Research Institute for
Sustainability | at GFZ

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

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.

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