General information

Course name	Blockveranstaltung: 08-27-GS-3 Real World Labs for Sustainable Futures
Subtitle
Course number	08-27-GS-3
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	4
expected number of participants	30
Home institute	Geographie
Courses type	Blockveranstaltung in category Teaching
Type/Form
Participants	Geographers, natural and social scientists and also educators (Pädagogen) who are interested in interdisciplinary and inclusive transdisciplinary research and science communication and who would like to (learn to) work in English
Pre-requisites	English needs to be sufficient for discussion during the seminar and for preparing presentations. No need for perfect English but the entire seminar will be conducted in English.
Performance record	During the 4-day Block Seminar I/we (there are other contributors) grade: 1) Individual participation; 2) a 10 min presentation of a short individual research/reading; 3) Group work There is the option of a Hausarbeit with additional credit points.
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja
Miscellanea	Veranstaltung ist auf Englisch
ECTS points	3

Lecturers

Marion Glaser

Rooms and times

29.9-3.10 2025, jeweils 12:00 bis 18:00 , Ort: Fahrenheitstr 6 (ZMT Seminarraum)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The idea of actionable knowledge has become key for research that aims to support sustainability transformation. Such research needs to support equitable futures within planetary boundaries to generate synergies and generate innovative solutions between academic, societal and other knowledge systems. “Real World Labs” and kindred concepts such as “Living Labs” are an increasingly popular, inclusive and problem-focused approach to the collaborative and societally effective generation of knowledge. This block seminar explores the range of approaches and their specific features and their relevance and innovativeness in relation to different spatial, political and institutional contexts. There will be group work in relation to the implementation and operation of exemplary real world labs.
Lernziele/Kompetenzen: 1) Understand and explain key concepts in sustainability research. 2) Identify and critically assess the features and relevance of Real World Lab type of approaches for key sustainability issues in the Global South 3) Elaborate suggestions for a Real World Lab in a specific context.

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