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Programme
2014
conference
Leipzig 20
Tuesday, 2.9.
Wednesday, 3.9. Thursday, 4.9.
Friday, 5.9.
Facing the current
crises:
critique & resistance
Visions and strategies
for transformation
Building alliances
Keynote
9 am
Keynote
Keynote
BREAK
10.30 am
Panels, Sessions
& Workshops
11 am
Saturday, 6.9.
Art
Panels, Sessions
& Workshops
Panels, Sessions
& Workshops
10am - 1 pm:
Closing ceremony
• Observer Remarks
• Closing Panel
• Interactive Part
LUNCH
1 pm
Art
2.30 pm
Introduction
for “newcomers“
Art
4.30 pm
5 pm
Introduction
for “newcomers“
6 pm
DINNER
7 pm
Opening night
• Welcome!
• Keynotes
• Opening Panel
• Music
8 pm
Panels, Sessions
& Workshops
Panels, Sessions
& Workshops
Panels, Sessions
& Workshops
Collective action
in the city
BREAK
Group Assembly
Process
& Open Space
Group Assembly
Process
& Open Space
Group Assembly
Process
& Open Space
Art
Art
DINNER
Panels, Lectures,
Music, Films,
Performances
and more
Panels, Lectures,
Music, Films,
Performances
and more
Panels, Lectures,
Music, Films,
Performances
and more
Dance like it‘s
(not) all over!
Concert & Party
Special location:
Werk 2
Contents
What does “degrowth” mean to us?��2
Welcome!�� 3
Thanks!�� 4
Organizing team�� 7
Programme
Formats and general programme information�� 8
The Group Assembly Process (GAP)��10
Open Space�� 11
Day 1 – Tuesday, 02.09.�� 11
Opening day�� 11
Day 2 – Wednesday 03.09
Facing the current crises – critique and resistance��12
Day 3 – Thursday 04.09.
Building alliances��31
Day 4 – Friday 05.09
Visions and strategies for transformation �� 49
Day 5 – Saturday 6.9
Closing Day�� 66
Enough is Enough for Everyone! Collective action in the city�� 67
Permanent formats - Installations, Exhibitions, Audiowalks�� 68
Fair for Degrowth�� 69
Invited Speakers�� 70
Artists �� 75
List of all contributors�� 77
Logistics and general information�� 84
Maps of Leipzig University�� 86
Maps of Leipzig�� 88
What does „degrowth“ mean to us?
What does “degrowth”
mean to us?
T
his is how the organizing team defines degrowth. You are welcome to
discuss this at the conference and online!
By “degrowth“ we understand a downscaling of production and consumption
in the industrialized states that increases human well-being and enhances
ecological conditions and equality on
the planet. We want a society in which
humans live within their ecological
limits, with open, connected and localized economies. A society in which
resources are more equally distributed
through new forms of democratic institutions. Such societies will no longer
have to “grow or die”. Material accumulation will no longer hold a prime
position in the population’s cultural
imaginary. The primacy of efficiency
will be substituted by a focus on sufficiency. Innovation will no longer focus
on technology for technology’s sake
but will concentrate on new social and
technical arrangements that will enable convivial ways of life. Degrowth
not only challenges the centrality of
the Gross Domestic Product as an ove-
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rarching policy objective, but proposes
ways for a radical change of our economic system, in order to create more
space for human cooperation and resilient ecosystems.
You can find different streams of degrowth within our organizing team,
from a focus on sufficiency and social
reformism to anti-capitalist and feminist perspectives. All members of the
organizing team reject varieties of degrowth that do not focus on securing a
good life for everyone, but we are willing to enter into debate with thinkers
who make such proposals. We do not
accept any right-wing or racist forms of
growth critique or any form of discrimination, be it chauvinist, sexist, racist
or any other.
Editorial
Welcome!
We are delighted to welcome you in
Leipzig for five inspiring days.
The focus of this Fourth International
Conference on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity will
be on concrete steps towards a society
beyond the imperative of growth. It is
therefore significant that this conference is taking place right here in Germany, because Germany is one of the
centres of the growth ideology. German
politics are shaped by the belief in economic growth and competitiveness.
This can be seen most clearly in the current European crises: The societies in
southern Europe are suffering from the
austerity policies imposed by the Troika, which were significantly forged by
the German government. Meanwhile,
Germany is celebrating alleged growth
successes without considering the impacts on people and nature. We want
to make a small contribution towards
counteracting these unsustainable policies, which cause great inequality.
We decided to hold this conference in
the city of Leipzig because it is home
to many of the contradictions which
exist in the growth debate. Although
it has been celebrated recently for its
apparent success as a growing metropolis, Leipzig is marked by historic experiences of shrinkage and the current
struggles for a right to the city for all.
Moreover, Leipzig has a diverse project
scene which already implements degrowth into practice. Thus, the conference takes place against a backdrop of
a city that offers many contrasts. We
hope the conference will have a lasting
effect on the city.
With the Degrowth Conference 2014,
we continue the cycle of different
events and institutions in Germany
and elsewhere. Previous international
Degrowth Conferences were held in
Paris 2008, in Barcelona 2010, as well
as in Venice and Montreal 2012. For
the German-speaking debate, the attac
congress “Beyond Growth?! – Ecological
justice. Social rights. Good living.”, held
in Berlin 2011 as well as the Enquete
commission on “Growth, Prosperity,
Quality of Life” of the German Bundestag (2011-2013) were very influential.
Participants discussed whether it was
necessary and possible to overcome
growth. At this conference here in Leipzig, we want to get more concrete and
together discuss and explore how it is
possible to overcome the growth paradigm.
The conference brings together interested participants from the public and
experts from the fields of science, activism, politics, movement, and art. We
hope that the variety of the different
event formats will engender a productive exchange within and between the
disciplines and perspectives and advance the degrowth debate. Therefore
interaction plays a central role on the
conference. Every day between 5 and
7 pm there will only be interactive formats to give enough room for exchange
and discussion. You will most probably
meet people whose understanding of
degrowth differs from yours. We invite you to take up these differences and
through discussions and analyses contribute to a further development of the
term.
The organizing team embarked on a
big experiment, when at the end of
2012 we decided to hold the Degrowth
Conference in Germany. Even though
we were sure that the growth debate
is one of the crucial challenges for society today, it remained unclear at first
whether this view was shared by many
other people as well and whether the
conference would find widespread support. However, the commitment shown
by the organizing team, which consists
largely of volunteers, the participation
of numerous partners and supporting
organisations, the encouraging feedback during the preparations and last
but not least your numerous registrations gave us confidence.
May the next five days offer a unique
platform for future experiments and
bold visions for all of us!
We are looking forward to finding out
which new insights, contacts, questions and ideas you will take home with
you and how the degrowth debate
in Germany and beyond will develop
further.
Best,
Daniel Constein and Nina Treu
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Thanks!
Thanks!
W
e would like to thank all institutions which participated in the organization of the Degrowth Conference 2014! All institutions are
listed below according to the intensity and scope of their involvement.
This conference would not have been possible without the commitment
of so many individual persons. The members of the organizing team are
listed on page 7.
Organisers
DFG Research Group Postwachstumsgesellschaften at the University of Jena
This research group was set up to conduct research on future post-growth societies. These are societies that no longer rely on economic growth. The research
group explores the growth constraints of modern societies and the contours of a
post-growth society.
Förderverein Wachstumswende e.V.
This association advocates the shift towards a socially just, ecologically sustainable and economically future-sound society beyond the imperative of the growth
paradigm. It develops, promotes and manages projects to this end and operates a
social network under www.wachstumswende.de.
Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie e.V.
The Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie is an independent and non-profit think tank
based in Leipzig. We develop and spread concepts for a social, ecological and democratic economy.
Research & Degrowth
Research & Degrowth (R&D) is an academic association dedicated to research,
training, awareness raising and events organization around degrowth.
Universität Leipzig
The research and teaching conducted at 14 faculties and over 150 departments
of the comprehensive university stand under the motto „Aus Tradition Grenzen
überschreiten“ (which roughly translates to ‘breaking limits is our tradition’) and
serve to enhance the inter- and transdisciplinarity of the humanities, social and
natural and medical sciences.
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Thanks!
Partners
Anstiftung Ertomis
The foundation anstiftung & ertomis promotes, connects and conducts research
into spaces and networks involved in urban subsistence and ‘Eigenarbeit’, do-ityourself. A key element of their work is also to create a new understanding of prosperity, where the quality of life is not just about having a variety of products on offer.
Brot für die Welt – Evangelischer Entwicklungsdienst
Bread for the World promotes projects and programmes of local partner organisations
in the global South and through lobby work, PR and educational work in Germany and
in Europe, it sets impulses for sustainable policies and economic practices.
bpb – Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung
The Federal Agency for Civic Education helps all interested citizens to participate in
politics. Its task is to promote awareness for political issues, to strengthen awareness for democracy and to foster participation in politics. Together with a nationwide network of federal States’ centres, and educational institutions, BpB provides citizenship education and promotes culture in an independent and impartial fashion.
BUND
Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND) is a member association and advocates sustainable development at local, regional, national and international level. BUND,
among others, also fights for an ecological agriculture, climate protection and the
protection of endangered animals and plants.
BUNDjugend
Young Friends of the Earth Germany fights for the environment by conducting campaigns, protest actions and projects. Young people below the age of 27 are committed to ecological and social topics, such as globalization and post-growth, food and
agriculture, energy and climate or biodiversity and environmental education.
Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES)
In more than 100 countries, the FES is actively involved in projects dedicated to the
construction and consolidation of civil society and governmental structures for
the promotion of democracy and social justice, autonomous trade unions as well
as upholding human rights and gender equality.
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (hbs)
The Heinrich Böll Foundation is the Political Foundation of the Green Party and
considers itself to be a think tank for policy reform and an international network.
It fosters the development of a democratic civil society in Germany and abroad
and has offices in 30 countries.
Misereor
MISEREOR is the German Catholic Bishop’s Organisation for Development Cooperation. It supports organisations in the global South (regardless of religion) in the
fight against poverty and exclusion. MISEREOR carries out awareness-raising activities and lobby work to promote global structural changes in Germany, Europe
and international institutions.
Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung (RLS)
As an institution for political education, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation is committed to a critical social analysis and bringing together emancipatory forces. It is,
as an equal partner, engaged in an international dialogue and documents important results of left-wing politics.
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Other partners
Media partners
Supporters
attac-AG Jenseits
des Wachstums
attac
Wissenschaftlicher
Beirat
Forum gegen unnütze und aufgezwungene Großprojekte
NETZ für Selbstverwaltung und Selbstorganisation e.V.
Transition Town Witzenhausen
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Organizing team
Organizing team
The International Conference on Degrowth 2014 is being organized by a
group of about 70 persons. As a group,
we decide by consensus, using methods
of grass roots democracy. We live in different places all over Germany, working
together via the internet and over the
phone and meeting in person every
other month. Most of us are not paid
and contribute voluntarily. We are supported by Spanish, French and Italian
members of the international network
“Research and Degrowth” (R&D). It
was R&D who initiated the Internati-
onal Degrowth-Conferences and has
been supporting the different organizational teams since 2008.
The main body is the plenary, which
consists of all active team members.
The work is done within different working groups: they develop concepts for
their area of work, agree on those with
other working groups if necessary and
carry them out independently.
Working groups of the conference organization and their members
Coordination:
Daniel Constein, Nina Treu, Jonas Bothe, Corinna Burkhart
Programme:
Gualter Barbas Baptista, Corinna Burkhart, Steffen Lange, Barbara Muraca,
Anne Pinow, Matthias Schmelzer, Christin Schmidt, Nina Treu, Andrea Vetter
Science:
Benjamin Best, Birte Ewers, Bernd Klauer, Steffen Lange, Barbara Muraca, Felix
Rauschmayer, Anika Reetsch, Dorothee
Rodenhäuser, Alfons Ruhoff
Practice and movement:
Janna Aljets, Frederik Grüneberg, Silvia
Hable, Niko Hübner, Nadine McNeil,
Anne Pinnow, Maximilian Schmies, Alexandra Vogel, Jana Werg
Group Assembly Process (GAP):
Gualter Barbas Baptista, Susanne
Brehm, Matthias Schmelzer, Francois
Schneider, Filka Sekulova, Andrea Vetter
We are trying to organize the conference
in a way which corresponds to the idea of
degrowth. We hope this is noticeable. You
can find out more under:
leipzig.degrowth.org/en/what-makes-thedegrowth-conference-special
Art:
Jan Deck, Max Heigermoser, Emily Keller, Melanie Bleckert, Pablo Paolo Kilian, Christin Schmidt, Tim Vollmann
Public Relations:
Ingo Bever, Karin C. Geier, Felix Kersting, Christiane Kliemann, Christopher
Laumanns, Pia Rauschenberger, Felicitas Sommer, Jonas Streicher
Logistics:
Lorenz Bachfischer, Jonas Bothe, Daniel
Constein, Jana Goldberg, Sophia Göppel, Nelly Lehr, Johannes Looks, Judith
Kleibs, Nadine McNeil, Konrad Neuffer,
Susann Reuters, Nic Riha, Steffen Rohkohl, Franziska Schories, Jana Stadler,
Max Strötzel
Finances:
Friederike Behr, Daniel Constein, Christopher Laumanns, Andreas Simoneit,
Nina Treu
Group dynamics:
Susann Reuter, Nic Riha, Malo Vidal
Our particular thanks go also to:
• All speakers and contributors: names can be found on page 70.
• Sandra Antelmann, Judith Bauer,
Miriam Boschmann, Daniela del
Bene, Federico Demaria, Sarah
Deuling, Thorsten Hinz, Miriam
Hunfeld, Thorben Knobloch, David Koch, Antonia Kotschi, Steffen
Kühne, Verena Landau, Gill Laumanns, Claire Lochet, Marc Menningmann, Mareike Nelle, Robert
Pritzkow, Christina Rupprecht,
Thomas Schoofs, Tom Unverzagt,
Veministisches KochKollektiv, Boris
Woynowski
• The coordination of the observer
team: Maja Göpel and Christoph
Gran
• The respondents of the full papers
• The interpreting coordination
team: Mercè Ardiaca Jové and Stefan Schade
• Our contact persons at the University of Leipzig: Simone Pohl and
Ronny Heilmann
• The projects that provided us with
spaces and rooms: Die ganze Bäckerei, Handstand & Moral, Haus
der Demokratie Leipzig, Rockzipfel,
Tagungsmühle Bromskirchen
• Our families, friends and political
supporters
• And all those we have forgotten to
thank or who gave us their support
after going to press!
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Programme | Formats and general programme information
Programme
Formats and general
programme information
T
he conference offers a variety of formats that are divided into different thematic threads and allocated to different rooms. Moreover, the
conference days will follow different dramaturgical steps. The events are
split up into general, scientific, practical and social movement oriented as
well as artistic events. However, great importance is attached to inter- and
transdisciplinary thinking and working in most events.
In order to enable a fruitful exchange in
all the events, we indicate the required
level of the events:
1. General events: no previous knowledge required (except GAP, see p. 10)
2. Scientific events: previous knowledge required; we kindly ask you to
focus the discussion on the topics of
the lectures
3. Practical and social movement oriented events: partly with or with noprevious knowledge required – please
check the descriptions of the events
4. Artistic format: no previous knowledge required
Please note: Some events require prior
registration; this will be indicated in
the programme.
Rooms
The different formats take place in different university buildings in rooms of
various sizes. To find out where they
are, please check the site plans on pages 86 and 87.
Dramaturgy
Thematic threads can be recognized by
their logos and help to classify the topics of events. The exact descriptions of
the thematic threads can be found online under http://leipzig.degrowth.org/
en/threads.
Organizing society
Building a social and
ecological economy
Living conviviality
Cross-cutting topics
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•
In order to provide a framework for the
discussions, every day is dedicated to a
topic.
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Tuesday, 2. 9. – Opening day
•
Wednesday, 3.9. – Facing the current
crises – critique and resistance
Thursday, 4.9. – Building alliances
Friday, 5.9. – Visions and strategies for
transformation
Thematic threads
any other language offered will be indicated on white dots. The respective
official language is indicated for each
event. In the programme, the English
and multi-lingual events are listed before the German events.
Saturday, 6.9. – Closing Day, with Collective Action in the City - Enough is
Enough for Everyone!
Languages of the
individual events
Given that we are at an international
conference, some events will be offered
in two or more languages. However,
many events are officially in German or
English only. For languages that are not
provided, people with coloured dots on
their clothes can be asked to offer whispering translation: red is for English,
yellow is for Spanish, blue is for French;
All opening keynotes and panels
in the Audimax and lecture hall 3
(Hörsaal 3) are in German, English
and a Romanic language (mostly
Spanish).
(Almost) all scientific events are in
English only.
Most of the workshops are either in
English or German, some are bilingual – please note the specifications.
Some events in this programme are
described in German, that is because
they will take place in German only.
Children’s programme
(and childcare)
In general, children may be taken to regular events, however, please note that
not all events are suitable for children.
There are some events that are particularly suitable for children and some
which are explicitly organized for children. Such events have been put together
on an extra sheet, which is available at
the registration desk and the childcare
centre. We kindly ask you to respect
the respective working environment of
the event, in particular when attending
scientific events. If you want to visit an
event and you are not sure whether it is
okay to bring kids along, please check
with us first! Information about childcare can be found on page 84.
Event formats
1. General events
Keynotes:
lectures from renowned speakers to
kick-start the day
Panels:
discussion rounds with three to four
speakers, who debate controversial
questions among themselves and with
the audience
Open Space / World Café:
open format, where participants can
discuss their own topics and explore
ideas with rotating groups
Documentation and online
discussion
Apart from participating in individual
events, there are other possibilities to
follow conference events:
The opening keynotes and panels will
be filmed and also largely broadcasted
live: http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/live
stream
In the individual workshops minutes
will be taken. After the conference they
are to be found in the online programme next to the respective short description.
Upon registering for the conference,
every participant will have login data
for the open source platform http://degrowth.co-munity.net/conference2014.
You will find all the scientific and GAP
documents ready for you to read and
comment on. The platform can also
be used to deepen your discussion and
contact other participants of the conference.
Group Assembly Process (GAP):
thematic discussions in small groups
that meet daily and work on concrete
proposals for degrowth; they can build
on processes of the previous Degrowth
conferences. The groups’ results will be
presented on the last conference day. For
more information on GAP go to page 10.
Special sessions with other format: scientific debates with workshop format
Poster presentations:
presentations of individual inputs in
the form of posters
3. Practical and social movement events
Discussion workshops:
interactive events where speakers reflect and discuss jointly
Practical Workshops:
events where participants get actively
involved, research and reflect – at the
interface of practice, activism and art
Excursions:
tours of projects and interesting places
in Leipzig
Films:
film presentations followed by discussions
Introductory course:
comprehensive introduction to the subject degrowth for all beginners
4. Artistic events
Fair for Degrowth:
a place of meeting and networking of
organisations, initiatives and projects
related to degrowth
Performances and interventions:
in theatres, lecture halls, public spaces,
before a large audience and in one-onone meetings
Book presentations:
authors of books on degrowth discuss
the content of their publications with
the audience
Installations and exhibitions:
artists from the fields of architecture,
photography, visual and performing
arts as well as activism exhibit their art
on the conference premises and in the
city centre
Special event:
an event with a special format which
doesn‘t fit into any of the other categories
2. Scientific events
Scientific lectures:
scientific evening lectures
Short film walking-tour:
presentations of short films on screens
and projected on building facades in
the city of Leipzig
Concerts:
space and time to listen to music together, to jam and to dance
Scientific paper sessions:
short presentations of scientific papers
based on full and short papers; please
note: the respondents‘ names are not
included in the programme. Respondents give a five minute comment on a
full paper to start the following debate
Special sessions: scientific debates with
short presentations on a specific topic
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The Group Assembly
Process (GAP)
E
xperimenting with new forms of collective
consensus building
The GAP is a three-day working process
among activists, practitioners, scientists
and artists of the degrowth movement.
It aims at developing concrete proposals
for the transition towards and the shape
of degrowth societies, and at mapping
existing areas of disagreement and open
questions for debate and research in a
process of collective and democratic consensus building. With the Group Assembly Process, we continue a process which
was started at the Barcelona Conference
in 2010. The basic idea is that people with
some experience in the field of degrowth
– be it practical or theoretical – gather
for two hours (5 to 7pm) on each of the
three days of the conference, changing
between small thematic working groups
and bigger assemblies that give feedback
on the working groups outcomes. These
discussions are based on so-called stirring papers, which are short and easily
comprehensible texts aiming at stimulating discussions.
The GAP working groups in
Leipzig:
Agriculture and Food
Basic Income
Childhood
Climate and Energy
Commons and Peer Economy
Consumption
Democracy
Learning for Degrowth
Money and Finance
Organizing Collective Action
for Degrowth
Redefining Value
Reproduction and Work
Resources and Extraction
Social Security
Solidarity Economy, Cooperatives and
Social Business
Sufficiency Policies
Technology and Production
Transport and Mobility
Urban Transformation
To make sure that in-depth discussions
are possible, each working group consists of not more than 20 participants,
who have registered for the GAP in
advance. All participants of the conference can follow the process and comment on the results – online as well as
at the GAP Infopoint at the conference
venue. For more information please
check there.
As a final big experiment, we will present the results to the entire conference on the closing day Saturday 6th
September. This will include the emerging consensus, controversies, research
questions and actions, which the working groups have developed. Everyone
can show immediate consent or dissent with the results using hand signs.
The GAP will thus be an experiment in
collective consensus building at a big
conference and another small step on
the long path towards a democratic degrowth society.
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More info:
http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/gap/
Programme | Tuesday | 02.09. | Opening day
Open Space
The aim of an open space is to create
time and space for people to engage
deeply and creatively around issues of
concern to them, which means there is
no given agenda but everything depends
on the people participating in it. Due to
this open and participative frame it is
possible for everyone to implement his
or her topic at the conference. Spontaneously formed small groups will then
be working on such topics.
The most important rule of the open
space is the freedom of movement,
so that it is possible to change groups
02.09. | Tu
from 12 pm
General
cated via a central system to all participants and a guiding system will help
you find the way to your favorite topic.
At 5 pm you can meet your working
group and get into (inter)action. Afterwards we will try to harvest the results
At the conference there will be an open of your discussion and visualize them
space, daily from 3rd till 5th of Septem- for everybody.
ber 2014, between 5 and 7 pm. On these days you can submit your theme or More details will be given to you at our
topic until 11 am online or at the infor- welcome assembly in the Audimax on
mation desk of our open space team, at 3rd of September 2014, at 5 pm. Also
our information desk will be pleased to
the Audimax foyer.
give you any information you need.
Topics and locations will be communiany time, create new ones or even take
some time off. In such a process we often find creative and innovative ideas
and solutions for transformative initiatives or projects.
Day 1 – Tuesday, 02.09.
Opening day
Degrowth: what?! An introduction
World Café in the city centre: What do
the people of Leipzig say?
Speakers: Demaria, Federico (R&D), Giacomo D‘Alisa (R&D)
Speaker: Schneeweiss, Johannes (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie)
Degrowth signifies a critique of the growth economy. It calls for the decolonization of public debate from the idiom of economism and for the abolishment of economic growth as a social objective. Degrowth signifies also a
desired direction, in which societies use less natural resources and organize
and live differently than today. In this lecture, the (old and new) degrowth
literature and debate will be introduced. We will then separate into small
groups to clarify and debate these ideas, guided by a facilitator.
An einem belebten Tag während der Konferenz tragen wir die Themen der
Konferenz auf die Einkaufsstraßen der Innenstadt. Als Ausgangsbasis für stille
und offene Diskussionen stellen wir Fragen rund um die Degrowth-Thematik.
An einem weiteren Ort soll es eine Open-Air-Ausstellung zu Themen rund um
Degrowth geben, wo sich Passant_innen informieren können. Ziel der Veranstaltung ist die Öffnung der Konferenz für alle, die einfach nur in der Stadt
unterwegs sind.
Begins: 14:30 Room: Audimax
Ends: 17:00 Type: Introductory Course
Begins: 15:00 Room: extern
Ends: 17:00 Type: World Café
Track: General
Language:DE, EN
Opening event
Track: Practice & Activism
Language:DE
Opening plenary: Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity
Speakers: Treu, Nina (Degrowth 2014 coordinator), Constein, Daniel (Degrowth 2014
coordinator), Kilian, Pablo Paolo (musician & composer), Klein, Naomi (author &
activist), Acosta, Alberto (scientist & politician, Ecuador)
Facilitator: N.N. • Speakers: Demaria, Federico (R&D), Helfrich, Silke (Commons
Strategies Group, Germany), Mpofu, Elizabeth (Via Campesina) (angefragt), Acosta,
Alberto (scientist & politician, Ecuador)
Musical opening with Pablo Paolo Kilian, Opening Speech by Nina Treu and
Daniel Constein, Keynotes by Alberto Acosta and Naomi Klein (via video).
Why is degrowth important? What do we want to achieve with this conference in Leipzig? In this opening plenary, different persons with various
backgrounds explain their perspectives.
Video screening in HS3 and HS9
Begins: 19:00 Room: Audimax, HS 3, HS 9
Ends: 20:30 Type: Special Event
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Ends: 22:30 Type: Panel
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
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Programme | Wednesday | 03.09. | Facing the current crises – critique and resistance
03.09. | We
from 9am
General
Day 2 – Wednesday 03.09.
Facing the current crises
– critique and resistance
Social-ecological crisis & crisis of democracy: a view from Southern Europe
Between Doom and Utopia: Degrowth
as a way out of the crisis?
Speakers: Konstantatos, Haris (Harokopio University of Athens)
Speakers: Muraca, Barbara (DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften)
The accelerating socio-ecological crisis in countries of southern Europe is
a neglected aspect of today’s “crisis”, which is generally perceived solely
in macro-economic terms. The double devaluation of human labour and
natural resources comes with a “state of emergency”: Sovereign powers are
given directly to unelected elites, while public control and participation in
decision-making are demolished. However, in social movements and practices of resistance there is a growing awareness of the deep socio-ecological
transitions needed.
Growth has turned from a means for securing employment and social stability into a goal of its own. Yet, growth at any cost increases the pressure
on the environment, undermines economic development, and erodes the
very basis of democracy. Whereas growth-based economic societies that
stop growing are destabilized by a recession path and eventually doomed to
collapse, the degrowth proposal envisions a radical transformation of society, in which growth-addiction loses its grip and real democracy, autonomy,
and solidarity are strengthened. Can degrowth be a concrete utopia that
indicates a way out of the crisis? Video screening in HS3 and HS9
Ends: 09:45 Type: Keynote
Begins: 09:45 Room: Audimax, HS 3, HS9
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Dimensions of learning for a degrowth
society
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Free Trade – a barrier for degrowth?
Facilitator: Herberg, Jeremias (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg) • Speakers: Norberg-Hodge, Helena (Schooling the world, ISEC), Stern, Bertrand (Philosopher), Stoltenberg, Ute (Leuphana Universität)
Facilitator: Strickner, Alexandra (attac Österreich) • Speakers: Weischer, Lutz
(BUND/Friends of the Earth Germany), Pérez-Rocha, Manuel (Institute for Policy
Studies) , Sekulova, Filka, Dr. (R&D)
On this panel people from different backgrounds discuss new concepts for
education. The debate builds on the critique of the current educational system, which is a catalyser for growth societies worldwide. New educational
concepts can be the basis for a transformation towards a degrowth society.
The panel is an introduction to the complex topic, while single aspects can
be deepened during the conference with thehelp of different formats and
methods.
International free trade regimes and neoliberal trading rules (NAFTA, TTIP,
WTO) are a central obstacle for a development towards degrowth. They include powerful legal mechanisms for corporate lobby groups to push their
interests through and could be used to hinder policies tending to implement
degrowth-concepts. This panel will discuss how existing trade regimes contradict developments towards degrowth. Further, ideas of alternative trade
structures compatible with degrowth will be drawn up.
Begins: 11:00 Room: HS 3
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Responses to the eurocrisis: Strategies
for the degrowth-movement
Facilitator: Müller, Tadzio, Dr. (RLS, ifG) • Speakers: Velegrakis, Giorgos (Harokopio
University Athens), Lange, Steffen (Konzeptwerk), Bullard, Nicola (RLS)
Degrowth proponents have been noticeably silent on how to react to the
Eurocrisis, a situation of actually-existing economic shrinkage. This is a problem in several ways: first, it is still unclear how to deal with this wrong
kind of degrowth. Second, given that “one should never let a good crisis go
to waste”, how to respond to this moment of potential transformation? On
this panel we discuss what policies degrowth proponents should demand in
the light of the current economic crisis.[Prepared by Konzeptwerk and Rosa
Luxemburg Foundation.]
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Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Society without growth – an introduction
Speakers: Richters, Oliver (NEWW, VÖÖ)
The talk explains basic concepts and the main ideas of a society beyond
growth. It quickly resumes ideas behind GDP, the traditional growth model
and its coupling to resource extraction and use as well as societal consequences. Referring to planetary boundaries, it is shown why concepts such
as Green Growth are paradoxical, uncreative and unfeasible. The contribution gives insights into the significance of a post-growth society for finance,
economics, social security and the people on earth.
Ends: 13:00 Type: Introductory course
Track: General
Language:EN
Solidary agriculture – exchange for
activists
Speakers: Keller, Claudia; Neuffer, Konrad; Zeiger, Simone (alle von Rote Beete)
Vom Anbau, über Öffentlichkeitsarbeit bis hin zur Organisation der Gemüseverteilung werden die sachverständigen Solawist_innen Rede und Antwort
stehen. Rechtliche Hürden und der Umgang damit werden ebenso diskutiert
wie konkrete Erfahrungen im laufenden Betrieb. Wir vermitteln, dass solche
Projekte an (fast) jedem Standort möglich und mit den unterschiedlichsten
Menschen umsetzbar sind.
Treffpunkt: 10 Uhr, Foyer, Ausgang Augustusplatz
zig 2014
Begins: 10:00 Room: external
Ends: 12:00 Type: Excursion
Speed dating for scientists
Facilitator: Best, Benjamin (Wuppertal Institute)
This event has the purpose of getting to know other scientists and to network. In half an hour, you get to know about ten other scientists. In several
short „dates“, groups of three people introduce themselves and their area
of research.
Begins: 10:30 Room: Foyer HS 2. OG
Ends: 11:00 Type: Special Format
Track: Science
Language:EN
Challenges to growth from the South:
Conflicts and alternatives
Language:DE
Resources, energy & seas
Facilitator: Manns, Florian (UFZ)
S. Cuvillier - The Proposal of Degrowth and the Energy Issue: A Fabulist Presentation of the Literature Review// H. Jeronimo - Alternative strategies in
dealing with waste in a world of finite resources// M. Ji - Meteorological
Considerations in Energy and Livelihood from Strange Attractors of Wind//
V. Moreau - Next level carbon cycling, quantifying the carbon recycling potential// S. Nakajima - Consumption Profile and Support Area// L. Režný - The
Knowledge Economy: Key to Sustainable Development?// C. Weiske - Interdependencies between Ethnic Inequality and the Success of Climate Change
Policy Making – the Case of Guyana// F. Schneider - Refining Degrowth: Reducing societal growth capacity to exploit natural resources and humans
Begins: 11:00 Room: Foyer HS 2
Ends: 13:00 Type: Poster presentations
Track: Science
Language:EN
Degrowth versus growth. Do we really
have the choice?
Facilitator: García-López, Gustavo (ICTA - UAB) • Speakers: García-López, Gustavo
(ICTA - UAB), Conde, Marta (R&D), Gallardo, Lucía (ICTA - UAB), Del Bene, Daniela
(R&D)
Facilitator: Ax, Christine (free author) • Speakers: Chancel, Lucas (IDDRI), Smulders,
Sjak, Prof. Dr. (Tilburg University), Bourcarde, Kay, Dr. (Institut für Wachstumsstudien)
Marta Conde: Commodity frontiers and degrowth // Daniela Del Bene: Contours of Environmental and Water Justice; anti dams movements and resistance challenging politics and imaginaries // Gustavo Garcia-Lopez: Environmental movements and commoning strategies in Puerto Rico: challenging
the growth paradigm? // Lucia Gallardo: Sumak Kawsay: Living non-capitalist values in a capitalist world
Lucas Chancel: A post-growth society for the 21st century - Does prosperity
have to wait for the return of economic growth? // Sjak Smulders: The economics of slow growth // Kay Bourcarde: The misunderstanding of “Growing
Growth”
Ends: 13:00 Type: Special session
Track: Science
Language:EN
Degrowth and history - Economics,
sustainability, power
Facilitator: Schmelzer, Matthias (University of Geneva) • Speakers: Borowy, Iris, Dr.
(Universität Aachen), Fioramonti, Lorenzo, Prof. Dr. (Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation), Schmelzer, Matthias (University of Geneva)
Matthias Schmelzer: ‘Expand or die’. The historical foundations of the economic growth paradigm // Iris Borowy: ’Sustainable Development’: the
International Struggle over Wealth, Distribution and Limits // Lorenzo Fioramonti: Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World‘s Most
Powerful Number
Track: Science
Language:EN
Track: Science
Language:EN
Rebound Effect I: Energy, efficiency, and
growth
Facilitator: Santarius, Tilman • Speakers: Santarius, Tilman (University of California, Berkeley), Norgard, Jorgen (Technical University of Denmark), Buhl, Johannes
(Wuppertal Institute), Walnum, Hans Jakob (Vestlandsforsking), Aall, Carlo, Prof.
Dr. (Western Norway Research Institute), Sonnberger, Marco (ZIRIUS Research Centre)
Noorgard: The delusion of decoupling, and policy options for mitigating the
rebound effects and the environmental impact // Buhl: Worktime Reduction
and Rebound Effects // Sonnberger: Rebound effects from a practice theoretical perspective // Walnum: An interdisciplinary understanding of macro
rebound effects // Aall: Investigating the potential of applying theories on rebound effects to the climate discourse: Climate change adaptation in winter
tourism // Santarius: Towards a Theory of Psychological Rebound Effects
Track: Science
Language:EN
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SCORAI I: Degrowth from a sustainable
consumption perspective
Degrowth economy: What does this
mean with regard to concepts of work?
Facilitator: Lorek, Sylvia (Sustainable Europe Research Institute) • Speakers: Vadovics, Edina (Greendependent), Genus, Audley, Prof. Dr. (Kingston University), Rau,
Henrike, Dr. (National University of Ireland)
Facilitator: Littig, Beate • Speakers: von Winterfeld, Uta, Dr., Biesecker, Adelheid,
Prof. em., Haas, Willi, Dr., O’Neill, Daniel, Dr., Littig, Beate
EEdina Vadovics: Sustainable Consumption in Hungary - what is small-footprint- living and can we make it attractive? // Audley Genus: Roles for university researchers in promoting sustainability // Henrike Rau: Where do
all the hours go? Time use, resource consumption and the dematerialisation
of everyday practices
Roundtable discussion with short inputs. The reorganization of working societies
and sustainable ways of living are closely linked. But the concepts of work which
are at stake are rather diverse: Many plea for an extended understanding and
the societal reorganization of work. Especially feminist approaches demand for a
general sustainable transformation and a fundamental change within the economic paradigm. In the session we will discuss the major issues and implication
of the different positions.
