Multi-stage scenario creation using cross-impact-balance analysis (CIB) and REMix, taking into account path changes and disruptions
Methods for the Integrative Exploration of Design Spaces for Future Timber Buildings within Existing Urban Contexts
Investigation of social and technical potentials and challenges of the application of computational design methods in building design practice
The interdisciplinary research initiative at the University of Stuttgart is concerned with the development and application of simulation-based, digital visualization tools (VR/AR) for stakeholder participation in urban energy system transformations. The aim is to support decision-making processes and drive forward the energy transition in existing neighborhoods.
The goal is to analyse possible ways to motivate employees and students to save energy and help achieve climate neutrality at the university of Stuttgart. EKUS exponent i builds on technical research concerning single room intelligent control systems and sociological research on motivational factors influencing individual, environmental behaviour.
Mapping future changes in demand for electricity using cross-impact balance analysis (CIB)
In the joint project Genese, a systematic characterization of different aspects of societal change, the recording of the effects of change on electricity demand, a detailed modeling of the change in demand profiles and the evaluation of these profiles via the integration into energy system models with low temporal resolution as well as electricity market models with high temporal resolution is carried out. The CIB-Lab analyzes aspects of societal change and creates consistent, cross-sectoral driver constellations for demand change with the CIB, which act as a starting point as well as a link between the models.
Social, Environmental, Technical and Economic Integration
The objective of the research project ‘InvestAgent’ is to investigate how investment decisions in the renewable power sector can be modeled as realistically as possible and whether the decisions made in the model can contribute to the achievement of current climate targets as well as long-term security of supply. The focus of the analyses is on investment decisions in renewable generation units and flexible capacities with a special focus on modeling uncertain future revenue and cost expectations.
The NEWA2 research project builds on the results of NEWA-LIMA and further develops concepts and technologies for the indirect and direct use of treated municipal wastewater. The aim is to combine technological innovations with sustainable water management strategies.
Innovative policy mixes for housing affordability and urban redevelopment
URBANOME synthesizes environmental, social, and functional characteristics of a city into an integrative analytical framework that facilitates the identification of key determinants of health and well-being in the city. In doing so, it supports the co-design and testing of policies and preventive interventions to improve urban health and well-being through reallaboratories.
Structural-physical and social aspects of facade-integrated habitat systems for insects
The research project ZUSYNQ is funded by the Federal Ministry of Health and evaluates to what extent a structural further development of the Municipal Health Conferences in Baden-Württemberg contributes to an increase in the quality of public health planning.
As a consequence of climate change, conflicts over groundwater and surface water are also expected to increase in Germany in the future. As part of the Ladenburger Kolleg of the Daimler and Benz Foundation, a joint project coordinated by ZIRIUS is researching these possible conflicts. With the help of participatory modeling and serious gaming, future contexts and actor strategies are examined in their interactions.