The research focus Future Habitats aims to combine the strengths of the Faculty with its broad and interdisciplinary positioning in a future-oriented and internationally unique research profile. The research focus is intended to achieve both a more intensive interaction of research in the faculty and better connections to other faculties of Leibniz Universität Hannover.
With the research focus on Future Habitats, the Faculty places the topic of designing and planning for sustainability at the centre of its scientific and artistic research. Designing and planning for the context and environment of human living in a comprehensive vision aims to respond to the challenges of climate change, digitalisation and social change. With its expertise in architecture, urban design and planning, landscape architecture and environmental planning, the Faculty works in four interlinked lines of research on Future Habitats: