RIFS conducts research with the goal of understanding, advancing, and guiding processes of societal change towards sustainable development.
In brief
Healthier Towns and Cities
Urban mobility is harmful to the environment and health. The Net4Cities project managed by RIFS is developing new methods for measuring air quality. Report on deutschland.de
Recognition for RIFS Blog
The RIFS Blog has been selected by the social feed reader FeedSpot as one of the Top 15 Germany Sustainability Blogs on the web.
Planetary Transitions Artists in Residence
RIFS Fellows Eduardo Kairuz and Samantha Spurr will deliver a performative lecture titled VOLATILITY on the fables of energy and its impacts and entanglements at the DAAD Gallery in Berlin on 01.07.2025. Using images and text, their distinctive practice in art and architecture seeks out new forms of representation in an era of climatic breakdown.