Karlsruhe Real-world Lab for Sustainable Climate Protection (KARLA)
- Project team:
Parodi, Oliver (Co-project leader); Sarah Meyer-Soylu (Co-project leader); Marius Albiez, Annika Fricke, Andreas Seebacher, Volker Stelzer, Felix Wagner, Lea Herfs, Helena Trenks, Eva Wendeberg, Pia Laborgne, Johanna Sterrer, Susanne Ober
- Funding:
Ministry of Science, Research, and the Arts Baden-Württemberg
- Start date:
2021
- End date:
2024
- Project partners:
City of Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences, and 30 other partners from civil society, associations, business, and science
- Research group:
Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change
Project description
Real-world labs are in a special position to address the global challenge of “climate protection” by appropriate local measures. As one of five climate real-world labs in Baden-Württemberg, the Karlsruhe Real-world Lab for Sustainable Climate Protection (KARLA) aims in a triad, together with over 30 practical partners, to
- research, evaluate, and accompany the climate protection measures planned in Karlsruhe with regard to sustainability aspects (field of action 1),
- conduct concrete, multi-year “transformation experiments” in the real-world lab to implement selected climate protection measures (field of action 2), and
- institutionalize climate protection by developing and establishing a “climate pact” between the local universities and the city of Karlsruhe (field of action 3).
The aim is to eliminate unintended side effects of climate protection measures in advance and thus make climate protection more robust (1), to implement climate protection measures more quickly and diffuse them into society (2), and to ensure and synergistically expand climate protection in the long term (3).
The “catalog of measures” of the “Karlsruhe Climate Protection Concept 2030,” which was adopted by the municipal council in April 2020, serves as the starting point and central reference of the real-world lab. This ensures social and practical relevance and broad legitimacy, which is underlined by the commitment of more than thirty (completely different) organizations to participate in the real-world lab.
As is usual in real-world labs, KARLA pursues research, transformation, and educational goals at the same time and links these goal dimensions in the planned measures. General research goals are, for example, the identification of drivers, barriers, and organizational factors of transformation processes in the field of climate protection or the development of the “IKoNE-Climate”-tool for sustainability assessment of climate protection measures.
Transformation experiments (TEs) are at the heart of the work of KARLA. The focus is on the social embedding of climate protection measures. Firstly, the TEs serve to concretize and pilot climate protection measures and processes that are to be further rolled out and/or modified by the participating (and possibly new) actors after the experiment has been completed. Secondly, they enable the transdisciplinary development of system, action, and, in some cases, orientation knowledge in the relevant subject area and, thirdly, they give the participating actors the opportunity to develop roles for future climate protection cooperations in line with their needs and to negotiate mutual expectations. The following TEs are to be carried out in the coming years:
- TE1: Climate-friendly business travel (Contact: Marius Albiez)
- TE2: Sustainable climate protection in the construction sector (Contact: Andreas Seebacher)
- TE3: Specialists for climate protection (Contact: Volker Stelzer)
- TE4: Climate-friendly canteens (Contact: Annika Fricke)
- TE5: Car-free mobility (optional, Contact: Felix Wagner)
The selection and conception of the TEs was already carried out in the course of the full application in co-design with the relevant stakeholders and with the involvement of the citizens of Karlsruhe.
The geographic framework of the real-world lab is the urban space of Karlsruhe, with specific inclusion of the KIT sites. KARLA is a KIT project and is carried out with the involvement of the “Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change”. It builds directly on the real-world lab “District Future”, which has been running since 2012, and the “Urban Transition Lab 131” (2015-2019) as well as their climate protection-related follow-up projects, making use of the existing transdisciplinary infrastructures and networks.
