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Dr. Heidi Dumreicher is the founder and chief executive officer of the Oikodrom: Institute for Urban Sustainability.
Oikodrom, was founded in the early 90s and has organized and implemented several sustainability projects in
towns, cities and town-hinterland-partnerships. With its broad network of researchers, non-profit-organisations and governmental
entities, it has formulated an interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approach to sustainability-issues. Oikodrom, under
Dr. Dumreicher, has not only organised numerous scientific conferences, but also large public events.
In Vienna’s 15th district ( with about 70 000 inhabitants), Oikodrom has initiated a sustainability process and
is continuously working on implementing Local Agenda 21.

With her intensive language knowledge she acts as an intercultural bridge between the participants. Besides her
mother tongue German, she speaks French and Rumanian perfectly, English and Italian in writing and speaking,
Spanish and Portuguese in speaking and has some basic knowledge in Chinese and in Turkish.

In her research-work, Dr. Dumreicher has specialised in integration-work to organise research between different disciplines,
including arts and non-scientific partners. She has been developing innovative sociological methods that consider
data-collection not as mere ethnical procedure, but as part of a participation- and empowerment-processes.
She is also working on a theoretical background for the generation of knowledge. She has presented the results
of her sustainability-research at numerous national and international conferences.

In recent years, she did several fact finding tours in the target countries for the HAMMAM research project in
Turkey, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt and built up most of the project contacts.

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Heidi Dumreicher, Bettina Kolb:
Sieben Thesen zur Qualität der Stadt, in: Was ist los mit den öffentlichen Räumen?, Aachen, Dortmund, Hannover 2003

Heidi Dumreicher:
The appropriation of public space as a space for living,
-in: Urban Ethnic Encounters, The spatial Consequences,
London 2002

ENCOS - 1st European Networks conference on Sustainability in Practice, Project presentation: “From information to knowledge” and SUCCESS (ICA4-CT-2002-10007), Berlin June 2004

Heidi Dumreicher, Bettina Kolb:
High Tech and High Touch in Chinese Settlements – Communication and Sustainability
-in the EU-Project SUCCESS, Presentation at CORP 2004 and GeoMultimedia 04,
Vienna February 2004

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine, Ernest J. Yanarella and Taghi Radmard:
Generating Models of Urban Sustainability: Vienna´s Westbahnhof Sustainable Hill Town.”
- In: Katie Williams, Elizabeth Burton, Mike Jenks (2000): “Achieving Sustainable Urban Form”

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine, Ernest J. Yanarella:
The space of flows, the rules of play, and sustainable urban design: the sustainability game as a tool of critical pedagogy in higher education.“
- In: International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Volum 1, Number 1, 2000

Heidi Dumreicher, Mag. Bettina Kolb:
Multi Polycultural Cities - Seven Theses on the Quality of Town”
- In: The International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)
“Metropolitan Ethnic Cultures: Maintenance and Interaction", Inter -Congress, Bejing, China, July 24 - 28 2000

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine, Ernest J. Yanarella and Taghi Radmard:
“The appropriate scale for “low energy”: Theorie and practice at the Westbahnhof” - In: “Architecture City Environment” Proceedings of PLEA 2000, July 2000, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Editors: Koen Steemers and Simos Yannas

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine, Ernest J. Yanarella and Taghi Radmard:
“The Westbahnhof Sustainable Hilltown: An Integrated Solar City for Vienna”
- In: “Building a New Century - 5th European Conference Solar Energy in Architecture and Urban Planning”;
Bonn 27th of May 1998, Eurosolar-Verlag, Bonn

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine and Ernest J. Yanarella:
Cities and Regions in the global Sustainability; Debate: Co-Evolution toward sustainable development”
- In: Austrian Network Environmental Resarch, “Regions - Cornerstones for Sustainable Development”,
October 28 - 30, 1998, Graz, Austria; edited by: I. Gabriel and M. Narodoslawsky

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine, T. Radmand and Ernest J. Yanarella:
Sustainable Hilltown Vienna: a Comprehensive Approach to the Future of the European City”
- In: “Rebuild the European Cities of tomorrow, shaping our European Cities for the 21st Century”,
Proceedings of the 2nd European Conference, Florence, Italy, 1 - 3 April 1998

Heidi Dumreicher, Richard S. Levine: Constructing Sustainable Cities:
Vienna´s Sustainable City Implantation“
- In: “Constructing New World; Proceedings of the 1998 ACSA International Conference”,
23 - 27 May 1998, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

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Selected Awards and Grants:

-- HAMMAM European Union Grant

--SUCCESS (Sustainable User Concepts for China Engaging Scientific Scenarios), ca. $2,000,000 European Commission, DG-Research grant to a 40 member consortium headed by Oikodrom: Vienna Institute for Urban Sustainability, 2004

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