes. But S-Bahn stops only cover the southern part although at the end the sbah and ubahn are connected in a stop to make the change. Bus stops are well managed in the area as the entire neighbourhood is accessible by walking to any bus stops in less than 300 meters. Taxi stops also are accessible and are located next to the bahn stops to get into any area as fast as possible.
Mapping of public tranportation and bycicle stops in Neu perlach and surroundings. As it is shown there are plenty of public transportation accessibility overall. But as this neighbourhood is part of the southern part of Munich it takes a bunch of time to get to the city centre from Neuperlach.
All in all this area is well covered by public transportation. U-Bahn stops radius of interaction of 300 and 750 meters Bus stops radius of interaction of 300 and 750 meters
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Total housing cost burden ratio (rent and property), by income class and by household type length of stay in the apartment in years –by gender, age, income, household size of building to household age and total Age Total 18-29 years 30-59 pooryears60+ above children with children german without migration background german with migration backgroundforeign
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of the average locations in the rent index of residential areas in Munich. However, rent prices are not enough to measure the equitability of the housing estate by itself. Keeping in mind the high population of migrant backgrounds people in the area, affordability(income/rent), access to public amenities, and infrastructure, are other important parameters of this issue. Therefore employment and unemployment rates, as well as the length of stay at the same house, mobility rate, building typologies, density, migrant population rate, and the distribution of functions and their accessibility, have been investigated, to see a correlation among them.
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Situated in the south-ost of Munich, Neuperlach has an image similar to a dorm city. High-rise, high-density built environment hosts housing for not only the local people but also the migrant population. This research investigates the property issue and equitable housing in the neighborhood by using the tools of geo-data and remote sensing. According to the statistics, the biggest problem in Munich is housing and more specifically equitable housing. People do not complain much about the physical aspect, but the intangible things make the issue complicated. It has been marked as the field in which the highest ratio of discrimination is Neuperlachexperienced.standsasone
The planned social infrastructures are not used as imagined and the functioning machine seems to function not just for itself but also creates a kind of lock-in effect, preventing the fluidity between socio-economical classes. Strict separation of functions throughout the neighborhood causes heterogenous accessibility rates to different amenities such as commercial areas, businesses, and green spaces. Designed as a functioning machine, the neighborhood functions, but lacks social sustainability because of those divisions and the lack of inbetween spaces, especially the abandoned common spaces in the big building blocks.
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18 Klinik Neuperlach SIEMENS PEP ChemieWackerDeutcheRentenVersicherung Lock- in e ect 11-12 €/m²11 €/m² 1212€/m²€/m² 12 €/m² €/m²12 15 €/m² €/m²15 €/m²15 €/m²15 €/m²15 €/m²15 €/m²15 €/m²15 €/m²1315 €/m² 15 €/m²15€/m² 15 €/m² 15 €/m² 15 €/m² 17 €/m² 17 €/m² 17 €/m² 17 €/m² 17 €/m² 18 €/m² 19 €/m² 19 €/m² €/m²17€/m²17 €/m²1717€/m² €/m²13 €/m²1013 €/m² 13 €/m² 13 €/m² 20 €/m² 20 €/m² 16 €/m² 16 €/m² 16 €/m² €/m²18 €/m²19 15 €/m² 14 €/m² €/m²13 €/m²13 €/m²13 13 €/m² €/m²13 €/m²13€/m²1313€/m² €/m²14€/m²14 €/m²14€/m²20€/m²15 16 €/m² 16 €/m² 16 €/m² 18 €/m² 18 €/m² 18 €/m² 18 €/m² Waldperlach rateUnemployment 4,9 % 20 % 50 % + 28311 2,7 % 5,9 % 5,1 % lenght of stay at the same house mobility*years rate *per 1000 residents 9266,7years 36188.720%%30.000 5-10.000 City of Munich 13.5 years 13.7 +years173.3 employmentschoolaftergymnasiumfamilyprimary 5-10.000 main sectors of emp loyment in the area: information & service a ordability map income/rent Places of discrimination (for people with experiences of discrimination) very often often sometimes rarely never In the housing market (e.g. renting or buying an apartment) In the private sphere (e.g. family, circle of friends) In the health or care sector (e.g. hospital, retirement home) In education (e.g. kindergarten, school, university) In the private sphere (e.g. family, circle of friends) In public or during leisure time (e.g. on the street, in the park, on public transport, in clubs) In shops or in the service sector (e.g. supermarket, restaurants, insurance companies, banks) On the internet or in the media (e.g. social networks, newspaper, television) At the police station At o ices or authorities (e.g. employment agency, immigration o ice) backgroundmigrationforeigners
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After the workshop, we focused more on the practice of commoning as a way to counteract the limitations of formal databases. We first thought of commoning only in the physical aspect and tried to find a digital way for it. However, all the example cases we went through were only focused on the physical aspect. So our question became „how to create digital commons?“.
