Summer City Trip
Discover Vienna with all your Senses
9. July 2024
This summer has Rudolphina pack its rucksack. Join us as we roam Vienna together with our researchers and experience the essence of the city with open eyes and ears.
Rudolphina Summer City Trip
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During the semester break, Rudolphina goes on tour: this year we join scientists on a summer city trip through Vienna and get to know the city with all our senses.
More about the Summer City Trip
In June, we cycled into the Danube floodplains and discovered human traces (in German).
In July, we will explore Vienna's (in)visible linguistic diversity and will join a Climate Walk to find out how our city and its people deal with heat islands.
In August, we will find out how so-called "neighbourhood oases" affect our well-being and hear the latest from space research on our podcast while stargazing (in German). Finally, we will immerse ourselves in the world of odours and find out what we can smell on our city trip.
A climate walk through Vienna takes us to Zollergasse. Here, it is significantly cooler than in the adjacent shopping street. This is mainly due to various cooling measures: traffic calming measures, desealing of the soil in the area of the planted trees, greenery in the form of Zelkova trees and, of course, the newly built 'Zollerbach' brook. © Alexander Bachmayer
Geologists Diana Hatzenbühler and Michael Weissl from the University of Vienna analyse flood deposits in the Danube floodplains and discover human traces - from radiogenic nuclides to garbage cans. Since they cycle from the lab to nature and back, their field research is as sporty as it is sustainable. © Mario Wasserfaller