Begins: 11:00 Room: S 212
Track: Science
Ends: 13:00 Type: Special session other format Language:EN
Track: Science
Language:EN
Food supply and forestry
Fundamental criticisms of capitalist
growth
Facilitator: Infante-Amante, Juan, Dr. (Unviersity Pablo de Olavide) • Speakers: de la
Vega-Leinert, A. Christina, Dr. (University of Greifswald), Egger, Dominic (Real World
Economics Heidelberg), Otero, Iago, Dr. (R&D), Köpke, Sören (TU Braunschweig)
Facilitator: Bauhardt, Christine, Prof. Dr. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) • Speakers: Müller, Julian (Universität Jena), Lombard, Gabriel, Pohler, Nina (WU Wien),
Romano, Onofrio (University of Bari Aldo Moro)
A. Cristina de la Vega-Leinert - „Towards a re-evaluation of the land sparing
vs. land sharing debate from the perspective of peasant farming systems“
(sp) // Dominic Egger - „Food sharing: A potential strategy against the food
waste problem and a local contribution to local climate change mitigation?“
(sp) // Iago Otero - „The forest transition theory under scrutiny. Towards a
degrowth-inspired land-change science“ (sp) // Sören Köpke - „Let them eat
war: Climate change, food insecurity and conflict“ (sp)
Julian Müller - „Financialisation and the ambivalence of capitalist growth“
(full paper) // Gabriel Lombard - „Wealth, virtual wealth, and capitalism“
(short paper) // Nina Pohler - „Critique and the organization of production“
(short paper) // Onofrio Romano - „ The form of degrowth“ (full paper)
Ends: 13:00 Type: Scientific paper session
Track: Science
Language:EN
GDP, happiness and human well-being
Track: Science
Language:EN
(Mis-)Managing the ecological crisis
Facilitator: Fritz, Martin (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences) • Speakers: Bartonlini, Stefano, Prof. Dr. (University of Siena, Italy), Krauss, Alexander, Dr.
(World Bank), Pellegrini, Lorenzo (Erasmus University Rotterdam)
Facilitator: Knolle, Helmut (Décroissance Bern) • Speakers: Lindley, Mark, Prof. Dr.
(University of Hyderabad), Andersson, Jan Otto, Prof. Dr. (Ãbo Akademi), Curran,
Michael, Dr. (ETH Zurich), Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie, Dr. (University of Oldenburg)
Stefano Bartolini - „Do people care for a sustainable future? Evidence from
happiness data.“ (full paper) // Alexander Krauss - „Subjective wellbeing in
Colombia“ (full paper) // Lorenzo Pellegrini - „Bhutan: Between happiness
and horror“ (full paper) //
Mark Lindley & Jan Otto Andersson - „Ecologically dangerous patriotism“
(full paper) // Michael Curran - „Tax internationally traded commodities to
safeguard biodiversity“ (short paper) // Stefanie Sievers-Glotzbach - „The relationship between intragenerational and intergenerational justice in the
use of ecosystems and their services.“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Ecosystems and their services
Track: Science
Language:EN
Technological solutions for a degrowth
society
Facilitator: Lutz, Christian, Dr. (GWS mbH) • Speakers: Drupp, Moritz A. (University
of Kiel), Schlauch, Michael, Silva, Rodrigo
Facilitator: Kerschner, Christian, Dr. • Speakers: Puglia, Stefano, Lamanna, David,
Garcia, José Luis, Prof. Dr., Horstink, Lanka, Jeronimo, Helena, Luber, Beate-Josefine
Moritz A. Drupp - „Limits to substitution between ecosystem services and
manufactured goods and intergenerational decision-making“ (full paper) //
Michael Schlauch - „Introducing permaculture to economic ecosystems The integrative analysis method“ (full paper) // Rodrigo Silva - „Degrowth
and payments for ecosystem services: highlighting the tensions“ (short paper)
Stefano Puglia & Davide Lamanna - „The “open altra economia” (OAE) project: Open data and open source software for a sustainable economics“ //
José Luis Garcia, Lanka Horstink & Helena Jeronimo - „Towards a methodological luddism for ICTs“ // Beate-Josefine Luber - „Need and use of participatory procedures to ensure compliance and legitimation of codes of conduct
for governing nanotechnology’s risks“
Begins: 11:00 Room: I 121
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Track: Science
Language:EN
Planetary boundaries
How to sell degrowth: Business models
II
Facilitator: Asara, Viviana (R&D) • Speakers: Hadjimichael, Maria, Dr. (Aalborg University), Udovyk, Oksana (Södertörn University), Smith-Spash, Tone (Vienna University), Mauerhofer, Volker (UNU-IAS)
Facilitator: Jeffrey, Karen (New Economics Foundation) • Speakers: Trettel Silva,
Gabriel (University of Sao Paulo), Gebauer, Jana (IÖW), Stella, Giordano, Dr., Larsen,
Frederik (Copenhagen Business School), O’Neill, Daniel, Dr. (University of Leeds)
Hadjimichael - „Reaching the boundaries of the blue planet: Dwindling stocks,
disappearing communities and the failure of solutions within the neoliberal
paradigm“ (sp) // Udovyk - „De-growth approach to the European chemicals
management.“ (sp) // Smith-Spash - „How should degrowth address the issue
of “planetary boundaries”?“ (sp) // Mauerhofer - „Interpretation of ecological
integrity according planetary boundaries: Towards improved implementation
of multilateral environmental agreements to promote degrowth“ (sp)
Gabriel Trettel Silva - „Is profit-making compatible with the principles of
a steady-state economy?“ (short paper) // Jana Gebauer - „Business, postgrowth – Theses and recommendations“ (short paper) // Giordano Stella „The common good economy: A new model for the degrowth society. An application of the common good balance sheet to an organic and biodynamic
farm“ (short paper) // Frederik Larsen - „Old ideas: Values in second hand
markets“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Upcycling solutions towards textile
waste reduction
Speakers: Bischof, Carina (Upcycling Fashion Store Berlin), Nicoletti, Arianna (Upcycling Fashion Store Berlin)
Presentation of the Upcycling Fashion Pool project: a strategic network connecting designers to textile producers and second-hand clothes collecting companies as a fundamental tool for reducing textile waste.
We discuss upcycling concepts by questioning the status quo of the fast fashion
industry and exploring its problems within the textile and apparel supply chain.
The aim of the panel is to show the impact of textile waste in our society and to
present solutions for its reduction. Degrowth starts from reduction.
Language:EN
The media and degrowth
Track: Science
Language:EN
Basic Income – national and global
concepts and models
Speakers: Blaschke, Ronald (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen)
In diesem Seminar werden die Idee, der Begriff und einige aktuell diskutierte
Modelle von Grundeinkommen national und global in Hinblick auf ihre konkrete Ausgestaltung vorgestellt – wie z. B. Höhe, Verhältnis zu Sozial- und
Dienstleistungen, Finanzierung, arbeitsmarktpolitische Implikationen sowie gesellschaftspolitische Rahmenbedingungen. Der Kurs dient der Vorbereitung der Workshops, die sich mit dem Thema Armut, Grundeinkommen
und Ökologie beschäftigen, ist aber auch für alle Interessierte offen.
Ends: 13:00 Type: Discussion workshop
Language:DE
Growing against Growth - Shutting
down the climate culprits
Speakers: Di Dio, Alessia (Moins! Journal romand d‘écologie politique)
Speakers: Häußermann, Dorothee (ausgeco2hlt / Arbeitsgruppe Krieg und Klima)
The degrowth movement has a bad reputation in the dominant media. As a
result different collectives decided to create their own media: La Décroissance in France, Kaïros in Belgium, Moins! in Switzerland and many more.
To which extent are these publications accepted? How do they survive daily
life and what are the difficulties? Would it be possible to improve the synergies and collaboration between the different experiences?
We want to present the problem of the brown coal field in the Rhineland
and the situation of the anti-coal-movement. Afterwards we want to check
and discuss the concepts of post-growth and anti-capitalism. We also want
to find out, how to support a movement for „the good life“.
Language:DE, EN
Education for Sustainable Development in Saxony and Leipzig
Speakers: Schirmer, Matthias (Zukunftsakademie Leipzig) (angefragt)
Der ZAK – Zukunftsakademie Leipzig e. V. Macht eine BNE-Ausstellung, in
der Pädagogen in Schulen und Kitas sowie bei freien Trägern der Jugendhilfe
vermittelt werden soll, welche Möglichkeiten und Angebote es in Sachsen
gibt, BNE in die eigene Bildungspraxis zu integrieren. In der Ausstellung sollen ca. 20 – 30 Projekte und Angebote präsentiert werden. Lokale Kooperationspartner des Vereins sind derzeit das Büro der Leipziger Agenda 21 und
die Stadt Leipzig. Ort: Leibnitz-Gymnasium am Nordplatz 13
Language:DE
Language:DE, EN
Autonomy and resistences in (the)
crisis
Speakers: Alsina i Muro, Carla (Cooperativa Eines de transformación social), Egia
Olaizola, Andoni (Cooperativa Hiritik_at)
The capitalist crisis has various social, economic and political consequences
in the Spanish state. We want to look more closely at three: the emergence
of new social movements, the rise of a new economic paradigm and the
opening of new political spaces within the representative institutions. The
ESS can be understood as a new space of action to construct a new economic structure based in the theoretic and practical principles of the social
movements: autonomy and grass-roots democracy.
Language:DE, ES
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Money, debt, growth - how are they
connected?
Speakers: Solé, Joan (IntegraRevolution), Romero, Esther (L‘art du Soleil / Cooperativa integral Catalana), Serra, Ariadna (Cooperativa Integral Catalana)
Speakers: Freydorf, Christoph (Wissenschaftliche Arbeitsgruppe nachhaltiges Geld),
Peukert, Helge, Prof. Dr. (Universität Erfurt)
Is the State model compatible with degrowth? The initiator group for integral revolution wants to inform about the reflections that are coming
up about these topics, as well as: Create human relationships which are
equitative and based on freedom. Self-organization and sovereign popular
assemblies. The common, the public domain. The public, to be able to participate in the process of making decisions of public issues. Cooperation with
life and nature. A new economy based in cooperation and local networks.
Degrowth strategies are not only depending on political decisions, but also
on concepts of economic orders which permit the expectation to be stable and prosperous without the necessity of nominal or real growth rates.
Therefore it is important to understand the basic mechanisms of contemporary monetary systems, outline problems and dilemmas of the current
monetary policy and to thoroughly examine the feasibility of unconventional reform options in order to allow a degrowth economy.
Language:DE, ES
De-Growth in Latin America? Debates
around Post- extractivism
Speakers: Dietz, Kristina (desiguALdades.net), Moreno, Camila (Universidad Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro), Cevallos, Belen (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Quito),
Martín, Facundo, Prof.
In Latin America controversial debates, disputes and struggles over the social,
ecological, and political implications of an exacerbated nature exploitation for
developmental ends, called “extractivism” have become part of the everyday in
many parts of the region. The workshop focuses on such alternative approaches, debates and struggles that are currently taking place in different parts in
Latin America under the term “post-extractivism”. The section thus can be considered as a platform for transregional learning between “South” and “North”.
Language:EN
Why established organisations are having trouble with the growth debate
Speakers: Klostermeyer, Theresa (Deutscher Naturschutzring), Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof.
Dr. (Friends of the Earth Germany BUND), Cray, Christian (Verband Entwicklungspolitik Niedersachsen), Niebert, Kai (DNR, Naturfreunde Deutschland) (angefragt), Stoll,
Georg (Misereor), Abshagen, Marie-Luise (Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung)
Es scheint eigentlich offensichtlich, dass Nachhaltigkeit, globale Gerechtigkeit und Generationengerechtigkeit, mit weiter nach Wachstum strebenden
Industrie- und Schwellenländern zukünftig schlicht nicht mehr vereinbar
sind. Woran liegt es, dass sich die großen Organisationen dennoch so schwer
tun mit dem Thema? Welche konkreten Zusammenhänge bestehen zwischen
dem Wachstumsdogma und der Arbeit der zivilgesellschaftlichen Akteure?
Language:DE
Avoiding waste and saving resources
Speakers: Hoffmann, Hartmut, Dr. (BUND e.V.)
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We organise rural development and
self help
Speakers: Janssen, Georg (Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft)
Wir wollen in einem Werkstattgespräch über praktische Bewegungen zu
aktuellen Themen auf dem Lande informieren und durch praktische Beispiele ermutigen, dass es sich lohnt sich einzumischen: Für gentechnikfreie
Landwirtschaft, Kampf um Boden und Saatgut, gegen Atomenergie und für
eine andere Agrarpolitik.
Language:DE
Money as a servant. Liberating the economy from growth compulsion. 1/3
Speakers: Bender, Harald (Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie), Klaus Simon (Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie) und Norbert Bernholt (Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie)
Wir haben uns daran gewöhnt, Geld als etwas anzusehen, das anscheinend
für uns “arbeitet“ und Zinsen und Renditen “erwirtschaftet“. Die Workshopreihe besteht aus drei Teilen in denen die Elemente eines neuen Geldsystems und einer grundlegend anderen Wirtschaftspolitik entwickelt werden
sollen. Erstens: Grundfehler des herrschenden Geldsystems. Zweitens: Sozialökologische Transformation und der Umbau der Finanzsysteme. Drittens:
Die Befreiung der Wirtschaftspolitik vom Wachstumszwang.
Language:DE
Valorization of cultural diversity as a
strategy for regional growth
Speakers: Kuttler, Tobias (Generation Nachhaltigkeit e.V.), Dobrusskin, Janina (Generation Nachhaltigkeit e.V.)
Es ist überfällig, den Anstieg des Ressourcenkonsums nicht nur zu bremsen, sondern umzukehren. Darüber hinaus muss zweitens eine materialschonende Erfassung gebrauchter Elektro-Altgeräte, Möbel und anderer
Gegenstände eingeführt werden. Drittens: Steuerliche Maßnahmen bspw.
Reparaturdienstleistungen mit ermäßigten Umsatzsteuersatz. Im Workshop werden nicht nur Konzepte vorgestellt, sondern der Schwerpunkt liegt
auf der Entwicklung neuer Ideen zur Ressourcenschonung und die durch
Aktionen von Organisationen politische Wirksamkeit entfalten können.
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Language:DE
Die städtischen Entscheidungsträger verstehen kulturelle Vielfalt als einen
wichtigen Faktor im globalen Städtewettbewerb. Das Image der „bunten,
weltoffenen Stadt“ wird gepflegt, um Kapital und Produktivkräfte lokal zu
binden und Wachstum zu generieren. Integrations- und Migrationspolitik
wird somit zur Standortstrategie. In unserem Workshop wollen wir am Beispiel Berlins diskutieren, wie das städtische Wachstumsparadigma in das
Leben von Migrant_innen eingreift und welche Chancen die Postwachstumsgesellschaft für die Emanzipation und Autonomie von Migrant_innen birgt.
Language:DE
Real alternatives? New ideas of society
against the grain
Speakers: Roth, Stephanie (DIVERSU e.V.), Spitzner, Meike (Wuppertal Institut),
Katz, Christine, Dr. (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Gottschlich, Daniela (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Weniger, sinnstiftend und selbstbestimmt arbeiten. Mit weniger Zwängen
konfrontiert sein, die eigene Kreativität ausleben. Einen dritten Weg suchen, wenn Markt und Staat versagen. Selber machen und für das „gute
Leben“ streiten. Wer wollte das nicht? Aber sind diese Alternativen ohne
Fallstricke? Bieten sie wirklich gangbare Wege für sozial-ökologische Transformationen? Wir wollen einen Blick auf die Ambivalenzen, Widersprüche,
Brüche zu werfen, die mit unseren eigenen Alternativen einhergehen.
Language:DE
The fear of post-growth !?
Speakers: Wagner, Katrin (FEM(inist)ECO(nomy) Gruppe HU Berlin), Fleischer,
Anna, Kosonewski, Mike, Eyrich, Ralph, Kaufmann, Kerstin
In diesem Workshop möchten wir uns mit den interpendenten Zusammenhängen von Emotionen und Wirtschaftssystemen auseinandersetzen.
Wir wollen uns über die Fragen verständigen inwieweit der Kapitalismus
unsere Emotionen bestimmt und ob Ängste ihm innewohnend sind wenn
wir versuchen Kapitalismusalternativen zu denken. Welche materiellen und
emotionalen Effekte haben historisch und sozial gewachsene Werte? Wie
könnte es gelingen emotionale Zuversicht und Vertrauen auf Postwachstum
herzustellen?
Language:DE
Claiming sufficiency! An introduction to
the policy of sufficiency
Speakers: Holthaus, Anna (BUND Jugend)
Speakers: Slabschi, Karl H. (Gemeinwohlökonomie)
Die Gemeinwohlökonomie zeigt auf, dass wir auch Verantwortung mittragen für den desolaten Zustand, in der sich unsere Welt befindet das wir aber
auch die Möglichkeit haben all dies zu verändern. Die Gemeinwohlökonomie
plädiert für ein gutes Leben für alle. Für eine gemeinsame Verantwortung
und dafür das wir nur anders zu rechnen brauchen. Wir sprechen über die
Möglichkeiten der Einflussnahme und einer umfassende Demokratisierung
von Wirtschaft und Politik. Wir sprechen über eine gesellschaftspolitische
Revolution.
Language:DE
Psycho-dynamics of power and consumption
Speakers: Schenk, Sandra (attac Leipzig)
Aggression und Depression, Burnout, Sucht, der Drang zu Konformität und
Anpassung, Angst vor Nichtakzeptanz – all das sind Massenphänomene,
die uns täglich begegnen. Attac Leipzig und die Diplompsychologin, Therapeutin und Musikwissenschaftlerin Maria Ziemer möchten mit euch diskutieren wie Konsum, Markt, Konkurrenz und Beschleunigung das soziale
Verhalten von Kindern und Erwachsenen beeinflusst, und wo mögliche Veränderungen ansetzen können.
Language:DE
Turn of growth – turn of thinking
Speakers: Steffestun, Theresa (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik), Barth, Jonathan (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik)
Die Debatte um eine „Postwachstumsökonomie“ beschäftigt sich bislang
noch sehr viel mit der individuelle Ebene. Das ist zwar wichtig, aber nur
die halbe Wahrheit: Ebenso braucht es Impulse aus der Politik. Welche Weichen muss die Politik für eine Postwachstumsökonomie und -gesellschaft
stellen? Nach einer kurzen theoretischen Einführung in das Politikfeld der
Suffizienzpolitik möchten wir dies gemeinsam diskutieren und interaktiv
auf unterschiedliche Politikbereiche anwenden. Max. 25 Teilnehmende. Bitte
15 min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Economy for the common good - we
count differently
Language:DE
Climate justice and post-growth
Ökonomisches Denken ist uns zur absoluten Gebrauchsanweisung für unser Leben, ja für die ganze Welt geworden. Um die geistige Monokultur im
(ökonomischen) Denken zu brechen und aus den aktuellen Krisen zu lernen
braucht es eine Wende; eine Denkwende. Diese Denkwende scheint Drehund Angelpunkt eines ganzheitlichen Wandels zu sein und führt Bewegungen, wie etwa Degrowth oder Plurale Ökonomik, zusammen. Welchen Beitrag leisten diese Perspektiven zu einer Denkwende? Wie kann sie gestaltet
werden?
Language:DE
Children and degrowth - bond as a
societal task
Speakers: Ekardt, Felix, Prof. Dr. (BUND e.V.)
Speakers: Schmidt, Nicola (Artgerecht Projekt), Dibbern, Julia (Artgerecht Projekt)
Für einen effektiven Klimaschutz braucht es erhebliche Emissionsminderungen. Klare und ambitionierte Ziele werden jedoch nur möglich sein mit
einem gerechten Ansatz - gerechten Emissionsbudgets, gerechter Finanzierung für Anpassung und Minderung, gerechten Entwicklungschancen. Der
Workshop stellt wesentliche Kriterien und Ansätze für Klimagerechtigkeit
vor und was der BUND bisher zu ihrer Realisierung getan hat. Der Workshop bietet einen breiten Raum zur Diskussion über künftige Aktionen und
Kooperationen.
Leistungsfähig, mobil und perfekt organisiert - Familien in unserer Gesellschaft sind idealisierte Mechanismen, die rund um die Uhr funktionieren.
Bindung spielt in der Wachstumsgesellschaft keine Rolle - denn sie schafft
per se keinen Wert, der sich im Bruttosozialprodukt direkt auswirkt. Die
Idee von „Artgerecht“: Wir wollen für Familien einen Systemwandel hin zu
einer Gesellschaft, in der Bindung wieder möglich ist, in der sie einen Wert
hat und Anerkennung erfährt.
Language:DE
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Privatizations as driver for growth
Speakers: Valentukeviciute, Laura (Gemeingut in BürgerInnenhand), Voss, Elisabeth
(Gemeingut in BürgerInnen Hand / NETZ für Selbstverwaltung und Kooperation +
CONTRASTE – Monatszeitung für Selbstorganisation)
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Activism
Privatisierungen sind Raub an Gemeingütern der Daseinsvorsorge und an
dem, was alle Menschen zum Leben brauchen. Die große Privatisierungswelle in Europa hat in kurzer Zeit zahlreiche Infrastrukturen zerstört, das
Land und die Menschen wirtschaftlich in den Ruin getrieben. Eine alternative, solidarische Wirtschaftsweise braucht sowohl praktische Beispiele anderen Wirtschaftens als auch den Kampf gegen Privatisierungen jeder Art.
Wir werden u.a. das Projekt „Privatisierungsmelder“ vorstellen.
Language:DE
Deconference - Space for spontaneity, creativity and exchange 1/3
Following Ivan Illich - Technology for a
convivial society
Facilitator: Jacqueline Krause • Speakers: Vetter, Andrea (Degrowth 2014/ HU Berlin), Samerski, Silja (Universität Oldenburg)
Konviviale Werkzeuge sind für Illich Werkzeuge, die Menschen in ihrer autonomen, kreativen Tätigkeit unterstützen und ihren Nutzer/innen nicht ihre
Logik aufzwingen und deren Fähigkeiten zur Selbsttätigkeit untergraben.
Stellt uns die moderne Technik mit Freier Software, Open Source Hardware
und FabLabs heute solche Werkzeuge zur Verfügung? Gesprächspartnerinnen im Generationendialog: Silja Samerski und Andrea Vetter. Moderation:
Jacqueline Krause
Language:DE
Transition Theater: Momo, and the
men in grey within us. Part 1/2
Speakers: Ackerbauer, Sarah (Dresden im Wandel)
Speakers: Werner, Dominik (Transition Theater Marburg)
Every good conference offers also a deconference. A deconference is a format which avoids traditional structures. A space is opened for creative ideas
that emerge spontaneously without organizing them. People join for a topic and they decide spontaneously whose idea they want to follow and to
discuss.
The novel Momo by german author Michael Ende tells the story of a community in which individuals no longer have time for themselves and others.
They have in fact internalized a message from ‘the men in grey’ that they
must save time for economic reasons. Somehow we know this story, from
our own lives... This interactive- theater workshop will explore moments in
our daily lives when our mental infrastructures of growth and acceleration
impact our decisions and actions profoundly. From here, we will search for
ways in which we can resist and transform these unhealthy cultural beliefs
that are deeply ingrained within us.
Ends: 13:00 Type: Practical Workshop
Language:DE, EN
Work on your self-production: start a
social transformation
Speakers: Piccoletti, Francesca (Movimento della decrescita felice)
Improving our skills in self-production can represent a way to stay out of
the market, build an economic alternative, create products that have less
packaging and are good for the environment, good for our health and create
a network that includes friends, family and coworkers so we can be more
and more responsible for our own choices.
Language:EN
Fermentation - Preserving food by livening it up
Speakers: Scholtyssek, Gregor (Permakultur Institut e.V.)
We show how everyone can easily ferment at home with very basic means
and thus preserve foods and drinks while at the same livening them up and
making them healthier and sparkly. We introduce underlying patterns (such
as various microorganisms and processes) and present the manifold possibilities: From sauerkraut to kimchi, from kombucha to beer, from cheese to
tempeh. There is going to be some good stuff to taste.Event takes place at the
Permaculture CampSpace.
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Performing.Change.Together 1/3
Speakers: Fuchs, Corinna (Wandel.Gemeinsam.Performen), Betz, Florian (musician,
dance-pedagogue)
This workshop wants to reconnect the brain to the body and the cognition to
emotions when dealing with social-ecological change. We will move, dance and
sense.Participants experience themselves as an integral and connected part of
a group with their individual needs and wishes. Consumerism, concurrence,
and growth is questioned by joy, beauty and community in simplicity. This
workshop is for everybody. This workshop will take part on three following
mornings with the same people - so that we can experience together on a
deeper level our work and get more connected with ourselves and the others.
Language:DE, EN
Tour of living visions
Speakers: Kuhley, Lisa (Café Kaputt / Lebende Visionen)
The aim of our excusion is to bring people in contact with local NGOs, initiatives and projects, which are realizing their visions of a more livable
and thoughtful economy in different areas of life. We offer room to explore
these initiatives,ask the representatives we meet your own questions and
discuss their ideas and their practice with them and with each other.
Meeting point: Gießerstr. 16
Language:DE, EN
Ad-walk – an interactive tour on
advertising as driver for growth
Speakers: Korte, Jan (Amt für Werbefreiheit und gutes Leben), Gieseking, Miriam
(Amt für Werbefreiheit und gutes Leben)
Auf ihrem Weg durch die Leipziger Innenstadt tauchen die Spaziergänger*innen
tief in die kommerzielle Werbe-Welt ein. Zwischen unzähligen Plakatwänden
begegnen sie immer wieder Vertreter*innen relevanter Gruppen der Werbedebatte und treten mit ihnen in Interaktion. Gemeinsam werden wir Werbung
als manipulativen Wachstumsmotor entlarven und uns mit unterschiedlichen
Handlungsstrategien gegen die Konsumanreize im öffentlichen Raum auseinandersetzen. Treffpunkt: Park bei der Moritzbastei. Max. 25 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15
min. vor Veranstaltungsbeginn erscheinen.
Language:DE
Climate Justice and Degrowth: commonalities, resistances and alternatives
Closure, xenophobia or population
growth. How shall degrowth deal with it?
Facilitator: Müller, Tadzio, Dr. (RLS, ifG) • Speakers: Bassey, Nnimmo (FoE, Nigeria),
Riffaud, Josie (Via Campesina) (angefragt), Ortiz, Lucia (Brazil)
Facilitator: Kühne, Steffen (RLS) • Speakers: Schneider, Francois, Dr. (R&D, France),
Ringger, Beat (Denknetz, Switzerland), Gottschlich, Daniela (Leuphana Universität
Lüneburg)
The question of global justice is frequently underplayed or even omitted
in the debate about the relationship between the climate crisis and economic growth. Development model and growth formula are presented as
solutions, while causing further problems. Yet, movements in the Global
South put forward proposals which can find linkages with the degrowth
movement. In this panel, the economics of the climate crisis and models to
repay the climate and emissions debt are discussed from a climate justice
perspective. // Prepared jointly with the Transnational Institute.
In February a Swiss referendum limiting immigration was accepted and this
was justified ecologically. An even more aggressive initiative of the group
Ecologie et Population Ecopop will be held soon. Also in other countries can
we find this combination of growth critical arguments, a critique of population growth, and reactionary, misogynist, and xenophobic ideologies. This
panel critically analyzes these tendencies and discusses alternatives of open
localization for an emancipatory degrowth.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, POR
Einführungsvortrag zu Wachstumskritik und Alternativen
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, FR
Beyond globalization – the legacy of
Richard Douthwaite
Speakers: Blobel, Jona (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie), Schneeweiss, Johannes (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie)
Facilitator: Diefenbacher, Hans, Prof. Dr. (FESt) • Speakers: Diefenbacher, Hans,
Prof. Dr. (FESt), Kiefel, Willi (Feasta), Juriga, Roman (Orthodox Academy Vilemov)
In diesem Einführungsvortrag beschäftigen wir uns damit, was Wirtschaftswachstum ist, warum wir Wirtschaftswachstum (nicht) brauchen
und wo die Problemfelder einer wachstumsbasierten Wirtschaft liegen. Als
Gegenentwurf stellen wir eine sozial-ökologische Wirtschaft mit mehr Demokratie, mehr regionaler Produktion, weniger Naturverbrauch, weniger
Ungleichheit und neuen Arbeitsmodellen vor. Abschließend gehen wir auf
Schritte ein, die nötig sind, um dorthin zu gelangen.
Hans Diefenbacher: The scientific work of Richard Douthwaite // Willi Kiefel:
Richard Douthwaite‘s contribution towards a Material De-Growth Society
in Ireland // Roman Juriga: Local renewable energy systems in the Czech
republic – the case of Vilémov
Track: General
Language:DE
Post-extractivism and de-growth: Two
sides of the same perspective?
Track: Science
Language:EN
Macroeconomics of degrowth I
Facilitator: Gabbert, Karin (Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung) • Speakers: Martín, Facundo,
Prof. , Brand, Ulrich, Prof. Dr. (University of Vienna), Acosta, Alberto (scientist &
politician, Ecuador)
Facilitator: Lange, Steffen (Konzeptwerk) • Speakers: Lange, Steffen (Konzeptwerk),
Cahen-Fourot, Louison (Université Paris), Richters, Oliver (NEWW, VÖÖ), Gran,
Christoph (Universität Oldenburg)
Facundo Martín: From building resistance to building alternatives – postextractivist perspectives from below // Ulrich Brand: Post-Extracivism and
De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective? // Alberto Acosta: Post-Extracivism and De-Growth: Two Sides of the Same Perspective?
Steffen Lange: Neoclassical, post-Keynesian and neo-Marxian perspectives
on degrowth // Louison Cahen-Fourot: Ecological monetary economics: A
post-Keynesian critique // Oliver Richters: Theoretical considerations on
growth imperatives in a monetary economy // Christoph Gran: LOW GROW
for Germany: modelling the macroeconomics of degrowth
Track: Science
Language:EN, ES
Track: Science
Language:EN
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General
Science
Rebound Effect II: Energy, efficiency,
and growth
Facilitator: Santarius, Tilman (University of California, Berkeley) • Speakers: Santarius, Tilman (University of California, Berkeley), Sonnberger, Marco (ZIRIUS Research Centre)
A) Presentations: Marco Sonnberger: „Rebound effects from a practice theoretical perspective“ // Tilman Santarius: „Towards a Theory of Psychological
Rebound Effects“ // B) Fish-Bowl Discussion: „Rebound Effects as a challenge to a socio-ecological transformation of society - What can we do?“ //
Note: A Fish-Bowl Discussion involves active participation of the audience and
all speakers.
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Science
Ends:
16:30 Type: Special session
Track: Science
Language:EN
(Re)Productivity, Ecofeminism and
degrowth
Facilitator: Leonardi, Emanuele (University of Bergamo) • Speakers: Bauhardt,
Christine, Prof. Dr. (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Wember, Carla (Netzwerk n),
Brettin, Suse (HU Berlin), Dannenberg, Janina (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Demaria, Federico (R&D), D‘Alisa, Giacomo (R&D)
Bauhardt - „Degrowth and ecofeminism: Perspectives for economic analysis and political engagement“ (fp) // Wember & Brettin - „(Re)Productivity
in a perspective of material feminism“ (short paper) // Dannenberg - „State- prescribed (re)productivity? The Philippine legislation on the rights of
indigenous peoples and local crisis“ (sp) // D‘Alisa & Demaria- „Care and
degrowth“h“ (sp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Creating ruptures and re-imagining
reality
Facilitator: Gallardo, Lucía (ICTA - UAB) • Speakers: Brand, Sebastian, Serlavós,
Mònica (NORRAG - UNRISD), Real, Marion, Dr. (APESA), Tyl, Benjamin, Graugaard,
Jeppe
Brand - „Socio-cultural construction of reality and ecological overshoot“
(sp) // Serlavós - „Reconsidering the transition role of education“ (sp) // Real
& Tyl - „Creating ruptures in actual representations to support the design of
sufficient and convivial way of lives“ (sp) // Graugaard - „Re-imagining reality
and the making of post-growth worlds“ (sp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Sources of resistance: land-grabbing,
mining and youth distress
Facilitator: Del Bene, Daniela (R&D) • Speakers: Petrakos, Konstantinos (National
Technical University of Athens), Asara, Viviana (R&D), Aillon, Jean-Louis, Dr. (Movimento per la Decrescita felice)
Petrakos - „Land-grabbing procedures and social resistance in the European
continent. The case of Chalkidiki (Greece) movement against gold mining.“
(fp) // Asara - „The Indignados movement: Between prefiguration and creation of alternatives“ (sp) // Aillon - „Degrowth, youth and utopia: understanding the roots of distress in order to take ownership of our future“ (sp) //
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Teaching degrowth: Lessons learned
Facilitators: Palzkill, Alexandra (Wuppertal Institute), Haake, Hans (Universität
Oldenburg)
With the participants of the VÖW Summer School and VÖW representatives.
Currently, concepts of degrowth, pluralist economics or transdisciplinary
research are being promoted but still mostly blocked by traditional departments. In a summer school organised by the Society for Ecological Economy
Research and “Netzwerk n” a diverse group of students and young professionals will develop strategies for bringing alternative concepts – especially
degrowth – into the university mainstream. Their results will be presented
in this session and be added to by international experts and attendees.
Track: Science
The role of complementary currencies
in degrowth economies
Facilitator: Pohler, Nina (WU Wien) • Speakers: Ruzzene, Maurizio, Dr. (Associazione italiana per la decrescita), Rauch, Carolin (Ifo Institut), Schröder, Rolf F.H.
Ruzzene - „Financial crisis and degrowth. The problems of financing public economies, taking care of the commons, local currencies“ (fp) // Rauch
- „The Advantages of a community currency – An OCA perspective“ (fp) //
Schroeder - „The potential of complementary currencies: Boon or bane for
degrowth?“ (fp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Statistical analysis of well-being and
sustainability
Facilitator: Pellegrini, Lorenzo (Erasmus University Rotterdam) • Speakers: Bartonlini, Stefano, Prof. Dr. (University of Siena, Italy), Fritz, Martin (GESIS - Leibniz
Institute for the Social Sciences), Koch, Max, Prof. Dr. (Lund University), Lutz, Christian, Dr. (GWS mbH), Zieschank, Roland (FU Berlin, Environmental Policy Research
Centre)
Bartolini - „Great recession and U.S. consumers‘ bulimia: Deep causes and
possible ways out“ (full paper) // Fritz & Koch - „Ecological sustainability,
social inclusion and the quality of life: Identifying potentials for prosperity
without growth“ (full paper) // Lutz - „Measuring transformation towards a
green economy in Germany“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
From agri-food to degrowth
Facilitator: de la Vega-Leinert, A. Christina, Dr. (University of Greifswald) • Speakers:
Infante-Amante, Juan, Dr. (Unviersity Pablo de Olavide), Calvario, Rita (ICTA – UAB)
Juan Infante-Amate - „Energy use in the Spanish agri-food system (19602010). On possible courses for economic degrowth“ (full paper) // Rita Calvario - „Agency is not enough: obstacles to back-to-the-land and agri-food
downscaling“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Shrinking cities and space in postgrowth scocieties
Work in degrowth societies
Facilitator: Horstink, Lanka • Speakers: Quade, Dorothee (University of Jena),
Pancewicz, Lukasz, Dr. (Technical University of Gdansk), White, James (University of
Hradec Kralove), Knoop, Bettina (Universität Passau), Rink, Dieter, Prof. Dr. (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)
Facilitator: Rau, Henrike, Dr. (National University of Ireland) • Speakers: O‘Neill,
Daniel, Dr. (University of Leeds), Haas, Willi, Dr. (Alpen Adria Universität), Schmidt,
Tiina (Aalto University), Wilén, Kristoffer (Hanken School of Economics), Hirschbrunn, Katharina (Hochschule für Philosophie)
Quade - „Reflections on ‘society’ and ‘space’ in the degrowth debate“ (sp)
// Pancewicz & White - „Retooling for degrowth of cities in CEE countries,
challenge and potential directions for action.“ (sp) // Knoop - „Nothing but
growth for shrinking cities? Urban planning and its influencing factors in
Poland“ (sp) // Rink - „Beyond growth: Shrinking cities as a model for postgrowth societies?“ (sp)
O‘Neill - „Degrowth and unemployment: The implications of Okun‘s Law“
(sp) // Haas - „Exploring human labour in times of low carbon and no growth
economies“ (sp) // Schmidt & Wilén - „Downshifting – Rejecting the growth
imperative or internalizing the neoliberal order?“ (sp) // Hirschbrunn - „Buddhist economics beyond Schumacher - How can contemporary research on
Buddhist economics inform degrowth approaches?“ (sp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Critique of economic perspectives on
ecology
Facilitator: Hadjimichael, Maria, Dr. (Aalborg University) • Speakers: Knolle, Helmut (Décroissance Bern), Ekardt, Felix, Prof. Dr. (BUND e.V.), Spangenberg, Joachim
H., Dr. (UFZ Helmholtz Centre for Environment Research)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Science
Practice &
Activism
Achieving Food-Sovereignty
Speakers: Simon, Rebecca (Junge Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft
(JabL)), Gioia, Paula (Bündnis Junge Landwirtschaft (BJL))
Helmut Knolle - „Prelude to a critique of ecological economy“ (full paper)
// Felix Ekardt - „The limits to environmental economics“ (full paper) // Joachim H. Spangenberg - „Economic versus ecological world view – ontologies
as reality blinder“ (short paper)
Facing the power of agrobusiness we need to get back (food) sovereignty.