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First, we wanted to create a hybrid platform for the residents of Neuperlach, re-facilitating the abandoned community rooms and creating a digital twin of it where the meetings can be not only held but also archived and shared with everyone. This was kind of an answer to transfer physical commons into digital, but the problems about how to get people into these physical spaces remained, as well as translation of physical meetings to digital was too complex for us to solve, in terms of the organization requiring professional background or experience in a similar context at least, and we did not have any of the above. So we decided to continue with the digital aspect, and after much research, our focus is refined as pointing to discrimination in the housing market. To test if people would join the platform, we published a trial set of questions using google forms, testing if people would put their inputs. Although the sample group was quite limited by the WhatsApp/ telegram groups that we are also in, in 3 days we got feedback from 70 people. That gave us hope and determinism to continue from this aspect.
20 Physical event Online event example case: planning the urban gardenworkshop for planning the urban garden upload the results online DATA SHARING click and see the reasons placepreferances/forobjectionsyourownpreferance/objectionanalysisofinputspublishing the analysis of inputs meeting for details/steps(decisions/furtherexecutions) DATA ARCHIVE Physical event Online event example case: planning the urban gardenworkshop for planning the urban garden upload the results online DATA SHARING click and see the reasons placepreferances/forobjectionsyourownpreferance/objectionanalysisofinputspublishing the analysis of inputs meeting for details/steps(decisions/furtherexecutions) DATA ARCHIVE DATA
EVERYONE EXPRESSED THEMSEL VES PRETTY CLEAR. LET‛S START PLANTING THE PLACE THAT MOST OF THE PEOPLE AGREED ON!SO THE RESULTS ARE HERE. HOW SHOULD WE GO ON? YES THAT IS A GREAT IDEA. I WAS ALSO THINKING MAYBE WE CAN DEVELOP THIS IDEA FURTHER. OUR GARDEN DOESN‛T HAVE TO BE ONLY HORIZONTAL, WE CAN ALSO DISCUSS GOING DOVERTICAL!YOUMEAN LIKE BETWEEN THE BALCO NIES? YES THAT IS A GREAT IDEA! LET‛S DISCUSS THIS IN ANOTHER MEETING! I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE GARDEN RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY DOOR. BECAUSE I AM OLD, I CANNOT WALK TOO MUCH NO ONE EVER WALKS FROM HERE! HOW WILL THE GARDEN BE MAIN TAINED? NO THEY WILL HARM THE PLANTS! THE GARDEN CAN ALSO BE OUTSIDE OF THE WOHNRING AS A CONNECTION WITH THE SURROUNDINGS. LET‛S TRY HERE! IT SHOULD BE NEAR THE SCHOOL FOR THE KIDS TO SEE AND LEARN PLAN TING! WELL AT THE END, IT IS NOT ALSO JUST DOING WHAT THE MAJORITY WANTS. WE ARE DOING THIS TO LET ALL OF US BE HEARD! EXACTLY! THIS IS AN INFORMAL WAY OF MAKING DECISIONS, ALSO THE ONES WITH LESS POPULAR VOTES SHOULD BE SATISFIED. THIS PLACE SHOULD BE PERFECT! VERY CLOSE TO SCHOOL, SO CHILDREN CAN LEARN ABOUT PLANTING!
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From that point, this contraimmobilien approaches the property issue from the contrary perspective, the practice of commoning to counteract its limitations.How the common data on property issues and equitable housing was governed showed us the inability of formal databases to capture the realities of the housing market, for us most obvious problem was the discrimination.Therefore, we created a counter cartography, an alternative way to collect, share and archive the data on discrimination in the housing market to reflect real life , in contrast to collections and exclusions of existing databases. Building this common digital infrastructure, people will interactively contribute to the discrimination maps and charts by sharing their experiences, and could find tips and resources on this topic to get informed or get legal help, since discrimination preventing the human rights itself is illegal. how to make a structural hack in the moment of the creation of an urban common that will enable it to become structurally self perpatuating, thus creating fertile ground not only for a singular spatialization of urban commons to appear, but to multiply and create a whole new ecosystem?
