Research focus: Sociological approaches
COMMUNAL PLANNING and gamification
- Smart City and swarm intelligence
- game based learning forms for planning game based learning forms for planning
- IT-based citizen participation
Prof. Gerd-Dietrich Döben-Henisch
Barrier-free and sustainable planning and construction
- Interdisciplinary approaches to the development of sustainable solution models in the field of barrier-free architecture and universal design. Development of new structural, inclusive systems in order to keep up with the advancing demographic, socio-political and economic changes to meet the changes in Europe and the resulting new challenges to our built environment. Creating synergy between the specialist groups: Architecture, Computer Science, Product Design, Social Work and Health (in cooperation with the disciplines Inclusive Architecture - Intelligent Systems and - Digital Heath Care and Case Management)
- Development of the design concepts under Consideration of social and cultural aspects
- Integration of energy-conscious strategies for the Interaction of people - energy - environment in a local and global context. Focus: Sustainable design concepts for Sub- Saharan Africa (in cooperation with the College of Architecture, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana)
Dipl.-Ing. (GhK), Angelika Plümmer
Inklusive architecture
- Inclusive and barrier-free design concepts in the field of architecture and universal design, in a national and global context
- Requirements for inclusive and sustainable urban spaces
- Future-oriented, cross-generational living concepts
- Demographic change in connection with housing in old age
- Research on the relevance of emotional spaces in planning processes
- Interdisciplinary development of concepts with regard to demographic, socio-political, cultural and economic challenges
- Cooperation of the specialist groups Architecture, Informatics, Product Design, Social Work and Health (in cooperation with the specialist disciplines Inclusive Architecture - Intelligent Systems and - Digital Health and Case Management
Space-use patterns and indicators, spatial perception and evaluation
- Creative techniques and scientific methods for dealing with aesthetics and atmosphere in design processes
- Space and product semiotics: signs of cultural and social significance
- Perception of space, ways of use and spatial structures