Gabu Heindl (PhD) is an architect, urbanist and activist; with her Vienna based practice GABU Heindl Architecture her work focuses on public space and public buildings, housing and urban justice. She studied the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, Tokyo University and Princeton University. In 2013-2017 she was president of the Austrian Society for Architecture. She is currently Professor at Nuremberg Institute of Technology and Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association, London and Diploma Unit Master at the Architectural Association, London. Her recent books include: Building Critique. Architecture and its Discontent (eds. G. Heindl, M. Klein, C. Linortner, Leipzig, 2019) and the monograph Stadtkonflikte. Radikale Demokratie in Architektur und Stadtplanung (Vienna, 2020).