At home on the move: informed and sustainable living and mobility

The project takes a look at the life of postmodern, highly mobile people who can access information almost anytime and anywhere in order to shape their everyday lives. The technical, structural, infrastructural, ecological and social environment of these people is constantly changing, but the speeds and spatial scales of these changes are very different. Changes in the world of information and communication technology (ICT) occur extremely quickly, whereas structural changes to buildings and infrastructure occur more slowly and social change often takes several generations. This project addresses these developments on different spatial and time horizons and use two selected topics to identify potential for both structural-technological and spatial-planning measures (e.g. smart cities, smart campuses, smart homes). The two cross-cutting themes are as follows: The spatial dimension of residential multilocality (architecture). More and more people live and work in several places. What these places are like was investigated in a dissertation at the FG Regional Planning and Building in Rural Areas by Markus Kaltenbach.

Building on this, we asked which ICT technologies as well as which specific structural and transport infrastructure these highly mobile people (as pioneers of postmodernism) need in order to shape their everyday lives. New public spaces are currently being created in many places in Karlsruhe, e.g. as part of the U-Strab and through the planned opening of the KIT campus to the city. The potential use of these new spaces is a topic of this project; at the same time, we asked how users inform themselves about and network with these spaces using digital media. The connection between digital and real spaces, as well as the demarcation between public and private are topics that are examined in this project. The doctoral project “Campus and City: Lonely Together or Excellent Together?” is dedicated to presenting the relationship between campus and city in Karlsruhe. Hanna Jäger investigated this aspect in her dissertation.