The ReSpace! research group is a cutting-edge initiative bringing together a vibrant, interdisciplinary team committed to rethinking space and spatial reconfigurations in response to climate change, resource shortages, societal and environmental transformations.
ReSpace! advances an integrated understanding of how spatial infrastructures and typologies can be transformed for climate adaptation – addressing climate change, resource constraints and societal demands in the complex interplay of global and local impacts. Building on cross-disciplinary collaboration between architecture and urban design, the humanities, social and natural sciences, and engineering, we will co-design, narrate, simulate, and evaluate innovative solutions for future sustainable living.
Partnering with actors – cities, municipalities, NGOs, non-university research institutions and industry – ReSpace! focuses not only on developing spatial role models, but also on transferring knowledge to regional and institutional stakeholders. The research framework envisions, develops, evaluates and proposes scientifically founded and societally acceptable concepts. ReSpace! lies at the intersection of two of the four of the TU Braunschweig’s core research areas Future City and Mobility.
With Ecoversity – Collaborative space for change TU Braunschweig is focusing on pooling the strengths of our high-performing research region and strengthening the support structures necessary for collaboration. It creates new spaces in research, teaching, administration, and knowledge transfer to enable even more intensive cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaboration, as well as to harness synergies between the university and research institutions, society, business, politics, and culture.
Funded by zukunft.niedersachsen, the joint science funding program of the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture and the Volkswagen Foundation.