Urban Office – Sustainable Urban Development in the Knowledge Society

Urban Office – Sustainable Urban Development in the Knowledge Society

Sustainable Development Goals

The Real-world Lab Urban Office – Sustainable Urban Development in the Knowledge Society in Heidelberg is reacting to the growing significance of cities in the process of the transformation to the knowledge society - by initiating, fostering and researching open inter- and transdisciplinary sustain able processes of urban development and by reflecting critical research questions relevant for society. Therefore, different organizational networks, communication structures and activities of inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production and transfer were conceptualized and implemented. Several (theoretical) aspect of a (potential) sustainable urban development were linked to current building projects of the IBA - Internationale Bauausstellung Wissen | schafft | Stadt (IBA - International Building Exhibition knowledge based urbanism). 
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