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

Vacancies for researchers in the SFB

Our second funding phase has started and a number of research projects are offering positions for researchers (doctoral and postdoc).

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Job advertisement for student assistants in the SFB

As of April 1, 2025, we are looking for three research assistants to support us in the area of website/public relations, or with the New Library of Property, or to support project C05 (“Property at Universities in Germany, England and Brazil”)! The application deadline for all positions is 16.02.2025. For further information, please see the following links (in German): Job SFB Website | Job Library of Property | Job C05

Call for Papers

We invite abstracts for a workshop on "Identity-forming consumerism and socio-ecological transformation", which will take place from October 16-17, 2025 in Erfurt. Please see here for more information (in German).

Events

Kino am Markt; Jena

Movie series “Property in view”

On 11.02. the film The Land of My Father (France/ Belgium 2019) will be shown.

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