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3- Tips and resources to get informed, help, or report experiences in discrimination in the housing market, aiming to create a platform to get together the victims of discrimination and professionals who can help them.
1- Explaining the problem of discrimination in the housing market
The first and third parts of the platform are open for improvement, we focused on and developed the realization of the participation section of the platform, which consists of again five parts:
2- Discrimination Charts: Charts showing the inputs from the users, who experienced discrimination in the housing market, including questions about their demographic background and experience of discrimination, aiming to show if there is a correlation/ direct link between those. The data sets we put so far consist of the inputs we collected from a google form including the same questions, answered by 70 people in a 3-day run.
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1- Discrimination Map: shows the map of discrimination, with the Mapbox as the background with types of discrimination: racism/ ethnic identity, gender/ gender identity, sexual identity, religion/ belief, or disability/ chronic disease. The user can zoom in to find the location(house or apartment) where they experienced discrimination and drag and drop the location icon next to the discrimination types to the location, which facilitates also the bar chart on the right side of the screen, showing the ratio of types according to the accumulated icons on the map. Users can also filter the map to see the specific type of discrimination by selecting the type from the menu below.
2-Interactive platform for users to collectively create, share and archive their experiences in discrimination in the housing market
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5- DataArchive: The archive consists of two sections with the maps and graphics existing and created by us with the already available data on the issue: -Mapping: Building Density, Typologies, Social Activities, Public/ Private, Public Transportation, Economy, Floor area.
4- Personal Stories: The user drags and drops the location icon to the place of apartment/ house of discrimination experience. Then on the pop-up screen, there are questions to fill specifying the type of housing(WG/Apartment/ House), price, discrimination category, is it to rent/buy, and finally, after they also put the text input, by clicking to the button „save it!“, the system saves it on the map as well as adds the answer to the other maps and charts.
The questions include age, gender if the person has a migration background from where, how long have they been searching before moving into their current apartment, if they felt like their identity was a reason to get accepted/ rejected before, and if they were able to negotiate the price, which in theory can only happen if both sides have equal power, and if they think they would pay less or more if they would have a different background. These questions are chosen to allow quick input and point directly to the issue, and of course, open for improvement.3-Rental Prices: The map of rental prices shows the distribution of prices and works with the same logic as the Discrimination Map. It has different price categories on the top and users can drag and drop the colored dots from these categories to the map, where they know the price, which also facilitates the bar charts on the right to show the ratio of the categories on the map. Users can also filter the map for specific prices to see apartments in those rental price categories only from the menu below.
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All the workshops were great, but it felt quite squized, also if there will be a mapbox tutorial in the future, it would be really helpful, and maybe unity workshop could come a bit earlier on the trial prototype phases even, to play around and improveAlsoearlier.one suggestion can be from our specific topic. After the first idea of hybrid forum we discussed with the professour of Digital Architectural Commons seminar, Damjan Kokolevski, and made a presentation of our project and got lots of feedback from proffessour and the students. Considering the rich theoretical background of this studio, maybe a kind of a collaboration with such seminars can be researched. Because everyone is focusing very diferent things and sometimes there is already some work done in the same school, why not share and spread the knowedge.The atmosphere in the studio was the most peaceful one that we have ever been in. That helped us a lot to keep working motivated and thank you for that.
Reflection and Output
For us this was a totally new but mind opening way of thinking about architecture and digital tools. Thinking about dşgştal commoning options we came across with so many great projects, from using maps to coockies for common data creation, things we would never hear at any other studio. The only thing was, maybe because our lack of knowledge in this area, we struggled to understand a bit about what was expected as a project at the end.
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The readings were great to make our minds work more on these area. They were very helpful, but it took more time to do the readings each week than actually working on the project sometimes, for that reason maybe if it is possible that part and workshops can be a supplementary course with extra credits to the project, like many other studios do already with less helpful contents. And these are really fundemental, both basis and tools to realize our ideas, so just as a suggestion, making them another course that compliments the project would help structuring the workload and schedule for the students.
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