A new video series starts now to explore PREFIGURE project, its objectives, and its potential impacts while introducing the consortium behind the project. This series will present the experts behind it and offer a closer look at the innovative research driving this initiative. In the first video interview, we meet Michael Janoschka, the project coordinator representing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology.
Leading a dedicated team of three postdoctoral researchers and two PhD students, Professor Janoschka shares insights into the project’s core objectives and the groundbreaking research underway: “We want to look on how energy retrofitting takes place, and which innovative practices occur across Europe”. These innovative practices are called “Prototypes of Change” which include social, political, and economic innovations with the potential to reshape the relationship between housing, energy, and the pressing issue of energy poverty. The project will explore how these practices can be scaled to benefit communities in various regions. According to Janoschka, he is proud and excited by this project because PREFIGURE empirical research will be practically useful and applicable to the “common people”.
The video series will feature interviews with representatives from institutions within the PREFIGURE consortium, including the University of Amsterdam; the Center for the Study of Democracy; the Institut de Recerca Urbana de Barcelona; the Estonian Union of Co-operative Housing Associations; the German Federal Institute for Research on Building, Urban Affairs, and Spatial Development; and Malmö University.
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