SuPraStadt I und II

Quality of life, participation and resource conservation through social diffusion of sufficiency practices in urban neighborhoods

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1: Collegium Academicum Heidelberg (photos: Myriam Thuerigen; building plan: ifeu gGmbH)
2: Climate neighborhood Dorstfeld (photos: Stadt Dortmund | Moritz Niermann, Flyer: FH Dortmund)
3: Kelsterbach/Mainhöhe (photos/flyer: UMP)

SAVE THE DATE: 
Final conference SuPraStadt in Heidelberg on 13.05.2024

At the end of the "SuPraStadt" research project, we would like to bring together municipal urban development and climate protection actors with sufficiency researchers and practitioners, present key project results, encourage joint further thinking and invite you to experience sufficiency practices on a tour of the Collegium Academicum real-world laboratory.

Title: "How can sufficiency be anchored locally? 
SuPraStadt II - Final conference for municipalities, initiatives and citizens"

When: Mon, 13.05.2024, 10.00 - 18.00 h

Place: Heidelberg-Rohrbach, auditorium in the new building of the "Collegium Academicum" hall of residence

PROGRAM (preliminary):

• Welcome
• Sufficiency in discourse: narratives, necessity and benefits
• SuPraStadt project: real-world laboratories, diffusion formats and mechanisms, selected evaluation results
• Sufficiency in practice: CA tour, poster session "How to do it yourself"
• Sufficient living - but how? Living experiences in the CA and panel discussion
• Drink and conclusion

The final program is still being planned and will be published here soon.  

Please register by e-mail to:  suprastadt@ifeu.de 

About the project:

The sustainable transformation of cities requires reconciling the needs of residents, particularly with regard to social participation and urban quality of life, with the ecological requirements of sustainability, such as reducing resource consumption and climate-relevant emissions. Sufficiency is the strategic approach with which this task can be adequately addressed: It consists of changes in consumption patterns, everyday routines, social and cultural practices that contribute to staying within the Earth's ecological carrying capacity. Sufficiency practices in urban districts can be, for example, the shared use of space, the promotion of local mobility or self-provided, jointly organized services.

The project focuses on transdisciplinary cooperation with three real-world laboratories with three different lead actors: a civil society initiative in Heidelberg, the municipality in Dortmund and a housing industry company in Kelsterbach. The initiative for the conception, implementation and diffusion of sufficiency practices came largely from these lead actors and the implementation of their initiatives has already begun.

The aim of the Heidelberg Reallabor is to establish a local sufficiency network consisting of urban and civil society actors that contributes to the diffusion of sufficiency practices in the various districts and milieus. At the center of the real-world laboratory is the Collegium Academicum (CA), a civil society initiative to build a self-managed dormitory for students and trainees on the site of the former US hospital in Rohrbach. The ifeu supports the CA in the development and implementation of suitable sufficiency measures. These include, in particular, the areas of own contributions during construction, the organizational structure and the planned educational concept.

The research project aims to develop a systematic, scientifically sound identification and analysis of sufficiency practices in urban districts and the determination and evaluation of their ecological and social effects. In addition, the central question is whether and how sufficiency practices can be diffused into and between selected social milieus and which mutual learning processes are necessary for this. The diffusion of these practices is to be strengthened through a dialog process between the local actors and the research team as well as through interventions from within the project and subsequently analyzed and evaluated.

The insights gained in the three different real-world laboratories can provide solutions for integrating sufficiency as a guiding principle into existing municipal strategies and processes.

Project completion SuPraStadt I and II

Review: At the end of the SuPraStadt I research project, a closing event took place in Heidelberg on May 18, 2022. The recording of the livestream is available on the ifeu-YouTube-Kanal .

• Short video “Suffizient wohnen im Collegium Academicum Heidelberg”  (in German)