The Housing Lab will be based at the Institute for Social Research (IfS) in Frankfurt. As a long-term research infrastructure, it aims to explore and actively shape the social transformation and spatial materialisation of housing through civil society interventions and political, economic or architectural experiments.
Within the framework of participatory research projects, methodological issues of transdisciplinary, applied and critical housing research will be addressed and developed.
In addition, the Housing Lab acts as a public contact point for the Research Training Group for research impulses and ideas from non-academic practice and the general public. In this sense, it serves as a link between the Research Training Group and civil society, taking up suggestions and translating them into joint or transdisciplinary research projects.