AG Environmental psychology in transdisciplinary sustainability research

TOGETHER - SHAPING NEW PATHS

What prevents people from adopting environmentally friendly and healthy behavior? How can sustainable lifestyles be promoted and quality of life and subjective well-being increased at the same time? How can people be won over to the joint design of living spaces? The Environmental Psychology working group is working on these and other questions relating to the topic of social sustainability in various transdisciplinary sustainability research projects. The focus is on psychological processes within and between individuals

With practice-oriented research in inter- and transdisciplinary teams, the working group shows ways to

... to promote the social dimension of sustainability.
... ensure quality of life and subjective well-being beyond economic growth and material consumption.
... empower people to engage in a socio-ecological transformation.
... to bring social innovations to the wider population.

In our projects, we work together with people from different disciplines and practical contexts who bring with them very different knowledge bases, methodologies and backgrounds of experience. For good, practicable solutions, this expertise must be incorporated into the project work and brought together so that new knowledge can be created on this basis. This is why we systematically support the cognitive integration of knowledge in all our projects using tried and tested methods.

Our current and completed projects and this film, which students from the Faculty of Design made about us in May 2016, give you an insight into our work