The HEATdesign team is looking for U!REKA researchs interested in an exchange about future joined research proposals and a general exchange of expertise.

The research group HEATdesign is part of the Research Lab for Sustainable Lightweight Building Technologies at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences ReSULT. HEATdesign is dedicated to developing innovative, digitally supported processes for climate adaptation in urban environments, exploring co-creative methods that empower communities and stakeholders, and designing resilient, microclimatically optimized urban spaces. The research group combines interdisciplinary approaches spanning climate design, social research, urban planning, and digital technologies to improve city resilience against extreme heat. The focus of the project is on the transformation of the spatial-structural situation; greening strategies are not investigated.

The key ambition of the HEATdesign team is a transdisciplinary research approach on three levels: 
a) microclimatic; b) socio-spatial and technical-structural; and c) digital and commons-oriented. 

The aim is to develop a scientifically sound, model-based process that allows experts, administrators, and local stakeholders to jointly develop prescriptive transformation scenarios for microclimatically relevant built configurations and spatial parameters in real laboratories. A key element is to address institutional and political bottlenecks and governance challenges. Central to this is the development of innovative data and information exchange approaches between real laboratories and Urban Digital Twins (UDT), enabling scenario-based transformations of the microclimate user-oriented building and spatial information.

Interested researchers are welcome to contact Claudia Lüling at Frankfurt UAS: clue@fra-uas.de

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