The digital publication ‘Wohnschau Thüringen - Lebensperspektiven in dezentralen Räumen’ presents the outcomes of the research project ‘Plattform Wohndebatte’. It consists of 4 different parts, which together show, describe and relate individual concepts, projects, but also desires and intentions.

After a short introduction, which welcomes the visitor and gives an overview over the topic, the tour through the publication starts in the first part with the 9 theses on housing. Each thesis marks a fundamental field of action and is underpinned by concrete proposals for action. This part is the most condensed one of the whole publication, by resembling some sort of toolbox, its diagrammatical form and density of concepts continuously relates to other concepts, to other places in the publication.

In the next part the tour continuous with three different essays on dwelling in Thuringia. Two photographic essays and a section with a sequence of 8 textual essays. They show local characteristics, regional conditions and global connections in different forms. For the photographic essays two young photographers from Thuringia had been tasked with a personal interpretation on the topic of dwelling in Thuringia. After a couple of conversations, they went on their journey through Thuringia and returned with what they had encountered. Christian Rothe for example with black and white pictures of the clash between solitary large scaled logistic centres and the continuity of an apparently endless agricultural landscape. Robert Schlotter on the other hand presents a view of Thuringia, which underlines the crudeness as well as the poetic potential of the heterogeneity in typologies, spaces, materials and structures that govern so many parts of our countryside or cities today.

The section ‘Essays on Dwelling’ on the other hand collects eight short essays under the title ‘On Living in Decentralised Spaces’, a text which defines a series of fields and concepts that impact the way we live and dwell today. Considerations on the action of dwelling, on the digital and ecological revolution we face today, the importance of new kinds of infrastructure, of new ways of dwelling in old and new types of housing, of the social question, of new standards, the role of housing today and the potential of architecture as a unifying force.

The third part consists of a dictionary, which contains entries for all the keywords that define the topic and can be found in the different parts. It explains and links the most important terms with the various topics. The tour ends in the fourth and last part with a sequence of cases of best practices, which present different innovative types and concepts practiced in the field of housing in Thuringia during the XX. century, from the transformation of existing buildings to new constructions, from densely populated settlements to large-scale housing construction to listed buildings.

Even if the tour through the publication is composed of four different parts, which can be read and visited one after the other. The real fun starts, when one engages with the multiple connections that exist through the keywords and links present throughout the publication. One link after the other new connections appear or are established by the reader and hopefully numerous new forms of living and dwelling in the territories around us come about and are tried and practiced.