Project website: https://www.reallabor-karla.de
Publications
Themeninput: Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz : Vom Quartier Zukunft und weiteren Projekten am ITAS
2022. Projekt BNE / Pädagogischen Hochschule Karlsruhe (2022), Karlsruhe, Germany, May 3, 2022
Real World Labs: transdisciplinary and transformative "infrastructures" : Concept, insights and examples (District Future, MobiLab, MyBalkonyNetwork)
2022. UULabs ’Co-creation workshop’ - campus as a Living Lab / Universität Utrecht (2022), Online, April 5, 2022
Nachhaltigkeit und Kultur
2022. Städtetag Baden-Württemberg / Tagung der AG Kultur (2022), Friedrichshafen, Germany, April 8, 2022
Reallabore… entering Metropolregionen? Möglichkeiten, Herausforderungen & Knackpunkte
2022. BMBF-Fachgespräch: Forschung für Metropolregionen als Innovationsraum für Nachhaltigkeit und Klimaschutz (2022), Online, April 4, 2022
Ein Versuch Nachhaltigkeit in Bezug zu Kultur und Führung zu umfassen
2022. Nachhaltigkeit und Führung - Zwischen Verantwortung, Gestalten und Zielkonfikten, Kulturlabor Freiburg (2022), Freiburg, Germany, March 25, 2022
Nachhaltigkeit, Nachhaltige Entwicklung, Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
2022. Kulturlabor - DiskursForum#2 : Kultur gestalten für eine nachhaltige Perspektive (2022), Freiburg, Germany, March 18, 2022
Reallabore: Auf dem Weg zu Identität, Ownership und Verstetigung
2022. tF-Symposium: Lösungen entwickeln und erproben (2022), Online, March 17, 2022
Experimente im Kulturlabor
2022. 1. Experimenteforum / Kulturlabor Freiburg (2022), Freiburg, Germany, April 11, 2022
Neue und Alte Energiewelten Teil 2
2022. Campus for Future (2022 2022), Ludwigsburg, Germany, February 25, 2022
Neue und Alte Energiewelten
2022. Campus for Future (2022), Ludwigsburg, Germany, January 8, 2022
#Lützerath bleibt. Die Kohleindustrie und ihre Alternativen
2022, January 8. Campus for Future (2022), Ludwigsburg, Germany, January 8, 2022
Energieversorgung der Zukunft. Die Rolle der Solarenergie
2022, January 25. BK TD2a-BK TD2b, IB Berufliche Schulen (2022), Reutlingen, Germany, January 25, 2022
Das ‚Ganze‘ im Blick behalten: Wie das Quartier Zukunft – Labor Stadt globale Fragen mit dem lokalen Leben zusammenbringt
2022
Reallabore als Möglichkeitsraum und Rahmen für Technikfolgenabschätzung
2021. Technikfolgenabschätzung. Hrsg.: S. Böschen; A. Grunwald; B.-J. Krings; C. Rösch, 374–388, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901990-374
Reallabor
2021. Handbuch Transdisziplinäre Didaktik. Hrsg.: T. Schmohl, 255–265, transcript. doi:10.1515/9783839455654-024
Herausforderung Reallabor. Werkstattbericht zur Reallaborforschung
2021. Gaia, 30 (4), 286–288. doi:10.14512/gaia.30.4.15
Konsumpolitiken stärken, transformative Schritte einleiten, gesellschaftliche Potenziale weiter entfalten : wpn2030-Impuls für den Staatssekretärsausschuss für nachhaltige Entwicklung „Bedeutung des nachhaltigen Konsums und Anforderungen an die Weiterentwicklung des Nationalen Programms für nachhaltigen Konsum“
2021. Geschäftsstelle Wissenschaftsplattform Nachhaltigkeit 2030 (wpn2030)
Reallabore für die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation
2021, November 3. Brain Bite (2021), Karlsruhe, Germany, November 3, 2021
Zum Verhältnis von Kunst, Kultur und Nachhaltigkeit
2021. Workshop "Kulturförderung jetzt in Zukunft" (2021), Freiburg, Germany, July 20–21, 2021
Nachhaltige Entwicklung
2021. Workshop "Kulturförderung jetzt in Zukunft" (2021), Freiburg, Germany, July 20–21, 2021
Karlsruher Reallabor Nachhaltiger Klimaschutz - Projektvorstellung
2021. Lenkungskreissitzung KIT-Zentrum Klima und Umwelt (2021), Online, May 4, 2021
Kulturlabor Freiburg - Kunst- und Kulturförderung zukunftsfähig gestalten
2021. Auftaktveranstaltung des Kulturlabor Freiburg (2021), Online, November 27, 2021
Contact
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS)
P.O. Box 3640
76021 Karlsruhe
Germany
Tel.: +49 721 608-26816
E-mail