Das Leuphana Transformation Lab

How can societal change be shaped in the best possible way? To answer this question, researchers across faculties and disciplines are developing comprehensive transformation knowledge for society. They contribute to establishing transformative literacy, which is the ability to understand transformation processes and to shape them together. With the Leuphana Transformation Lab, they create a physical meeting place and an international space for thought and experimentation. They build a network with renowned international fellows and practice partners, exploring new pathways for collaborative and innovative transformation research.

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The five interdisciplinary key subject areas address core issues of change in today’s society. The resulting new knowledge for future-oriented solutions is synthesised in the Leuphana Transformation Lab. As a cross-cutting theme of digital, socio-political, entrepreneurial-technical and sustainable transformations, possibilities for action and behavioural changes are explored from a psychological perspective.

A place for knowledge integration

As the central research infrastructure for the Embracing Transformation programme, the Transformation Lab is located inside Leuphana’s central building. Through inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge integration, the Lab will coordinate and synthesize transformation research in five key subject areas: digital cultures, democracy, entrepreneurship, sustainability, and organization. Questions of behavioural changes and possibilities for action permeate all research topics equally. Therefore, a psychology of transformation will be developed in the Lab. The results of the collaborative research will benefit students at the Leuphana College, the Graduate School, and the Professional School. They are, moreover, fed back into economy, politics, and society through knowledge transfer formats and innovation communities. 

Ansprechperson: Prof. Dr. Erich Hörl

Psychology of Transformation

Leuphana’s transformation research is permeated by the question of whether a transformation towards greater sustainability is possible at the individual level. In the Transformation Lab, the existing cross-faculty focus of psychological research is being further developed into a psychology of transformation. To this end, the psychological foundations of sustainable behaviour will be investigated through interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary collaboration. This enables an integrated analysis of factors influencing behavioural change as a cross-cutting issue in digital, socio-political, entrepreneurial-technical and sustainable transformations. 

Contact: Prof. Dr. Oliver Genschow

Further information: Psychology-Portal