Dissertation: Floris Bernhardt

The dissertation "Living Locked Down - Living in Community during and after the Pandemic" examines the transformation of the everyday practice of communal living in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The study is based on the assumption that communal living is understood as a dynamic process and sheds light on how behavioral adaptations, changed living relationships and modified living situations emerge in the course of the pandemic. The focus is on the extent to which the lockdown acts as a catalyst for these changes and under which socio-structural conditions housing was perceived as more or less stressful. It also analyzes how the concept of community in housing - both during the acute crisis phase and in the post-pandemic period - is reinterpreted and implemented in practice. As a methodological approach, guided interviews with different household constellations and the evaluation of student essays from the acute lockdown phase in the Kassel study area are used. The aim is to systematically record the underlying mechanisms of the (re-)configuration of housing relationships and to contribute to the discussion on sustainable and resilient housing concepts in times of crisis.