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Project From the Present to the Future: The Transformation of Housing Estates in Small Towns

Runtime 11/2025 – 01/2026

Small towns have a diverse housing stock that varies according to when it was built and its architectural typology. Depending on their location, small towns face very different challenges: whilst in o

Project Circular use of living space (ZiWoNu)

Runtime 08/2025 – 07/2030

Through transdisciplinary collaboration, a concrete methodology is being developed to promote more efficient use of housing at the local and national levels. The “Circular Housing Use” project focuses

News Less - different - communal: strategies for a fulfilling, resource-conserving life

Current tried-and-tested instructions for reading, listening and trying out show how sufficiency is possible in everyday life. Whether socially, materially or ecologically, the earth's resources are l

Publication Sufficiency practices in architectural awards and emission scenarios

In: BBBSR im Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (Hrsg.): Suffizienz - Forschung im Gebäudebereich. Low-Tech Bau., S. 48-53.

Authors: Patrick Zimmermann
Year: 2025

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Publication Quality of life, participation and resource conservation through social diffusion of sufficiency practices in urban neighbourhoods - implementation and continuation (SuPraStadt II)

Endbericht. Heidelberg, Dortmund, Frankfurt/M. 2025

Authors: Lars-Arvid Brischke , Patrick Zimmermann , Carla Cop , Tilmann Hüppauff , Karen Müller , Marcel Hunecke , Moritz Niermann , Immanuel Stieß , Laura Trost
Year: 2025

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Publication Sufficiency in urban neighbourhoods

Practices and formats for social diffusion in the areas of housing, mobility and nutrition

Authors: Lars-Arvid Brischke , Marcel Hunecke , Immanuel Stieß , Tilmann Hüppauff
Year: 2024

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Publication Die SuPraStadt-Toolbox. Praktische Anleitungen für mehr Nachhaltigkeit und Lebensqualität durch Suffizienz im Quartier.

OSF Plattform. https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/BKDXY

Authors: Tilmann Hüppauff , Kerstin Müller , Marcel Hunecke , Moritz Niermann , Patrick Zimmermann , Lars-Arvid Brischke , Carla Cop , Laura Trost , Immanuel Stieß , M. Rahm
Year: 2024

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Publication Building sufficiency – five measures for an unerring and just transition of the building sector

First published in: eceee 2024 Summer Study on energy efficiency: sustainable, safe & secure through demand reduction, Stockholm 2024, p. 585 - 593. ISSN: 2001-7960 (online)/1653-7025 (print) ISBN: 978-91-988270-3-3 (online)/978-91-988270-2-6 (print)

Authors: Patrick Zimmermann , Firdes Firat
Year: 2024

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Project Sufficient housing culture (SuWoKu)

Runtime 06/2024 – 02/2026

The research project aims to promote a housing culture in Germany that is characterised by needs orientation, intergenerational equity and environmental compatibility. Essentially, the aim is to devel

Publication From value creation to a value-creating society - a new way of working together

Authors: Lars-Arvid Brischke
Year: 2024

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