Welcome to Urban Research at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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Dr.-Ing. Christof Gromke (Institute for Hydromechanics), Dr. Somidh Saha (Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis) and Dr. Denise Böhnke (Division 4 - Natural and Built Environment) answered questions about urban research in the ntv documentary "Städtebau heute - Bienenwiese oder Betonwüste" (Urban Development Today - Bee Meadow or Concrete Desert): from experiments in the flow lab on the effect of street trees on air exchange, to insights on urban trees from the Green Lungs project, to the challenges of keeping our cities livable despite climate change. The program aired on Oct 28, 2022.

AudimaxING.

In its October issue "Big City Jobs", Audimax-Ing, the career magazine for engineers, reports on topics related to urban research. In the report "Big City Heroes", KIT engineers Prof. Philipp Dietsch and Prof. Jochen Kolb as well as KIT architect Dr. Peter Zeile provide insights for future engineers into work and research fields in the urban context.

Bauwerk

Advancing sustainable construction with wood in an urban context was one goal of this study "Colored Wooden Facades in an Urban Context" prepared at the KIT Chair of Design and Building Construction and financed by the Munich-based project developer bauwerk. Color can facilitate the acceptance and contextual insertion of wooden buildings in established urban neighborhoods - this is the thesis that was implemented and explored in a building project in Munich.

Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22

At the world's largest university competition for sustainable construction and living in the city, the KIT team was able to convince the jury with its energy- and resource-efficient extension of an existing building. The RoofKIT project (https://roofkit.de/en/) of the inter- and transdisciplinary team of the KIT Faculty of Architecture won the Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22 with their wood-based, modular solution - congratulations!

RoofKIT

A team of students, scientists and practitioners around Prof. Dirk Hebel and Prof. Andreas Wagner of the KIT Faculty of Architecture dared a fundamental change of perspective and rethink the building of tomorrow. How cities in the future will be able to create living space in existing buildings in a cycle-friendly, energy- and CO2-saving way was elaborated and practically implemented in timber construction by the team for the international university competition Solar Decathlon Europe 21/22.

Denise Böhnke

Making practical use of urban heat islands through near-surface geothermal energy to provide heating in winter and cooling in summer while conserving resources and the (urban) climate - that is Dr. Susanne Benz's vision. Within the framework of a 6-year research project, funded by a Freigeist Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation, this forward-looking idea will be advanced in the coming years.

Ministerium für Verkehr Baden-Württemberg

With the MOIA accompanying research in Hamburg, KIT-IFV researchers investigated the potential of ridepooling. This on-demand service effectively supports the traffic turnaround in Germany. This also interested Winfried Hermann, Minister of Transport of Baden-Württemberg at the DACH Congress of the DVWG in Friedrichshafen, where the shuttle to the RABus project was presented. Traffic simulations show that ridepooling can support the traffic turnaround, but that the greatest potential only unfolds with the expansion of public transport services and regulations for motorized private transport (MIV).

Anne Cordts, KIT

Karlsruhe universities want to implement concrete measures, develop joint projects and intensify scientific exchange

Svenja Jordan

This contribution in the Journal World demonstrates how more human-centered measurements for sustainable urban planning can be created by enlarging the traditional set of quantitative sustainability indicators. The authors C. Kramer and M. Wagner argue for taking people’s perception and the spatiality and temporality of their daily activities better into account when further developing urban sustainability indicators and when aiming for a sustainable, human-centered urban development

Markus Kaltenbach

Project report by Markus Kaltenbach on the spatial relevance of work-related secondary residences - recommendations for the transformation of the former post office area in Karlsruhe.

Stefan Emeis, KIT

This new paper by Joachim Fallmann and Stefan Emeis intends to provide a review of existing literature from a meteorological perspective in order to answer the question how results from urban climate studies can be linked to architectural design of future urban areas. Results from state of the art research are evaluated and critically addressed, hence providing a catalogue for urban planners and stakeholders which should serve as basis for a re-evaluation of the term ‘smart city’.

Experts discussed "smart cities" at an event at the DFG North America office. KIT-Scientist Dr. Sadeeb Simon Ottenburger presents research on resilience of smart grids and blackout in cities.

KIT, Gabi Zachmann

Interdisciplinary study identifies neural correlates - potential as protective factor for psychiatric morbidity – publication in Nature Neuroscience, link

RealCorp2019KIT

2 - 4.April 2019 
Karlsruhe, Germany

Is this the real world?
Perfect Smart Cities vs. Real Emotional Cities

24th International Conference on Urban Planning
and Regional Development in the Information Society
GeoMultimedia 2019

Urban Emotions

Project Urban Emotions makes stress perception of pedestrians and cyclists measurable / Linking body reaction and position data provides information on spatial perception

Markus Breig / KIT

Researchers from Karlsruhe and Ottawa lead an international research project on the relationship between user behaviour and the energy performance of buildings

Online dossier on the development of megacities, urban climate & quality of life, ressources, and natural hazards (in German).

Every first Friday in the month, 7 pm. In the first podcast the Environment Mayor of Karlsruhe Stapf und Ms Dederer (urban planning authority) talk on urban green, participation, and climate change adaptation.

KIT researchers present self-supporting structure made from fungal mycelium and bamboo in the exhibition „Beyond Mining – Urban Growth“ at the Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism.

Thursday, 20.07.2017, 20:00 at the Kurhaus Trifels, Annweiler

organized by the KIT Graduate School for Climate and Environment (GRACE) and KIT’s Urban Research Team

Develop liveable cities thanks to research

Short article with interviews on urban research in the magazine "Helmholtz Perspektiven" of the Helmholtz Association, summer 2017 (in German)

Listen to KIT urban researchers in KIT's research podcast (in German)
Episode 8: Lokal, global, nicht egal.

The test center for connected and automated driving will be set up in Karlsruhe involving the KIT.

KIT participates in two modules of the BMBF programme that aims at the development, validation and application of an innovative urban climate model for entire cities.

First Results of the “Karlsruhe Energy Research Partnership”.

Helmholtz Association and KIT Start the Innovation Hub “Prevention in Construction”.

Designing tomorrow today.