Farmer‘s orgainsations and movement worldwide work on solutions how
agriculture can feed the world and how to protect the earth and rights of
peasants and indigenes. We want to discuss the concept of „food sovereignty“. Furthermore, the workshop shall be used to connect different (young)
groups.
Track: Science
Language:EN
Why degrowth and not class-struggle?
Language:DE, EN
Post-growth and banks - a paradox?
Speakers: Konne (Autodidaktische Initiative Leipzig (ADI))
Speakers: Richter, Regine (urgewald e.V.)
The workshop looks at the basis of degrowth approaches and asks, why a
new left critique of economy developed without using traditional (marxist
and socialist) categories and terms. Furthermore, we want to discuss, how
a degrowth approach - which not only considers individual acting but which
is directed against institutions and current principles of the economy - can
be established against existing interests.
The logic of most of the banks bases on growth. Refusing business because
of ecological or social reasons do not fit in this concept very well. At the
same time banks do not exclude financation of armaments, nuclear and coal
energie. The workshops wants to emphasize and discuss this dilemma using
the example of public and private banks.
Language:DE, EN
For a specific degrowth: Against oligarchies!
Language:DE
Ukrainian Vision on degrowth
Speakers: Dellheim, Judith (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung), Kempf, Hervé (Reporterre)
Speakers: Vartanian, Anna (Odessa State Environmental University)
The workshop project aims to show that oligarchies are the most responsible power structures which prevent to deal with climate change and biodiversity loss successfully. These structures destruct the main resource to
stop an economic development that causes and increases the ecological
crises: Democracy. The analysis and the discussion should deepen the understanding of the oligarchy problem and to qualify the work on strategies
to fight against them.
Reducing the production level in Ukraine does not reduce the overall sharpness of the environmental situation in the country. Every single region of
Ukraine has its own environmental problems. Every 4 years the government
in Ukraine is changing. Each new government stops action development
programs established by the previous government, including programs for
the protection of the environment and social programs. The level of the
public awareness about the importance of moderate consumption and environmentally-oriented lifestyle is relatively low.
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Housing policies and their impact on
the impoverishment
Speakers: Palma Galván, Fernando (Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón UNAM)
In the workshop we are going to study the changes that happened in a very
special area called „The Chalco´s Valley“. We will analyse four main times:
Prehispanic, The Spanish Conquest, The Porfiriato and Now. In this four
periods the economy changed a lot damaging the land and making it unproductive.
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Activism
Ends:
16:30 Type: Discussion workshop
Language:EN
Feminism, Postcolonialism and Degrowth
Speakers: Löw, Christine (Fellow Postwachstumsgesellschaft FSU Jena)
Crucial for the degrowth movement are issues of ecological destruction
and the increase of social inequalities caused by conventional models of
wealth. One important field where ideas about growth are set to work is development policy - with women in the Third World playing a key role. They
are the main targets of micro finance and climate adaption projects. In the
workshop we will discuss recent political struggles of indigenous women in
India for gender and environmental justice as potential paradigm and ally
for theory and practice of degrowth.
Language:EN
Low cost and solidary mobility: real
existing alternatives 1/2
Commons: foundation of a society
beyond growth compulsion
Speakers: Neumüller, Denis (Commons-Institut) (angefragt), Euler, Johannes (Commons Institut) (angefragt)
In this seminar the growth compulsion of the capitalist system shall be
exposed and the commons proposed as a foundation of a post-growth society. It shall be argued that a post-growth society cannot be a capitalist
one. Building on the critique of commodity-producing societies as necessarily growth-based, the commons shall be presented as a counterpart to
the commodity. Commons entail a radically different logic based on needsorientation, inclusion, self-organization and concrete forms of wealth.
Language:EN
Mapping the alternatives
Speakers: Kratzwald, Brigitte (commons.at), Maier, Michael (OpenStreetMap),
Kreitmayer, Josef (get active)
Many people have started mapping alternatives to the mainstream economic system in the last years, every initiative using their own technical tools
and tagging system. Imagine, we could make all our maps compatible! With
the #14mmm we are developing a collaborative taxonomy on OpenStreetMap, to work for many different initiatives. Join in!
Language:EN
Degrowth and Plural Economics
Facilitator: Leidig, Sabine (MdB / MP, LINKE) • Speakers: Pershon, Jürgen (EURIST =
European Institute for Sustainable Transport) , Spott, Miriam (ADFC)
Speakers: Urban, Janina (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik), Hafele, Jakob (Netzwerk
Plurale Ökonomik), Kung, Christoph (Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik)
Ein Auto ist für die Mehrzahl der Menschen, vor allem im globalen Süden,
unbezahlbar und selbst in Deutschland können oder wollen sich ein Viertel
der Haushalte keinen PKW leisten. Wir reden darüber, wie Mobilität anders,
umweltverträglich, kostengünstig, solidarisch hergestellt wird - ganz real
und jeden Tag: Per pedes , mit Fahrrädern, per Bus und Bahn... Dabei geht
es um gelungene Modelle und Vorbilder und darum, unseren Horizont zu
erweitern. Für Alternativen zum zerstörerischen Leitbild von VW, Daimler,
GM oder Fiat.
Die Notwendigkeit von Wirtschaftswachstum wird an den Universitäten
heutzutage unhinterfragt gelehrt. Daher wollen wir mit euch diskutieren,
inwiefern eine wachstumsorientierte Wirtschaftspolitik mit der Einseitigkeit in ökonomischer Forschung und Lehre zusammenhängt. Außerdem
werden die Aktivitäten des Netzwerks Plurale Ökonomik und dem internationalen Partner ISIPE vorgestellt, um einen Ausblick auf mögliche Veränderungen in den Wirtschaftswissenschaften zu geben, in der das Thema
„Postwachstum“ einen Platz hat.
Language:DE
The monetary valorization of nature
Language:DE
They are everywhere! Connecting the
cells of resistence 1/2
Speakers: Zimmermann, Theresa (Generation Nachhaltigkeit e.V.), Thylmann, Miron (Generation Nachhaltigkeit e.V.)
Speakers: Klostermeyer, Theresa (DNR), Abshagen, Marie-Luise (Forum Umwelt
und Entwicklung), Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof. Dr. (BUND/FoE Germany)
Als Antwort auf ökologische Krisen tauchen immer häufiger Ansätze der Monetarisierung von Natur auf. BefürworterInnen sehen darin die einzige Chance, deren
sonst kostenfreie (Aus-)Nutzung zu stoppen. KritikerInnen dagegen befürchten,
dass sich der Kapitalismus damit ein weiteres Resort einverleibt, um Wachstum
zu generieren. Die Monetarisierung der Natur soll anhand von Beispielen wie
Ökosystemdienstleistungen, Emissionshandel oder Natur in der Stadt kritisch
betrachtet werden.
Immer wieder begegnen sich Menschen, die feststellen, dass sie gern stärker wachstumskritisch arbeiten würden, in ihrer Organisation und gerade
in den etablierten Umwelt- und Entwicklungsverbänden jedoch keinen
Ansatz hierfür finden. Diese Menschen wollen wir zusammenbringen. Wie
kann man die Wachstumskritik stärker auf die Agenda der Verbände-/Organisationen-Landschaft bringen bzw. strukturell verankern? Muss die Thematik für die Entwicklungs- und Umweltorganisationen vielleicht neu und
und „zielgruppenspezifisch“ aufbereitet werden?
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Language:DE
Let‘s ask! - building bridges between
generations part 1/3
The consolidation of an economy and
growth model: TTIP, CATA & co
Speakers: Hübner, Niko (BUNDjugend e.V./Degrowth 2014)
Speakers: Nitzpon, Daniel (Netzwerk Vorsicht Freihandel / Attac Leipzig
Seit Jahrzehnten erstreiten Menschen in sozialen Bewegungen ihre Träume
von einer anderen Gesellschaft, angefangen bei Befreiungskämpfen über Umwelt- und Frauenbewegungen bis hin zu neueren Erscheinungen bspw. der AntiÜberwachungs-Proteste. Sie eint das Problem, dass Errungenschaften verteidigt
werden müssen. An jedem Konferenztag werden Menschen eingeladen, die sich
seit langem für die Ideale der Postwachstumsbewegung einsetzen um jungen
Menschen zu berichten, sodass sie sich selbst für ihre Zukunft einsetzen können.
Die Namen der eingeladenen Gäste werden vor der Konferenz online gestellt. Max. 25
Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Internationale Handelsabkommen zementieren nicht nur den Status Quo
des Wirtschaftssystems, indem sie verbieten, bestimmte Standards zu Umweltschutz, Sozialverträglichkeit, Gesundheitsschutz etc. bei Import, Zollhöhe und öffentlicher Beschaffung zu berücksichtigen, sie verunmöglichen
auch das Umsteuern, indem sie zukünftig die Berücksichtigung anderer
Kriterien blockieren. In diesem Workshop wollen wir über den aktuellen
Stand bei Abkommen wie TTIP und CETA informieren sowie Strategien und
konkrete Handlungsmöglichkeiten einer Gegenbewegung diskutieren.
Language:DE
Queer and degrowth - why it is related
Language:DE
SÖ film project: We make a different
economy!
Speakers: Habermann, Friederike, Dr. (author)
Speakers: Embshoff, Dagmar (Forum Solidarische Ökonomie)
Feministische und antirassistische Erkenntnisse der letzten Jahrzehnte
zeigen auf, dass Identitätskategorien wie sex oder race konstruiert sind.
Grundlage hierfür war immer das Absichern von Privilegien: sei es der Zugang zu Ressourcen, sei es eine angenehme Arbeitsteilung für die hegemoniale Gruppe. Auch der Wohlstand im Wohlfahrtsstaat beruht(e) darauf.
Welche Voraussetzungen müsste ein anderes Wirtschaften erfüllen, damit
jeder Mensch sich unabhängig von Identitätszwängen – also queer! – entwickeln kann?
Der Film über Solidarische Ökonomie (SÖ) soll exemplarisch drei Betriebe
bzw. Projekte porträtieren: eine Solidarische Landwirtschaft (Solawi) in
Gründung, eine Energiegenossenschaft und ein regional vernetztes BioHandwerks-Kollektiv. Wir wollen mit dem Film Lust machen, anders zu
wirtschaften. Im Workshop sollen das Projekt, das Konzept und der Vorfilm vorgestellt werden. Es gibt Gelegenheit, mit Protagonist*innen und
Filmemacher*innen darüber zu diskutieren und Folgeprojekte zu überlegen.
Language:DE
Ecosocialism or barbarism
Language:DE
Back coupling between emancipatory
practice and research
Speakers: Kern, Bruno, Dr. (Initiative Ökosozialismus), Sarkar, Saral (Initiative Ökosozialismus)
Speakers: Halder, Severin (Allmende Kontor Berlin), Artola, Miren (Allmende Kontor
Berlin), Martens, Dörte (Allmende Kontor Berlin)
Unserer Meinung nach ist eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft nur als ökosozialistische denkbar. Wir wollen in dieser Veranstaltung diese Meinung begründen, zeigen, dass Ökokapitalismus eine Illusion ist und unser Modell
von Ökosozialismus vorstellen und zur Diskussion stellen.
Aus der Perspektive der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Forschung des Allmende-Kontors beobachten wir kritisch, wie die Forschungslandschaft zum Gärtnern
in der Stadt immer weiter wächst. Wird die Forschung dem emanzipatorischen Potential der GartenBewegung gerecht? Losgelöst von den urbanen
Gärten möchten wir gemeinsam mit euch die folgenden Fragen erörtern:
Wie kann Forschung mit Akteuren gemeinschaftlich gestaltet werden? Wie
können soziale Bewegungen selbst forschen? Wo sind Potentiale und Grenzen?
Language:DE
Splitting up girls and boys - an economic model of success
Language:DE
Early childhood care from a
growth-critical perspective
Speakers: Schauerhammer, Manuela
Speakers: Hable, Silvia (Degrowth 2014)
Wer heute einkaufen geht, begegnet plakativ „für Mädchen“ bzw. „für Jungen“ vermarkteten Produkten - von Spielzeug bis zu Backmischungen und
Joghurt. Wie funktioniert dieser „doppelte Markt“? Welche Strategien verfolgen z.B. Werbestrategen hier konkret? Ist die wirtschaftlich offensichtlich erwünschte „rosablaue Mädchenjungenkonsumkindheit“ aus gesellschaftspolitischer Sicht zu kritisieren, und gibt es umsetzbare Alternativen?
Das derzeitige Erfolgsmodell für junge Eltern in Deutschland heißt: 1 Jahr
Elternzeit plus 2 Vätermonate. Danach arbeiten beide Vollzeit, das Kind
kommt ganztags in die Krippe, anschließend in den Ganztagskindergarten,
dann in die Ganztagsschule. Wer finanziert das? Welche Interessen bestimmen die derzeitige Betreuungs- und damit verbundene Arbeitsbegriffdebatte in Deutschland? Wie geht es den Kindern damit? Was sind Perspektiven
für eine Kinderbetreuung in einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft?
Language:DE
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Practice &
Activism
Mondragón: Almost 60 years experience of a cooperative
Speakers: Voss, Elisabeth (Gemeingut in BürgerInnen Hand / NETZ für Selbstverwaltung und Kooperation + CONTRASTE – Monatszeitung für Selbstorganisation)
Mondragón im spanischen Baskenland gilt als weltweit größter Genossenschaftsverbund. Aber vor welchen Herausforderungen steht der Genossenschaftsverbund heute? Welche Widersprüche und Ambivalenzen ergeben
sich aus der Notwenigkeit, an globalisierten Märkten zu bestehen, und
gleichzeitig genossenschaftliche Werte und Solidarität zu erhalten? Wie
kann verantwortliches und solidarisches Wirtschaften in Krisenzeiten realisiert werden? Und welche Abstriche an den Idealen fordert der Kampf um
die wirtschaftliche Existenz und den Erhalt der Arbeitsplätze?
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2:30 pm
Practice &
Activism
Ends:
16:30 Type: Discussion workshop
Language:DE
Projection of the documentary „Another
World“ (2013) (Greek, English subtitles)
Transition Theater: Momo, and the
men in grey within us. Part 2/2
The novel Momo by german author Michael Ende tells the story of a community in which individuals no longer have time for themselves and others.
They have in fact internalized a message from ‘the men in grey’ that they
must save time for economic reasons. Somehow we know this story, from
our own lives... This interactive- theater workshop will explore moments in
our daily lives when our mental infrastructures of growth and acceleration
impact our decisions and actions profoundly. From here, we will search for
ways in which we can resist and transform these unhealthy cultural beliefs
that are deeply ingrained within us.
Language:EN
How do I start my own farming project
in the countryside?
Speakers: Theodoropoulos, Michalis (iliosporoi network)
Speakers: Böttcher, Friederike (Lebensprojekt Eine Spinnerei)
The documentary Another World was filmed under the occasion of the realization of the 1st alternative festival on solidarity and cooperative economy
that gathered degrowth activists and solidarity economy practitioners from
all over Greece. The documentary describes all those grass roots degrowth
movements that have sprung in Greece since the beginning of the crisis and
as a bottom up response to it.
Eine Postwachstumsgesellschaft braucht gerade den ländlichen Raum, da
sich hier aufgrund der Rahmenbedingungen größere Möglichkeiten bieten
für neue Formen des Wirtschaftens und Lebens als in den Städten. Viele
junge Leute besuchen Wwoof- oder Eurotopiahöfe, doch scheuen die meisten letztendlich zurück, selbst einen Hof zu betreiben. Ausgangspunkt für
unseren Beitrag ist folglich die Fragestellung: Was hält mich ab, selbst ein
Lebensprojekt nach nachhaltigen Maßstäben auf dem Land zu gründen?
Ends: 16:30 Type: Film
Language:EN
Metamorphoses. Constructing
Bokashi systems
Language:DE
Mental resources for sustainable lifestyles based on Marcel Hunecke (2013)
Speakers: Betzl, Joachim (KompostKreis)
Speakers: Römpke, Anne
Wir bauen Produktionsmittel aus Reststoffen. So werden alte Eimer zu Bokashi-Systemen in denen Schnippelreste fermentiert werden. Dadurch läßt
sich der Gang zur Biotonne und torfhaltige Blumenerde ersetzen. Auf Mikrovergasern wird Kaffee gekocht und dabei Holzkohle hergestellt. Bokashi
und Holzkohle sind Bestandteile von Terra-Preta. Werkzeug und Anregungen werden bereitgestellt, Eimer mit Deckel o.ä. bitte selbst mitbringen!
5-50 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Beginn erscheinen.
Marcel Hunecke hat das inspirierende Buch „Psychologie der Nachhaltigkeit. Psychische Ressourcen für Postwachstumsgesellschaften“ (2013) heraus gebracht. Warum können manche Leute vergleichsweise leicht ihren
Lebensstil an Postwachstumsidealen ausrichten, warum fällt es anderen
schwerer? Wir wollen zu dieser Frage eine psychologische Perspektive basierend auf psychischen Ressourcen und dem subjektiven Wohlbefinden
eröffnen und anhand Practical Beispiele direkt mit allen Interessierten ausprobieren. Mind. 8 bis max. 25 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Workshopbeginn
erscheinen.
Language:DE
Constructing seed boxes
Language:DE
Tools for community building - ZEGG
Forum
Speakers: Bonke, Michael (Freies Saatgut)
Speakers: Richter, Dolores (ZEGG Belzig, Bee School Berlin)
In unserem Workshop bauen wir Holz- oder Kartonkisten aus Recyclingmaterial, die leicht zugänglich aufgestellt werden sollen und in denen man
selbstgeerntetes Saatgut in ebenfalls recycelten Briefumschlägen der Generalheit zur Verfügung stellt. Jeder darf und soll Samentüten herausnehmen oder hineinlegen oder beides. Ziele: neue Verteilstrukturen für Saatgut
schaffen, Teilen üben, Selbstermächtigung, Gemeinschaftsbildung, dem
Saatgut den Warencharakter nehmen und es in die Commons zurückführen
Gemeinschaftlich zu leben ist beste Voraussetzung, Nachhaltigkeit zu verwirklichen. Damit Gemeinschaft gelingt und inspiriert, braucht es vor allem
im zwischenmenschlichen Umgang ein erfahrungsgeprüftes Knowhow, das
vor latenten Konflikten, unklaren Zielen, anstrengender Kommunikation
und Missverständnissen bewahrt. Wir bieten Gemeinschaftswerkzeuge an,
die Gemeinschaftsbildung, Transparenz, Ehrlichkeit, Feedback und tiefes
Wahrnehmen ermöglichen. Zielgruppe: Menschen, die Gruppen, Teams oder
Gemeinschaften auf fundierter Kommunikation und sinnvoller Wertebildung
aufbauen wollen.
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Visiting degrowth actors with the
Stadt Karawane Leipzig
[untitled] a space for monsters, ghosts
and animals
Speakers: Rassmann, Hannes (Stadt Karawane)
Artists: friendly fire
Der Verein Stadt Karawane e.V. bietet seit über drei Jahren Touren durch
Leipzig an, auf denen die TeilnehmerInnen Menschen mit verschiedenen
Interessen, Berufen, sozialen und religiösen Hintergründen und deren
Engagement und Leben in Leipzig kennen lernen können. Im Rahmen der
Degrowth-Konferenz möchten wir es den TeilnehmerInnen ermöglichen
Leipziger Initiativen zu besuchen und so einen authentischen Einblick in die
Vielfalt der im Degrowth-Spektrum verortbaren Leipziger Akteure zu bekommen.
Life beyond the economic growth premise? Which forms of subjectivity are
and will be linked to this? Which ways of thinking, which practices, which
conceptions of man, which ways of coexistence? With an intervention/performance Friendly Fire explores individual and collective transformations
in all their visionary, dreamy, scary, eerie, threatening, monstrous or incredibly funny facets.
Language:DE
Energy sufficiency - Participatory Design Workshop (Part I)
Begins: 16:30 Room: Foyer HS
Ends: 18:00 Type: Performance
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Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Practice &
Activism
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TAF! Photographic Action Workshop
(Part I)
Art
General
Artists: Miriam Lahusen, Sirkka Jacobsen
Artists: Oriana Elicabe
Needs and behaviours of citizens are important sources of knowledge for
research and development in the field of energy sufficiency. This workshop
will investigate how these can be included by using artistic methods developed by designers in the project “Energiesuffizienz”of the ifeu Institute,
the Wuppertal Institute, the Research Post for Sustainability and Climate
Policy and the Design Research Lab of the UdK. We will explore instinctive
researching, creative documentation and qualitativeinterpretation. // Participation only with registration.
TAF! is a theoretical-practical photography workshop designed for action.
It aims to share knowledge and practices in toolkit mode. Participants will
look at photography and its use as a communication tool and as a way of
collectively intervening in social issues. The aim is to create a photographic collective intervention on issues concerning “Degrowth” and based on
the contributions and interests of the participants. Join TAF! To see, what
a photograph can do on Degrowth and the conference. Attendance after
registration.
Track: Art
Language:DE
GAP Opening Assembly
Track: Art
Language:EN
GAP working group: Redefining Value
The following assemblies and working groups are part of the Group Assembly Process (GAP), a three-day working process among activists, practitioners, scientists and artists of the degrowth movement. This is the opening
assembly of the GAP. In order to participate in the process a previous registration for one of the working groups is necessary. More information on the
GAP and the registration: http://leipzig.degrowth.org/en/gap/.
What would be an economy of permanence? How and why would this be a
more meaningful concept than ‘sustainability’ as it is now commonly understood? In what ways would we have to rethink ‘value’ in order to even
begin to work towards an ‘economy of permanence’?
Ends: 17:30 Type: GAP
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Agriculture and
Food
Stirring Paper: Rajni Bakshi: An Economy of Permanence and Rethinking
Value
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Basic Income
What is the role of agriculture in a degrowth society, in particular in terms
of work force requirements? How does a regional food supply system in the
North effect the global South? How can a movement for food sovereignty
be strengthened?
Can basic income be financed in a way compatible with ecological goals
and social justice in a degrowth context and if so how? What is the relation
of basic income proposals to other proposals to re-organize work (p.e. the
shortening of working hours, income ceilings...)?
Stirring Papers: Peter Clausing: Thoughts on agricultural transformation //
Lanka Horstink: Food and Seed Sovereignty as conditions for degrowing our
food system // Christine Pohl: Food for the future
Stirring Papers: Stefan Füsers, Ronald Blaschke: Degrowth and Unconditional Basic Income // Dagmar Paternoga, Werner Rätz: Unconditional basic
income, human rights-based equality and economic degrowth
Track: General
Language:EN
Track: General
Language:EN
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GAP working group: Childhood
How does growing up look like in a degrowth society, which is not aimed at
productive hierarchical and competitive work? // What kind of institutions
of learning and care do we need in a degrowth society? And how can we
address the challenges for insitutional change in this field?
GAP working group: Climate and Energy
How should the energy sector be organized in a degrowth society? What
strategies should the degrowth movement adopt to curb climate change?
Divestment, deindustrialization, conversion...?
Stirring Paper: Silvia Hable, Christiane Richard-Elsner: Children and Degrowth
Stirring Papers: Kevin Buckland: Pop the Carbon Bubble! Tactics for degrowing the economy and mitigating the climate crisis // Attac working groups
EKU&JdW: Shutting down the climate culprits – How can we phase out polluting industries?
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Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Commons and
Peer Economy
General
Could the concepts of “commons” and “communing” be the basic principle
for a degrowth society? Which social institutions (e.g. health, computers,
schools) should be organized as commons, as public institutions, or in the
market? What does this imply for gender, race and class relations?
Stirring Papers: Naomi Miller, Patrick Bresnihan: How can we construct the
commons? // Gunter Kramp: “Let´s be realistic, let´s try the impossible.” Degrowth needs a different economic system // Pau Bofill, Félix Pardo Vallejo:
The bare necessities: Pushing from monetary economics back towards natural economies //
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Democracy
How might a transition towards degrowth look like? Whose voices are
heard, whose are rejected? // Can a democratic degrowth society remain
within the systemic structures of modern societies? If not, what would have
to change? Which democracy are we fighting for? How do we deal with the
challenge of open-endedness of direct democratic processes, which might
very well lead to paths contrary to degrowth?
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Consumption
What are the potentials and limits of individual self-providing and life-style
changes for the transformation towards a degrowth society?
Stirring Papers: Corinna Vosse and Dieter Haselbach: Self-providing as a
motor for Degrowth // Ben Touissant: Good:matters // Antje Schaffartzik:
Where does responsibility begin and end?
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Learning for Degrowth
How can people be effectively engaged in degrowth discussions and actions? What are goals of education for degrowth beyond individual life-style
changes? Is education an effective strategy for degrowth transformation,
and if so how?
Stirring Paper: Barbara Muraca: A postgrowth society will have to be democratic or will not be at all
Stirring Papers: Robert Strauch: Subsistence and Sufficiency – What competences support these aspects of a degrowth culture and how can they
be fostered in the field of education? // Susanne Brehm: Education and/or
Transformation?
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Money and Finance
What monetary system do we need in a degrowth economy? // Does a degrowth economy need financial markets, and if so, which ones? What forms
of investments are needed and how could they be organized? How does
a democratic control of the monetary system, the financial markets and
investments look like?
Stirring Papers: Fabian Scheidler, Matthias Schmelzer: Beyond regulation –
money, banks and finance in a degrowth perspective // Miguel San Miguel:
New tools for new times. // Cocreating the world currency of the future
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Track: General
Language:EN
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Organizing Collective Action for Degrowth
How does transformation take place and what are effective strategies for a
system change? Which societal actors could be the (revolutionary) subjects
of the transformation to degrowth? How can scientists, practitioners, and
activists effectively cooperate to build a degrowth movement? What organizational structures do we need?
Stirring Papers: Gualter Barbas Baptista: Scaling up collective action and advancing knowledge on degrowth from the grassroots // Micha Narberhaus:
Towards a new activism to effectively support a transition to a de-growth
economy // Jean-Louis Aillon, Marta Guindani, Elena Dal Santo, Stefano Zummo, Alessandro Montis, Maurizio Pallante: How to built, organize and manage degrowth movements rooted in the territory?
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Reproduction and
Work
GAP working group: Resources and
Extraction
How is work organized in a degrowth society - formal, informal work, care,
subsistence...? Will not the lowering of productivity due to the abandonment of non-renewable resources and energy make it necessary to work
more (paid or unpaid)?
How can we in the global North support international struggles against resource extraction mainly in the global South? And how are struggles against
resource and energy (nuclear, coal) extraction in the North and the South
related? What can they learn from each other?
Stirring Papers: Christer Sanne: Degrowth by leisure – step down the upwards escalator! // Andrea Pürckhauer, Mareike Beck: Degrowth and the reorganization of work – a feminist perspective // Olli Tammilehto: Transition
to Degrowth Facilitated by Existing Shadow Society
Stirring Paper: Ulrich Brand: Resources and Extraction
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Solidarity Economy, Cooperatives and Social Business
Can social business and cooperatives be pioneers of change towards degrowth and if so how? What are the challenges? What forms of entrepreneurship are compatible with degrowth? Is there a future for the profit sector? Which political reforms could foster social and ecological firms and
cooperatives?
Stirring Papers: Elisabeth Voß: Towards a degrowth economy – for global
justice and democracy // Donnie Maclurcan, Jennifer Hinton: Introducing
the Not-for-Profit World Economic Model
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Technology and
Production
Which technologies are needed for the transformation to and in a degrowth
society? What is the relation between high-tech and low-tech? How can
societal and democratic control of technological innovation be organized?
Stirring Papers: Linda Nierling: A normative framework for the development
and use of technologies in the degrowth context // Sylvain Fischer: How to
produce for degrowth? Rediscovering manual skills and peasantry // Charlotte Knips, Jürgen Bertling, Jan Blömer, Willm Janssen: FabLabs, 3D-printing
and degrowth – Democratisation and deceleration of production or a new
consumptive boom producing more waste?
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Urban Transformation
Track: General
Language:EN
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GAP working group: „Politics of sufficiency“ as politics for the good life
General
Which policies support sustainable lifestyles? What are barriers for politics of sufficiency? What type of resistance is to be expected? What specific
fields of politics of sufficiency would be good starting points? Is this approach sufficient for degrowth?
Stirring Paper: Angelika Zahrnt, Uwe Schneidewind: Sufficiency policies as
policies of the good life
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Transport and
Mobility
What are sustainable and just forms of mobility? What does a sustainable
and just mobility infrastructure look like? How can the forms of transport
and mobility be reduced which are only induced by existing infrastructural
bondages and/or only serve particular interests in profit?
Stirring Paper: Sabine Leidig: Initiative on socially responsible mobility – saying no to traffic madness
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working group: Social Security
What is the relation between cities and rural areas in a degrowth society?
What are the potentials of urban agriculture to supply cities with food?
What are possible conflicts of goals between different degrowth infrastructures in cities?
Which social security systems do we need for a degrowth society? How
could they be secured, financed, organized? If we organize the provision of
social services by strengthening non-paid work and the care sector, what
does it imply for gender or class relations?
Stirring Papers: Antje Manteuffel: Urban Gardening 2.0 // Benjamin Best: Urban infrastructures and degrowth // Jeremy Heighway: Public infrastructure
in a degrowth society
Stirring Paper: Kerstin Hoette: Degrowth and the need to reform social security systems - What scope for Synergies?
Track: General
Language:EN
Track: General
Language:EN
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Open Space to identify barriers and new
pathways for sustainability transitions
Speakers: Neumann, Kai (Consideo GmbH)
In a joined project between the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Consideo we have developed a comprehensive qualitative “Integrated Assessment
Model” to gain a deeper understanding of the synergies and conflicts within
the transformation towards a more sustainable society. With a methodology described as the KNOW WHY Method the facilitators of groups systematically ask WHY something is. We will apply this approach to the concepts
and practices of degrowth. We may use all three days.
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General
Practice &
Activism
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8pm
Science
General
Language:EN
German parliamentary commission on
growth – results and follow-up
Open Space
Open Space relies on the principles of self-organization and self-rule of the
participating persons. This means that there is no planned programme and
no determined course of action. Through the open and participatory set-up,
everyone can bring in his or her own questions and issues. Small working
groups will be created spontaneously around certain topics and always
start with an open exchange. One central element of the Open Space is that
everyone has the freedom to change the working groups at any time - or to
open a new one. More details on the process will be explained on the spot.
Ends: 19:00 Type: Open Space
Track: General
Language:DE, EN
Magical Mystery Tour - how sharing
multiplies happiness
Facilitator: Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof. Dr. (BUND) • Speakers: Ott, Hermann, Dr. (Wuppertal Institut), Zimmer, Matthias, Prof. Dr. (MdB/MP, CDU), Kolbe, Daniela (MdB/MP,
SPD), Leidig, Sabine (MdB / MP, LINKE)
Speakers: Helfrich, Silke (Commons Strategies Group, Germany), Scheub, Ute (Autorin),
Jensen, Annette (Autorin), Prüss, Jaana (Morgengrün), Wiesmann, Thorsten (think2share), Dönnebrink, Thomas (OuiShare), Felber, Christian (Gemeinwohlkonomie)
There is a controversial discussion on the impacts of the special commission on
„Growth, Prosperity and Quality of Life“ of the last German parliament. On the
one hand, it brought growth critique up to Germany‘s high political level, on
the other hand, very few results were discussed publicly and the debate has not
sufficiently advanced on the political level since then. On this panel, the results
and impacts of the commission are evaluated and discussed among commission
members. Moreover, options for continuing the debate are being sought. [Prepared jointly with Daniela Kolbe and Hermann Ott.]
Teilen und anschließend mehr haben -- simsalabim, das geht. Auf der Bühne
erscheinen kluge Köpfe mit Unterleib, die solche Zauberei schon im Alltag
praktizieren. Das alles findet keineswegs in obskuren Kellern statt, sondern
mitten unter uns. Auf unserer Magic Mystery Tour werden Sie erleben, wie
sich die heutige Wirtschaft ganz praktisch und lustvoll vom Kopf auf die
Füße stellen lässt und dadurch immer mehr Wohlstand entsteht bei gleichzeitiger Einsparung von Material und Stress. Hereinspaziert.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Growth, degrowth, and (the critique of)
capitalism
Facilitator: Muraca, Barbara (DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften) • Speakers: Pinault, Eric, Prof. Dr. (University of Québec), Brownhill, Leigh (McGill University)
Language:DE
How growth enters our imaginaries
and how we may get rid of it
Facilitator: Lessenich, Stephan, Prof. Dr. (DFG-Research Group Postwachstumsgesellschaften) Speakers: Bazzicalupo, Laura, Prof. Dr. (Università di Salerno Italy), Rosa,
Hartmut, Prof. Dr. (Universität Jena)
Eric Pineault: A political economy of degrowth: the contradictions of advanced capitalism and the imperative of an ecological transition in a neoliberal
context // Leigh Brownhill: Degrowth, De-Alienation and Commoning: An
Ecofeminist Perspective
Laura Bazzicalupo: Ambivalence of dispositifs of subjectivation in the biocapitalist imaginary // Harmut Rosa: Striving for growth, yearning for degrowth? Resonance as a solution to the good-life problem
Ends: 21:30 Type: Scientific lecture
Track: Science
Language:EN
Book presentation: SOS Alternatives
to Capitalism
Track: Science
Language:EN
Book presentation: Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New Era
Speakers: Richard Swift (Autor)
Speakers: D‘Alisa, Giacomo; Demaria, Federico (R&D); Kallis, Giorgos, Prof. Dr. (R&D)
Book presentation of „SOS Alternatives to Capitalism“ by and with Richard
Swift (author) // more information in the online programme
Book presentation and discussion of „Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New
Era“ by and with the Research & Degrowth Network // more information in
the online programme
Ends: 21:00 Type: Book presentation
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Track: General
Language:EN
Track: General
Language:EN
Book presentation: Where does money
come from
Book presentation: Geschichte wird gemacht.
Etappen des globalen Widerstands
Speakers: Tony Greenham (Autor)
Speakers: Habermann, Friederike, Dr. (Autorin)
Book presentation and discussion of „Where does money come from“ by
and with Tony Greenham (new economics foundation) // more information
in the online programme
Book presentation and discussion of the German book „Geschichte wird
gemacht. Etappen des globalen Widerstands“ by and with Friederike Habermann (author)
For more information see the online programme.
Begins: 20:00 Room: VHS (external)
Track: General
Language:EN
Film and discussion: less is more
Track: General
Language:DE
[untitled] a space for monsters, ghosts
and animals
Facilitator: globaLE • Speakers: de Miguel Wessendorf, Karin (film maker)
How sustainable is our way of life? What can we do without sacrificing our
quality of life? To answer these questions, the filmmaker visits people, firms
and initiatives that have recognized that economic growth need not be the
measure of all things, and that a sustainable lifestyle doesn‘t have to mean
living like a monk. From the producers of „Taste the Waste“. The director
will be present.
In cooperation with globaLE and VÖÖ.
Track: General
Language:DE
The Game
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Music!
Artists: Hannah Baumann, Miriam Hildbrand
This performance invites you to rethink the given and play with variants of
reality. The participants are pawns in the game and challenge each other in
groups. While the game is just for fun, it develops its own serious nature,
and a lot of things can happen in the gravitiy of the situation! Das Spiel is
about underlying ideas, being human, games, fun, seriousness and possibilities. Come and play!
A production of Hannah Baumann and Miriam Hildbrand in cooperation with
Werkstattmacher e. V. and LOFFT – DAS THEATER. Supported by Leipzig Kulturamt.
There is no movement, no party and less well-being without music! So let`s
turn the volume up at the Degrowth conference! Listen and let go, dance
and party, music that creates atmosphere and changes space, quiet or loud,
pleasant or off-the-wall. There will be concerts in the daytime and in the
evenings on the campus.
Begins: 20:00 Room: Entrance Lobby (outside)
Ends: -
Type: Performance
Begins: 21:00 Room: Courtyard
Ends: 23:00 Type: Concert
Track:
Art
Language:EN, DE
More information to be found in the online programme.
Track: Art
Language:
Kosmokoloss. A tragicomedy on the
climate and planet earth.
Artist: Bruno Latour (audo drama)
Die Bewohner der Erde schlafen ruhig. Sie begreifen nicht, wie sehr das,
was sie für den festen Rahmen ihrer Existenz halten, ins Taumeln geraten
ist. „Kosmokoloss“ zielt auf diese Kluft zwischen der Größe der Krise und
der Fähigkeit der Menschen, sie wahrzunehmen, zu fühlen und zu verstehen. Rasch entsteht auf der Bühne des Theaters die Welt des „Anthropozän“,
einer Welt, deren profanes Ende durch bunte PowerPoint-Präsentationen
verkündet wird.
Mit Einführung und anschließendem Gespräch, moderiert von Konne Neuffer
und Hannes Raßmann.
Ends: -
Type: Audio drama
Track:
Art
Language:DE
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Programme | Thursday | 04.09. | Building alliances
Day 3 – Thursday 04.09.
Building alliances
(Re)Productivity as an economic paradigm for a social-ecological economy
A right to grow? Meeting the needs of
all within the planetary boundaries
Speakers: Biesecker, Adelheid, Prof. em. (Universität Bremen)
Speakers: Narain, Sunita (CSE India, per video)
Modern capitalist economy systematically destroys the productivity of unpaid work and nature. Such an economy is not sustainable. In a truly sustainable economy, instead, producing is always tied with regenerating and
restoring its very social and ecological conditions. The term (re)productivity
embodies such a tight connection between production and reproduction
and allows us to understand the economy as a process of mediation between humans and nature. Thus intended, the economy turns into a socialecological frame for action that we can warily design.
The global South needs development to fight poverty and has a „right to
grow“ due to the accumulated climate debt of the global North. However,
the current economic growth model is toxic. Hence, talking about growth
and development, the key question for the global South is: How to meet
the needs of all without environmental degradation? How to develop and
therefore „grow“, but without polluting? Can the global South leapfrog the
polluting steps the industrialized countries took? The growth and development trajectory needs to be reinvented.
04.09. | Th
from 9am
General
04.09. | Th
11am
General
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Alliances for degrowth between Global
North and South?!
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
The new economy of nature - tendencies of valuation and financialization
Facilitator: Brand, Ulrich, Prof. Dr. (University of Vienna) • Speakers: Rodriguez Labajos, Beatriz (EJOLT/ R&D) , Acosta, Alberto (scientist & politician, Ecuador), Kothari, Ashish (Kalpavriksh, India)
Facilitator: Strickner, Alexandra (attac Österreich) • Speakers: Unmüßig, Barbara
(Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (hbs)), Martínez, Esperanza (Oilwatch and Acción Ecologica, Ecuador), Hansjürgens, Bernd, Dr. (UFZ)
Degrowth proposals are largely debated within and for the Global North. Despite
strong dynamics and orientations towards economic growth and Western-style
development in certain countries of the Global South, concepts like „buen vivir“
and a wide range of practical approaches develop. They are promoted by social movements, critical intellectuals and sometimes even by NGOs, small firms
and progressive persons within the state bureaucracy. Possible alliances for degrowth between the Global North and South are discussed in this panel.
Different strategies have been developed to address the “multiple crises”. One of
them is the intensified financialization of nature: emission trading, land grabbing,
investment in infrastructure, and valorization of ecosystem services are prominent examples. Some see the accounting of nature’s wealth as an important tool
to measure progress “beyond GDP”. For any debate about real alternatives – like
degrowth – these new dynamic, related interests and their contradictions need
to be understood. Prepared jointly by hbs and Ulrich Brand (University of Vienna).
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Degrowth? A feminist perspective
Facilitator: Pühl, Katharina (RLS) • Speakers: Biesecker, Adelheid, Prof. em. (Universität Bremen), Sabine O‘Hara (University of the District of Columbia), Wichterich,
Christa (Universität Kassel)
This panel addresses the question what (queer-)feminist theory and practice
can contribute to the debate on degrowth at three different levels: at the
level of analysing the status quo, at the level of criticising of established degrowth concepts and at the level of developing own concepts of degrowth
out of a (queer-)feminist perspective. How can (queer-)feminist movements
e.g. care-revolution) and degrowth be brought together? // Prepared jointly
with Tanja von Egan-Krieger.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Anatomy of growth
Speakers: Siemoneit, Andreas (NEWW)
Whether economic growth is necessary or not, is still highly controversial. Accordingly the proposals for economic policies are very different, from
„growth as usual“ over „green growth“ and „steady state“ to „degrowth“. //
This lecture is an introduction to „post growth economy“. It will explain the
basic economic dilemma and its ecological and social consequences, give an
overview of the currently discussed driving forces of economic growth and
show the outlines of a „map of post growth solutions“.
Track: General
Language:EN
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This event has the purpose of getting to know other scientists and to network. In half an hour, you get to know about ten other scientists. In several
short „dates“, groups of three people introduce themselves and their area
of research.
Ends: 11.00 Type: Special Format
Track: Science
Language:EN
Design, agriculture & cities
Facilitator: Manns, Florian (UFZ) A. Dietrich & Prof. Denzer - Public Spaces: Everyday Resistance and alternative Societies// J. F. Le Clanche - Small
farms and degrowth// K. Reiß - Grassroots Innovation For Sustainability: The Diffusion of Community Supported Agriculture in Germany// R. Steffansen - How
many homes do we need? A theoretical framing of an unsustainable development
of the Norwegian second home phenomenon// E. K. Stein - How to design in a
degrowth society?// W. Striewe, F. Schreiber, K. Schüle - Extension of shelf life of
fruits and vegetables from the Kaiserstuhl area through utilization of solar thermal drying and regional marketing of the products// A. Tamlit - Agroecology as
alternative(s) to development: A South African Case Study// J. Westerkowski - Post
Growth City - the role of the Transition Town movement and urban planning
Track: Science
Language:EN
Sustainable Consumption: The Chance
for Absolute Reduction?
Facilitator: Lorek, Sylvia (Sustainable Europe Research Institute) • Speakers: Umpfenbach, Katharina (Ecologic Institute, Germany), Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin, Dr.
(Ecologic Institute, Germany), Stratford, Beth, Vadovics, Edina (Greendependent)
Umpfenbach & Hirschnitz-Garbers: Exploring consumption-focused policy
mixes for absolute decoupling of well-being from resource use and environmental impacts // Stratford: Ensuring equitable access to energy in the
context of a cap // Vadovics: Equity within limits: Introducing convergence
mapping and initiatives with contraction as well as equity processes
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from 10.30
Science
Degrowth in post-socialist European
countries
Track: Science
Language:EN
Less is more (space) - changing regions
in Japan and Germany
Facilitator: Domazet, Mladen, Dr. (Group 22) • Speakers: Liegey, Vincent (A Degrowth Project), Zivcic, Lidija (Focus), Cvijanovic, Vladimir, Dr. (Grupa 22), Tomasevic, Tomislav, Domazet, Mladen, Dr. (Group 22), Ancic, Branko, Dr.
Facilitator: Imai, Heide, Dr. (Hosei University) • Speakers: Minkus, Noriko (The Japanese House Leipzig), Loeffler, Anthusa, Prof. Dr. (HTWK Leipzig), Imai, Heide, Dr.
(Hosei University)
Vincent Liegey: A Degrowth Project in Hungary // Lidija Zivcic: Degrowth
as a path for a country at a crossroad? // Vladimir Cvijanovic & Tomislav
Tomasevic: Degrowth as an option in Croatia // Mladen Domazet & Branko
Ancic: We Need to Change: analysing potential for degrowth across Europe
Nriko Minkus: Grassroots movements and urban development - The cases of
Kitakyushu, Japan and Leipzig // Anthusa Loeffler: Analysis of Change- Intercultural Design Exchange Germany and Japan - Approaching the Question of
Future Living // Heide Imai: A spatial Anthropology of the Changing Use of
Urban Spaces in Tokyo, Japan
Track: Science
Language:EN
Resource efficiency beyond GDP
Track: Science
Language:EN
Walk the line: Transformative practices
for post-growth
Facilitator: Schepelmann, Philipp • Speakers: Wahl, Stefanie (Denkwerk Zukunft),
Freyling, Vera (Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy), Schneidewind, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Wuppertal Institute), Schneider, François, Dr. (R&D, France)
Facilitators: Gebauer, Jana, Reichel, André, Dr. • Speakers: Gebauer, Jana, Reichel,
André, Dr., Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof. Dr., Schweighofer, Martin, Seemann, Sil- ke, Dr.,
Scholl, Gerd
This special session presents results of the Work Package 8 of EU FP7 DESIRE
Project (Development of a System of Indicators for a Resource Efficient Europe).
The session will consist of presentations, followed by a discussion with invited
panelists (scientists, policy makers) and the attendees. In this vein, it will contribute to the debates on reshaping the economic system, resource productivity and by linking the political discourse about the satisfaction of human needs
to industrial ecology.
Panel discussion & world café. Post-growth practices are already developing.
Within this workshop we intend to discuss:
- The co-evolutionary relation of post-growth practices between production and
consumption.
- How to evolve these practices into becoming transformational for both business and consumers.
- How to draw the line between a helpful market adaptation and a destructive
capitalization. The results of the workshop will be published in the form of an online
reader by ECS and IÖW.
Track: Science
Track: Science
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Macroeconomics of Degrowth II
Decoupling in a global economy
Facilitator: Saes, Beatriz (UNICAMP) • Speakers: Bonaiuti, Mauro, Dr. (decrescita),
Aoki, Hidekazu (Nagoya City University), Frisius, Thomas, Dr. (Universität Hamburg)
Facilitator: Tammilehto, Olli • Speakers: Hennicke, Peter, Prof. Dr. (Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie), Westermayer, Till (Fraktion GRÜNE im Landtag
von Baden-Württemberg)
Mauro Bonaiuti - „The age of declining returns“ (full paper) // Hidekazu
Aoki - „Primary energy analysis: A New Approach beyond extant growth
theories“ (short paper) // Thomas Frisius - „Towards a sustainable society:
Concept for an alternative economic system“ (full paper)
Michael Herrmann - „The quest for sustainable development: Decoupling of
what and how?“ (full paper) // Peter Hennicke - „Decoupling resource consumption and economic growth: Insights into an unsolved global challenge“
(short paper) // Till Westermayer - „Information technology, decoupling and
networked commons - a conceptual overview“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
„Tools for conviviality“ revisited
Facilitator: Barthel, Bettina (Technical University Berlin) • Speakers: Bradley, Karin,
Prof. Dr. (KTH, Sweden), Petit, Victor (University of Technology of Troyes), Neuber,
Frederike (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology)
Karin Bradley - „Sharing is the new owning – Subjectivities of the maker
culture“ (short paper) // Victor Petit - „Degrowth, commons and convivial
technology“ (short paper) // Frederike Neuber - „Degrowth and climate engineering“ (short paper) //
Track: Science
Language:EN
Monetary and financial systems
Facilitator: Briens, François • Speakers: Peukert, Helge, Prof. Dr., Freydorf, Christoph, Weihmayr, Benedikt, Spangenberg, Joachim H., Dr.
Helge Peukert - „The present day monetary and financial systems: What’s
wrong and what must be changed for a post-growth economy“ (short paper) // Christoph Freydorf - „How does the monetary system work, does it
require economic growth, and are there monetary policy options allowing
degrowth?“ (short paper) // Benedikt Weihmayr - „100% Money and “Vollgeld”, no solution for a stationary economy“ (short paper) // Joachim H.
Spangenberg - „Degrowth, the financial system and the pension system“
(short paper)
04.09. | Th
11am
Science
Track: Science
Language:EN
Social actors as agents of change?
Track: Science
Language:EN
Political Ecology, Democracy, & Complexity
Facilitator: De Vogli, Roberto, Prof. Dr. • Speakers: Labaeye, Adrien; Wiefek, Jasmin;
Sommer, Bernd; Lukas, Melanie; Seibt, Alexandra; Maschkowski, Gesa; Schäpke, Niko;
Langen, Nina, Dr.; Grabs, Janina
Labaeye - „Grassroots digital commons for a bottom-up transition towards
sustainability“ // Wiefek & Sommer - „No good life in a bad life? – Experiences of degrowth-orientated actors in a growth economy“ // Lukas &
Seibt- „Transition road maps – An investigative approach to map the daily
life consumption of individuals“ (sp) // Maschkowski, Schäpke, Grabs & Langen - „The perspective of change agents: Why do they engage, what do they
learn und what conditions are needed for up-scaling? Insights from three
case studies“
Facilitator: Anson, April, Dr. (University of Oregon) • Speakers: Theodoropoulos,
Michalis (iliosporoi network), Pappalardo, Giusy, Dr., Beck, Marisa (University of
Waterloo)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Participation in societal and economic
organization
Facilitator: Graaf, Lisa (FU Berlin) • Speakers: Ragazzini, Irene (Unitierra), Dr.,
Rybnikova, Irma (TU Chemnitz), Hartz, Ronald
Irene Ragazzini - „Commoning in the new society“ (full paper) // Irma Rybnikova & Ronald Hartz- „Participation and economic growth in cooperatives:
Empirical explorations of a (supposedly) well-known relationship“ (short
paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Michalis Theodoropoulos - „Political ecology and degrowth“ (full paper) //
Giusy Pappalardo - „Degrowth, democracy and the Mafia. How do we face
the issue?“ (short paper) // Marisa Beck - „Energy, complexity, democracy ...
collapse?“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Beyond efficiency: Sufficiency and
mindfulness training
Facilitator: Ziai, Aram, Dr. (Universität Kassel) • Speakers: Schäpke, Niko (Leuphana University Lüneburg, Institute for Ethics and Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research), Henn, Laura, Stanszus, Laura (Technische Universität Berlin)
Niko Schäpke - „Going beyond efficiency: Including altruistic motives in
behavioral models for sustainability transitions to address suffiency“ (full
paper) // Laura Henn - „Dimensions in sufficiency behavior“ (short paper) //
Laura Stanszus - „Education for Sustainable Consumption through Mindfulness Training“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
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Business and growth - what does a
degrowth company look like?
Speakers: Niessen, Jonathan, Posse, Dirk
The discussion about degrowth is basically focusing on the political perspective at the macro level and on the individual perspective at the micro
level (buen vivir). The role of businesses has more or less been neglected.
To bridge that gap, the workshop wants to open a forum of discussion and
thereby aims to foster the exchange of business concepts beyond growth.
eipzig 2014
Ends: 13:00 Type: Discussion Workshop
Beyond the Hill: A degrowth lobby in
Brussels ?
City of the future - Degrowth thought
through
Speakers: Maréchal, Aurélie (Beyond the Hill The What If Network)
Speakers: Wieding, Jutta (BUND e.V.), Ekardt, Felix, Prof. Dr. (BUND e.V.)
We are a group of young Europeans who work more or less close to the EU
institutions. We feel that the movement lacks a stronger and clearer political voice, especially at the European level, where the mainstream is still
overwhelmingly powerful. By presenting our project in Leipzig, we hope to
meet motivated people from all countries who are willing to take part to
this initiative, and to collect good ideas for its practical rolling-out.
Taking the example of a city in Saxony, we would like to start a thinking experiment taking into account interdependencies and consequences across
sectors and policy levels. Starting point will be the assumption that if a city
choses to implement an effective strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, efficiency and consistency measures will not be enough. Sufficiency
policies also need to be put in place, which will collide with the principle of
economic growth eventually. This triggers further questions.
04.09. | Th
11am
Practice &
Activism
Language:EN
Language:EN
A cooperative self-organized public
system
Language:EN
Food too good for the bin: Be creative,
reasonable and save resources!
Speakers: Serra, Ariadna (Cooperativa Integral Catalana), Romero, Esther (L‘art du
Soleil / Cooperativa integral Catalana), Solé, Joan (IntegraRevolution)
Speakers: Müller-Dechent, Christoph (FoodLoop GmbH), Manns, Melanie, Mohaupt, Anne-Carin
Given that the public system is more and more privatized, and less and less
serving to the people, it is necessary to create a cooperative self-organised
public system that addresses in a integral way the real needs of people, with
no distintions upon wages, type of work, condition or years of tax contribution. It is an integral cooperative public system that is being built as an
alternative to a State social security system, as well as to other benefits that
every day are less accessible to the citizens.
Worldwide, there is about 1.3 billion tons of food wasted every year, and
more than 40% of food losses happen at the retail and consumer levels. In
our workshop we want to try to find new and innovative solutions. Together
we want to discuss the current legal situation for these possibilities and finally show the example of FoodLoop as an attempt of generating a financial
benefit for the customer to act more sustainable.
Language:DE, ES
Shrinking cities in the age of postgrowth
Language:EN
The civil society as a driving force for a
post growth society?
Speakers: Steinwender, David, Kichler, Nikolas
Speakers: Narberhaus, Michael (Smart CSOs Lab)
The challenge of shrinking cities is known. How can those cities use their
potential beyond growth and site competition? Commons is a new paradigm. We invite you to an exchange of experiences in dealing with existing
infrastructure and socio-economic circumstances. We want to draft an interaction of common-based infrastructure which touches the everyday life
and to prove the idea of shrinking cities for their realization.
Many discussions are focussed on the question of how a post growth economy can function and how it will look like. However, very often no room
at all is given to questions like ‘How can a transition actually work?’ With
this workshop we will discuss current campaigns and advocacy work with
regard to their transformative potential. We will ask how activists can effectively support the necessary cultural and societal change towards a post
growth society.
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Language:DE, EN
Language:EN
Social-ecological transformation - but
how?
Low cost and solidary mobility: real
existing alternatives 2/2
Speakers: Müller, Michael (Naturfreunde), Weiger, Hubert (BUND / FoE Germany)
(angefragt)
Facilitator: Leidig, Sabine (MdB / MP, LINKE) • Speakers: Knierim, Bernhard, Dr.
(Netzwerk Solidarische Mobilität) , Klingler-Lauer, Maggie (S21-Protests)
In dieser Veranstaltung zeigen Michael Müller und Hubert Weiger ihre
Perspektiven zur sozialökologischen Transformation auf. Nach je einem
Kurzvortrag zu Aufgaben der Zivilgesellschaft und Aufgaben der Umweltverbände für diese Transformation wird unter Beteiligung des Publikums
diskutiert.
Die ökologische und soziale Zerstörung durch Verkehr ist ungebrochen allen Klimaschutzversprechen und erfolgreichen Alternativmodellen zum
Trotz. Der Wachstumszwang der „fossilen Industrien“ ist wirkt mächtig auf
die Mobilitätspolitik. Dagegen formieren sich immer wieder Netzwerke,
Bündnisse, NGOs und Verbände, um gesellschaftlichen Druck für Alternativen aufzubauen. Welche Bedeutung haben solche Initiativen, welche Strategien stehen im Vordergrund und wie kann die Wirkung verstärkt werden?
Language:DE
Prosperity without growth? A labor
union perspective
Language:DE
Cities in transition - A fishbowl of problems and solutions 1/3
Speakers: Reuter, Norbert, Dr. (Ver.di Bundesvorstand und RWTH Aachen)
Gewerkschaften gelten gemeinhin als dezidierte Wachstumsbefürworter;
Wachstum wird oftmals mit Wohlstand gleichgesetzt. Mehr und mehr wird
jedoch auch für Gewerkschaften deutlich, dass „Wohlstand“ und seine Bestimmung wesentlichen Veränderungen in der Zeit unterliegen. Das Wachstum heutzutage geht mit verschiedenen Dilemmata einher. Erforderlich
wäre eine Fokussierung auf (qualitative) Entwicklung statt (quantitatives)
Wachstum.
Weltweit gibt es hunderte Städte und kleinere Gemeinden, in denen Transition Town Initiativen umtriebig sind. Der Transition Town Gedanke bringt
Menschen zusammen, die ihre Gemeinden aktiv auf die Zeit nach dem Öl
und der großen globalen Ungerechtigkeit umgestalten wollen. Wir, die
Initiativen, Dresden im Wandel (das Transition Netzwerk in Dresden) und
Transition Town Leipzig, wollen Raum schaffen, wo sich Initiativen aus den
verschieden Städten begegnen können.
Language:DE
Teaching Degrowth? The education
material „Final(ly) Growth“
Language:DE
Local and specific: How Alternatiba
responds to climate change
Speakers: Kaufmann, Nadine (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie)
Speakers: Rademacher, Max (Alternatiba Deutschland)
Für eine Kursänderung, die sich loslöst von der Vorstellung wir müssten
und könnten immer weiter wirtschaftlich wachsen, brauchen wir Kritik am
bisherigen Kurs, Visionen vom guten Leben und Konzepte für die Neuorganisation einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft – auch und besonders in der Bildungsarbeit mit jungen Menschen! Wir wollen – aufbauend auf dem Methodenset „Endlich Wachstum!“ - Methoden für die Bildungsarbeit mit jungen
Menschen zwischen 15 und 25 Jahren vorstellen und ausprobieren.
Seit dem ersten Alternatiba, das Ende letzten Jahres in Bayonne, Frankreich,
statt fand, organisieren sich 40 neue “Dörfer der Alternativen” in Europa.
Mit Alternatiba mobilisieren sich tausende von BürgerInnen im Hinblick auf
die COP21, die internationale Klimakonferenz, die im Dezember 2015 in Paris
statt findet. Sie wollen verhindern, dass sich das Klima irreversibel verändert und unsere Lebensbedingungen grundlegend gefährdet. Findet heraus,
wie wir mit Alternatiba den Klimawandel begegnen können.
Language:DE
Language:DE
How children learn in Buen Vivir
Speakers: Bender, Harald (Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie)
Speakers: Caspar Jürgens, Anke (Oya)
Inwiefern steht ein Gelingen des Buen Vivir in Wechselwirkung mit der Freiheit der Entfaltung /des Lernens von Menschen? Welche Rolle spielt dabei
das Leben und Lernen in Gemeinschaft? Was unterstützt und behindert Gemeinschaftsbildung? Als Input zu diesen Fragen liest Anke Caspar-Jürgens
Passagen aus ihrem Buch „Lernen ist Leben. Die Familienschule. Wie Schule
sein könnte, wenn das Lernen frei wäre.“
Language:DE
Language:DE
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11am
Practice &
Activism
Eating Mother Earth: Are solidary eating habits possible?
Speakers: Meyer-Renschhausen, Elisabeth (Solidarische Ökonomie)
Seine Kost von „Muttern Erde“ mit geschrumpften „ökologischen Fußabdruck“. Hin zu einem Ernährungsverhalten mit Rücksicht auf Land und Leute und im Eine-Welt-Kontinum, das Tiere und Pfanzen als Lebenwesen (mit-)
denkt: Der Wortshop möchte bereits vorhandene Praktiken vorstellen und
diskutieren, wie sich die kurzen Wege in einer solidarischen Landwirtschaft
verbessern ließen. Welche Modelle gibt es bereits im globalen Süden wie im
Norden? Der Input beginnt mit der Vorstellung einiger Betriebe/Projekte aus
der Region Berlin/Brandenburg.
Language:DE
We want more! Of less! A ThinkPool for
a positive image of Degrowth
Speakers: Nüdling, Sarah (Doktales), Horn, Nina, Paschmann, Robert (Doktales)
04.09. | Th
11am
Practice &
Activism
Postwachstum hat ein Imageproblem. Während Billigfluglinien der „Generation EasyJet“ verheißen, im Puls der Stadt zu vibrieren und im eigenen Film
zu sein, soll die Generation Post Wachstum: weniger reisen, weniger kaufen,
weniger Energie verbrauchen. Der Spaß liegt auf der anderen Seite. Scheint
es. Dabei bietet Postwachstum Positivgeschichten en masse. Im ThinkPool
wollen wir uns auf die Suche nach unseren ganz eigenen Visionen von einem
Leben in der Postwachstums-Ära machen.
Language:DE
Fortune in bags: Distorting advertising
through adbusting
Speakers: Holthaus, Anna (BUND Jugend)
Language:DE
Cooperative 2.0 - Model for a fairer
economy?
Speakers: Weth, Felix (Fairnopoly eG)
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Im Alltag selbstorganisierter Gruppen stehen die gemeinsamen Ziele und
die Inhalte der Zusammenarbeit im Mittelpunkt. Die Aufmerksamkeit der
Beteiligten richtet sich darauf, WAS sie miteinander tun. Für das Gelingen
der Kooperation ist jedoch auch das WIE von entscheidender Bedeutung.
Zum Einstieg gebe ich einen Input zu möglichen Missverständnissen, die
sich ergeben können, wenn diesem WIE nicht ausreichend Aufmerksamkeit
geschenkt wird, um anschließend mit den Teilnehmenden Erfahrungen auszutauschen.
Language:DE
Network Care Revolution - What comes next? Connecting movements
Speakers: Fried, Barbara (Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung), Hausotter, Jette (TU HamburgHarburg)
Der Neoliberalismus hat zu einer Erschöpfung des Sozialen geführt. Gleichzeitig wird Reproduktionsarbeit wieder in die Haushalte verschoben, führt
dort zu Doppel- und Dreifachbelastung – insbesondere für Frauen. Vor diesem Hintergrund wundert es nicht, dass Kämpfe um Fragen sozialer Reproduktion weltweit zunehmen. Um diese zu verknüpfen fand im März die
„Aktionskonferenz Care Revolution“ statt. Wir berichten von der Konferenz
und wollen weitere Perspektiven auf eine Care Revolution diskutieren.
Language:DE
All commons or all change?
Degrowth, Décroissance, Commons, Open Source Ecology, Suffizienz,
ShareEconomy, Peer-to-Peer-Production, Collaborative Consuming – für
schöne neue Bewegungen gibt es bisher nur unanschauliche Begriffe, die
vieler Erklärungen bedürfen und Menschen mit weniger Szenekenntnis
ausschließen. In unserem kreativen Sprachlabor wollen wir zusammen mit
euch viele neue deutsche Wörter für diese Begriffe finden. Damit aus der
Allmende eine Allwende wird. Max. 20 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Language:DE
Following Ivan Illich - Education in a
convivial society
Speakers: Tuschen, Stefan (Commons Institute), Dauber, Heinrich (Universität Kassel)
Mit dem Modell „Genossenschaft 2.0“ soll ein Typ von Unternehmen etabliert werden, der aufgrund seiner Eigenschaften zu einer faireren und
nachhaltigeren Wirtschaft beiträgt. Dahinter steckt eine Erweiterung der
Rechtsform Genossenschaft durch faire Satzungsprinzipien, die das Unternehmen zu nachhaltigem handeln und demokratischer Verantwortlichkeit
verpflichten. Durch das Unternehmensmodell wird auch der inhärente
„Wachstumszwang“ vermieden, den andere Rechtsformen mit sich bringen
Speakers: Voss, Elisabeth (Gemeingut in BürgerInnen Hand / NETZ für Selbstverwaltung und Kooperation + CONTRASTE – Monatszeitung für Selbstorganisation)
Speakers: Helfrich, Silke (Commons Strategies Group, Germany), Scheub, Ute (Autorin), Jensen, Annette (Autorin)
Werbung ist überall! Werbung sagt uns, wie wir glücklich werden: Wen wir
mögen sollen, wie wir leben wollen und was wir kaufen müssen. Aber wollen wir wirklich immer mehr kaufen? Mit Adbusting lassen sich Slogans und
Kampagnen ins rechte Licht rücken. Kleine Veränderungen an Plakaten genügen, damit die Werbung stattdessen unsere Botschaften sendet. So wird
aus der Markenstrategie eine Konsumkritik — mit einfachen Mitteln und
großer Wirkung.
Culture of cooperation: How can selforganization succeed?
Language:DE
Das meiste Lernen, meint Illich, sei nicht das Ergebnis von Unterweisung,
sondern das Ergebnis ungehinderter Teilnahme in sinnvoller Umgebung.
Mehr denn je werden die Generationen heute bereits in frühen Kindertagen
institutionell getrennt, so dass die Chancen in sinnvoller, anregender Umgebung zu lernen reduziert werden. Gleichzeitig nimmt der Leistungsdruck
auf junge Menschen im Bildungssystem enorm zu. // Gesprächspartner im
Generationendialog: Heinrich Dauber und Stefan Tuschen // Moderation: tbd
Language:DE
Speakers: Schirmer, Matthias (Zukunftsakademie Leipzig)
Language:DE
Deconference -Space for spontaneity, creativity and exchange 2/3
Facilitator: Vetter, Andrea (Degrowth 2014/ HU Berlin)• Speakers: Hable, Silvia (Degrowth 2014), Muraca, Barbara (DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften), Wichterich, Christa, Prof. Dr. (Kassel University, journalist), Bouvattier, Adèle, Müller,
Christa (Anstiftung Ertomis), Notz, Gisela
The relation between degrowth and feminism is still under question and the previous degrowth conferences did not add much to this topic. As a follow-up event
to the panel discussion “What does feminist theory contribute to degrowth?” we
deepen the discussion with beginners and experts alike in a world café. Three
of the 10-15 tables will be held in German language so that also people with less
English skills can participate.
Begins: 11:00 Room: S 214 / Foyer HS 2nd floor
Ends: 13:00 Type: World Café
Language:EN
Open Source Hardware for a resilient
economy
Speakers: Zimmermann, Lars (Open Source & Ökologische Ökonomie (Owi)), Bauwens, Michel (P2P), Restakis, John (FLOK Society, Ecuador)
discuss.
deGrowing feminism
Language:DE, EN
Neigbourhood relations in the context
of Degrowth. A future workshop
Open Source is a key principal for efficient reparing and reuse of things and
the collective innovation and organization of a resilient ecological economy. Lars Zimmermann talks about the general implications of Open Source
Hardware on different degrowth scenarios. Michel Bauwens gives a tour of
open agricultural machining communities, contextualized within the FLOK
transition program in Ecuador. The two inputs are followed by one hour
discussion with participants.
Language:EN
Be part of building your own platform
to grow your plants!
Speakers: Strunk, Friederike, Kny, Josefa (FUTURZWEI, Stiftung Zukunftsfähigkeit)
Speakers: Benthin, Sven (Grüne Stadt-Planungsgemeinschaft)
Future Workshops are a technique the relatively new academic discipline
of Futures Studies uses to tap into the participants’ creative potential to
imagine a different future and develop practical solutions. The topic of our
workshop are neighbourhood relations. In the workshop, participants are
encouraged to look at current problems from various perspectives, to imagine alternatives and find feasible solutions – some of which they may even
put into practice the very next day at their home
Sven Benthin invites you to check out new dimensions of green. Plant your
idea and observe it growing in a team. Support each other in a workshop in
which you get to know plant‘s basic needs to grow and of course limiting
factors. Built your own platform to grow your plants. Made of recycling
materials. Individual because: hand made.
Language:EN
Performing. Change. Together 2/3
dance-pedagogue)
Language:DE, EN
Language:EN
Participative organic olive farming
Speakers: Cattaneo, Claudio, Dr. (R&D), Demaria, Federico (R&D)
We aim at sharing our experience of organic farming a 3.25 ha olive field
(450 trees). It will be explained how the process is organized throughout
the year, by looking at how each activity is managed, what the implications
of shifting from conventional to organic and of learning how to, both in
terms of working time and in terms of harvest. We will also look at how the
participation is managed –mainly for the harvest- in terms of coordinating
groups of people coming from the city, food and accommodation.
Language:EN
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04.09. | Th
11am
Practice &
Activism
Deep Ecology: Connecting outer and inner change
for long-term social structures
Speakers: Schulze, Karin (Gesellschaft für angewandte Tiefenökologie e.V.)
Speakers: Rittershaus, Tania (Permakultur Akademie)
In unserem Workshop geben wir eine kurze theoretische Einführung in die
Tiefe Ökologie und bieten tiefenökologische Übungen an, die diesen Weg
erfahrbar machen. Sie sieht die Notwendigkeit eines grundlegenden Wandels in der Ausrichtung der Entwicklung und des Weges, den wir als Spezies
Mensch nehmen müssen. Die Tiefe Ökologie rückt die Erde als ganzes und
als lebendiges System mit all seinen menschlichen und nicht-menschlichen
BewohnerInnen ins Zentrum der Betrachtung.
Wohl-Sein/Wohl-Tun ist eine räumliche Chill-Out-Einrichtung, die auf dem
Gelände der PK-Konvergenz verortet ist. Neben regionaler, vegetarischer
und veganer Verköstigung, gibt es eine im World-Cafe-Format geplante
Möglichkeit, sich über permakulturelle Projekte zu informieren und auszutauschen. Veranstaltung findet auf dem Permaculture CampSpace statt.
Language:DE
Lobbying - Influencing Local Politics
Speakers: Heise, Hannes (Wagenplatz Scherbelburg; Haus- und WagenRat Leipzig)
04.09. | Th
11am
Practice &
Activism
Art
Well-Doing / Well-Being
Wether its a neighborhood gardening project, a give-away shop, a repair-café or a trailer park - for projects that go beyond the logic of the marketplace,
we often need the help of local politics and the municipality. But how do we
make them support our project? Who do we need to convince of our idea?
These and other questions will be part of a presentation and discussion
(2hrs) taking place in a housing project in western Leipzig. Afterwards we
will show you some self-organized spaces in the neighbourhood. Meeting
point: Zollschuppenstr. 1
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from 13:15
Language:DE, EN
Movie and discussion: Less is more The limits to growth and the better life
Art
General
Speakers: de Miguel Wessendorf, Karin (film maker)
Language:EN
Metamorphoses – an audio-visual concert
Speakers: Kilian, Pablo Paolo (Musiker) Bleckert, Melanie
In the audiovisual project “Metamorphosen” pianist Pablo Paolo Kilian improvises between reduction and density, increase and exhaustion, minimalistic and full sounds that develop slowly or suddenly, collapse into moments
of transition and transformation. Visual artist Melanie Bleckert adds images
of change and emergence using the analogue Lightmotiv projection technology.
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Open Garden
Speakers: Kaphahn, Janina (Annalinde Gemeinschaftsgarten), Rux, Jana (Annalinde
Gemeinschaftsgarten), Heimstädt, Cornelius (Annalinde Gemeinschaftsgarten)
Der ANNALINDE Gemeinschaftsgarten ist ein soziales urbanes Landwirtschaftsprojekt. Seit 2011 gestalten und bespielen wir mit Nachbarn, Freiwilligen und Freunden eine 2.000 m² große Brachfläche hinter der Georg
Maurer Bibliothek. Zur Degrowth möchten wir die ANNALINDE als einen Ort
des Austausches und der Entspannung für Euch öffnen. Kommt vorbei um
den herbstlichen Garten mit uns zu genießen und in einer Fotoausstellung
Einblicke in die vergangene Saison zu bekommen. Veranstaltungsort: Lützner
Straße 108
Language:DE
Art meets artivism in times of global
movements
Facilitator: Jan Deck • Speakers: Raunig, Gerald, Prof. (Zürcher Hochschule der
Künste, eipcp), Martin, Leonidas (artist, activist), Michaelsen, Torsten (Ligna)
How sustainable is our way of life? What can we do without sacrificing our
quality of life? To answer these questions, the filmmaker visits people, firms
and initiatives that have recognized that economic growth need not be the
measure of all things, and that a sustainable lifestyle doesn‘t have to mean
living like a monk. From the producers of „Taste the Waste“.
