Klimafreundlich Bauen - Zukunftstauglich leben

The LifeLab housing project invites you to an evening event in the historic department store on Freiburg's Münsterplatz.

How do we need to build in a climate-friendly way so that our cities have a future? How can we keep housing affordable? How can we strengthen community instead of creating loneliness? In Freiburg, these issues have a concrete dimension: LifeLab is planning the region's first five-storey wood-straw-clay house in the new Kleineschholz district. The building and housing project brings these three questions about the future together on this evening.

Keynote "The beautiful transformation" (via video). Prof. Dr. Hans Joachim Schellnhuber is a physicist and climate researcher specializing in quantum physics, complex systems and sustainability science. He was the founding director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and has carried out pioneering work in key areas of climate science. He is currently Director General of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and founder of the "Bauhaus of the Earth". In his lecture, he will show why the construction sector - responsible for around 40 percent of global CO₂ emissions - belongs at the center of the climate transition.

Lecture "Together for a sustainable city". Prof. Dr. Ing. architect and urban planner Christina Simon-Philipp (Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences) is an expert in sustainable district development and urban renewal. Main areas of research: Neighborhood development, urban renewal, public space, real-world laboratories, teaching research projects. She is curator of the German Urban Development Award of the German Academy for Urban and Regional Planning.

Impulse "A building concept full of solutions - from practice for the future": Markus Wolf, master carpenter at Zimmerei Grünspecht eG from Freiburg. He will present the latest developments in straw bale construction at Zimmerei Grünspecht and show why the LifeLab project has supra-regional appeal.

Moderation: Mona Haas (Dachgenossenschaft Wohnen für Alle)

Afterwards, we invite you to an open Q&A session and discussion with the audience.

The event will conclude with a convivial get-together over drinks in the Historisches Kaufhaus Freiburg.