Program

• GEORG SCHÜTTE (Secretary General, Volkswagen Foundation, Germany)
• KERSTIN GOTHE (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany)

• PAUL POST (Tilburg University, the Netherlands): Recasting church buildings. Three notes from a Ritual Studies perspective
• SABRINA MÜLLER (University of Zurich, Switzerland): Fresh expression of church and the multifunctional use of churches. Examples from England and Switzerland
• ALBERT GERHARDS (University of Bonn, Germany): Transformations of churches as interactive processes. Examples from Germany

Chair: PAUL POST

• SVEN STERKEN AND CHARLOTTE ARDUI (KU Leuven, Belgium): Faith in the Periphery. Design Strategies for the Adaptive Reuse of Post-war Parish Churches in the Flemish Nebular City
• ALBERT REINSTRA (The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, the Netherlands): Church, government and citizens, and the reuse of places of worship
• REINER NAGEL (Bundesstiftung Baukultur, Potsdam, Germany): Repurposing churches from the perspective of Baukultur
• JOSEF ELDERS (The Church of England, Cathedral and Church Buildings Division, United Kingdom): Re-thinking England’s churches as public assets

Chair: SVEN STERKEN

• SILVIA OMENETTO (Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza", Italy)
• MARIA NYSTRÖM (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
• RUTA GINIUNAITE (Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, Italy)
• ANNA KÖRS (University of Hamburg, Academy of World Religions, Germany)

Moderation: PAUL POST 

• GIULIA DE LUCIA (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
• ELENA CONTARIN (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
• SAMUEL GOYVAERTS, NIKOLAAS VANDE KEERE (Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University, the Netherlands; Hasselt University, Belgium)
• ANASTASIIA SEDOVA (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)
• LORENZO SIZZI (Politecnico di Milano, Italy)

Moderation: JOHANNES STÜCKELBERGER

• JAN JASPERS (PARCUM, Belgium): The Parish Church Plan and the Cooperation between the Municipal Governments, the Central Church Administrations and Individual Church Councils
• MARIEKE KUIPERS (TU Delft, the Netzerlands): Reuse and cultural carrying capacity of age. Old city churches in the Netherlands
• NOTT CAVIEZEL (TU Vienna, Austria): The relationship of monument preservation to the sacred

Chair: JAN JASPERS

Planning the Church of Tomorrow in Dialogue. Results of a workshop with students of architecture and theology

• GERALD KLAHR (Architekturbüro prinzmetal, Cologne, Germany)
• JAN HERMELINK (Georg August University Göttingen, Germany)

Curse and Blessing. Church buildings in transition (Museum der Baukultur NRW)

• URSULA  KLEEFISCH-JOBST (Museum of Architecture and Engineering North Rhine-Westphalia, Gelsenkirchen, Germany)

• JOHANNES STÜCKELBERGER (University of Bern, Switzerland): Repurposing church buildings as a process
• JÖRG BESTE (Synergon, Cologne, Germany): Process support in the reuse of church buildings. Experiences of initiatives in North Rhine-Westphalia
• FRANK STROLENBERG (The Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, the Netherlands): A sustainable strategy for church buildings on all levels, addressing governance issues

Chair: JOHANNES STÜCKELBERGER

• PETER AIERS (Church Conservation Trust, CCT, United Kingdom): The Church Conservation Trust. The national charity saving historic churches at risk
• MICKEY BOSSCHERT (Reliplan, the Netherlands): Long-term experiences of a real estate developer and broker of church buildings
• ULRICH BOGENSTÄTTER (Hochschule Mainz, Germany): Professional management of church buildings. Development and outlook

Chair: PETER AIERS

• AMANDA AUGUSTIN, LORENA HÖLLRIGL, BJÖRN BÜCHNER, KLAUS REZNICEK (Hydra Kulturverein, Linz, Austria)
• RUTH ISTVÁN (Stiftung Kirchenburgen, Sibiu/Herrmannstadt, Romania)
• ANNEMARIE KASCHUB (Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany)
• LORNA MANJANA LANGNER, KRISTINA MARIE LILIE (TU Wien, Austria)
• INGRID MÜLLER, STEFAN, MEISSNER (Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Lettland, Riga, Latvia)

Moderation: KERSTIN GOTHE

• SEBASTIAN FLORIAN BETHGE (CasApold Association, Apold, Romania)
• RÓBERT ERDÉLYI (Ohrozené Kostoly - Religious Heritage at Risk, NGO, Vilnius, Slovakia)
• MADELINE GAMBINO (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
• MOLLY MILLER (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Moderation: CAROLINE KRÜGER

• PETRA POTZ (Planungsbüro location3, Berlin, Germany): Church finds City. The Church with its social services as a partner for social neighborhood cohesion
• KIM DE WILDT (University of Bonn, Germany): How to demolish a church. A case study on Caritas, Conflict and Catholicism in the Ruhr area
• CHRISTOPH SIGRIST (Großmünster, Zurich, Switzerland): Diaconal use of church buildings in urban social space

Chair: PETRA POTZ

• PETRA BAHR (Theologian, Regional bishop in the district Hannover of the Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche of Hannover)
• STEFAN KRÄMER (Deputy managing director of the Wüstenrot Stiftung, Ludwigsburg, Head of the Department Science and Research)
• TIM RIENIETS (Architect, Leibnitz University Hannover, Department Urban and Spatial Development)

Moderatoin: ULRICH KÜHN, NDR Kultur

• ROGER AHRENS (Ahrens & Grabenhorst Architekten, Hannover)
• HENRIK BOLDT (Melanchthonkirche, Hannover)
• YEVGEN BRUCKMANN (Etz Chaim - Liberale jüdische Gemeinde, Hannover)
• JOHANNES KOLLENDA (Kolumbarium Hl. Herz Jesu, Hannover)
• MARIA PFITZNER (Pfitzner Moorkens Architekten, Hannover)
• STEFANIE SONNENBURG (Christuskirche, Hannover)

Moderation: KERSTIN GOTHE

• MARTA DOEHLER-BEHZADI (IBA Thüringen, Leipzig, Germany): Church. More than church. Projects of IBA Thüringen in rural areas
• EDITH WOUTERS (AR-TUR, Centre for Architecture, Urbanity and Landscape in the Kempen, Turnhout, Belgium): Re-activating religious buildings as a common ground

Chair: MARTA DOEHLER-BEHZADI