Language:DE
Track: Art
Language:
Arts and activism have common grounds. They grow alongside global movements and create new forms of democratic and artistic practice. Two lectures provide insight into the phenomena emerging at this interface. Together
with the participants we will shed light on the potentials and limits of this
liaison, discuss the importance of creativity in activism and evaluate the capabilities of „artisvism“ and arts to act in an intervening manner provoking
social criticism and shifts in perception.
Track: Art
Language:EN
ShareEconomy, P2P, Transition Town:
What do they share?
Facilitator: Helfrich, Silke (Commons Strategies Group, Germany) • Speakers: Lorenzen, Astrid (Fab Lab, p2p), Greenham, Tony (nef, Transition Network), N.N. (OuiShare, France)
One can find many initiatives and discourses which put the misguided economy back on track. How are the different approaches related? What do
they contribute to degrowth? These and other questions are explored in
two related panels. Further description and the second panel see Friday,
11am.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
How can work be (re)organized under
a degrowth perspective?
European policies beyond growth?
Facilitator: N.N. (facilitator) • Speakers: Berro, Chema (CGT Spain), N.N., Ax, Christine (independent author)
Facilitator: Schaffartzik, Anke (Universität Klagenfurt) • Speakers: Kallis, Giorgos, Prof.
Dr. (R&D), Aiginger, Karl, Prof. (WIFO) , Pichelmann, Karl (European Commission)
The panel will bring together trade unionists and NGO activists from both the
‚classical‘, industrial growth-oriented and the more radical, degrowth-friendly
wings of Europe‘s Labour movements to discuss a) strategies like „green jobs“,
„qualitative growth“ etc. for overcoming the negative social and ecological effects of traditional economic growth, as well as b) the consequences of nongrowth-centered models of societal development for the organization(s) of work/
labour in a broader sense. // Prepared jointly with the DFG-Research Group „Postwachstumsgesellschaften“ (Jena University) and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.
The EU 7th Framework Project “WWWforEurope” (Welfare, Wealth, Work)
aims at formulating comprehensive policy measures which support a socioecological transition towards a more economically dynamic, socially inclusive and environmentally sustainable European society and economy. The
conflicts that arise when aiming at these goals, but also the potential synergies are very central in the project. At the panel we want to discuss our
findings and open questions with the degrowth Community. // [Prepared by
WIFO - Austrian Institute of Economic Research.]
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Exiting growth society - an introduction
Speakers: Scheidler, Fabian (attac Deutschland)
Angesichts der Zuspitzung ökologischer Krisen weltweit ist eine Abkehr vom
permanenten Wirtschaftswachstum unumgänglich, besonders im globalen
Norden. Warum aber fällt der Ausstieg aus der Wachstumsgesellschaft so
schwer? Der Workshop bietet eine Einführung in die Geschichte des Wachstumsbegriffs und seiner Kritik. Dabei wird die Perspektive einer tiefgreifenden gesellschaftlichen Transformation aufgeworfen, die weit über technische Maßnahmen wie den Austausch von Energieträgern hinausgeht.
Track: General
Language:DE
Degrowth and social inequality: Eating
the rich or governing the poor?
Facilitator: Reitz, Tilman (Universität Jena) • Speakers: Reitz, Tilman (Universität
Jena), Voswinkel, Stephan, PD, Dr. (Universität Frankfurt), Lessenich, Stephan, Dr.
Prof., Haubner, Tine (University Jena), Hürtgen, Stefanie, Dr. (Universität Frankfurt)
Tilman Reitz, Tine Haubner: The threat of (not) being exploited: How inequality promotes growth dispositions // Stephan Voswinkel: Upward Mobility in Degrowth Societies // Hartmut Rosa: The Iron Cage of the Elites: Time
Consuming Efforts to Stay on Top // Stefanie Hürtgen: Dual Development
and the denial of social requirements by logics of Growth and Degrowth
Track: Science
Language:EN
Buen vivir and radical ecological democracy
Facilitator: Demaria, Federico; Kothari, Ashish • Speakers: Gallardo, Lucía; Pyhälä,
Aili, Dr.; Kothari, Ashish; Demaria, Federico; Sekulova, Filka, Dr.; Martinez-Alier, Joan,
Prof. Dr.; Velicu, Irina, Dr.
Gallardo: Sumak Kawsay: Living non- capitalist values in a capitalist world. //
Pyhälä: What have traditional hunter-gatherers got to say about happiness?
// Kothari: Radical Ecological Democracy: A South Asian Quest for a Sustainable and Equitable Future // Demaria, Sekulova, Schneider & MartinezAlier: What is Degrowth? – From an Activist Slogan to a Social Movement
// Velicu: The Post-communist Continuous Crisis and the Wake-up Call of
Rosia Montana
Track: Science
Language:EN
Track: General
Language:EN
Beyond development and resource extractivism: Feminist perpectives
Facilitator: Lang, Miriam (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation) • Speakers: Gottschlich,
Daniela (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Habermann, Friederike, Dr. (author),
Martínez, Esperanza (Oilwatch and Acción Ecologica, Ecuador), Daza, Mar
Daniela Gottschlich: Principles and ethics of caring and sustainable economy // Friederike Habermann: Economy, Ecommony, CareCommony // Mar
Daza: A dialogue with feminisms: Mining, social movements and horizons
of transformation // Esperanza Martinez: Extractivism, neocolonialism and
redistribution
Track: Science
Language:EN, ES
04.09. | Th
2:30 pm
Technology and Degrowth Part 1: Theoretical perspectives
Facilitator: Kerschner, Christian, Dr. (Masaryk University, Czech Republic / R&D)
• Speakers: Vetter, Andrea (Degrowth 2014/ HU Berlin), Barthel, Bettina (Technical
University Berlin), Kerschner, Christian, Dr. (Masaryk University, Czech Republic /
R&D), Reichel, André, Prof. Dr. (Karlshochschule, Germany)
Christian Kerschner: Attitudes towards technology: dominant technological
optimism and challenges for the degrowth alternative // Andrea Vetter, coauthored by Bettina Barthel: Convivial and Emancipatory Technologies – suitable conceptions for Technology in a Degrowth Society? // André Reichel:
Technology as system: towards an autopoietic theory of technology
Track: Science
Language:EN
Card game simulation: Natural economies as alternative to money
Speakers: Bofill, Pau (UPC, Col·lectiu Mostassa), Pardo Vallejo, Fèlix (DEA UPF,
Col·lectiu Mostassa)
The special session is a workshop for the comparison of bartering, interestfree money, official (borrowed) money, and natural economies without money. The workshop is the simulation of a market or fair, where playing cards
simulate goods, and they are exchanged among participants. The game is
played in four stages. The game is followed by a group discussion where
the 4 models are compared with each other, with special emphasis on the
benefits of natural economies.
Track: Science
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General
Science
Are there „natural“ limits to growth?
An interactive debate
Facilitators: Brand, Ulrich, Prof. Dr.; Dietz, Kristina; Görg, Christoph • Speakers:
Brand, Ulrich, Prof. Dr.; Vadrot, Alice; Beck, Silke, Dr.; Görg, Christoph; Dietz, Kristina;
Wissen, Markus, Prof. Dr.; Muraca, Barbara
Facilitator: Theodoropoulos, Michalis • Speakers: Anson, April, Dr.; Gorostiza, Santiago; Schneider, Francois, Dr.; Akbulut, Bengi, Dr.; Adaman, Fikret; Arsel, Murat
Interactive discussion. In this workshop we engage in a critical discussion
on approaches of “natural limits”. The following questions will guide our
discussion: Are there natural limits to human activities? How are these limits conceptualised? What are the limits of the limits metaphor from a
critical theoretical perspective?
April Anson - „The world is my backyard”: Critiquing mobility from inside
the tiny house movement“ (short paper) // Santiago Gorostiza - „A historical exploration of ruralist ideology in Spain and its importance for the degrowth and democracy debate“ (short paper) // François Schneider - „Open
localism“ (short paper) // Bengi Akbulut, Murat Arsel & Fikret Adaman - „Degrowth as counter-hegemony? Lessons from Turkey“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Alternative finance & banking
Facilitator: Ruzzene, Maurizio, Dr. (Associazione italiana per la decrescita) • Speakers:
Oetsch, Silke, Dr. (University of Innsbruck), Quintana Diaz, Josué Manuel (Universität
Frankfurt), Lenz, Sarah (Universität Frankfurt), Horstmann, Nina (BioRegional)
Silke Oetsch - „Systems of finance in transition“ (short paper) // Josué Manuel Quintana Diaz - „Money and freedom in the view of Polanyis great
transformation: Decommodification by constituting alternative monetary
institutions“ (short paper) // Sarah Lenz - „Ethical banks – Professional biography and taking critical distance in ethical banking and finance“ (short
paper) // Nina Horstmann - „Crowdfunding: Democratising finance for the
green economy“ (short paper)
04.09. | Th
2:30 pm
Democracy, justice and degrowth
Science
Track: Science
Language:EN
Alternative Worldviews and the Critique of Growth & Development
Facilitator: N.N. • Speakers: Ziai, Aram, Dr. (Universität Kassel), Sanders, Christoph
Maria (Universität Tübingen), Kopp, Martin (University of Strasbourg)
Aram Ziai - „Post-Development concepts? Buen Vivir, ubuntu and degrowth“
(full paper) // Christoph Maria Sanders - „The nature-culture-dualism in western societies and its relevance for mental infrastructures - A critical glance
from buen vivir and Theravāda-buddhism“ (full paper) // Martin Kopp - „A
christian criticism of the society of growth“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Health
Track: Science
Language:EN
Climate change and phosporus governance
Facilitator: Herrmann, Michael (UNFPA) • Speakers: Tammilehto, Olli, Pohlmann,
Jonas, Ekardt, Felix, Prof. Dr. (BUND e.V.)
Olli Tammilehto - „Rewarding with a licence to commit ecocide: High incomes and climate change“ (full paper) // Jonas Pohlmann - „The distribution
and drivers of CO2 emissions on a consumption basis and implications for
a degrowth economy – the case of Germany“ (full paper) // Felix Ekardt „Phosphorus governance for sustainability (full paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Exploring alternatives for a sustainable
future: Case studies
Facilitator: Domazet, Mladen, Dr. (Group 22) • Speakers: Schröder, Andressa; Piani,
Lucia, Prof. Dr. (University of Udine); Vila Seoane, Maximiliano (Center for Development Research); Carestiato, Nadia, Prof.; Nilia, Ferruccio, Dr.
Schröder - „Teko Arandu: New paths towards a sustainable future. A casestudy about the Brazilian Guarani-Kaiowás“ (sp) // Piani, Nilia & Carestiato„The experience of the forum for commons and solidarity economy in Friuli
Venezia Giulia: New proposal for alternative economic models“ (sp) // Vila
Seoane - „Culture and communication of a de-growth project. Some lessons
from the case of the Brazilian Fora do Eixo Circuit.“ (sp) // Fernandes - „Discussion of the new Portuguese sustainability experiences“
Track: Science
Language:EN
Unlearning old habits: New practices
and experiences for degrowth
Facilitator: Pellegrini, Lorenzo (Erasmus University Rotterdam) • Speakers: Aillon,
Jean-Louis, Dr. (Movimento per la Decrescita felice), De Vogli, Roberto, Prof. Dr. (UC
Davis Health System), de Araújo, Thassio (Federal University of Ceará), Marinho,
Lina (Beira do Interior University, Portugal)
Facilitator: Fellner, Wolfgang, Dr. (Vienna University of Economics and Business)
• Speakers: Burkhart, Corinna (R&D, Degrowth 2014), Lay, Jenny (Universität Freiburg), Westermayer, Till (Fraktion GRÜNE im Landtag von Baden-Württemberg),
Richard-Elsner, Christiane (ABA Fachverband)
Jean-Louis Aillon - „Health and Degrowth”, a new paradigm in the field of
sustainability“ (full paper) // Roberto De Vogli - „The great recession and
health: From neoliberal austerity to “healthy de-growth” (short paper) //
Thassio de Araújo & Lina Marinho- „The release of ‚free time‘? - Degrowth as
an alternative to the colonization of time by the logic of capitalism“ (short
paper)
Corinna Burkhart - „Defamiliarizing experiences in a center for degrowth“
(full paper) // Jenny Lay & Till Westermayer - „Swap, share, experience: the
transformative potential of socio-ecological forms of practice“ (short paper) // Christiane Richard-Elsner - „Learning for and in a degrowing society“
(short paper)
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Track: Science
Language:EN
Track: Science
Language:EN
Transition Research
Crisis of the human and unhuman
world
Facilitator: Umpfenbach, Katharina (Ecologic Institute, Germany) • Speakers:
Graaf, Lisa (FU Berlin), Heinrichs, Harald, Prof. Dr. (Leuphana University Lüneburg),
Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin, Dr. (Ecologic Institute, Germany), Langsdorf, Susanne,
Neumann, Kai (Consideo GmbH), Lorenz, Ullrich (Federal German Agency)
L. Graaf - „Governance of sustainability transformation: Transformative Environmental Policy“ (full paper) // H. Heinrichs, K. Neumann & U. Lorenz
- „Transformative modeling: Identifying drivers, blockages and fundamental
leverage points for sustainability transition“ (short paper) // M. HirschnitzGarbers & S. Langsdorf- „Locking in or helping shift? Trends and developments affecting sustainable resource use and degrowth“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Terra Preta Sanitation creates soil
Speakers: Wolf, Roland (Permakultur Verein e.V.), Heise, Hannes (Wagenplatz Scherbelburg; Haus- und WagenRat Leipzig), Bredemeyer, Jo
Creation of humus is the carbon sink that prevents greenhouse gases. Mobile compost toilets produce fertile soil and no waste water. Each time we
use a dry compost (terra preta) toilet, we help create humus that can make
trees grow, enhances soil life and stores water. It creates growth that is
useful to all of us. Let us stop flushing ourselves into the ocean! Meeting
Point: Moritzbastei.
Language:DE, EN
Open Hardware and the common good
Speakers: Holz, Frederik (Open Source Ecology Berlin)
Arianna Ferrari - „Degrowth and the domination of nature“ (short paper)
// Anne Fremaux - „The liberation of human and non-human world and the
critique of instrumental rationality: Degrowth and Green Critical Theory“
(short paper) // Kris Forkasiewicz - „Body-Scale: Somaticity, Degrowth, and
the Revival of Place“ (short paper) // Emanuele Leonardi - „ Degrowth and
the critique of political economy“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Commons movement towards degrowth
Speakers: Tuschen, Stefan (Commons Institute, Brot f.d. Welt)
This workshop offers a space for people active in commons projects and research to exchange insights and challenges about commons and degrowth.
It is meant to bring together German and international commoners to share
their practical experiences with each other and foster international networks.
Language:EN
Language:EN
Cycling Alternatives*NEOlution
From early childhood we are conditioned to train for a job. The capitalist
machine is fed with a seemingly neverending stream of a, more or less,
willing youth, struggling to make the very best of itself. But the alleged lack
of opportunities is created artificially and the reward measly. A humorous
»Instruction for a career refusal« but a serious statement for a selfdetermined life and a change of ownership relationships by young journalist and
author Alix Faßmann (Berlin).
Language:EN
Respecting planetary boundaries while
enhancing the well-being of all
Speakers: Mader, Simon (Cycling Alternatives*NEOlution), Stenglein, Ferdinand (Cycling Alternatives*NEOlution), Thürling, Marleen (Cycling Alternatives*NEOlution)
Speakers: Kiss, Veronika (CEEweb for Biodiversity), Vadovics, Edina (Greendependent)
In August 2014 a group of 90 people from different countries cycled for two
weeks through Europe to discover and explore spaces, where people live
and work together in a self-determined, cooperative and sustainable way.
The tour is named by the three topics: Nature, Economy, Organization. The
Workshop shows a documentary about the adventure and wants to discuss
how the NEOlution-Project could be continued.
The aim of the workshop is to explore how the imperatives of living within
the limits of the planet and sharing its resources more equitably could be
implemented. // During the workshop the participants will get to know
some already existing examples of „equity within limits“ initiatives including top-down (e.g. policies) as well as bottom-up (e.g. communities) examples with the help of posters and interactive methods.
Language:EN
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2:30 pm
Science
Practice &
Activism
Instructions for a career refusal
Speakers: Faßmann, Alix (Haus Bartleby, Zentrum für Karriereverweigerung), Lenz,
Anselm (Haus Bartleby, Zentrum für Karriereverweigerung)
Open Source Ecology is a movement developing open source, modular, easy
to innovate and repair, ecological machines for manufacturing, house building, food production, energy generation and transportation. Our goal is
promoting democratization of the means of production, regeneration of the
environment and social justice.
Facilitator: Krauss, Alexander, Dr. (World Bank) • Speakers: Ferrari, Arianna, Dr.
(Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Fremaux, Anne (Queens University of Belfast),
Forkasiewicz, Kris, Leonardi, Emanuele (University of Bergamo)
Language:EN
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Balkan Workshop - Romania & Bulgaria
Speakers: Nenov, Asen (activist Bulgaria), Gheorghica, Anca (Mai bine, Romania)
Speakers: Wember, Carla (Netzwerk n), Brettin, Suse (HU Berlin)
Overview on the social-economic, cultural and environmental realities in
Romania & Bulgaria. Discussion topics: The trend of following the mistaken
development trends of the high developed countries. How to emphasize and
better communicate the need for change and for taking another, sustainable, alternative development path. How to stress the opportunity of the two
countries in advancing easier towards a degrowth economy/society.
Within this workshop we want to elaborate why a feminist perspective is
necessary within critical discussions of capitalism and what it means to
take this perspective into account. Together we will grapple with hegemonic concepts of gender and nature and analyse their influence on existing
beliefs of economy. This workshop is supposed to be a platform for discussions where ‚experts’ as well as interested ‘novices’ are invited.
Language:EN
Ecological requirements, poverty and basic income
from a north-south perspective
04.09. | Th
2:30 pm
A feminist approach to Degrowth
Language:EN
Schooling the world, Lost people: Film
presentation and discussion
Speakers: Knapp, Simone (Kirchliche Arbeitsstelle Südliches Afrika KASA), Blaschke,
Ronald (Netzwerk Grundeinkommen)
Speakers: Stern, Bertrand (Philosopher), Norberg-Hodge, Helena (Schooling the
world, ISEC)
Ein bedingungsloses Grundeinkommen ist nicht nur finanziell möglich, es
ist auch politisch notwendig, da es dazu beitragen kann, das Zugehörigkeitsgefühl zu stärken, Humankapital zu fördern, Frieden zu stiften und
eine Vergesellschaftung von Rohstoffen in die Wege zu leiten. Wir beleuchten die unterschiedlichen Stränge der Diskussion im Südlichen Afrika zum
namibischen Pilotprojekt zur Armutsbekämpfung und der Finanzierung
über Rohstoffeinnahmen und verknüpfen diese mit der hiesigen Debatte.
In zwei Filmen werden tradierte Kulturen vorgestellt, deren Kinder zum
Schulbesuch gezwungen oder aufgrund moderner Bildungsversprechen
dorthin geschickt wurden. Die Filme porträtieren den schnellen Wandel,
den die Kulturen nach Einführung der Schule vollziehen. Sie liefern einen
kritischen Blick auf das weltweit propagierte „Allheilmittel“ Bildung und
eine wachstumskritische Perspektive, anhand derer sich auch die Bildungssituation in den industrialisierten Ländern besser einordnen lässt.
Practice &
Activism
Language:DE
Cities in transition - A fishbowl of problems and solutions 2/3
Language:DE
Who fears Degrowth?
Speakers: Kühne, Steffen (RLS), Müller, Tadzio, Dr. (RLS, ifG)
Weltweit gibt es hunderte Städte und kleinere Gemeinden, in denen Transition Town Initiativen umtriebig sind. Der Transition Town Gedanke bringt
Menschen zusammen, die ihre Gemeinden aktiv auf die Zeit nach dem Öl
und der großen globalen Ungerechtigkeit umgestalten wollen. Wir, die
Initiativen, Dresden im Wandel (das Transition Netzwerk in Dresden) und
Transition Town Leipzig, wollen Raum schaffen, wo sich Initiativen aus den
verschieden Städten begegnen können.
In dieser Veranstaltung werden eingangs 3 bis 4 Gäste Einstiegsstatements
zum Thema Angst vor Transformation geben. Anschließend wird der Frage nachgegangen, was es mit dieser häufig ins Gespräch gebrachten Voraussetzung für breit getragene Veränderungsprozesse auf sich hat, wer
sich eigentlich für welche Art von Postwachstumsgesellschaft einsetzen
würde - und wer dagegen. Fragestellungen rund um Klimawandel und
Energie(wende) werden hierbei eine besondere Rolle spielen. Wovor genau
haben die Menschen Angst und worin liegen die Ursachen?
Language:DE
generations 2/3
Language:DE
War and climate
Speakers: Häußermann, Dorothee (ausgeco2hlt / Arbeitsgruppe Krieg und Klima)
von einer anderen Gesellschaft, angefangen bei Befreiungskämpfen über
Umwelt- und Frauenbewegungen bis hin zu neueren Erscheinungen bspw.
der Anti-Überwachungs-Proteste. Sie eint das Problem, dass Errungenschaften verteidigt werden müssen. An jedem Konferenztag werden Menschen
eingeladen, die sich seit mehreren Jahrzehnten für die Ideale der Postwachstumsbewegung einsetzen um jungen Menschen von ihren Erfahrungen zu
berichten, sodass sie sich selbst für ihre Zukunft einsetzen können. // Die
Namen der eingeladenen Gäste werden vor der Konferenz online gestellt. // Max.
25 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Im Anschluss an die von attac, BUKO und PowerShift e.V. organisierte Tagung „Schon mal abschalten?!“ fand sich eine Arbeitsgruppe zusammen, die
zu dem Thema “Einfluss von Krieg und Rüstungsindustrie auf den Klimawandel“ forschen und darüber eine öffentliche Debatte anstoßen möchte.
In dem Workshop soll zunächst der (magere) Forschungsstand zusammengetragen werden. Außerdem wollen wir darüber diskutieren, ob und wie die
Fragestellung neue Impulse für Friedens-, Klima- und Postwachstumsbewegung geben kann.
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Language:DE
The creating power of money as a method of socio-economic change
Speakers: Wähning, Petra (Genussgemeinschaft Städter und Bauern)
Geld bewegt unsere Welt – und zwar in die Richtung in der wir investieren
und konsumieren. Oftmals wird dieser im Grunde offensichtliche Zusammenhang nicht wahrgenommen und wir fühlen uns machtlos, während wir
gleichzeitig durch unbewussten/gewinnorientierten Konsum (billig) und
zum Superkapitalismus beitragen. Wie würde eine Zukunft aussehen – die
neben Refuse (Konsumverweigerung) und Reuse (Maker-Bewegung), Tausch
und Teilen auch die Welt des Konsums und der Investition solidarisch und
verantwortungsvoll gestaltet?
Language:DE
Joint use of rotation of a company
They are everywhere! Connecting the
cells of resistence 2/2
Speakers: Klostermeyer, Theresa (Deutscher Naturschutzring), Abshagen, MarieLuise (Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung), Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof. Dr. (Friends of the
Earth Germany BUND)
Immer wieder begegnen sich Menschen die feststellen, dass sie gern stärker wachstumskritisch arbeiten würden, in ihrer Organisation jedoch keinen Ansatz hierfür finden. Diese Menschen wollen wir zusammenbringen.
Wie kann man die Wachstumskritik stärker auf die Agenda der Verbände-/
Organisationen-Landschaft bringen bzw. strukturell verankern? Muss die
Thematik für die Entwicklungs- und Umweltorganisationen vielleicht neu
und „zielgruppenspezifisch“ aufbereitet werden?
Language:DE
Preventive Economy. Transformations
in economy and politics
Speakers: Poma, Muruchi (Ayni e-Verein für Ressourcengerechtigkeit)
Speakers: Henkel, Andrea, Moths, Katharina (Universität Lüneburg)
Eine der Prinzipien des „guten Zusammenlebes“ (Buen Vivir), eine antikapitalistische Alltagsphilosophie der Indigenen aus den Anden Südamerikas,
ist das Rotationsprinzipip. Auf dem Weg des Suchens von Alternativen zum
kapitalistischen Wachstum erleben und fühlen die Teilnehmer der Veranstaltung nach, dass die Rotationsnutzung eines erprobten ökonomischen
Unternehmens unter bestimmten Bedingungen zum guten Zusammenleben
eine praktische Alternative sein kann.
Das Konzept des “Vorsorgendes Wirtschaftens“ bietet einen Ansatz, der
bisher Externalisierte, die Leistungen der Natur und die der unbezahlten,
gesellschaftlich immer noch vor allem Frauen zugewiesenen Sorge-Arbeit,
in den Mittelpunkt stellt. Davon ausgehend sollen im Rahmen dieses Workshops zunächst die Grundzüge erläutert werden. Es sollen Blindstellen und
Potenziale aktueller Konzepte diskutiert sowie Forschungslücken identifiziert werden.
Language:DE
Conditions for a social, ecological and
democratic economy - Leipzig
Language:DE
Commonssyndicalism for non-capitalist and self-organized (re-)production
Speakers: Wittmann, Felix (Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie)
Speakers: Siefkes, Christian (Keimform)
In diesem Erfahrungsaustausch soll eine Studie des Konzeptwerks vorgestellt und diskutiert werden, die sich mit der Verbesserung der politischökonomischen Rahmenbedingungen zugunsten sozial-ökologischer Unternehmen im Raum Leipzig beschäftigt hat. Wie kann die kommunale Politik
und Verwaltung eine Wirtschaft fördern, die auf das Gemeinwohl ausgerichtet ist? Welche Spielräume hat sie und wo liegen die gestalterischen
Grenzen der Kommunen? Max. 30 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Seminarbeginn erscheinen.
Der Commonssyndikalismus ist eine realisierbare Idee, wie eine Gesellschaft aussehen könnte. Produziert wird hier, um Bedürfnisse zu befriedigen, wobei die Bedürfnisse aller gleichermaßen ernst genommen werden.
Die Produktion erfolgt in kooperativ organisierten Betrieben. Alle Betriebe
aus einer bestimmten Branche und einer bestimmten Region gehören einem Syndikat an. Die für die typischen Bedürfnisse der meisten Menschen
nötigen Güter werden selbstorganisiert per umfassender Quasi-Flatrate zugänglich gemacht.
Language:DE
Perfect couple of DeGrowth? An encounter of science and grassroots
Speakers: Andreas, Marcus (Research in Community), Maschkowski, Gesa (Research
in Community e.V.), Wanner, Matthias (Transition Netzwerk), Wagner, Felix (Research in Community), Neumüller, Denis (Commons-Institut), Soldner, Sigrid (Universität des Saarlandes)
Die Arbeit von Wissenschaft und Graswurzelbewegungen ähnelt sich mitunter: „Es geht um das Experimentieren, das Testen von Ideen und Theorien, in
der Hoffnung, dass man herausfindet, was am besten funktioniert“ heißt es
in Forschungsempfehlungen des Transition Research Networks. Auf diesem
Workshop gehen wir der Frage nach, wie sich Wissenschaft und Graswurzelbewegungen konstruktiv begegnen und fruchtbar zusammenarbeiten können.
Language:DE
Language:DE
How you can get everything without
money and save the world meanwhile
Speakers: Schäle, Christoffer (Zirkeldreher)
Das Lebensgefühl ohne Geld zwingt einen freundlich dazu mit Menschen in
Kontakt zu gehen. So erfährt man von Reperatur- und Hilfsbedarf und von
ungenutzten (sonst verschwendeten) Ressourcen und Möglichkeiten. // Das
schont unsere Umwelt, spart stressige unnötige Arbeitszeit, schafft mehr
Vertrauen, stärkt das lokale Gemeinschaftsgefühl und den gemeinschaftlichen Handel, d.h. den wahren Wohlstand der Menschen und bereitet damit
Gemeinschaften für einen gesellschaftlichen Wandel vor.
Language:DE
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2:30 pm
Practice &
Activism
System change and Degrowth economy
Speakers: Winkelmann, Bernd (Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie)
Speakers: Prochaska, Frieda (Handlungsnetz e.V.)
In diesem Workshop gehen wir von der These aus, dass eine Postwachstumsökonomie nicht ohne einen tiefgreifenden Systemwandel zu erreichen ist,
in dem die Prämissen und Leitvorstellungen wie die Strukturen der kapitalistischen Wirtschaftsweise überwunden werden. Auf Grundlage des in der
Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie erarbeiteten postkapitalistischen Wirtschaftsmodells soll diskutiert werden, wie sich eine Wachstumsökonomie
in eine Gleichgewichtsökonomie transformieren kann.
Realization of a degrowth driven society is not possible without personal
commitment. If individuals discover their personal willingness to move, to
act, as well as to get to know each other, the first and maybe most difficult
step to change recent pathways and behaviour of growth is done. At the
workshop we will take action at a public space in Leipzig. At the end there
will be a visible and perceptible result as well as the personal experience to
have accomplished something on your own. // Meeting point: Klingenstr. at
the corner of Markranstädter Str.
Language:DE
L‘Art du Soleil: Itinerant ecological
pedagogical caravan
Speakers: Romero, Esther (L‘art du Soleil / Cooperativa integral Catalana), Serra,
Ariadna (Cooperativa Integral Catalana), Solé, Joan (IntegraRevolution)
L‘art du Soleil is presented as a proposal for a way of life in response to the
current economic, social, ecological crisis. The Sun warms us, lights the
days, and gives us energy and vitamins. The caravan allows to wholly take
advantage of this, with a fully practical use. The aim is to bring tools for
people to use in their everyday life, so that we can change the individualistic and dehumanizing frame of mind of our current system, both through
prototypes put into practice into the caravan and with the way we relate to
other human beings.
Language:EN
Bridging the gap between permaculture
and western household
04.09. | Th
2:30 pm
Practice &
Activism
Creative camp - Hands on engagement
Language:DE, EN
Herbal medicine for increasing the selfreliance of communities of Degrowth
Speakers: Georgousi, Fotini (Nea Guinea)
In our practical workshop we will demonstrate different simple techniques
used for processing herbs to prepare natural, effective and safe remedies
for common ailments. This activity aims at giving the opportunity to the
participants to get more familiar with the use of herbs as a healing practice
and also to get involved more actively in the process of healing by preparing
their own remedies.
Language:EN
Improvisation with sound and movement
Speakers: Becker, Sebastian (Universität Göttingen)
Speakers: Rippelbeck, Tanja-Maria, Dr. (Gemeinschaftskeimling Leipzig)
What is the way to live more and more sustainable? To answer this question
I begun to look around in my surrounding and found 3 examples which
showed me how it could work. That‘s for me the Transition Town movement, eco-village models and the students project PermaKulturRaum. Tangible examples are important to inspire people. In Germany the expression
„Reallabore“ arises since a year for communities of practice with its change
agents. I invite you to play together in applying improvisational theatre methods as well as a world café to create ideas about further hot spots of
sustainability.
Tone and motional improvisation. We unfold an experience-space to develop our creativity, articulateness and vitality in making music and dancing.
We step out of separation and alienation into community-experience, connection and diversity. Min. 15, max. 40 participants
Language:EN
The way of the circle - the council as a
community-building instrument
Language:DE
Experimental game „Prosperity Settlers“
Speakers: Philipp, Katharina (Permakultur Institut)
Speakers: Ziegler, Robert (Bildungsreferent, Erlebnispädagoge)
In welcher Kultur wollen wir leben? „Der Weg des Kreises“ ist eine alte Tradition bei verschiedenen indigenen Völkern, die uns ermöglicht, authentisch
und empathisch zu kommunizieren und zuzuhören. In unserer momentanen, sich wandelnden Gesellschaft brauchen wir immer mehr Werkzeuge,
um miteinander in Kontakt zu treten und uns im Herzen berühren zu lassen.
Der „Way of Council“ ist eine Methode, die Gemeinschaft bildet und Verbindung schafft - mit sich selber, mit einander und der Erde. Wir lernen den
Weg des Kreises kennen und durchleben ihn praktisch zu Themen, die uns
gerade beschäftigen.
Ziel des Spiels ist es, dass ihr als Familien so viele Siegpunkte, hier Wohlstandspunkte, wie möglich bis zum Ende der Spielzeit erreicht. Wohlstandspunkte erhaltet ihr, indem ihr Konsumgüter (wie Kleidung, ein Handy oder
Auto etc.) auf dem Markt (bei der Spielleitung) erwerbt. Für den Erwerb von
Konsumgütern müsst ihr Rohstoffe eintauschen. Aber Achtung, Klimakatastrophen können euch einen Strich durch die Rechnung machen. Veranstaltungsort: Park bei der Moritzbastei
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Creative Mobiliar
40 years Momo - a fairytale grows up
Speakers: Rittershaus, Tania (Permakultur Akademie)
Speakers: Welter, Hanni, Sachs, Oliver, Oda, Masayo
Das Kreativ-Mobiliar sind Möbel, die aus diversen recycelten Materialien,
z.B. Holzreste, Autoreifen, Fässer, Stoffe etc bestehen. Auf und an die Möbel wollen wir prägnante Aussagen der Permakultur schreiben, z.B. „Reuse-Repair-Recycle“, „Produce no waste“, „keep it simple“, etc. Das Ziel ist,
praktische Ansätze sichtbar zu machen, wie Wandel funktionieren kann.
Es wird ein Raum geschaffen, der bewußt gesaltbar und mitgestaltbar ist.
Veranstaltung findet auf dem Permaculture CampSpace statt.
Wir zeigen unseren 30-minütigen Dokumentarfilm “40 Jahre Momo – ein
Märchen wird erwachsen“ und gestalten im Anschluss daran ein Gespräch
über die Hintergründe der Geschichte Momo. Dabei erforschen wir mit dem
Publikum kooperative Dialogformen. Michael Endes “Momo“ ist eine Parabel über die Auswirkungen von Geld auf unsere Wahrnehmung von Zeit,
über den Verlust von Gemeinschaft und über die in Vergessenheit geratene
Fähigkeit, uns gegenseitig aufmerksam und “heilend” zuzuhören.
Language:DE
Artistic Research | production of knowledge at the
interface between art, science and society
Speakers: Peters, Sibylle (geheimagentur, Universität Hamburg), Veciana, Stella
(Leuphana Universtität)
Societal transition requires a plural research culture that enables participation, trans- and interdisciplinary exchange, diversity of methods and transfer of knowledge into society. What can be the role of artistic research and
practice in this? Two lectures provide insight into art’s contribution to the
production and transfer of knowledge, and how collaboration at the interface between art, science and society, e.g. in the field of transformation
research.
Track: Art
Language:EN
Art meets Science – an internal networking meeting
Language:DE
[untitled] a space for monsters, animals and ghosts
Ends: 18:00 Type: Intervention
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
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2:30 pm
Practice &
Activism
Art
(Part II)
04.09. | Th
from 4:30
Facilitator: Jan Deck
Speakers: Oriana Elicabe (enmedio)
Artists of the conference and scientists from the Forschungskolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften Jena meet to share views on forms, potentials
and limits of transdisciplinary research. How can artists contribute to the
research process in the social sciences and what possibilities for cooperation can be found for the research field of the Jena Kolleg?
registration.
Participation with invitation only
Track:
Art
Language:DE, EN
Track: Art
Language:EN
Energy sufficiency - Participatory Design Workshop (Part II)
Artists: Miriam Lahusen, Sirrka Jacobsen
researching, creative documentation and qualitative interpretation. //Participation only with registration.
Track:
Art
Language:DE
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Art
GAP Assembly I
This assembly is part of the Group Assembly Process (GAP), an outcomeoriented three-day working process among practitioners, scientists, artists,
activists and decision-makers of the degrowth movement. In order to participate in the assembly it is necessary to register for one of the GAP working
groups.
GAP Assembly II
GAP working groups
eipzig 2014
groups.
For topics and rooms of the working groups see page 10.
