A Hybrid Learning Path
- Topics: Self-management, Co-Creation, Sufficiency, and Sustainability
- Key Actors: Residents of the CA (Collegium Academicum)
- Outputs: A hybrid sufficiency path
- Client: ifeu institute
How can a hybrid sufficiency trail be designed to help residents and visitors alike understand sustainable lifestyles and integrate them into their daily routines?
Living together, living sufficiently
The Collegium Academicum in Heidelberg is Germany’s first self-managed student residence. More than 250 young people live and work together in a collectively planned and constructed building complex, organised through grassroots democratic principles. The housing project serves as a model for a sufficiency-oriented lifestyle that combines ecological, social and economic sustainability. The goal of the sufficiency trail is to make this way of life visible and communicable – for both visitors and new residents.
Co-creation on-site and online
A digital kick-off workshop with residents laid the foundation for the content framework of the trail. During the following on-site co-creation workshop, storytelling, spatial prototyping and implementation planning came together. A structured methodology enabled the development of participatory ideas that placed the perspectives of the students at the centre. The group was equipped with concrete tools to continue shaping the trail independently – both in terms of content and design.
From trail to platform
The result is a concept for a walkable learning trail that integrates digital and analogue elements – forming a visible interface between lived sufficiency and visitor communication. The concept includes modular stations that can be implemented flexibly in terms of both content and spatial design. In the next phase, KITE will continue to support the project in an advisory capacity as it moves towards realisation.
KITE Project Team
Alexander Müller-Rakow, Miriam Lahusen, Samer Becirovic and Susanna Ehrenberg