Study structure

What can tomorrow's sustainable ways of living look like and how can they be created, and what social preconditions are needed for this? Why do many things seem too expensive to us, even though we know that investing in sustainability comes at a price? Why do we continue to rely on linear models such as “growth” and “development”, which in many ways have contributed to the destruction of the foundations of life on our planet, instead of being open to concepts of sustainability that are circular and based on conservation and renewal?

The programme will not provide simple answers to these questions. However, it aims to lay the foundations for critical thinking about and engaging with concepts and practices of sustainability that are fairer, and therefore more effective than those currently available to us. In the programme you will learn to question the construction of concepts and practices of sustainability, identify dominant interpretations and universalisms in connection with sustainability, and question assumptions and certainties, thereby opening up debates and further developments that lie beyond and contrary to prevailing appropriation strategies. Only then, we believe, can we succeed in developing more acceptable, viable and thus also more “sustainable” sustainability concepts for the future of our world.