Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Our world is full of movement: Technological innovations such as AI and renewable energies are opening up new possibilities, while we are witnessing people around the world standing up for climate protection, social justice and diversity. As tiring as this can be, this time of change also offers us the chance to rediscover our own place in the world and actively shape it.
In our three-day excursion, we will take time to ask: How can we ourselves be part of positive change? How do we relate to the world, to ourselves and to others? And what are the interactions between our relationships and sustainability?

In the tranquillity of nature, we invite you to explore your inner strengths and see how personal growth influences external change. Connectedness and self-awareness are important skills for shaping a sustainable future. This is why we alternate exercises from mindfulness and yoga practice with experiential educational elements. The theoretical input is based on the concept of “personal sustainability”, which focuses on the relationship between ourselves and the world.

Aims of the excursion seminar:
– Activate and strengthen your inner resources
– Understand how inner and outer transformation are connected
– Experience connectedness with the group
– Develop ideas for a sustainable way of life and apply them in everyday life
– Strengthen future, innovation and vision skills

The excursion starts on June 10 “in the present” and ends on June 12 with a look into the world of tomorrow – both in the Zukunftsraum (Rintheimer Straße 46 in Karlsruhe). In between, there will be two overnight stays at Thomashof (Karlsruhe Stupferich). We will walk between the Zukunftsraum and Thomashof. Please let us know in advance if this is not possible.

Workload for ECTS:

2 ECTS: Committed participation in the excursion seminar, follow-up of the exercises and transfer tasks, written transfer reflection

3 ECTS: by arrangement with the seminar leader

 

Lecturer:

Dr. Susanne Gerstberger:

Susanne Gerstberger is a crossover artist between the disciplines of architecture, urban planning and landscape architecture. In research-oriented teaching and design-based research, she has been working at the Faculty of Architecture at KIT since 2014 on sustainable urban development strategies at all scales, from the meta-level of global challenges to ephemeral activism on the street, in the neighborhood. The focus is on collective design for a harmonious coexistence of people and nature. Since the beginning of 2024 she has been working as a research assistant at Itas (KIT) and is part of the Karlsruhe “Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change”.

Susanne Ober:

Susanne Ober is a sustainability scientist and works at the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at the Institute for Technology Assessment and Systems Analysis (ITAS) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

She focuses on transdisciplinary and transformative sustainability research in real-world laboratories. She is currently working in the project Universities in Society (https://kunah.de), which conducts theoretical research into the culture of sustainability at universities and implements it in a practical and experimental way.

Eva Wendeberg:

Eva Wendeberg is a geoecologist and works at the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at KIT, focusing on sustainable nutrition. She practices the experience and feeling of personal sustainability in dance and shares it as a yoga teacher.

Dr. Oliver Parodi:

Oliver Parodi, a trained engineer, philosopher and cultural scientist, is a sustainability researcher and heads the Karlsruhe Transformation Center for Sustainability and Cultural Change at KIT. In addition to transdisciplinary real-world laboratory research, “personal sustainability” and “deep sustainability” are a matter close to his heart.