Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research
| Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research | |
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 Institute building 2013 |
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| Category: | research Institute |
| Consist: | since 1992 |
| Legal form of the carrier: | Registered association |
| Membership: | Leibniz Association |
| Facility location: | Erkner |
| Arose from: | Institute for Urban Development and Architecture of the Building Academy of the GDR |
| Type of research: | Application-oriented basic research |
| Subjects: | Social sciences |
| Areas of expertise: | Regional development |
| Management: | Oliver Ibert , director |
| Homepage: | www.leibniz-irs.de |
The Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research (IRS) is one of the non-university research institutions of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Association (WGL), the so-called Leibniz Association . According to its statutes, the IRS has the task of researching spatial science problems and possibilities of the development of cities and regions in the national and international, especially also in the European context. The IRS is based in Erkner , a town in Brandenburg southeast of Berlin . The IRS is a registered association under private law and, as a supraregional research institution, is jointly financed by the federal government and the community of the states. Since January 13, 2016, the institute has been called the "Leibniz Institute for Spatial Social Research", previously it had been operating under the name "Leibniz Institute for Regional Development and Structural Planning" since its foundation in 1992.
In its research, the IRS deals with central questions of social science-oriented spatial research . Social and economic spatial interdependencies are examined and spatially significant institutions and milieus are analyzed. Questions of spatial control, planning and governance are also the focus of the investigations. The institute develops the basis for political planning and organizes scientific services. In its five research departments, the focus is on the dynamics of economic areas , institutional change and regional commons , communication and knowledge dynamics in space , the regeneration of cities, and the building and planning history of the GDR .
The scientific collections of the IRS dispose of documents and planning bases on the urban development and planning history of the GDR. These collections are based on the holdings of the former Institute for Urban Development and Architecture (ISA) of the Building Academy of the GDR , which was an organizational forerunner of the IRS founded in 1992. The tasks of the institute today also include the safeguarding, inventory, scientific indexing and gradual publication of these materials.
Oliver Ibert has been the director of the IRS since 2019 . His predecessors in office were Heiderose Kilper from 2005 to 2018 and Karl-Dieter Keim from 1992 to 2004 . The IRS has numerous cooperation partners in its reference area Berlin-Brandenburg and also on a national and international scale. Together with the Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography in Leipzig, the Leibniz Institute for Ecological Spatial Development in Dresden, the Academy for Spatial Development in the Leibniz Association in Hanover and the Institute for Regional and Urban Development Research in Dortmund, the IRS forms the 5R network of spatial science institutions.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 39.4 ″ N , 13 ° 45 ′ 22 ″ E