Excursions

As part of the conference, we warmly invite you to an exciting excursion to the MobiLab. Established in 2021, the MobiLab is a mobile participation laboratory in the form of a tiny house, created through a collaboration between the KIT Center for Humans and Technology and the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change (KAT).

The MobiLab offers a unique platform for exchange between science and society. It is flexible and can be used for participatory research, citizen science, science communication, as well as participation and dialogue. This sustainably produced tiny house opens up new ways of collaboration and exchange.

During the conference week, the MobiLab will be stationed in the City Center in the frame of the KIT Science Week with an own programme from Tuesday to Saturday.
By taking part in the excursio, you will have the opportunity to visit the MobiLab and learn more about its use and innovative governance structure. Be inspired by the diverse forms of participatory research and dialogue that takes place here.

We look forward to your participation and to discovering the possibilities of the MobiLab together!

RoofKIT was one of 18 entries in Solar Decathlon Europe 21–22, in which teams of students from international colleges and universities built fully functional building prototypes in Wuppertal in the summer of 2022, competing against each other in ten different architectural and construction disciplines.

The team from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology won Solar Decathlon Europe 21–22 with their RoofKIT project. Over two and a half years of intensive interdisciplinary teamwork in teaching, research and practice, students and lecturers addressed issues of sustainable resource consumption, renewable energy generation and coexistence in the city of the future from an architectural perspective.

The building prototype is on display at the KIT Campus South – we cordially invite you for a RoofKIT tour.

As part of the conference, we warmly invite you to an exciting excursion to the Quartier Zukunft in Karlsruhe. The real-world laboratory "Quartier Zukunft – Labor Stadt" is an innovative research and development project in the eastern part of Karlsruhe, aiming to prepare the neighborhood and its residents for the future.

During the excursion, you will have the opportunity to visit the Quartier's "Zukunftsraum" and learn more about the various experiments and projects being conducted here. Together with the residents of the eastern part of Karlsruhe, Quartier Zukunft seeks answers to the question of how we can live well in the city today and tomorrow while respecting our environment and future generations.

Experience firsthand how careful changes are initiated through the collaboration of citizens, scientists, politicians, and private enterprises to explore the good life of tomorrow. Be inspired and take valuable insights for your own work.

We look forward to your participation!

At DUO on Kronenplatz, researchers and the public engage in dialogue on the topics of a just energy transition and sustainable, affordable housing. Within the framework of an immersive art installation and an interactive exhibition, key findings of the EU-funded research project Prefigure - coordinated by the Institute for RegionalScience (IfR) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) - are presented. Through creative and participatory methods, we invite participants to collaboratively explore how public space can be reimagined and developed as a collective “living room” in the urban context. Together, we aim to devise innovative approaches for climate-just and socially inclusive urban living in the city of the future.

As part of the excursion, participants will receive a guided tour of the DUO knowledge transfer installation and gain insights into the scholarly work of the Prefigure project. A subsequent discussion will provide an opportunity for exchange on the themes of a just energy transition and future-proof, affordable housing.