Begins: 17:30 Room: S 303- S 329
Track: General
Language:EN
Open Space
Track: General
Language:EN
Open Space to identify barriers and new pathways for sustainable transitions
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from 5pm
General
Practice &
Activism
Art
Track: General / General
Language:EN
In a joined project, funded by the Federal Environment Agency of Germany, between the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Consideo we have developed a
comprehensive qualitative “Integrated Assessment Model” to gain a deeper understanding of the synergies and conflicts within the transformation towards
a more sustainable society. With a methodology described as the KNOW WHY
Method the facilitators of groups systematically asks WHY something is. At the
de-growth conference we will apply this approach to the concepts and practices
of degrowth. // We may use all three days with the first day gathering the arguments, the second day weighting the impacts and the third day analyzing and
collecting the results for presentation.
Begins: 17:00 Room: everywhere
Track: General
Language:yours
The new Man. Four Exercises in Utopian Movements
Language:EN
“Azoikum” - An artistic research project by Ilya
Dolgov // Exhibition opening and discussion with
the artist
Artists: Ligna
Artists: Büro für kulturelle Übersetzungen, Ilya Dolgov
THE NEW MAN is an interactive radio play in which the spectator becomes
an active participant. The audience will meet the visions of the new Man
of four artists of the 20s: poet Bertolt Brecht, dancer Rudolf von Laban,
director Wsewolod Meyerhold and comedian Charlie Chaplin. What is still
valid of their utopian movements and revolutionary hopes? What relationship can art, utopia and revolution have? Theory, practice and theatrical
experience resolve into a collective performance. A production of Ligna and
Kampnagel, supported by the Hamburger Kulturbehörde and by the NPN-Guest
Performance Fund for Theatre. Participation only with prior registration.
In the project “Azoic”, Ilya Dolgov investigates the mutual relation of nature
and culture, moving between fiction and reality, the given and the constructed, science and art. Azoic is a geological age as well as a museum of natural
history, an archive and a place where the hybrid nature of objects becomes
visible and comprehensible.
Begins: 18:00 Room: Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Begins: 19:00 Room: Bükü (external)
Ends: 21:30 Type: Exhibition
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Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Playing for Change - a benefit concert
Speakers: Pröschi (Soned e.V.)
In einer neuen Partnerschaft von SONED mit der französischen Organisation Playing For Change Occitanie(PFCO) und dem Ghana Permaculture Institute (GPI) soll die Bizung School in Ghana beim Ausbau der Umweltbildung
für Nachhaltigkeit durch Multiplikatorenschulungen und Beratung beim
Anlegen einer Permakultur-Schulfarm und der Integration von Permakultur
in den (Schul-) Alltag unterstützt werden. Teilnehmende Bands findet ihr
unter: auf der Homepage von Soned. Ort: Moritzbastei
Begins: 19:00 Room: Meeting Point: Moritzbastei Track: Practice & Activism
Language:DE, EN
Inter-religious critique of the growth producing
capitalist civilization and alternatives
Speakers: Duchrow, Ulrich, Prof. (KAIROS Europa), Litsch, Franz-Johannes (Buddhanetz, Buddhism), Müller, Christine (anders wachsen)
On this panel critiques of the monetised economy - of the accumulation of
capital as driver of growth - which can be found in Abrahamic as well as
Buddhist sources are presented. From there possible alliances between the
religions on the base of the liberation theological movements, which builds
on a new reading of these sources, are discussed. Finally a vision of a new
culture of life and spiritual as well as institutional strategies for its implementation are developed.
Prepared by „anders wachsen“ in cooperation with KAIROS Europe.
Ends: 22:00 Type: Special event
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Transition Theater: interactive forum theater
about time, money and community
Das Märchen „Momo“ von Michael Ende erzählt die Geschichte von einer
Gemeinschaft, in der die Menschen immer weniger Zeit für sich und Andere
haben weil sie die Botschaften der grauen Herren internalisiert haben und
aus ökonomischen Gründen Zeit sparen. Irgendwie kennen wir diese Geschichte – auch aus unserem eigenen Leben.
Language:DE
Book presentation: Churning the Earth
Décroissance, Postwachstum, decreixement, decrescita – all degrowth but different?
Facilitator: von Thadden, Elisabeth, Dr. (ZEIT journalist) • Speakers: MartinezAlier, Joan, Prof. (decreixement, Spanien), Schneider, Francois, Dr. (décroissance,
Frankreich), Paech, Niko, apl. Prof. Dr. (Postwachstum, Germany), Bonaiuti, Mauro, Dr. (decrescita, Italien)
This panel brings together four different traditions of degrowth: decreixement/social and sustainable degrowth from Spain, décroissance from France,
Postwachstum from Germany and decrescita from Italy. The different concepts of degrowth and their backgrounds are explained and discussed. Feminist and other perspectives are brought in by the facilitator. The panel includes a discussion of different concepts by and with the audience.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES, FR
Social metabolism and the degrowth
society
Facilitator: Baptista, Gualter, Dr. (Degrowth 2014) • Speakers: Schaffartzik, Anke
(Universität Klagenfurt), Farrell, Katharine (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin & Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Anke Schaffartzik: Scenarios for a biophysical degrowth of industrial metabolism // Katharine Farrell: Living Systems and (De)Growth: a matter of
life and death
Ends: 21:30 Type: scientific lecture
Track: Science
Language:EN
Degrowth meets climate justice
Networking meeting: How can we link degrowth and climate justice? How
can we work together? What do we want to do jointly on the occasion of
COP21 2015?
General
Science
Practice &
Activism
Ends: 02:00 Type: Track: Practice & Activism
Language:DE, EN
Book presentation: A Degrowth Project
Facilitator: Kothari, Ashish (Author)
Facilitator: Liegey, Vincent (Author)
Book presentation and discussion of „Churning the Earth“ by and with Ashish Kothari. More information in the online programme.
Book presentation and discussion of „A Degrowth Project“ by and with Vincent Liegey. More information in the online programme.
Track: General
Language:EN
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Track: General
Language:EN
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Book presentation: FUTURZWEI-Almanach 2015/2016
Speakers: Dana Giesecke, Dana; Tremel, Luise; Welzer, Harald (Editors); Kalies, Grit;
Leif Randt, Leif (Authors); Flachmeyer, Johannes (actor)
The new „future almanac“ (Zukunftsalmanach) has turned out to be a book
which is not clearly identifiable as such. Is it a collection of stories about
reductionist ways of living and working, a political programme, a compendium of possibilities? With this book presentation, FUTURZWEI shows that
the mixture of stories of successes, sustainable projects, a lot of material
and even literary narrations is very interesting and inspiring.
Track: General
Language:DE
Resistance against extractivism in
Central America
Speakers: Isphording, Angela (Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung), Emanuelli, Silvia (Habitat
International Coalition, Mexiko-Stadt), Ramírez, Alejandro
Since the conquest of Latin America the economy bases on exploitation of
resources. Extractivism is a development strategy which means the highest
exploitation possible of resources and land and which influences the economic and social structure of the subcontinent to the present. Mesoamerica
covers the whole spectrum of this model: exploitation of precious metal,
huge dam projects, agro-industrial monocultures. But there is resistence as
the movie “Resistencia!” shows.
Language:EN, ES
The new Man. Four Exercises in Utopian Movements
Book presentation: Rotes Grün
Speaker: Thie, Hans (Author)
Book presentation and discussion of the German book „Rotes Grün“ by and
with Hans Thie // more information in the online programme
Track: General
Language:DE
Movie and discussion: Voices of Transition
Speakers: Aguilar, Nils (Regisseur)
Movie and discussion: Voices of Transition with the presence of director
Nils Aguilar
Track: General
Language:DE, EN
Music!
Speakers: Ligna
04.09. | Th THE NEW MAN is an interactive radio play in which the spectator becomes
from 8pm an active participant. The audience will meet the visions of the new Man
General
Practice &
Activism
Art
of four artists of the 20s : the poet Bertolt Brecht, the dancer Rudolf von
Laban, the director Wsewolod Meyerhold and the comedian Charlie Chaplin. What is still valid of their utopian movements and revolutionary hopes? What kind of relationship can art, utopia and revolution have? Theory,
practice and theatrical experience resolve into a collective performance.
Please register in advance. // DER NEUE MENSCH is a production of Ligna
and Kampnagel, supported by the Hamburger Kulturbehörde and by the NATIONALES PERFORMANCE NETZ (NPN) Guest Performance Fund for Theatre.
Begins: 20:00 Room: Leipzig Museum of Fine Arts Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
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turn the volume up at the Degrowth conference! Listen and let go, dance and
party, music that creates atmosphere and changes space, quiet or loud, pleasant or off-the-wall. There will be concerts in the daytime and in the evenings
on the campus.
Begins: 21:00 Room: Courtyard
Track: Art
Language:
Programme | Friday | 05.09. | Visions and strategies for transformation
Day 4 – Friday 05.09.
Visions and strategies
for transformation
The Transition to a Sustainable Commons Society in Ecuador and beyond
Economy of Liberation, Solidarity Economy and Good Living (bem-viver)
Speakers: Bauwens, Michel (P2P)
Speakers: Mance, Euclides André (Solidarity Economy, Brasil)
Degrowth ist nur möglich, wenn sich die auf künstlicher Verknappung basierende Produktentwicklung verändert, und wenn der Anreiz wegfällt, die
wahren Material- und Energiekosten von Produktion zu externalisieren. Ein
an Commons ausgerichteter Ansatz sollte globales Open Design zusammen
mit lokaler On-Demand-Produktion und der Nutzung dezentraler erneuerbarer Energien denken. Gemeinsam mit Veränderungen politischer Prozesse
(governance) und Eigentumsverhältnissen kann dies zu einer weltweiten
Transformation beitragen.
The economy of liberation aims at ensuring all economic means required
for the Good Living (bem-viver) of each person and all people, collaborating
to expand the private and public freedoms ethically exercised. Solidarity
economy is a strategy for the economic liberation of the popular classes
and of human society as a whole. It requires reorganizing the economic
flows and economic chains in a democratic and sustainable way, as well
as practicing self-managed work and solidarity-based consumption, trade,
interchange and finance.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Commons, Economy for the common good and
Solidarity Economy: What do they share?
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Cultural Agency - potentials and limits
of current civic movements
Facilitator: Humburg, Anja (journalist) • Speakers: Bollier, David (Commons Strategies Group, USA), Mance, Euclides André (Solidarity Economy, Brasil), Muhr, Lisa
(Economy of the Common Good)
Facilitator: Tremel, Luise (FUTURZWEI) • Speakers: Habermann, Friederike, Dr. (author), Martin, Leonidas (artist, activist), Hawkins, Richard (Public Interest Research
Centre)
One can find many initiatives and discourses which put the misguided economy back on track. More and more people do not simply fight „the economy“ but work on real alternatives which revoke the logic of profit maximization. They focus on the micro level, on the macro level or on both. They
often bring in an ecological perspective, promote sharing, sufficiency and/
or care. The insiders call it diversity, the outsiders confusion. How are the
different approaches related? What do they contribute to degrowth?
New forms of living, working, protesting as well as new economic and
democratic practices develop form inside society and form „peninsulas
against the stream“. What developments and needs do they nourish? To
what degree do they foster a new cultural imagination beyond growth and
competition? How can the development from local activities towards collective global perspectives be achieved? Stakeholders from economy, activism, civil-society and transformation research discuss on this panel.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Degrowth technologies – global experiences
General
05.09. | Fr
11am
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
General
Introductory course on growth-critique
Facilitator: Ferrari, Arianna, Dr. (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) • Speakers: Bauwens, Michel (P2P), N.N. (angefragt), Hooker-Stroud, Alice (CAT, zero-carbon Britain)
Speakers: Paternoga, Dagmar (attac Deutschland), Mahler, Hermann (attac
Deutschland)
The degrowth debate has to find its position between the poles of technology critique and the enabling potentials of technologies. This panel aims to
discuss the role of technologies in a future degrowth society on the basis of
actual examples. The panelists will present different contexts and possibilities of technology development and uses in Europe, Africa and South America. Discussed topics are besides others criteria which define degrowth
technologies and participation and knowledge needed for the development
of technologies.
Immer produktivere Arbeitsverhältnisse lassen es zu, dass mehr Reichtum
in kürzerer Zeit entsteht. Eigentlich ist Genug für Alle da, aber was ein Segen
sein könnte, bereitet Probleme. Auf der Suche nach Investitionsmöglichkeiten werden sozialen Sicherheiten und die Lebenswelt des Planeten zerstört.
Die soziale und ökologische Krise muss zusammengedacht werden. Dieser
Einführungsvortrag informiert über Schritte hin zu einer Ökonomie, die auf
die Bedürfnisse der Menschen in Achtung der Natur und künftiger Generationen beruht.
Track: General
Language:EN
05.09. | Fr
from 9am
Track: General
Language:DE
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General meeting - German Association
for Ecological Economics
Die Vereinigung für Ökologische Ökonomie folgt seit 2010 dem Leitbild einer
„Wirtschaft ohne Wachstum“. Auf der Mitgliederversammlung des Vereins
wird u.a. ein neuer Vorstand gewählt. Die Versammlung ist für Interessierte
geöffnet.
You are here. A Mindful Walk Through
Consumption
Artist: Diana Wesser
The walk investigates the shopping worlds of the inner city of Leipzig. Different ways of moving can change our perceptions creating a heightened sense of awareness for the present moment. The city becomes a stage where
participants discover everyday performances and different characteristics
of the urban environment by exploring a variety of sense perceptions. It is
an immersive physical experience in which participants can navigate both
as observers and performers.
Meeting Point: Universitätsstraße
Track: General
Language:DE
This event has the purpose of getting to know other scientists and to network.
In half an hour, you get to know about ten other scientists. In several short
„dates“, groups of three people introduce themselves and their area of research.
Track: Science
Language:EN
Ends: 12:30 Type: Artistical Event
Track: Art
Language:DE
Visions, values & well-being
Facilitator: Manns, Florian (UFZ)
Brown - Work and the Economy: The Decline Of Unions And The Role Of Worker
Cooperative // Dallmer - Education for well-being // Gardiol - Well-being as a social must. But is well-being healthy? // Granada - Human Scale Development...
away from bullets and machines // Henning - Degrowth and Socialism: The
vision of August Bebel // Salmela - Sleep and stillness in a mobile economy //
Siemoneit - Growth forces: Material rent and efficiency consumption // Timaeus - The significance of everyday life, values and meaning for a more social
and ecological society: a life world perspective // Vogel - Democratic values as
a debatable legitimation of growth // Hadjimichael - Choosing between Blue
Growth and Degrowth and the need to reclaim the right to the sea
Track: Science
Language:EN
Well being, social capital and income
change
Facilitator: Sekulova, Filka, Dr. (R&D) • Speakers: Boyce, Christopher, Dr. (University
of Stirling), Sekulova, Filka, Dr. (R&D), Bartonlini, Stefano, Prof. Dr. (University of
Siena, Italy)
Christopher Boyce: Income reductions, personality and well-being: Which
personality types are the most psychologically resilient to the experience
of income reductions? // Filka Sekulova: Happiness and income decrease: an
empirical study from Barcelona // Stefano Bartolini: Happy for How Long?
How Social Capital and GDP relate to happiness over time
05.09. | Fr
from 10.30
General
Art
Science
Exploring transformation to a radical
alternative society (RAGE)
Facilitator: Spash, Clive, Prof. Dr. (WU) • Speakers: Petridis, Panos (Universität
Klagenfurt), Kerschner, Christian, Dr. (Masaryk University, Czech Republic / R&D),
Spash, Clive, Prof. Dr. (WU), Fellner, Wolfgang, Dr. (Vienna University), Wächter, Petra, Dr. (Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences)
(angefragt), Brand, Ulrich, Prof. Dr. (University of Vienna)
Panos Petridis: Potentials of the degrowth debate for socio-ecological transformation // Clive Spash und Christian Kerschner: A Social Ecological Economic Perspective on Transformation // Clive Spash: Values and Ethics in an
Alternative Degrowth Society // Wolfgang Fellner: Time use in an Alternative
Degrowth Society // Petra Wächter: Components of the energy system for a
degrowth transformation // Ulrich Brand: Degrowth politics, transformation possibilities and barriers
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Track: Science
Language:EN
Track: Science
Language:EN
Saving practices – considering degrowth in low-budget urbanity
Facilitator: Derwanz, Heike, Dr. (HafenCity University Hamburg) • Speakers: Derwanz, Heike, Dr. (HafenCity University Hamburg), Faerber, Alexa, Prof. Dr. (HafenCity Universität Hamburg), Otto, Birke Dorothea, Dr. (HafenCity Universität Hamburg)
Heike Derwanz: „Don’t let fashion go to waste“. Local Infrastructures Feeding on Textile Waste // Alexa Faerber: Saving Money – Breaking Profit? RideSharing Practices in Inter-City Transport // Birke Dorothea Otto: Saving (on)
Water. Living in EcoSan Communities
Track: Science
Language:EN
Liberation of European countries from
the growth imperative
Speakers: Seidl, Irmi (Eidgen. Forschungsanstalt WSL), Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof. Dr.
(Friends of the Earth Germany BUND)
This special session has the following aims: (i) exchange about approaches
and activities, similarities and differences of the growth-critical discourses
in European countries and on the European level, (ii) identification of topics
of the critical growth discourse that need to be strengthened / brought up
at the European level, (iii) discussion of strategies in research and politics
on how to foster a transition to a post-growth society in Europe.
Track: Science
The transformative power of utopias
and alternative paradigms
SCORAI II: Sustainable consumption
from a degrowth perspective
Facilitator: Lorek, Sylvia (Sustainable Europe Research Institute) • Speakers: Muraca, Barbara (DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften), Schneider, Francois, Dr.
(R&D, France), Liegey, Vincent (A Degrowth Project), Lorek, Sylvia (Sustainable Europe Research Institute)
Interactive discussion. // The sessions will follow the SCORAI format with short
presentations and explicit room for structured discussion. Short papers will
be provided in advance according to the CfP. In addition we will document the
main lines of discussion – findings as well as controversial points – as source for
further scientific developments. This can be used for the documentation of the
special session on the conference website – but obviously ex post only.
Track: Science
Social welfare programs, basic income
and degrowth
Facilitator: Turnbull, Shann, Dr. (International Institute for Self-governance) • Speakers: Goepel, Maja, Dr. (Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie GmbH), Kallis, Giorgos, Prof. Dr. (R&D), Varvarousis, Angelos, Dr. (UAB, Spain)
Facilitator: Oetsch, Silke, Dr. (University of Innsbruck) • Speakers: Cattaneo, Claudio, Dr. (R&D), Schachtschneider, Ulrich, Dr. (Rosa Luxemburg Foundation), Cuvillier, Sandrine (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Maja Goepel - „Getting to postgrowth: The transformative power of paradigm shifts“ (full paper) // Giorgos Kallis - „Imaginaries of hope: The dialectical utopianism of degrowth“ (full paper) // Angelos Varvarousis - „Utopias,
liminalities and the commons. The case study of Gavdos island.“ (short paper)
Claudio Cattaneo - „Basic Income and degrowth?“ (full paper) // Ulrich
Schachtschneider - „Ecological basic income – an acceleration brake“ (full
paper) // Sandrine Cuvillier - „Social welfare programs in Brazil and in
France: Assistencialism or emancipation factor?“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Beyond GDP: Indicators for a degrowth
transition?
Facilitator: Saes, Beatriz (UNICAMP) • Speakers: Jeffrey, Karen (New Economics
Foundation), Rodenhäuser, Dorothee (FESt), Diefenbacher, Hans, Prof. Dr. (FESt)
Abdallah - „BrainpooL: Lessons from the beyond GDP world for degrowth“
(sp) // Rodenhäuser - „Controversies in environmental and post-growth discourses: Mapping positions to investigate their consequences for the development of indicators for a socio-ecological transformation“ (sp) // Jeffrey
- „Pathways towards an environmentally sustainable economy: Explaining
the differences“ (sp) // Diefenbacher & Rodenhäuser - „The national welfare Index as a potential instrument for the transition towards a Degrowth
society?“ (sp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Alternatives to current monetary systems
Facilitator: Quintana Diaz, Josué Manuel (Universität Frankfurt) • Speakers: Ruzzene, Maurizio, Dr. (Associazione italiana per la decrescita), Toivakainen, Niklas (Helsinki Timebank and Solidarityeconomy network), Van der Wekken, Ruby (Helsinki
Timebank) (angefragt), Bofill, Pau (UPC, Col·lectiu Mostassa)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Institutional design, autonomy, and
eco-socialism
Facilitator: Radhuber, Isabella (Vienna University) • Speakers: Kern, Bruno, Dr. (Initiative Ökosozialismus), Westra, Richard, Dr. (Nagoya University, Japan), Brugvin,
Thierry, Dr.
Bruno Kern - „Die Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar“ (full paper) // Richard Westra - „Principles for institutional design of future degrowth ecosustainable societies“ (short paper) // Thierry Brugvin - „Culture of poverty,
popular culture and buen vivir“ (short paper)
05.09. | Fr
11am
Track: Science
Language:EN
Science
Organizing energy supply and demand
Facilitator: Pansera, Mario (University of Exeter, UK) • Speakers: D‘Alessandro, Simone,
Dr. (University of Pisa), Le Dû, Mathieu (Virage-Énergie Nord-Pas de Calais), Kunze,
Conrad, Dr. (University of Freiburg), Becker, Sören, Latoufis, Kostas (Nea Guinea)
Maurizio Ruzzene - „Alternative currencies and de-growth: average value
of labour time as basis for enhancement of interest-free credit systems“
(short paper) // Niklas Toivakainen & Ruby van der Wekken - „Transforming
the current economic, political and social paradigm through time banking“
(short paper) // Pau Bofill - „Natural economies, the alternative to money.
Card game simulation conclusions“ (short paper)
Simone D‘Alessandro - „The social and economic consequences of Sustainable
Energy Action Plans (SAEP)“ (sp) // Mathieu Le Dû - „Scenarios on energy sufficiency and societal transformations: changing lifestyles and social structures to make energy savings“ (sp) // Conrad Kunze & Sören Becker - „Collective
ownership in renewable energy and degrowth“ (sp) // Kostas Latoufis - „Reinforcing resilience and self-reliance of communities in degrowth: The case
study of the renewable energy workshop of ‚Nea Guinea‘“ (sp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Track: Science
Language:EN
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Convivial conservation and degrowth
Facilitator: Immendoerfer, Andrea (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology) • Speakers:
Norris, Timothy (University of California), McAfee, Kathleen, Prof. Dr. (San Francisco
State University), Büscher, Bram, Dr.(Institute of Social Studies), Flechter, Robert, Dr.
(University for Peace, Costa Rica)
Timothy Norris - „The conservation-extraction conundrum: The commodification of nature across vertical boundaries“ (short paper) // Kathleen McAfee „Green economy and its others: conservation, scarcity, and buen vivir“ (short
paper) // Bram Büscher - „Convivial conservation: Degrowth and the quest of
overcoming capitalist conservation“ (short paper) // Robert Fletcher - Beyond
Tradeoffs: From Growth to Redistribution in Environmental Conservation
Track: Science
Language:EN
How to sell degrowth: Business models I
Facilitator: N.N. • Speakers: Liesen, Andrea, Dr. (Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung), Gebauer, Jana (IÖW, Germany), Verrea, Valerio, Dr. (Universität
Leipzig), Netter, Sarah (Copenhagen Business School)
Andrea Liesen & Jana Gebauer - „Successful non-growing companies“ (full
paper) // Valerio Verrea - „Fair trade alternative trade organizations as a
degrowth-friendly business model“ (full paper) // Sarah Netter - „Availability
cascades & the sharing economy – A critical outlook at collaborative consumption“ (full paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Alternative food production
Facilitator: N.N. • Speakers: Poerting, Julia (Universität Heidelberg), Smeds, Josefin
(Lund University), Gamboa, Gonzalo (ICTA - UAB), Lay, Jenny (Universität Freiburg)
Poerting - „Urban Farmers between visions of alternative futures of consumption and market demand – An ethnographic study of farmers’ markets in Pakistan“ (sp) // Smeds - „Growing through the cracks - A multi-case
study of two alternative food networks in Cluj-Napoca, Romania“ (sp) //
Gamboa - „Comparing local and global supply chains of tomatoes: the case
of Catalonia“ (sp) // Lay - „Building alliances in the field of food production
and consumption: Urban gardening and community based agriculture“ (sp)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Deconference - Space for spontaneity, creativity and exchange 3/3
Speakers: Giuliana, Giorgi (Forum Solidarische Ökonomie, attac), Forno, Francesca
(Universität Bergamo)
discuss.
05.09. | Fr
11am
Science
Practice &
Activism
Language:DE, EN
Degrowth and resource extraction views from the Global South
Facilitator: Stoll, Georg (Misereor) • Speakers: Chimange, Getrude (Justice and Peace
Commission, Zimbabwe), Muhigirwa, Ferdinand (Arrupe Research and Training Center, DR Congo), Martinez-Alier, Joan, Prof. (Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain)
Economic growth is closely linked to the resource intensive production and
consumption in the capital driven global economy. Degrowth is discussed
as systemic solution to the fatal downsides of this economic model. But
what about countries which depend on resource extraction for poverty
alleviation? Can degrowth give an answer to the dilemma between global
sustainability and global freedom from want? The workshop is offering a
platform for discussion with activists from DR Congo and Zimbabwe.
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Solidary shopping groups and resistance to the Mafia in Italy
Language:EN
Since 2004 the movement of critical consumption and the anti-mafia movement have been going together. Critical consumers support enterprises
which do not pay protection money to the mafia and declare their decision
in the public. Alternative shopping guides and markets, „Zero-protection
money events“, solidary shopping groups and organic agriculture on land
confiscated from the mafia show how civil society induces change. Lecture
and pictures.
Language:DE, EN
Animal Liberation and Degrowth
Speakers: Schmitz, Friederike
Every year, humans kill about 66 billion nonhuman land animals and more
than a trillion aquatic individuals for the purpose of consumption. Countless other nonhuman animals are tortured in laboratories or exploited for
human clothing, leisure, sports, or work. The immense suffering of animals
contrasts with a general neglect of the issue in left and green movements.
In this workshop, we‘ll consider the practice of animal use from an ethical
as well as an ecological perspective and discuss if and how the goal of animal liberation could be integrated into degrowth theory and practice.
Language:EN
Degrowth, quality of life and relations:
Applying non-violent communication
Speakers: Rauschmayer, Felix, Dr. (UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research),
Omann, Ines, Dr. (UFZ Leipzig)
In this practical session we will apply two methods that seem to be adequate
in situations of tensions and conflicts related to sustainable lifestyles. When
pursuing a sustainable lifestyle by using less resources one faces different
forms of tensions, as some needs are fulfilled, but some others may be harmed. For instance flying to attend a conference allows one to participate in
a certain community, be creative and be appreciated, but the need for protecting the environment and future generations is harmed. Min. 6, max. 20
participants. Please join the workshop 15 min. before the beginning.
Language:EN
Café kaputt - a repair café and
education project
Why degrowth begins with keeping
children out of institutions
Speakers: Barson, Leslie (The Otherwise Club)
Younger people are a pivotal point of any vision of a new society. Envisioning
the principles of a new society starts with ownership of the mind, which
needs to be free from dogma, imperatives and authoritarian structures. To
imagine a society with integral leaning of this kind the shape of everything
else must also be different. Though discussion and participation we will examine the role of institutions in the lives of young people and what it means
not to be involved with these institutions.
Language:EN
Tips and tricks for the founding of collectives from 24 years of experience
Speakers: Kuhley, Lisa (Café Kaputt / Lebende Visionen)
Speakers: Kollektiven AGBeratung, Hinkelsteindruck
Our Café kaputt is a nonprofit grassroots educational project, inspired by
the Dutch idea of repair cafés. From July 2014 on you can enjoy wood-, electronic- and textil-repair-workshops on a regular basis. Tools, material and the
advice of our experts are available for everyone for free (donation-based).
Additionally we offer educational workshops about problems in globalized
product-cycles. The idea is to bring people together to share skills, material
and ideas and to inspire each other to take action against the throw-awaysociety. Event takes place at café kaputt: Merseburger Str. 102
Alternative Produktionsweisen und Selbstverwaltung gehören in einer solidarischen Ökonomie für uns zusammen. Kollektiv organisierte Projekte stehen
vor vielfältigen Aufgaben: den eigenen Ansprüchen an Gleichberechtigung
und Selbstorganisation gerecht zu werden und dabei noch den formalen Ansprüchen einer kapitalistisch organisierten Gesellschaft zu genügen. AG Beratung geben Tipps und Tricks zur Projektgründung und zum Gelingen. Zwei
Druckerinnen von Hinkelsteindruck berichten von Lust und Frust aus 24 Jahren Kollektiv-Praxis. Erfahrungsaustausch und Ermutigung für welche, die in
kollektiven Zusammenhängen agieren oder die es zukünftig wollen.
Language:DE, EN
From niche to mainstream: Transformation and science policy
Speakers: Ober, Steffi (Forschungswende c.o. VDW e.V.)
Ohne einen grundlegenden Wandel in der Ausrichtung von Forschung und
Innovation bleiben die Pfade in unsere Zukunft technologiegetrieben.
Transformation und wachstumskritische Ansätze haben es schwer sich
überhaupt in der Forschungslandschaft zu etablieren. Doch die große und
die vielen kleinen Transformationen können nur als Gemeinschaftswerk gelingen, deshalb müssen unsere Wege in die Zukunft in einer breiten, gesellschaftlichen Debatte erarbeitet und verfolgt werden.
Language:DE
„SolE“ - A decentralized, grassroots
and autonomous energy supply
Speakers: Sophie (solE - solidarische Energieversorgung), Paulina (solE - solidarische
Energieversorgung), Christoph (solE - solidarische Energieversorgung)
Language:DE
Speakers: Bender, Harald (Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie), Bernholt, Norbert
(Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie)
Language:DE
Corporations without growth. An input
by Friends of the Earth Germany
Speakers: Ebinger, Frank, Dr. (BUND/FoE Germany)
Es ist an der Zeit, den zerstörerischen Kapitalismus hin zu einem solidarischen Wirtschaftssystem zu transformieren. Orientiert an Konzepten wie
dem der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft möchten wir Ideen weiter denken,
die sich um die Verbindung von erneuerbarer Energieversorgung und solidarischen Strukturen drehen. Der Workshop bietet eine Einführung in die SolE
und eine aktive Diskussionsphase der vielen Fragestellungen um die Umsetzung und Grenzen solidarischer Halbinseln im praktischen Alltag.
Der BUND AK Wirtschaft und Finanzen versucht Unternehmensstrategien zu finden, die Firmen das ökonomische Überleben sichern ohne auf
Wachstum angewiesen zu sein. Wir haben dazu Thesen entwickelt und mit
Vertreter*innen aus der Wirtschaft diskutiert. Das Ergebnis dieser Arbeiten
wird zur Diskussion gestellt. Ziel ist es, das Argument zu widerlegen dass
Degrowth einen wirtschaftlichen Kollaps bedeuten würde und effektive
Ansätze zu entwickeln, wie eine Wachstumswende schon unter den gegenwärtigen Rahmenbedingungen angestoßen werden kann.
Language:DE
Language:DE
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05.09. | Fr
11am
Practice &
Activism
Escape from the supermarket - CSA between selfsufficiency and international exchange
Speakers: Wähning, Petra (Genussgemeinschaft Städter und Bauern), Wild, Stephanie (Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft)
Nach einer kurzen Einführung in das Konzept der Solidarischen Landwirtschaft/CSA und der Vorstellung der europäischen CSA-Netzwerke, wollen
wir gemeinsam mit den Teilnehmer*innen diskutieren, wie sich die verschiedenen regionalen Projekte mit ihren jeweiligen Angeboten untereinander austauschen können. Wir möchten auch die Frage stellen, inwieweit
die radikale Regionalität in einer global vernetzten Welt wirklichkeits- und
praxisbezogen ist und ob es auch Möglichkeiten gibt auch über die Gemeindegrenzen hinweg auszudehnen.
Language:DE
Population growth, commons and solidarity
Speakers: Jestel, Jana (Forum Solidarische Ökonomie), Prätor, Klaus (Forum Solidarische Ökonomie)
Speakers: Knapp, Andreas, Dr. (Katholische Ordensgemeinschaft der Kleinen Brüder
vom Evangelium)
Die Kritik am Wachstum wächst, aber ein naheliegendes Feld dieser Kritik
bleibt merkwürdig ausgespart: das Bevölkerungswachstum. Die Senkung
des individuellen Verbrauchs ist notwendig, aber es wäre fahrlässig, den anderen Faktor völlig beiseite zu lassen. Damit ist auch klar, dass das Problem
nicht unbedingt dort am größten ist, wo die meiste Bevölkerung lebt. Durch
Bildung und gute Sozialsysteme lässt sich die Bevölkerungsentwicklung beeinflussen, ohne dass man an Zwangsmaßnahmen denken muss.
In einem ersten Schritt möchte ich über die Ursprünge des menschlichen
Strebens nach immer mehr nachdenken. In den verschiedenen Religionen
und spirituellen Strömungen wird dieses Streben transformiert. Als konkretes Beispiel für diese spirituelle Transformation sollen Grundregeln von
christlichen Ordensgemeinschaften vorgestellt werden: Wie wird ein einfacher Lebensstil in Gemeinschaft gelebt? Welche Erfahrungen können auch
für andere Gruppen hilfreich sein?
Language:DE
Economy of happiness - leading an
enjoyable cooperative life
05.09. | Fr
11am
Practice &
Activism
The need for more and its spiritual
transformation: A Christian community
Language:DE
Sufficiency as a culture of ourselves
Speakers: Scheub, Ute (Autorin), Jensen, Annette (Autorin)
Speakers: Ladach, Martin (Bergwaldprojekt)
Selbstbestimmung und Kooperation machen zufriedener als Geld, Besitz
und Konkurrenz, wie die internationale Glücksforschung vielfach belegt.
Tausende von Projekten, Betrieben und Initiativen in der Solidarökonomie,
SharEconomy, Open Source zeigen das. Internet und Erneuerbare Energien
befördern eine kleinteilige, dezentrale Entwicklung - eine Zeitenwende? Ute
Scheub und Annette Jensen stellen ihr Buch „Glücksökonomie. Wer teilt, hat
mehr vom Leben“ vor und wollen ihre Thesen erfahrbar machen.
Das Bergwaldprojekt arbeitet seit 1991 mit Freiwilligen zum Schutz und Erhalt der heimischen Wälder. Während den Projektwochen erleben die Freiwilligen unter den Bedingungen in einer „komfortfreien Zone“ auch den
Geschmack von Suffizienz im Hinblick auf die persönlichen Lebensumstände. Der Workshop setzt an dieser Stelle ein: Welche direkten Suffizienzerfahrungen finden auf individueller Ebene und für jeden nachvollziehbar statt?
Inwiefern entsprechen diese Erfahrungen den Degrowth-Konzepten?
