Well-Being Transformation Wuppertal - An Urban Transition Laboratory for Sustainable Economics

Project: Transfer (R&D project)

Project participants

  • University Of Wuppertal

Description

What do a sustainable economy, quality of life and urban transformation mean in cities such as Wuppertal, which are struggling with deep structural changes? How can impulses for more sustainability coming from the city’s civil society be described, structured and supported? How can quality of life be decoupled from material economic growth and resource consumption?

The project WTW seeked comprehensive answers to these questions, organized in the following sub-projects:
- Participatory development of an overarching concept of urban well-being, based on the existing set of indicators in the OECD Better Life Index, which was adapted to the city of Wuppertal.
- Mapping of different projects and initiatives run by the city, companies or civil society groups and evaluation of their relation to well-being.
- Networking and support of existing initiatives in order to further increase the creation of well-being while reducing environmental impacts.
- Conceptual and methodological developments as well as implementation of the approaches of real-world laboratories and real-world experiments.

Following the principles of transdisciplinary and transformative research, the research process did not only bridge various disciplines but has also taken place in a dialogue with the citizens of Wuppertal as well as organized actors from civil society and the city’s administration. Projects aiming to create well-being were co-designed and co-produced in three selected quarters of the city together with local groups.
AcronymWTW
StatusFinished
Period01.05.1530.04.18

    Sustainable Development Goals

Activities

Research outputs

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Researchers

  1. Johanna Raab

Publications

  1. The Assessment of Substitution Through Event Studies-An Application to Supply-Side Substitution in Berlin's Rental Market*
  2. Online CSR communication by listed companies: a factor for enthusiasm or disappointment?
  3. A Lyapunov-based Adaptive Control Law for an Electromagnetic Actuator
  4. Burnout und chronischer beruflicher Stress
  5. Verloren im Cyberspace
  6. Effective change management, governance and policy for sustainability transformation in higher education
  7. Soil chemical legacies trigger species-specific and context-dependent root responses in later arriving plants
  8. Erinnerungsakte.
  9. To Show is To Preserve – figures and demonstrations
  10. "How Bad Was He? Let Me Count the Ways"
  11. Pflanzengesellschaft des Jahres 2021
  12. Energy transition and civic engagement
  13. "Das muss man umdrehen und dann passt es"
  14. Orientation-driven photosynthesized carbon belowground mediates intercropped peanut microbiota changes for pathogen resistance
  15. Birth
  16. Bionik
  17. Mindfulness and Sustainable Consumption
  18. When (and how) ideas become arguments
  19. Learning to research environmental problems from a functional socio-cultural constructivism perspective
  20. Unfair wage perceptions and sleep: Evidence from German survey data
  21. Notting Hill Gate 3 Basic
  22. Towards productive functions?
  23. A Note on the firm size-export relationship
  24. Technological opportunities and their rejection
  25. Die Landung: SignalhochX (Projektbeschreibung)
  26. Editorial zum Schwerpunktthema
  27. Unterrichtsbesprechungen im Langzeitpraktikum
  28. Climate change and society - communicating adaptation
  29. Rekbaar en toch precies
  30. Evaluating entrepreneurship curricula
  31. Migration Struggles and the Global Justice Movement
  32. Institutional challenges for space activities in Europe
  33. Geburtstag im Zoo
  34. Die Büchse der Pandora
  35. Vergleichssystematik für Optimierungsansätze
  36. Personalisation as currency