The Housing Lab is based at the Institute for Social Research (IfS) in Frankfurt and investigates housing policy conflicts between polycrisis, authoritarian neoliberalism and the socio-ecological transformation of housing. Designed as a long-term research infrastructure, it aims to research and actively shape the social transformation and spatial materialization of housing through civil society interventions and political, economic or structural 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.
For inquiries and feedback, please contact Felix Wiegand (fe.wiegand@em.uni-frankfurt.de).