Language:DE
3 x 7 = 21 ideas for the future
Language:DE
Profit-free spaces and the necessary
decision-making structures
Speakers: Handrich, Thomas (Heinrich-Böll Stiftung)
Speakers: Fabricius, Wolfgang, Dr. (Akademie und Forum Solidarische Ökonomie)
Das „andere Wirtschaften“ hat Konjunktur. Es soll Vieles zugleich leisten:
das Wachstumsparadigma ablösen, die vielfältigen Bedürfnisse der Menschen befriedigen, die Umwelt schonen und dem Einzelnen Entfaltungsmöglichkeiten bieten. Wir wollen bei dieser Veranstaltung in unterhaltsamem Format 21 Ideen für die Zukunft vorstellen, die auf 7 Tagen Radreise
von Menschen zusammengetragen wurden, die sich mindestens 3 verschiedenen wachstumskritischen Strömungen zuordnen. Wie gesagt: 3 x 7 = 21
Seit etwa 1950 vermehren sich Netto- und Anlagevermögen in Deutschland
exponentiell im Mittel jährlich um 10 %. Die Wirtschaft wächst jedoch trotz
aller Bemühungen „nur“ linear. Der ökonomische Kollaps ist vorprogrammiert. Um diese Entwicklung umzukehren, muss die produktionsorientierte
Angebotswirtschaft durch eine reproduktionsorientierte Nachfragewirtschaft ersetzt werden. Erreicht werden kann dies durch profitfreie Räume,
in denen die Infrastruktur von ihren Nutzern finanziert wird. Max. 30 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
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Following Ivan Illich - Acting in a convivial society
Speakers: Kuchenbuch, Ludolf, Gottschlich, Daniela (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Das Wachstum käme zum erliegen, wenn Frauen für alle Menschen gleich
kreative Arbeit forderten, anstatt gleiche Rechte innerhalb der Lohnarbeit,
formulierte Illich 1978. Aber auch zeitgenössische Feministinnen, die ihn
oft kritisch sahen, teilten diese Einschätzung. Geht es also im Kampf um
Geschlechtergerechtigkeit vor allem darum, die Hälfte vom Kuchen zu bekommen, oder eher um neue Rezepte für andere Kuchen? // Moderation:
Heike Löschmann
Language:DE
Cocreating the „Zero City“
Speakers: Wildhack, Anna (Nexthamburg Plus), Petrin, Julian (Nexthamburg Plus),
Opper, Daniel (ZEIT-Stiftung)
Unter dem Titel Zero City startete im Sommer 2013 ein Projekt der ZEITStiftung und des Think Tanks Nexthamburg. Ziel des Projekts ist es, gemeinsam mit Forschenden, Künstler*innen und Bürger*innen Grundlagen für
eine Stadt zu entwickeln, die bewusst auf Wirtschaftswachstum verzichten
kann und gleichzeitig eine völlig neue Lebensqualität ermöglicht. In Arbeitsgruppen sollen die Teilnehmenden sich an Fragestationen mit unterschiedlichen Fragen auseinandersetzen und Lösungsvorschläge erarbeiten.
Language:DE
The future is in our heads, let us act it
out! Political Sociodrama 1/2
Speakers: Scholz, Dietmar (Universität Leipzig), Wiener, Ron (British Psychodrama
Association)
Post-growth-economics: contributions
from ecological financial policy
Speakers: Ludewig, Damian (Forum Ökologisch-Soziale Marktwirtschaft (FÖS) e.V.)
Die Politik philosophiert derzeit gern in Sonntagsreden über qualitatives
statt quantitatives Wachstums, neue Lebensstile und eine Kultur der Genügsamkeit. Praktische Konsequenzen hat dies keine. Auch auf der Seite der
Wachstumskritiker mangelt es bisher meist an realpolitischen Ansätzen. Im
Workshop sollen daher Instrumente für konkrete politische Handlungsmöglichkeiten auf dem Weg in eine Postwachstumsökonomie diskutiert werden.
Language:DE
Speakers: Schirmer, Matthias (Zukunftsakademie Leipzig)
Language:DE
Ethify yourself and how to communicate good life
Speakers: Alton, Roland (FH Vorarlberg & ALLMENDA Social Business e.G.)
In this workshop we explore our resistance to economic degrowth from
a psychological viewpoint. Our medium is the sociodrama developed by
Moreno to bring about change within group dynamic. In the first session
we will map out both the internal/psychological factors and the external
players that determine how we can respond to organising society towards
degrowth.
TTransition initiatives worldwide are being faced with similar challenges:
beyond the need for active participants, they require various resources and
vital communication channels for their crowd and stakeholders. A typical
life cycle of a local initiative is enthusiasm, group-finding, resource allocation, common activities, rule setting, communication, building alliances
and sustainification. After looking at projects like „Ethify Yourself“ and „TALENTE Vorarlberg“ we will analyze your own initiative.
Language:EN
Performing. Change. Together 3/3
Language:EN
Common vision for social-ecological
alternatives
dance-pedagogue)
Speakers: Vidal, Malo (educational consultant), Kliemann, Christiane (freelance
journalist), Strötzel, Maximilian (sociologue)
This interactive workshop gives space for an open exchange between members of all groups, initiatives and organizations dealing with critique of the
current economic system and its transformation towards social-ecological
alternatives. Using connective communication tools, it focuses on mapping
out commonalities between the various actors in order to shape a common
vision for a broader movement which can represent and unite the different
backgrounds and perspectives.
Language:DE, EN
Language:DE, EN, FR
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05.09. | Fr
11am
Practice &
Activism
Transformation can be planned! Tools
for sustainable projects 1/2
Speakers: Müller, Florian (Dragon Dreaming Leipzig), Weimann, Carina (Dragon
Dreaming Leipzig)
Dragon Dreaming ist ein etabliertes Tool im Bereich partizipativer Projektgestaltung bei der Nachhaltigkeit, persönliches Wachstum und Gemeinschaftsbildung
als grundlegende Werte einfließen. Den Workshop-Teilnehmern werden konkrete Werkzeuge zur Entwicklung und Gestaltung von nachhaltigen Projekten auf
kooperativer Basis gegeben. Die Methoden legen ihren Schwerpunkt auf Schwarmintelligenz –Crowdsourcing – ,das gemeinsame Entwickeln von Ideen und Wissen und Intuition. Maximale Zahl an Teilnehmenden entspricht 20 Personen. Bitte 15
min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Language:DE
Edible forest gardens as a practical form of local economy
Practice &
Activism
Speakers: Rost, Norbert (Büro für postfossile Regionalentwicklung, Dresden)
180 und 150 Besucher kamen 2012 zu zwei Abenden namens “Dresden auf
Entzug – Wie funktioniert die Stadt ohne Öl?“. Die Abende boten Vorträge aber auch Interaktionen zwischen den Besuchern mit dem Ziel, in den
Städten die Notwendigkeit einer Ölwende zu thematisieren. Der Workshop
soll (angehenden) Organisator*innen helfen, aufbauend auf den Dresdner
Erfahrungen ein Veranstaltungskonzept für die eigene Stadt zu entwerfen
und umzusetzen.
Language:DE
Kunst-Stoffe - crafting with bicycle inner tubes
Speakers: Häger, Johanna (Permakultur Akademie)
Speakers: Hehl, Frauke (Kunststoffe Berlin e.V.)
Das Anlegen von Waldgärten und die Nutzung ihrer vielfältigen Ertragsformen ist praktisch gelebte Postwachstums-Ökonomie. Was ist ein Waldgarten? Welche Erträge hat er zu bieten? Wie lege ich ihn an? Und wie kann ich
und mein Umfeld davon profitieren? Nach einem theoretischen bis künstlerischen Einstieg der Wissensvermittlung möchte ich ein Feld der Erfahrung
öffnen und den Workshop mit einem gemeinsamen Waldgarten-Design und
dessen Umsetzung der Waldgarten-Idee in die Realität pflanzen.
Das Projekt Kunst-Stoffe, Zentralstelle für wiederverwendbare Materialien
stellt sich vor und gibt einen Überblick über ähnliche Initiativen weltweit
und anschließend einen Überblick zu Lastenradtypen und Lastenradselberbau. Dann werden die Teilnehmenden aktiv und basteln aus alten Fahrradschläuchen alltagsgebräuchliche Dinge rund ums Rad und Transportmobilität. Kinder (und alle) haben nebenbei die Möglichkeit, sich kleine
Fingerpuppen aus Fahrradschläuchen zu basteln.
Language:DE
Mindfulness and sufficiency
05.09. | Fr
11am
Your city on oil-withdrawal - Event
concept „Dresden on withdrawal“
Language:DE
Post-industrial quarters in Leipzig’s west as a
realm of local economy - a cultural heritage that
should be protected? Bike tour
Speakers: Halfmann, Tabea
Speakers: Dittrich, Kerstin, Poscher, Eric
„Achtsamkeit“ wird heute viel verwendet - ich meine hier die Fähigkeit,
im Hier und Jetzt zu sein, mich selbst und meine Umwelt wahrzunehmen,
eine innere Haltung von Wertschätzung, Dankbarkeit und Liebe zu entwickeln sowie ein Bewusstsein für die Interdependenz von allem. Achtsamkeit
ist ein möglicher Weg, echte Zufriedenheit und Freude zu erfahren - ohne
“mehr“ im Aussen haben zu müssen. Ich möchte einen Raum aufmachen,
sich dem Thema mit konkreten Achtsamkeitsübungen und im Austausch
zu nähern.
Currently and for the last 20 years Leipzig‘s West has been going through a
lot of changes: From an industrial area with 30000 industrial workers to a
vibrant field of urban development and social, local economy. This session
will take the form of an excursion across Leipzig‘s West and will give participants an insight into the areas development.
Everyone is asked to bring a bike. You can rent a bike for a small sum from the
nextbike station in Karl-Heine-Straße. Details concerning nextbike on page 85.
Max. no. of participants: 20. Meeting point: Erich-Köhn-Straße 63b, in front of
the shop „rad3“ (Alt-Lindenau)
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Child-friendly City Rally
Speakers: Richard-Elsner, Christiane (ABA Fachverband), Hable, Silvia (Degrowth
2014)
Unter dem Thema „Kinder auf dem Weg in eine Degrowth Gesellschaft“ soll
mit Kindern die Freundlichkeit Leipzigs selbst erlebbar gemacht werden. Wo
liegen Barrieren, die für uns unsichtbar sind? Welchen Zugang haben Kinder
schon heute zu Orten der Suffizienz? Wie und wo erleben sie sich als gestaltendes Subjekt? Die Ergebnisse tragen wir mit der Methode des kolletiven
Kartierungsprozesses gemeinsam auf einer großen Karten ein und werten
sie im Group-Assembly Prozess aus. Treffpunkt: Foyer, Ausgang Augustusplatz
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The Insect Hotel - theater for childen „Mimekry“
Speakers: Ewald, Sonja (Kindertheater Mimekry)
The Insect Hotel“ is a theatreperformance for children, which is about how
vegetables grow in a garden and about which insects and animals do help
us to grow food. It is a playful performance, a combination of story-telling,
physical theatre and mask-playing.
Ends: 12:00 Type: Artistical Event
Language:DE, EN
The food challenge. Struggling for just
and ecological food systems
Facilitator: Urhahn, Jan (INKOTA) • Speakers: Holt-Giménez, Eric (Food First)via
video, Schuler, Christiana (Tonndorfer Schlossmilch) , Benning, Reinhild (BUND),
N.N. (Via Campesina)
No matter who we are, we all share the need for food. Looking at the way food is
produced, treated and distributed, deficiencies become obvious. Considering the
interdependencies of our food system, the panel discusses how a decentralized
degrowth society can supply for this existential need. How can we ensure food
sovereignty without violating humans or nature? What could a food system look
like which contributes to the “good life for all” rather than the economic growth
of food companies and agrobusiness? Prepared by FoE Germany and INKOTA.
pzig 2014
Mobility for everyone – with less traffic
Facilitator: Leidig, Sabine (MdB / MP, LINKE) • Speakers: Kayemba, Patrick (EURIST
Uganda), Klingler-Lauer, Maggie (S21-Protests), Wolf, Winfried, Dr. (journalist)
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
A worldwide energy revolution?
Today individual mobility is organized mainly to benefit transnational companies. Consequences are the destruction of the climate and the local environment, intensified competition between business locations and increasing social inequality. Gigantic infrastructure projects are sponsored, while
public mobility falls behind. Covering distances or moving goods is difficult
in many places. Developments in transportation and the growth drivers,
contradictions and protests as well as alternatives are discussed in this panel. Prepared jointly with Sabine Leidig.
Facilitator: Netzer, Nina (FES) • Speakers: Skinner, Lara, Dr. (Global Labour Institute), Acosta, Alberto (scientist & politician, Ecuador), Kaudia, Alice (MoE, Kenya)
(angefragt)
The extensive use of dirty energy sources causes severe environmental and
social damages while 2,7 billion people have no access to modern energy supplies. Further, the current energy system – including renewable energies – often leads to the exploitation of workers and people, especially in the Global
South. A global energy transformation has to be organized in a democratic,
bottom-up way, where all stakeholders, especially from the Global South and
local communities, are included. In this panel (pre-)conditions for an energy
transformation are discussed. Prepared jointly with the FES and schwarzweiss
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Post-growth society: How to get there
Track: General
Language:EN
Citizens vs markets: Rethinking the
economy in a time of crises
Speakers: Ulvila, Marko (Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam Network, Finland), Gupta, Pawan
(Society for Integrated Himalayan Development, India), Gupta, Leena (Society for Promotion of Wasteland Development, India), Pathak, Bhuwan (Himalaya Niti Samwad,
India), Bakshi, Rajni (Gateway House, India), Pratap, Vijay (South-Asian Dialogues for
Ecological Democracy, India), van der Wekken, Ruby (Finnish Solidarity Economy Network, Finland)
Can we leave behind the growth obsession? How to move on to a society
that meets everybody’s needs in an environmentally sustainable way? What
can we learn from Gandhi and contemporary struggles of marginalised
majorities for the needed transformations? How to address the politics of
knowledge democracy?
Facilitator: Demaria, Federico (R&D) • Speakers: Fioramonti, Lorenzo, Prof. Dr.
(Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation), Demaria, Federico (R&D), D‘Alisa,
Giacomo (R&D), Cattaneo, Claudio, Dr. (R&D), Greenham, Tony (nef, Transition Network)
Track: General
Language:DE, EN
Technology and Degrowth Part 2:
Practical Cases
Facilitator: Wächter, Petra, Dr. (Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences) • Speakers: Pansera, Mario (University of Exeter, UK), Wächter,
Petra, Dr. (Institute of Technology Assessment of the Austrian Academy of Sciences),
Immendoerfer, Andrea (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Winkelmann, Markus
(ITAS), Waitz, Colette (ITAS)
L. Fioramonti: Accountability, Democracy, and Post-growth: Civil Society Rethinking Political Economy and Finance // F. Demaria, G. D‘Alisa & C.
Cattaneo : Civil and Uncivil Actors for a Degrowth Society // T. Greenham:
Rethinking the Role of the Economy and Financial Markets
Track: Science
Language:EN
05.09. | Fr
2:30 pm
Realizing needs and a high quality of
life in a degrowth society
General
Science
Facilitator: Rauschmayer, Felix, Dr. (UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research) •
Speakers: Omann, Ines, Dr. (UFZ Leipzig), Centgraf, Salina (Helmholtz Centre for
Environmental Research), Rauschmayer, Felix, Dr. (UFZ - Centre for Environmental
Research), Guillen, Monica (University of Oslo)
Mario Pansera: The social construction of green and social inclusive technological discourses in the Global South: Evidence from India and Bangladesh // Petra Wächter: Energy technologies and their impact on a degrowth
society // Andrea Immendoerfer, Markus Winkelmann, and Colette Waitz:
Reducing Energy Dependence at Urban Scale as an Aspect of Degrowth
Ines Omann: THANCS – a process to address tensions that emerge in/with a transition towards sustainable development // Salina Centgraf: Human Scale Development – the case of energy cooperatives // Felix Rauschmayer: How degrowth
can improve life quality: Using NonViolent Communication // Monica Guillen:
Economic growth and human needs satisfaction across-socio economic groups
in Peru. An illustration using the Human Scale Development Approach
Track: Science
Language:EN
Track: Science
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Degrowth as a concrete utopia: Perspectives, chances, obstacles
Facilitator: Muraca, Barbara (DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften), Petridis,
Panos (Universität Klagenfurt), Zografos, Cristof, Dr. (ICTA UAB) • Speakers: Kallis,
Giorgos, Prof. Dr. (R&D), Goepel, Maja, Dr. (Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt,
Energie GmbH), Laville, Jean-Louis, Armiero, Marco, Varvarousis, Aggelos
Facilitator: Gladkykh, Ganna, Bakhanova, Elena
Plenary and small group discussion workshop. // This session addresses
chances and risks dwelling in the idea of degrowth as a ‚concrete utopia‘
and explores paths for societal transformation along Gorz‘ ‚non-reformist
reform‘. A non-reformistic reform implies a modification of the relations of
power, structural reforms, and also addresses socio-cultural patterns, thus
reminding of Bloch‘s idea of a ‚concrete utopia‘.
Participatory modelling // Economic downscaling will cause an increase in
unemployment rates. It will negatively influence social welfare system and
it also may intensify poverty. The proponents of degrowth suggest several
measures. One of the measures is to reduce working hours in a paid sector.
The objective of this participatory modelling session is to enhance an active
and constructive discussion on the topic between participants. An expected
final outcome of the session is a qualitative cause-and-effect model which
can be used as a communication tool for further discussion.
Open for 10-12 participants.
Track: Science
Track: Science
From socio-ecological struggles to Sumak Kawsay (buen vivir)
Speakers: Gallardo, Lucía (ICTA - UAB), Altmann, Philipp (FU Berlin), Radhuber, Isabella (Vienna University)
Lucía Gallardo Fierro - „Sumak Kawsay and degrowth: Towards new struggles against extractive development“ (full paper) // Philipp Altmann - „Good
life between buen vivir and Sumak Kawsay – Indicators of a political concept in Ecuador“ (short paper) // Isabella Radhuber - „Economic growth and
socio-ecological struggles in Bolivia“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Bottom up transformation: Grassroots,
practices, and communities
Macroeconomics of Degrowth III
Facilitator: Bonaiuti, Mauro, Dr. (decrescita) • Speakers: Saes, Beatriz (UNICAMP),
Kerschner, Christian, Dr. (R&D), Aoki, Hidekazu (Nagoya City University), Briens,
François (Ecole des Mines ParisTech), Maïzi, Nadia, Prof.
Beatriz Saes - „Ecological macroeconomics: A critical review“ (short paper)
// Christian Kerschner - „The relevance of the phenomenon of peak-oil for
the degrowth paradigm“ (short paper) // Hidekazu Aoki - „The ultimate dilemma for artificial capitals: Ever scarcer natural resources claim ever larger
artificial capital“ (short paper) // François Briens & Nadia Maïzi - „Prospective modeling for degrowth: Investigating macroeconomic scenarios for
France“ (short paper)
Track: Science
Language:EN
Social & solidarity economy
Speakers: Baptista, Gualter, Dr. (Degrowth 2014), Cattaneo, Claudio, Dr. (R&D),
Betz, Gregor (TU Dortmund), Seibt, Alexandra (Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie)
Facilitator: Brugvin, Thierry, Dr. • Speakers: Apostolidi, Catherine, Serlavós, Mònica
(NORRAG - UNRISD), Boccato-Franco, Alan (Brazilian Degrowth Network), Nascimento, Elimar
Gualter Baptista - „Learning and building knowledge for degrowth: communities of practice and peer production across scales and beyond roles“
(sp) // Claudio Cattaneo - „Eco-communities: Implementing degrowth from
the grassroots“ (sp) // Gregor Betz - „Serious pleasure. Motivation in funemphasising social movements“ (sp) // Alexandra Seibt - „Acceptance of mobile phone return programmes for Increased resource efficiency by young
people—Experiences from a German research project“ (sp)
Catherine Apostolidi - „Is there still no alternative? Self-management in the
context of social and solidarity economy: a comparative approach between
two case studies of self-management in France (Fralib) and Greece (VioMe)“
(short paper) // Mònica Serlavós - „Social and solidarity economy (SSE) as a
transitional path towards a degrowth society“ (short paper) // Alan BoccatoFranco & Elimar Nascimento - „Solidarity economy in Brazil and degrowth:
Is it possible a common platform of action and discourse?“ (full paper)
05.09. | Fr
2:30 pm
Science
Practice &
Activism
Working hours reduction as a part of
degrowth agenda
Track: Science
Language:EN
Drivers and strategies for societal
transformation
Facilitator: N.N. • Speakers: Graaf, Lisa (FU Berlin), Turnbull, Shann, Dr. (International Institute for Self-governance), Hoogendyk, Willem
Track: Science
Language:EN
Towards democratic and global just
resource policy
Speakers: Reckordt, Michael (Power Shift)
Lisa Graaf - „Gesellschaftliche Transformationen: Gegenstände, treibende
Kräfte und Steuerungsmöglichkeiten“ (full paper) // Shann Turnbull - „Strategies for promoting a sustainable de-growth society“ (full paper) // Willem
Hoogendyk - „Plea for a flexible economy“ (short paper)
In this workshop we want to discuss the consequences of the unsustainable
and unequal policies concerning primary commodities in Germany and Europe. On the one hand consequences in the Global South and / or in Europe
are presented. Furthermore solutions and a way out shell be shown. Care of
human rights are part of it as well as debates on a sustainable consumption
of raw materials in Germany.
Begins: 14.30 Room: HS 4
Ends: 16.30 Type: Discussion Workshop
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Track: Science
Language:EN
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Constructing solidary textile chains in
southern and northern Europe
Care, ecological and social aspects of
reproduction
Speakers: Müller-Plantenberg, Clarita, Prof. Dr. (Forum Solidarische Ökonomie e.V.),
Barras, Beatrice (Solidarische Textilkette Ardelaine, Ardèche), Strasheim-Weitz,
Walter (Hanffaser Uckermark eG)
Speakers: Pühl, Katharina (Rosa-Luxemburg Stiftung Berlin), Gottschlich, Daniela
(Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Katz, Christine, Dr. (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg), Roth, Stephanie (DIVERSU e.V.)
Deindustrialisierung bei uns und unmenschliche Arbeitsverhältnisse in anderen Teilen der Welt sind zwei Seiten ein und derselben Münze. Die Rohstoffe unserer Regionen wurden entweder nicht mehr produziert oder aber
nicht mehr veredelt. Der Aufbau Solidarischer Textilketten geht von den
Menschen aus, die eine sinnvolle selbstverwaltete Arbeit suchen und regionale Potentiale ihrer Regionen nachhaltig nutzen wollen. Lernend zu einem
Europäischen Solidarischen Band beitragen ist der Weg.
We want to connect perspectives of social-ecological and feminist approaches with social reproduction and care (for humans and nature). On the
basis of critical concepts we want to discuss the connection and we want
to think about how to spread this knowledge in the general public and how
to link it.
Target group: scientists, activists, advanced people
Language:DE, FR
Capitalism, growth and reification vs. concrete utopia, degrowth and recognition
Language:DE
Teaching Degrowth?
Speakers: Krönkvist, Rodrigo (Décroissance Basel)
Speakers: Rui Montez
Aim of the workshop is to give a short introduction on the link between
reification, growth and Capitalism and to discuss possible ways out of the
“reification trap” of Capitalism. How can we build ways that lead away from
the dictatorship of exchange value over use-value? How can we picture and
maybe build a concrete utopia beyond reification and Capitalism? How can
we win back our own and our collective subjectivity and turn towards an
era of conviviality and mutual recognition of humans, animals and nature?
Workshop on methods and experience of discussing degrowth in educational contexts.
Language:EN
Diverging concepts of nature and human well-being - from theory to action
Speakers: Gerstetter, Christiane (Ecologic Institute), Kaphengst, Timo (Ecologic Institute)
In this project we investigate a wide range of concepts of the human – “nature” relationship and how, in these concepts, nature/biodiversity are related to well-being. Hence, we compare concepts of biodiversity and nature
from the global South and indigenous peoples with those more instrumental understandings that currently prevail in environmental policies. We will
also look at the implications that the at least partial ignorance of traditional
forms of knowledge and attitudes towards nature and biodiversity has in
(official) development cooperation.
Language:EN
What could a convivial organisation
look like? The Otherwise Club
Language:EN
Post-growth business made real
Speakers: Lübbermann, Uwe (Premium Cola)
The company or rather network of premium-cola has proven that a different
kind of business is possible over the past twelve years: co-deciding on every
issue with possibly every stakeholder, including the consumers, with consensus democracy. By doing so, we also developed several post-commercial,
slow-entrepreneurship and degrowth habits. My talk will hopefully illustrate how easy it can be to redo the so-called normal business to a grandchildsuitable and slow post-growth form.
Language:EN
05.09. | Fr
2:30 pm
Permanent Utopian Spaces
Practice &
Activism
Speakers: Barson, Leslie (The Otherwise Club)
Speakers: Sanpetreanu, Dan (The Permanent Culture Club)
The Otherwise Club, a community centre for home educating families in
central London, calls itself an Invitational Learning Community. The club
provides a space which invites members to use it to do any activity they
wish or do nothing at all. After a short talk about this organisation it is hoped, through discussion, these ideas can be extended and expanded.
„The Permanent Culture Club is constructed as a utopian urban space. Utopian not in the sense of an ideal non-existing space, but in the sense of the
eutopian space, the good space where fundamentally good things happen.
In this experimental space, community building processes are combined
with the ethos of downshifting and permaculture, in the creation of a permanent culture that puts at good use gift economy and ecological spirituality.“
Language:EN
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Permaculture - Designing projects for
Degrowth
Speakers: Gustack Delambre, Mildred (Nova Oikos)
Speakers: Spash, Clive, Prof. Dr. (WU)
The program of this workshop contains a brief presentation of Permaculture and exemples of Permaculture projects in Brazil and Europe. The objective is to give insights of the Permaculture Design Tools and Principles to
any project related to Degrowth. We will form working groups to discuss
one study-case each, and from the Degrowrh perspective, try to search solutions based on Permaculture.
The German Association for Ecological Economics awards the Kapp Prize in
memory of the economist Karl William Kapp („The Social Costs of Business
Enterprise“, 1950) to young scientists for applied research in Ecological Economics. The call 2014 was under the theme „Economy without Growth“. Today three outstanding studies are awarded, which deal with the emergence
of the growth dogma, future-proof businesses and being(s) in alternative
normalities.
Language:EN
Common-based peer production with potential
for another economy (Écommoný )
Track: General
Language:DE
generations 3/3
Speakers: Habermann, Friederike, Dr. (author)
Unter ´Postwachstum´verstehen viele, wir müssten von allem nur etwas
weniger machen. Dadurch wird aber nicht die ökonomische Wachstumsdynamik außer Kraft gesetzt. Jüngere Ansätze alternativen Wirtschaftens
entsprechen den Prinzipien der ćommons-based peer production´: ´Besitz
statt Eigentum´, ´Teile, was du kannst´, ´Beitragen statt Tauschen´ sowie
Óffenheit und freie Kooperation´ - ein ökonomischer Ansatz, der nicht auf
Konkurrenz aufbaut, sondern auf struktureller Gemeinschaftlichkeit.
von einer anderen Gesellschaft, angefangen bei Befreiungskämpfen über Umwelt- und Frauenbewegungen bis hin zu neueren Erscheinungen bspw. der AntiÜberwachungs-Proteste. Sie eint das Problem, dass Errungenschaften verteidigt
werden müssen. An jedem Konferenztag werden Menschen eingeladen, die sich
seit langem für die Ideale der Postwachstumsbewegung einsetzen um jungen
Menschen zu berichten, sodass sie sich selbst für ihre Zukunft einsetzen können.
Die Namen der eingeladenen Gäste werden vor der Konferenz online gestellt. Max. 25
Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Language:DE
Finding sustainable solutions for increasing landuse conflicts
Language:DE
The idea of a „worldwide individual basic income“
as a way to a post-growth society
Speakers: Hildmann, Christian (BUND), Scheibler, Uwe (BUND)
Speakers: Grünberg, Frederik (Degrowth 2014)
Die Konkurrenz im Umweltraum verschärft sich sowohl hierzulande als
auch global. Ursächlich sind wachsende materielle Ansprüche wie der weiter steigende Anteil an Siedlungs- und Verkehrsflächen oder der Ausbau der
erneuerbaren Energien. In der Folge werden die Flächennutzungen intensiviert und damit Belastbarkeit und // Regenerationsfähigkeit des Naturhaushaltes gefährdet. Wir wollen die bisherigen Ansätze des BUND vorstellen
und am konkreten Beispiel diskutieren. Wie können nachhaltige Lösungen
aussehen?
In einer Diskussionsrunde will ich mein Konzept der “Weltweiten Individuellen Grundsicherung“ vorstellen und vor allem auf den Fakt eingehen,
dass Geld in Form von Kapital keine reellen Werte mehr schafft, aber das es
viele zerstört: 1. Der Wert eines angstfreien Wohnraums. 2. Der Wert einer
körperlichen Entwicklung. 3. Der Wert des Lebens (Würde) eines Menschen.
4. Der Wert einer geistigen Entwicklung des Menschen. 5. Der Wert einer
menschlichen Gemeinschaft.
05.09. | Fr
2:30 pm
Practice &
Activism
General
Karl William Kapp Research Award for
Ecological Economics
Language:DE
Democratic education - Schools with
human beings
Speakers: Ebenbeck, Hendrik (Freie Schule Leipzig)
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Micropractices of sufficiency - own stories of success and failure
Speakers: Wegener, Henrike (Impuls - Agentur für angewandte Utopien), Krause,
Johannes (Impuls - Agentur für angewandte Utopien)
Seit mehr als 20 Jahren machen wir eine Schule, in der die Schüler selbst
bestimmen können, was und wie sie lernen. Es gibt keinen Pflichtunterricht
und keine Noten. Der Umgang ist geprägt von Vertrauen, Respekt, Kommunikation und Freiheit. Unsere Entwicklungsschwerpunkte sind Nachhaltigkeit, Demokratie und Inklusion. Damit sind wir eine Schule, die sich aktiv
mit den Herausforderungen unserer Zeit auseinandersetzt. Unsere Erfahrungen auf diesem Weg möchten wir gern mit anderen teilen.
Language:DE
Language:DE
Wer ist schuld am Wachstumsdogma? Wir alle. Wachstum, Wettbewerb,
Leistungsdenken und Ego-Zentrismus gehören zum Kern unserer westlichen
Kultur. Impuls sammelt während der Degrowth-Konferenz Geschichten des
Gelingens und des Scheiterns auf dem Weg in eine neue Kultur der Suffizienz. Im Workshop werden wir einige der gesammelten Mikrogeschichten
erzählen und die Teilnehmenden ermutigen, ihre eigenen Geschichten zu
teilen.
Language:DE
Let‘s go to a post-growth society! Social changes
as an intergenerational question
On the way to a post-growth society
with sustainable activism
Speakers: Akhzarati, Djamilah (Eltern wachsen mit ihren Kindern)
Speakers: Luthmann, Timo (imagine communication)
Ist die Vision einer nicht mehr wachsenden Wirtschaft in Verbindung mit einer Gesellschaft, die ein gutes Leben für alle Menschen ermöglicht, eine, die
generationenübergreifend geteilt wird? Oder treibt der Wunsch nach gesellschaftlicher und wirtschaftlicher Transformation nur uns Junge um? Wie
entwickeln wir gesamtgesellschaftliche Visionen? Diesen Fragen wollen wir
uns in unserem Beitrag widmen. // Max. 20 Teilnehmende. Bitte 15 min. vor
Workshopbeginn erscheinen.
Wenn wir uns auf dem Weg zu einer Postwachstumsgesellschaft machen
brauchen wir einen langen Atem. Doch wie nachhaltig organisieren und leben wir gerade eigentlich? Wie schaffen wir es, selbst beim streiten, engagieren und aufbauen einer suffizienten und gerechteren Gesellschaft nicht
auf der Strecke zu bleiben? Auf diese Fragen möchte das Konzept vom nachhaltigen Aktivismus mit langfristige Strategien für soziale und ökologische
Veränderung antworten.
Language:DE
Research + innovation = growth? Funding between
Humboldt and New Public Management
Language:DE
tech.cross_ing.degrowth - a transferable learning and teaching session
Speakers: Anders, Christina
Speakers: Mehling, Melinda (Blue Engineering Gruppe)
Ziel der Veranstaltung ist es, Ideen zu entwickeln, wie Wissenschaft unabhängig vom Wachstumsdogma gefördert werden kann. Durch europäische
und nationale Förderprogramme werden Themen zunehmend generiert
und zur „“Erforschung““ ausgeschrieben. Durch die thematische Lenkung
werden strategische Impulse zur Steigerung der Wettbewerbsfähigkeit gesetzt. Sind alternativen Finanzierungsmodelle in das bestehende System
implementierbar oder bedarf es einer grundlegenden Reform des Wissenschaftsbetriebs?
Dieser Workshop ermöglicht den Teilnehmenden eine interaktive Auseinandersetzung mit den Schwierigkeiten einer wachstumsgetriebenen Gesellschaft und den Möglichkeiten von Wachstumsrücknahme in den fünf
Themenfeldern Technik, Arbeit, Leben und Konsum, Ökonomie und Politik.
Nach einer Entscheidung für eines der Themenfelder durchlaufen Teilnehmende dazu in Kleingruppen je ein interaktives Modul. Die ausführliche
Moduldokumentation ermöglicht Lehrenden die Weitergabe des erfahrenen
Wissens.
Language:DE
The future is in our heads, let us act it
out! Political Sociodrama 2/2
Speakers: Scholz, Dietmar (Universität Leipzig), Wiener, Ron (British Psychodrama
Association)
Active participants of this workshop need to attend the first session in the
morning to prepare the sociodrama. In the afternoon we will enact our
walk towards the era of degrowth in a dramatic play. While struggling with
other players we may identify barriers in our heads that have prevented us
from bringing about change in our lives and find out that our activity makes
a difference. As a group we will reflect on our transformation and how we
can adopt it in our personal lives.
Language:EN
Land is a common - practical ways
against speculation
Language:DE
Sufficiency - learning from nature
based on authentic movement
Speakers: Corn, Ula (DanceArtistBerlinMenorca)
AUTHENTIC MOVEMENT or Moving from within is essentially the work
shared by a mover moving in space seen by a witness. The mover works
with eyes closed in order to expand her experience of listening to the deeper
levels of her kinesthetic reality - bringing a specific quality of attention or
presence to the experience of the mover. The attitude of the witness toward
the mover is nurturing, protective; the witness honors the mover‘s dependency on her and understands its value.
Language:DE, EN
05.09. | Fr
2:30 pm
Transformation can be planned! Tools
for sustainable projects 2/2
Practice &
Activism
Speakers: Novy-Huy, Rolf (Stiftung Trias), Heise, Hannes (Wagenplatz Scherbelburg;
Haus- und WagenRat Leipzig)
Speakers: Müller, Florian (Dragon Dreaming Leipzig), Weimann, Carina (Dragon
Dreaming Leipzig)
Das deutsche „Syndikat-Modell“ wendet sich gegen jede Form privaten
Immobilieneigentums. Häuser sollten Ihren Mietern gehören, niemandem
sonst. Das Ziel sind autonome, selbstorganisierte Projekte mit niedriger
Miete. Die Stiftung trias konzentriert sich auf die Land-Frage. Erbbaurechtsverträge verhindern die Spekulation. Die Projekte können in jedweder
Rechtsform umgesetzt werden. Der Erbbauzins soll an die Gesellschaft zurückfließen. Was ist der bessere Weg um das gewünschte Ziel zu erreichen?
Dragon Dreaming ist ein etabliertes Tool im Bereich partizipativer Projektgestaltung bei der Nachhaltigkeit, persönliches Wachstum und Gemeinschaftsbildung als grundlegende Werte einfließen. Den Workshop-Teilnehmern werden konkrete Werkzeuge zur Entwicklung und Gestaltung von
nachhaltigen Projekten auf kooperativer Basis gegeben. Die Methoden legen
ihren Schwerpunkt auf Schwarmintelligenz –Crowdsourcing – ,das gemeinsame Entwickeln von Ideen und Wissen und Intuition.
Language:DE
Language:DE
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Garbage as a matter of definition
Speakers: Kellerhoff, Simone (Material Mafia), von Helldorff, Katja (Material Mafia)
Speakers: Pabst, Sabine (Stadtbauernhof Leipzig)
Müll ist eine Defintionssache - denn er kann auch eine Schatztruhe sein!
„Müll“ ist eigentlich sehr vielfältig, es beschreibt auch viele Sachen, die sauber, neuwertig, originell und brauchbar sind. Material Mafia zeigt Wege,
Müll als Ressource zu verstehen und in einen neuen Nutzungskreislauf zu
bringen. Mit ein wenig Kreativität können aus sauberen Abfällen tolle, neue
Gegenstände entstehen. Dabei kann das Ergebnis sowohl einen künstlerischen als auch einen funktionalen Aspekt zeigen. In diesem Workshop zeigt
die Material Mafia den Teilnehmenden wie aus Plastiktüten Matten entstehen oder aus Tetrapacks Sitzhocker werden.
