Founding director of Austrian-based Oikodrom, a pioneer in integrated sustainability research related to human settlements. Heidi Dumreiche works in theory and practice on the future of the city, contributing to the Aalborg Charter, the foundational European document on urban sustainability. As initiator and scientific coordinator of numerous research and awareness raising projects, Dumreicher conducted sustainability negotiation processes between experts and dwellers in Vienna, China and six Mediterranean Islamic countries, and has developed with Kolb the theory of 'emotional co-ownership'. She is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Anna Lindh Foundation.