The SFB short film:

About property in transition and the work of the SFB.

This film is the work of Catharina Göldner and Katharina Hamann.

The members of the Collaborative Research Centre in summer 2023

Image: Marlen van den Ecker

Welcome to the website of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 294 "Structural Change of Property"!

The Collaborative Research Centre pursues the goal of investigating the fundamental structural change of property that could be observed at the latest since 1989.  The Collaborative Research Centre contains a total of 23 subprojects at five locations in Germany: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (Sprecher*innenhochschule), Universität Erfurt, Freie Universität BerlinCarl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Technische Universität Darmstadt.

While private property has gained in importance worldwide since 1989 under conditions of increasing concentration and deregulation, the resulting property system has proved to be both crisis-prone and highly controversial in the face of new economic, political and technological challenges. It isn´t challenged only by the global financial and economic crises, but also by political conflicts over the appropriation, distribution and containment of private property, as well as by the dynamics of the knowledge and bio-economies, which are linked to alternative concepts of common property, shared use and free access to resources.

News

Movie Lichter der Straße at DOK Leipzig

Director Anna Friedrich curated and documented the cultural programme of the Nomadism Conference, which was organized by the SFB's A03 project in July 2022. Now her documentary film is being released, in which she accompanies four women who are nomadic in Germany. The movie Lichter der Straße will premiere at the Leipzig International Festival for Documentary and Animated Film.

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New publication!

Henrike Katzer, Malte Janzing, Christoph Henning, Jörg Oberthür, Hartmut Rosa (C06) have published an article in the Zeitschrift für Soziologie. In it, they examine whether and how the world relations of subjects change when property relations are set in motion. To this end, they look at practices and experiences of homesharing and analyze whether irritations and changes in relations to things, social relations and self-relations can be observed.

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Events

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Volkshaus; Jena

International Annual Conference "Beyond (Private) Property"

At the conference in Jena, we will discuss different forms of ownership that cannot be reduced to private property - which is dominant in modern societies - and ask about possibilities for organizing social relations in a non-property form or beyond private property. The programme is available here.

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Ernst-Abbe-Bücherei; Jena

Book presentation “Nach dem Privateigentum?”

Hartmut Rosa, Silke van Dyk and Tilman Reitz (the SFB's speakers) will present their book Nach dem Privateigentum? (available open access from Campus), which was published this summer and is part of the publication series of the SFB.

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Forschungsbau; Erfurt

Book presentations on the history of credit and debt

Felix Krämer (A02) presents his book Leben auf Kredit and Matthias Ruoss presents his book Auf Pump. Both books will be commented on and discussed afterwards.

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