The Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change (KAT) combines research, education, consulting and process support. It designs, researches and accompanies your development towards a culture of sustainability. The goal is to build bridges together to overcome social boundaries, individual interests and outdated structures.
Leaving the old behind and daring the new, for a future worth living in.
Building on the experience, expertise and structures of the real-world lab Quartier Zukunft - Labor Stadt (District Future - Urban Lab) launched in 2012, the Karlsruhe Transformation Center is one of the first of its kind in the world. It operates at the interface of science and society and participatively develops and communicates knowledge and expertise for social change. The Karlsruhe Transformation Center operates a real-world lab as well as various research and transformation projects. In addition, it advises municipalities, companies and organizations and accompanies them into a sustainable future. The institutional background of the KAT is the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
You can find out more about the KAT here in the brochure (in German) or here as a short-description in English.
Das KIT-Seminar „Mehr Solarenergie = weniger Denkmalschutz?“ geht im Wintersemster 2022/2023 mit Studiereden verschiedener Fachrichtungen der Frage nach, wie Klimaschutz und Denkmalschutz in Städten zusammen gedacht werden können.
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Der Leitfaden "Vom Wissen zum Handeln: Selbstexperimente für mehr Nachhaltigkeit" soll zeigen, wie mehr Nachhaltigkeit in den Alltag kommen kann. Auf über 40 Seiten bietet er verschiedene Möglichkeiten für nachhaltigere Verhaltensweisen an.
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Zur Wirkung von Reallaboren auf gesellschaftliche Transformation in Richtung Nachhaltigkeit wird im Frühjahr 2024 ein GAIA-Sonderheft erscheinen. Ab sofort können bis Donnerstag, 24. November 2022 Abstracts eingereicht werden.
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The "Quartier Zukunft - Labor Stadt" is a real-world lab in Karlsruhe's Oststadt district. As a contact point for the population, for politics and science, it investigates the question: How can we live well in the city today and tomorrow, while taking care of our fellow human beings, the environment and posterity?
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A real-world lab is a transdisciplinary research and development facility. Science and society work together on sustainable solutions. This video from "Quartier Zukunft" shows exactly how to move from knowledge to action (in German).
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