Open Heritage

Editors

Heike Oevermann is full professor for Heritage Conservation and Built Heritage Use, including reuse and adaptation, at Vienna University of Technology. She studied Architecture and World Heritage, practised as an architect, and completed her doctorate on the transformation of the Zeche Zollverein World Heritage site (TU Berlin) and her habilitation on adaptive heritage reuse of industrial architecture in European cities (Bauhaus Universität Weimar). She was interim professor at Otto-Friedrich Universität, Bamberg and is guest professor at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway. She is the author of a number of books and essays on the subject of heritage conservation and conversion.

Levente Polyák is an urban planner, researcher, community advocate, and policy adviser. With his organisation Eutropian, he co-edits Cooperative City Magazine and helps public administrations and citizen initiatives across Europe create new partnerships, cooperation processes, learning trajectories, and knowledge exchange around themes of spatial development, social inclusion, and environmental sustainability. He is co-author of numerous books.

Hanna Szemz¿ is a sociologist, and one of the managing directors of Metropolitan Research Institute, a privately owned think tank in Budapest. She has over 20 years' experience in research and con-sultancy in the fields of urban regeneration, social inclusion, demography, welfare, residential energy efficiency, and governance analysis. Recently, she has been concentrating on issues around adaptive heritage reuse, community engagement, and urban gov-ernance. She was one of the coordinators of the OpenHeritage project.

Harald A. Mieg serves as honorary professor of Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and president of the Berlin Society for the Study of Science. From 2005 to 2010 he established the