The upcoming changes in living and working in the post-industrial, globalised society will be complex and regionally very different. Strengthening local and regional circular economies will enable people to work locally. The new forms of life will also be reflected in the forms of settlement. New ways of life and forms of settlement will only combine with local conditions in a sustainable way if they take the effects of climate change into account with foresight. In Hombroich, in the Erft, in the Lower Rhenish Bay, pilot projects could emerge that provide important impulses in the transformation process and demonstrate possibilities for change as curated pioneers. The theme is how the spatial development of new lifestyles shows alternatives to the growth of metropolises, cities and rural areas.