Es sind genügend materielle Werte auf der Welt vorhanden. Diese sollten
solange wie möglich im Stoffkreislauf erhalten werden. Ich möchte vermitteln, wie mit Hilfe von Effektiven Mikroorganismen fast bis vollständig auf
Chemikalien in Haushalt und Gartenbau verzichtet werden kann. Organische Rückstände aus Küche, Haushalt und dem eigenen Körper werden zu
hochwertigen Ausgangsstoffen für die Humusbildung aufbereitet. Veranstaltung findet im Gemeinschaftsgarten ANNALINDE statt, Lützner Straße 108.
Language:DE
Collecting Herbs in an urban garden
Speakers: Neumann, Martina (Ökolöwe - Umweltbund Leipzig), Swieder, Julia (Ökolöwe - Umweltbund Leipzig)
Der Stadtgarten Connewitz ist ein ökologischer Schau- und Bildungsgarten.
Im Workshop können Wildkräuter im Garten gesammelt und alte Gemüsesorten bestaunt werden. Deren Nutzen für uns als Heilkräuter und Nahrungsmittel und ihre Bedeutung für die heimische Tierwelt werden aufgezeigt. Anschließend bereiten wir Kräuterquark für ein gemeinsames Essen
im Garten zu.
Bei Regen fällt die Veranstaltung aus. Stadtgarten: Kohrener Str. Ecke Burgstädter. Anmeldung: [email protected]
Language:DE
Leipzig - close to nature
Language:DE
Educational tour in the West of Leipzig
Speakers: McNeil, Nadine (Autodidaktische Initiative Leipzig)
The autodidactic initiative (ADI) - a plaform for free education, philosophy
and intervention in Leipzig - opens the doors. We invite you to get to know
the place, the concept and people. ADI is an actor in a self-organised network that supports structures for a better society.
Meeting point: ADI (Georg-Schwarz Str. 19)
Language:DE, EN
You are here. A Mindful Walk Through
Consumption
Speakers: Niedorf, Marco (Ökolöwe - Umweltbund Leipzig)
Artist: Wesser, Diana
Der Leipziger Auwald bietet einer Fülle von Pflanzen- und Tierarten natürlichen Lebensraum und dient sowohl der Verbesserung des Kleinklimas als
auch als Rückhalteraum bei Überschwemmungen. Gemeinsam mit unseren
Umweltpädagog_innen erkunden die Teilnehmer_innen der Konferenz den
Auwald. Dabei wird vor allem der Wald als Lebensraum für Tiere und Pflanzen sowie unser Umgang mit diesem Naturraum Thema sein.
Der Treffpunkt ist an der Haltestelle Koburger Str., Straßenbahn Linie 9 Richtung
Markkleeberg West.
The walk investigates the shopping worlds of the inner city of Leipzig. Different ways of moving can change our perceptions creating a heightened sense of awareness for the present moment. The city becomes a stage where
participants discover everyday performances and different characteristics
of the urban environment by exploring a variety of sense perceptions. It is
an immersive physical experience in which participants can navigate both
as observers and performers.
Meeting Point: Universitätsstraße
05.09. | Fr
from 2:30
Practice &
Activism
Art
Effective Microoganisms - Little helpers
in the garden and the household
Language:DE
The Game
Track: Art
Language:EN
What the Ego can learn from the Self? (independent learning)
Artists: Baumann, Hannah; Hildbrand, Mirjam
Artist: Schäfer, Julia; Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst
This performance invites you to rethink the given and play with variants of
reality. The participants are pawns in the game and challenge each other in
groups. While the game is just for fun, it develops its own serious nature,
and a lot of things can happen in the gravitiy of the situation! The Game is
about underlying ideas, being human, games, fun, seriousness and possibilities. Come and play!
A production of Hannah Baumann and Miriam Hildbrand in cooperation with
Werkstattmacher e. V. and LOFFT – DAS THEATER. Supported by Leipzig Kulturamt.
To deliberate the impossible! By exploring, testing and rejecting, the artistic works abandon habitual trains of thought. They experiment, create and
balance at the limits of the possible. The exhibition invites you to choose
paths of self-awareness that in the end ideally lead to new thoughts and
behaviours that deviate from ones everyday life.
Begins: 14:30 Room: Lobby Audimax (outside)
Begins: 15:00 Room: Galerie für zeitgen. Kunst
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Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Guided tour through the exhibition
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
(Part III)
Artist: Elicabe, Oriana (enmedio)
registration.
Track: Art
Language:EN
GAP Assembly II
GAP Assembly I
groups.
Track: General
Language:EN
GAP working groups
groups.
The working groups are part of the Group Assembly Process (GAP), an outcome-oriented three-day working process among practitioners, scientists,
artists, activists and decision-makers of the degrowth movement. In order
to participate in one of the working groups it is necessary to register for the
GAP. Please see page 10 for a detailed description
Begins: 17:30 Room: S 303-S 329
Track: General
Language:EN
Open Space
Track: General
Language:EN
Open Space to identify barriers and new pathways for sustainability transitions
In a joint project between the Leuphana University of Lüneburg and Consideo we have developed a comprehensive qualitative “Integrated Assessment
Model” to gain a deeper understanding of the synergies and conflicts within
the transformation towards a more sustainable society. With a methodology described as the KNOW WHY Method the facilitators of groups systematically ask WHY something is. We will apply this approach to the concepts
and practices of degrowth. We may use all three days.
Begins: 17:00 Room: everywhere
Track: General
Language:yours
Energy sufficiency - Participatory Design Workshop (Part III)
Artists: Miriam Lahusen (design research lab, UdK), Sirkka Jacobsen (ifeu)
researching, creative documentation and qualitative interpretation. // Participation only with registration
Track: Art
Language:DE
Language:EN
The Waiting Room
Artists: Diego Agulló, Peter Stamer, Clement Layes, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Lukas Bugiel, Friendly Fire, Sylvia Kadur, Julia Lemmle, Maix Mayer, Anna Peschke, Angelika
Waniek
A waiting room and a reception, forms and questionnaires. You sit and wait
until you are asked to enter one of the surrounding rooms. What happens in
there? You might meet an advisor or a visionary, find yourself in an intimate
conversation with a stranger, enter the public sphere or a world of fiction,
alone or with others. Ten artists open a space for encountering people with
the topics of the conference. They play with social rules, communication
and deception and always lead the visitors back to the place where it all
began: The Waiting Room. Therefore bring along some time until it says
again: Next please!
Begins: 17:00 Room: Haus 27
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
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05.09. | Fr
5pm
Practice &
Activism
Art
General
TAF! Spreading of ideas and creating
frictions! Multiplicators needed!
Artist: Elicabe, Oriana (enmedio)
Facilitator: Paternoga, Dagmar (attac) • Speakers: Liegey, Vincent (A Degrowth Project),
Rätz, Werner (attac Deutschland), Appel, Margit (Kath. Sozialakademie Österreich)
For three days logics of growth were detected and ideas of how to disturb
them were collected in the photographic-action-workshop of enmediomember and artivist Oriana Elicabe. Now it is time to spread the ideas! To
scatter or stick them somewhere! Come and get an insight into the process
of developing the ideas and help distribute them in joint action!
Begins: 19:00 Room: S 214, public space
Ends: 20:00 Type: Intervention
Track: Art
Language:EN
Politics of sufficiency vs counterculture
The essentials of the idea of an unconditional basic income are clearly related to a degrowth society. A basic income provides autonomy for people and
opens the opportunity for individuals to reduce extrinsic motivated labor.
This could provoke an emancipatory degrowth society. Recent thoughts
within the degrowth movement relate the idea to a massive expansion of
infrastructure that allows autonomy by non monetary benefits. Less danger
of ongoing needless consumption? Less emancipation as well?
Prepared jointly with the German Network for a Basic Income.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, FR
Scenarios for a post-growth economy
Facilitator: Humburg, Anja (journalist) • Speakers: Welzer, Harald, Prof. Dr. (Futur
II), Schneidewind, Uwe, Prof. Dr. (Wuppertal Institut / VÖW)
Facilitator: Lange, Steffen (Konzeptwerk) • Speakers: Paech, Niko, apl. Prof. Dr. (University of Oldenburg), Spash, Clive, Prof. Dr. (WU)
The German discourse on Postwachstum is strongly linked with the third strategy of sustainability: sufficiency. But whereas some authors point out the effective
instruments and responsibility of politics to facilitate sufficient lifestyles, others
rely on the driving force of grassroot innovations and movement for a cultural
transformation from an expansive to a reductive modernity. In this discussion,
two exponents of the different positions in Germany - Uwe Schneidewind and
Harald Welzer - are brought together. Prepared by the Vereinigung für Ökologische
Ökonomie (VÖÖ) in cooperation with FoE Leipzig.
Niko Paech: An Introduction to Post-growth Economics // Clive Spash: A Future Social Ecological Economy: Reality-Transformation-Utopia
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Reconsidering the good life as a political project
Facilitator: Rauschmayer, Felix, Dr. (UFZ - Centre for Environmental Research) •
Speakers: Calestani, Melania (University of Southampton), O‘Neill, John (University
of Manchester)
Speakers: Bonaiuti, Mauro (Autor)
Book presentation and discussion of „The Great Transition“ by and with
Mauro Bonaiuti.
More information in the online programme
Track: Science
Language:EN
05.09. | Fr Speakers: Hummel, Agata
from 7 pm
Track: Science
Language:EN
Book presentation: The Great Transition
Melania Calestani: The project of ‘Vivir bien’ in Bolivia
John O‘Neill: Consumption, well-being and growth
Book presentation: Food for Change
Art
General
Science
Unconditional Basic Autonomy by income or infrastructure?
Track: General
Language:EN
Book presentation: Gut Leben: eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums.
Speakers: Muraca, Barbara (Autorin)
Book presentation and discussion of „Food for change“ by Peter Luetchford
and Jeffrey Pratt, with Agata Hummel.
Book presentation and discussion of the German book „Gut Leben: eine Gesellschaft jenseits des Wachstums.“ by and with Barbara Muraca.
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Track: General
Language:EN
Track: General
Language:DE
Book presentation: The Village Against
the World
Book presentation: Apokalypse jetzt!
Speakers: Hancox, Dan (Autor)
Speakers: Taubert, Greta (Autorin)
Book presentation and discussion of „The Village Against the World“ by and
with Dan Hancox
Book presentation and discussion of the German book „Apokalypse jetzt!“
by and with Greta Taubert
Track: General
Language:EN
Award ceremony of the „Sukuma
Award – Leipzig“ 2014
Facilitator: Verein Sukuma arts e.V.
The winning spot of the ‘Sukuma Award’ will be premiered today. The Sukuma Award is a special competition for cinema spots which is open to the
public. Participants submit concepts for movies, and the best entry is professionally produced with celebrity support. The award focuses on different
global sustainability topics each year, with this year’s theme being creative
approaches to using electronics. The premiere will be followed by a screening of “Blood in the Mobile”, a moving documentary.
Track: General
Language:DE
Track: General
Language:DE
Short film walking tour
Join in for a stroll through the city of Leipzig. Equipped with a projector,
sound system, generator and short films the short film tour starts in the
court of the university. On the way through the city gray facades are animated with scintillating pictures and empty streets are filled with moving
thoughts. One short film on each wall, moving from one wall to the next,
roam through the night of Leipzig. With support of Mauerstreifen Leipzig
und curatorial advice of Luc-Carolin Ziemann.
Begins: 21:30 Room: Meetingpoint: Universitätsstr.Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Music!
turn the volume up at the Degrowth conference! Listen and let go, dance
and party, music that creates atmosphere and changes space, quiet or loud,
pleasant or off-the-wall. There will be concerts in the daytime and in the
evenings on the campus. More information to be found in the programme.
Begins: 21:00 Room: Innenhof
Track: Art
Language:
05.09. | Fr
from 8pm
General
Art
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Programme | Saturday | 06.09. | Closing Day
Day 5 – Saturday 6.9.
Closing Day
Closing morning - reports: What happened?
Closing Plenary: How do we move on?
Facilitator: Vetter, Andrea (Degrowth 2014/ HU Berlin) • Speakers: Kallis, Giorgos,
Prof. Dr. (R&D), Laumanns, Christopher (Degrowth 2014), Ortiz, Lucia (Brazil)
Reports from the conference: what happened in the fields of art, science,
practice and in the group-assembly-process (GAP)? And concluding a report
by the conference team.
Video screening in HS 3 and HS 9
The conference is nearly over. In this panel strategies and next steps will
be discussed, taking into account what has happened in the last five days:
What are answers to the current crises from a degrowth perspective?
Which alliances are in the making and what are they planning? And which
visions and obstacles for a social and ecological transformation exist?
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
What can I take home?
At the official end of the conference, we invite you to jointly reflect on the
past days. What has affected you? What do you take home? What is degrowth for you? Everyone who wants can fill in the post card (at the back of
the print programme) and give or send it to someone afterwards.
Track: General
Language:DE, EN, ES
The Waiting Room
Gentrification of a former Industrial
district in Leipzig
Artists: Diego Agulló, Peter Stamer, Clement Layes, Dmitry Paranyushkin, Lukas Bugiel, Friendly Fire, Sylvia Kadur, Julia Lemmle, Maix Mayer, Anna Peschke, Angelika
Waniek
A waiting room and a reception, forms and questionnaires. You sit and wait
until you are asked to enter one of the surrounding rooms. What happens in
there? You might meet an advisor or a visionary, find yourself in an intimate
conversation with a stranger, enter the public sphere or a world of fiction,
alone or with others. Ten artists open a space for encountering people with
the topics of the conference. They play with social rules, communication
and deception and always lead the visitors back to the place where it all
began: The Waiting Room. Participation only after registration
Speakers: Hofmann, Michael (Postwachstumskolleg Jena), Rink, Dieter, Prof. Dr.
(Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research)
Begins: 16:00 Room: Haus 27 (external)
05.09.| Sa
from 09:30
General
Practice &
Activism
Art
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Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Von Arbeitern zu Alternativen - Stadtführung durch ein altes Leipziger Industriegebiet in dem verschiedene Phasen des Wandels besichtigt werden:
Leerstand und Verwilderung, alternative und Zwischennutzung, neue Nutzungen. Max. 25 Teilnehmende. Treffpunkt: Tram-Haltestelle „Felsenkeller“ in
Plagwitz.
Language:DE
Programme | Saturday | 06.09. | Closing Day
Enough is Enough for Everyone!
Collective action in the city
A good life instead of growth mania
grass roots democracy
fossil fuels
Refugees welcome
Climate Justice
waste
Ecosystems
Consumerism
&
Privatization
ausgeco2hlt
attac Leipzig
Singers of the Bestaussehendster Chor
BUND Leipzig
Café Kaputt
Greenpeace Leipzig
oikos
Vorsicht Freihandel
self determination
Right to the City
radical change
Solidary Economy
Inequality
shutting down
competiton
capital interests
Collapse
Come to the collective action on Saturday,
06.09.2014. The meeting point is at the
Moritzbastei at 2.30 pm. You can look forward to creative stops, live music, a party
and a picnic.
Klimagerechtigkeit Leipzig
www.klimagerechtigkeit.blogsport.de
Concert and Party! With Käptn Peng &
die Tentakel von Delphi, Marbert Rocel
The trumpets and trombones of the Leipzig Marching Band open the final
event of the Degrowth conference! The journey continues with Käptn Peng
und die Tentakel von Delphi. The band of five conquers the jungle of Hip
Hop, the vastness of Western-Disco-Country and Indie-Dubstep-Punk with
contrabass, guitar, vocals and wild instrument creations. And once the air is
vibrating, the minds are blown and the bodies are finally free again, DJ Malik
and Panthera Krause of “Marbert Rocel” take over playing their favourite
rap-house-disco-electro-jazz records. Until the sun rises or a little longer.
Dance like it´s (not) all over!
Begins: 21:00 Room: Werk 2 (external)
Track:
Art
Language:DE, EN
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Programme | Permanent formats -Installations, Exhibitions, Audiowalks
Permanent formats Installations, Exhibitions, Audiowalks
Kosmokoloss. A tragicomedy on the
climate and planet earth.
Social BLOBs (Binary Large Objects)
Artist: Maix Mayer
Artist: Bruno Latour (audo drama)
The exhibition unifies three volumetric groups of scuptures that hide the
concept of social design. Their figure is a result of an analysis of specific
questionnaires concerning the usage of media in working processes. They
were evaluated by an algorithm that independently calculated a ”real” 3Dbody based on the gathered data that is presented in the exhibition. “Social
BLOBs” shows the impact of algorithms on our world and everyday life and
asks how human autonomy can be reclaimed.
Opening times are 14.07 - 14.09.2014, Fr-Sun 2 pm - 6 pm and by appointment.
Die Bewohner der Erde schlafen ruhig. Sie begreifen nicht, wie sehr das,
was sie für den festen Rahmen ihrer Existenz halten, ins Taumeln geraten
ist. „Kosmokoloss“ zielt auf diese Kluft zwischen der Größe der Krise und
der Fähigkeit der Menschen, sie wahrzunehmen, zu fühlen und zu verstehen. Rasch entsteht auf der Bühne des Theaters die Welt des „Anthropozän“,
einer Welt, deren profanes Ende durch bunte PowerPoint-Präsentationen
verkündet wird.
Mit Einführung und anschließendem Gespräch, moderiert von Konne Neuffer
und Hannes Raßmann.
Begins: Ends: Begins: 14:00 Room: Foyer 1
Ends: 19:00 Type: Audio drama
Room: Pöge-Haus, Hedwigstraße 20 Track: Art
Type: Exhibition
Language:DE, EN
Elijahs Ball
Track: Art
Language:DE
What can the Ego learn from the Self?
Artist: Herwig Kemmerich
Artist: Julia Schäfer, Galerie für zeitgenössische Art
A long time ago the prophet Elijah coined the expression: “grass will grow
on your cities”. Reflecting ecological challenges in post-industrial society,
the wrecking ball can represent deconstruction on a material level, it can
be read as a symbol against repetition and for the possibility of a new beginning. // The individual that decides and acts with self-discipline plays the
most important role in contributing to transition. This action is again linked
to the deconstruction of given patterns of thought and behaviour, while it is
still a real physical endeavour.
In this exhibition the impossible is thought through seriously. By exploring,
testing and rejecting, the artistic works abandon habitual trains of thought.
They experiment, create and balance at the limits of the possible. The exhibition invites you to choose paths of self-awareness that in the end ideally
lead to new thoughts and behaviours that deviate from one‘s everyday life.
Begins: Ends: Begins: Ends: Room: Courtyard
Type: Installatin
Track: Art
Language:
Azoikum
Room: Galerie für zeitgen. Kunst
Type: Exhibition
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Black Market for errors: fair trade!
Artists: Ilya Dolgov, Kurator_innen: Kristina Semenova, Olga Vostretsova
Artist: Jaana Prüss
In the project “Azoic”, Ilya Dolgov investigates the mutual relation of nature
and culture, moving between fiction and reality, the given and the constructed, science and art. Azoic is a geological age as well as a museum of natural
history, an archive and a place where the hybrid nature of objects becomes
visible and comprehensible.
The Black Market is a participatory research project investigating the role
and meaning of errors, mistakes, shortfalls and deviations in community
life. They hold worthy information and learning potential. Using conversation, texts and objects and the abilities of the conference‘s participants, the
Black Market collects material and immaterial errors that can be traded,
shared and developed.
Address: Aurelienstraße 48, Leipzig
Opening times: 5.- 27. September, Th - Sa 15-19h
daily
Begins: from 10am Ends: Art
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Room: Bükü
Type: Exhibition
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Begins: 14:00 Room: Foyer 1, HS
Ends: 19:00 Type: Interactive Installation
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
ChallengeDegrowth
Sixty Minutes Smiling
Artists: Stella Veciana, Dan Norton
Artist: Anna Witt
This installation collects, generates and networks knowledge, carrying it
from one conference to the next. Dealing with the global challenges of our
time, it uses video interviews to create an interactive “treasure trove” of
ideas that arise from the dialogue between differing disciplines and world
views.
In times of neoliberalism and increasing profitability of the self, a positive,
successful, optimistic and confident appearance becomes a must. “Sixty Minutes Smiling” examines how the pressure for optimism finds expression in
body, gesture and mimic.
Ends: 19:00 Type: Installation
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Track: Art
Language:DE, EN
Available for sale
Mobile Change Agents
Artist: Rittershaus, Tania (Permakultur Akademie)
Artist: Julian Roeder
The Mobile Change Agents are conspicuously dressed up students of the
Permaculture Academy. They accompany the Degrowth-Conference where
it takes place. They speak directly to people and ask them, for example,
what they need and help them to get it. The aim is to address people personally, to address how they can shape their own life/culture. Thereby these
Change Agents embody an ethical pillar of Permaculture, namely „People
care“.
An opening of a shopping mall, discounts on all articles, Monday, 12 am –
masses of consumers and goods meet in the middle of the night. “Available
for sale” stages and documents (mass-) consumption between rush and reality, euphoria and disillusionment.
Begins: 10:00 Room: Lobby Audimax
Ends: 16.00 Type: Intervention
Language:DE, EN
Track: Art
Language:
Fair for Degrowth
The ‚Fair for Degrowth‘ will be located on the first and second floor of the
lecture hall building (Hörsaalgebäude). The ‚fair‘ offers space for more than
50 organizations committed to the idea of degrowth to showcase their work
and give conference participants an understanding of what it is that they
do. You will find a wide variety of offers and displays ranging from information and bookstands to elaborate art installations and a mysterious phone
booth. Opening hours are Wednesday to Friday. Come and have a look!
Last updated: 15th of July 2014
1st floor
agora 42
attac
ausgeCO2hlt
Autodidaktische Initiative
Blätter für Deutsche und Internationale Politik
BUND/ BUNDJugend
detector.fm
Ecobytes
Eine Welt e.V.
Entrepreneurship Campus
Leaflet table
Förderverein Wachstumswende e.V./ VÖÖ
Frankfurter Rundschau
Gegenblende
Greenpeace
Grüne Stadt Garten Planung
Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie - ZeitwohlStand
Landesheimatbund Sachsen-Anhalt
2nd floor
Le monde diplomatique - German edition
LebenLernenLeipzig
LebensLernOrte
Lindentaler Medientisch
Naturfreunde
Netzwerk Grundeinkommen
oikos Leipzig e.V.
Oya
Permakultur Institut
Seed freedom campaign
Transition Town Leipzig
What if network
Youth future Projekt
ZEO2
Exhibition „Playing for Change“
Bread for the World/PDS
Books table
Cusanus College (in the course of formation)
DFG-Research Group „Postwachstumsgesellschaften“ at the University of Jena
E.F. Schumacher Society
Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation
Heinrich-Böll-Foundation
IÖW/VÖW
Misereor
Research & Degrowth
Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation
SERI and Wachstum im Wandel
Stiftung Trias
Wuppertal Institute für Climate, Environment
and Energy
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Invited Speakers
Invited Speakers
Invited speakers of keynotes, panels and
scientific evening lectures
ronment (2009). Director and member
of the advisory council of the Health of
Mother Earth Foundation.
Acosta, Alberto
Acosta is an internationally recognised
economist and politician from Ecuador. In 2007/08 he was president of the
Ecuadorian constitutional assembly
and in 2007 also Minister of Energy and
Mining. With others he developed the
Yasuni-ITT-initiative. He is known for
Buen Vivir.
Bauwens, Michel
Founder of the Foundation for Peer-toPeer Alternatives, working in collaboration with a global group of researchers
in the exploration of peer production,
governance, and property. He is currently the research director of a transition project working towards a society
based on openly available, non-profitmaking knowledge (Ecuador; floksociety.org).
Aiginger, Karl
Karl Aiginger is the director of the Austrian Institute of Economic Research
(WIFO). He teaches at the Vienna University of Economic and Business Administration and is managing editor
of the Journal of Industry, Competition
and Trade (JICT). He is the coordinator of the project "WWWforEurope – a
new growth path for Europe" which
the WIFO is undertaking together with
32 partners within the 7th Framework
Programme of the EU.
Appel, Margit
Studied political science, sociology and
women’s studies; head of the department Social Politics of ksoe – the Catholic Social Academy of Austria since
2009; member of the network ‘Grundeinkommen und sozialer Zusammenhalt’ (basic income and social cohesion) – B.I.E.N. Austria; holds lectures,
seminars and writes articles on the topic of basic income and the capitalist
economic system, the political system
and gender hierarchy, among others.
Ax, Christine
Christine Ax is a philosopher, economist and author. She advocates an
“economy of proximity” (Ökonomie der
Nähe) and a sustainable entrepreneurship that launches products that are adapted to individual needs and regionally
produced.
Bassey, Nnimmo
Nigerian poet and environmental activist; from 2008 to 2012 chair of Friends
of the Earth International and of Environmental Rights Action. He is one of
Time magazine's Heroes of the Envi-
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Bazzicalupo, Laura
Laura Bazzicalupo is full professor of
Political Philosophy in the Department
of Political, Social and Communication
Sciences at the University of Salerno,
Italy. She is director of a National Research Project about Inclusion, wellness and quality of bios (nature) in neoliberal governamentality.
Benning, Reinhild
Agriculture expert at the BUND/ Friends
of the Earth Germany; grew up on a
mixed farm; studied German studies,
social sciences and philosophy in Cologne, but later turned to agriculture.
Trained to become an organic farmer
and subsequently worked at a women’s
agricultural collective close to Berlin.
Berro, Chema
Socially active since the 60s, from 1978 in
the anarchist workers' union CNT. Later
part of the founding of the CGT, which
he is still active for today in Pamplona.
Chema participates in other collectives,
e.g. the degrowth-group "Dale Vuelta"
and the platform for those affected by
mortgages (PAH).
Biesecker, Adelheid
Born in 1942, professor of economic
theory at the University of Bremen. Her
work focuses on: microeconomics from
a socio-ecological perspective, ecological economics, feminist economics, and
the future of work. She is a member of
the network ‘precautionary economy’
(Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften)
and a member of the Association for
Ecological Economics (VÖÖ).
Bollier, David
David Bollier is an author, activist,
blogger and independent scholar with
a primary focus on the commons as a
new paradigm of economics, politics
and culture. He is also co-founder of
the Commons Strategies Group and the
author of more than a dozen books, including „Think Like a Commoner“ and
„Green Governance“.
Bonaiuti, Mauro
Has taught at the universities of Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia and Parma
and currently teaches at the University
of Turin. He has worked mostly on the
relations between economy, ecosystems and society following a complex
systems approach. He is co-founder of
the Italian Degrowth Association.
Brand, Ulrich
Researching and teaching as professor
for International Politics at the University of Vienna on subjects such as globalization and its critique as well as social-ecological transformation. He was
a member of the Enquete Commission
„growth, well-being, quality of life“ of
the German Bundestag (January 2011 to
June 2013).
Brownhill, Leigh
Leigh Brownhill is a writer, editor,
teacher and researcher, focused on
ecological social movements, feminism
and the political economies of food and
energy, especially in East Africa. She is
a research associate at the Department
of Natural Resource Sciences at McGill
University.
Bullard, Nicola
Nicola has worked with social movements, researchers and activists in Australia, Thailand and Cambodia. She has
also worked as a journalist and editor
and studied geography and international relations. Now based in France, she
is an independent writer and analyst on
ecological and social issues, development, and alternatives to capitalism.
Calestani, Melania
Melania Calestani is a trained geographer and anthropologist in Italy and the
UK. She carried out research in the Boli-
Invited Speakers
vian highlands, Western Samoa, Guam,
Europe,and the UK. Her interests include issues related to well-being, faith,
morality, and values.
public speaker and media commentator
on finance issues and new economics.
A Chartered Accountant and former investment banker, Tony has degrees from
Oxford University and LSE.
Constein, Daniel
Coordination of logistics and finance
for Degrowth 2014. Enrolled in Sustainability Economics and Management
(M.A.) at the University of Oldenburg,
committed to Förderverein Wachstumswende e.V. and to the German
Green Party, likes to do bicycle tours,
to sing tenor in a choir and to cook
mushroom risotto.
Habermann, Friederike
Economist, historian and political scientist as well as author, activist and
independent academic. She is known
for her book on alternative economy
in the German speaking area (´Halbinseln gegen den Strom´) and the concept of commonsbased peerproduction
(Écommony).
Demaria, Federico
Works on ecological economics, political ecology and waste policy. Since
2006 he has been part of the degrowth
movement and debate, first with the
Italian Association for Degrowth and
then as a co-founder of Research &
Degrowth (Spain). He is the co-editor
of "Degrowth: A Vocabulary for a New
Era" (2014).
Hansjürgens, Bernd
Bernd Hansjürgens is professor of economics, in particular environmental
economics, at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg and head of
the Economics Department at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ. He has been the director
of studies of the project "Naturkapital
Deutschland - TEEB DE" since 2012.
Duchrow, Ulrich
Ulrich Duchrow is professor of systemic theology at the University of
Heidelberg. His work focusses on economic theology, ecumenical and interreligious theology. He is co-founder and
director of the ecumenical grassroots
network KAIROS EUROPA and a member of the scientific advisory council of
Attac, Germany.
Hawkins, Richard
Director of the UK Public Interest Research Centre (PIRC). He has led PIRC’s
work on Common Cause over the past
3 years. As part of his work he has facilitated over 100 workshops across civil
society in the UK and Europe. Richard is
a core team member of Smart CSOs, a
co-founder of Campaign Lab and a fellow of the RSA.
Farrell, Katharine
Katharine Farrell is senior researcher
and lecturer for Resource Economics at
the Humboldt University of Berlin and
an Associated Researcher at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. Her
work focuses on the political economy
of knowledge in environmental governance.
Helfrich, Silke
Author and independent activist of
commons. She is a founding member
of the Commons Strategies Group and
was the regional representative of the
Heinrich Böll Foundation in Mexico/
Central America. She edited „Wem gehört die Welt“, and translated as well as
edited Elinor Ostrom's "The Challenge
of Common Pool Resources".
Gottschlich, Daniela
Political scientist. Leading the socialecological research group “PoNa – Shaping Nature: Policy, Politics and Polity”
at Leuphana University Lüneburg. Areas
of interest: Feminist and sustainability
studies, ethics of care (economy), political ecology, environmental justice,
and the gmo-free-regions-movement.
Greenham, Tony
Tony leads the financial reform programme at NEF, and is also a Trustee
of Transition Network. He is a regular
Hooker-Stroud, Alice
Alice has a Master's degrees in Physics
and Earth Systems Science. Having coordinated research on the decarbonisation scenario in Zero Carbon Britain: Rethinking the Future, she now talks about
how it is possible to live in a modern
society with net zero emissions, already
having all the technology we need.
Humburg, Anja
Environmentalist, journalist and junior researcher at Leuphana University
(Lüneburg). She is a member of the
network Wachstumswende, the working group “Economy and Finances” at
FoEGermany and writes on degrowth,
commons and sufficiency issues for several newspapers and magazines.
Kallis, Giorgos
Environmental scientist working on ecological economics and political ecology,
professor at the Autonomous University
of Barcelona. His current research is motivated by the double global economic
and ecological crisis. He explores the hypothesis of sustainable degrowth.
Kayemba, Patrick
Is a Sustainable Transport and development expert and advocate and the Executive Director of FABIO / the African
Institute for Sustainable Transport and
Development Solutions. He holds a Masters Degree in Community-Based Development and a BA in Development Studies from Nkumba University, Uganda.
Klein, Naomi
Naomi Klein is a Canadian author and
social activist known for her political
analyses and criticism of corporate globalization. She is best known for „No
Logo“, a book that went on to become
an international bestseller, and „The
Shock Doctrine“, a critical analysis of
the history of neoliberal economics.
Klingler-Lauer, Maggie
Social worker and trade unionist; active
in the protest movement against Stuttgart 21 since 2008, in particular in the
group of “trade unionists against Stuttgart 21”; is the link that connects to the
international network of the protest
movements against unnecessary and
imposed mega projects.
Kolbe, Daniela
A graduate physicist, is a Member of
Deutscher Bundestag in her 2nd term.
Her responsibilities lie with labour and
social affairs. She’s the spekaer of the
group of East German MPs of SPD. During her last mandate Kolbe chaired the
study committee on “Growth, Prosperty and Quality of Life”.
Konstantatos, Haris
Political scientist, PhD candidate in
Dep. of Geography, Harokopio University of Athens and Member of the Central
Committee of SYRIZA - Department of
Ecology and Environment
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Kothari, Ashish
Founder-member of environmental
group Kalpavriksh, he has coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, served
on Greenpeace International and India Boards. Author or editor of over 30
books, currently focusing on Radical
Ecological Democracy.
Kühne, Steffen
Head of the department of sustainability and social-ecological transformation
at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His
work focuses mainly on the conditions
required for a solidarity-based energy
and resource turnaround; deals with
the subject of growth as a drawback of
a notion of capitalism that supposedly
is reformable in ecological terms.
Lange, Steffen
Steffen Lange works at the Konzeptwerk
Neue Ökonomie and is coordinator of
the scientific track of the degrowth
conference. He studied economics and
other social sciences in Maastricht, Santiago de Chile and Göttingen. Currently
is doing a PhD on "Macroeconomics of
degrowth" at the University of Hamburg
Laumanns, Christopher
Appalled by inequality and the destruction of nature. Feminist, so he mistrusts
authority. Loves bikes, music and long
breakfasts and has a bad posture. Main
subjects: euro- and ecological crisis. Cofounder of the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie and one of two spokespersons
for the Degrowth-Conference 2014.
Leidig, Sabine
Sabine Leidig has been a member of
the German Bundestag since 2009; she
is the transport policy spokesperson of
the parliamentary group Die LINKE and
coordinator of “Plan-B for socio-ecological transformation”; in the Enquete
Commission on “growth, prosperity,
quality of life” she is head of the project
group on “labour, consumption and life
style”. From 2002 to 2009 she was chairwoman of Attac Germany.
Liegey, Vincent
Co-author of a "Degrowth Project - Manifesto for an Unconditional Autonomy
Allowance" (Utopia, 2013), spokesperson of the French Degrowth movement.
Engineer, PhD student on Degrowth at
the University of Economics of Budapest, transdiciplinary researcher.
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Litsch, Franz-Johannes
Architect and veteran at the Federal
Environment Agency UBA in Berlin. He
has been a Buddhist for more than 50
years. He is the initiator of the German
branch of the International Network of
Engaged Buddhists, a member of the
Council of the German Buddhist Union,
co-founder and board member of the
Buddhist Academy Berlin.
Lorenzen, Astrid
Born in Hamburg in 1981, has worked
as a freelance industrial designer for
sustainable product design since graduating from the Muthesius Academy
of Fine Arts and Design. She has been
active in the FabLab St. Pauli since 2012;
is also active in the Sustainable Design
Center and the working group Fair IT.
Mance, Euclides André
Philosopher, lecturer and one of the
founders of the Philosophy of Liberation
Institute. Helped to establish Solidarius
Brazil. Since 2000 he has given popular
courses on the organization of solidarity economy networks and collaborated
with solidarity economy organizations
worldwide: His most recent publication
was Solidarius Constellation (2008).
Martin, Leonidas
Professor for new media and political
art at Barcelona University. Co-founded
the art and activist collectives Las Agencias, Yomango, Enmedio, writes about
art and politics for cultural blogs, journals and newspapers, is video maker
and designs and co-produces activist
and guerrilla-communication projects.
Martinez-Alier, Joan
Catalan economist, Professor of Economics and Economic History and researcher at ICTA at the Autonomous
University of Barcelona. Author of "The
Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study
of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation"
(2002), co-editor of "Ecological Economics from the Ground Up" (2012). Director of the EJOLT project.
Martínez, Esperanza
Co-founder of the environmental organizations “Acción Ecológica” and “Oilwatch South America”. She worked as
an advisor for the Ecuadorian energy
and mining ministry and together with
Alberto Acosta published several books
on the topics environment and economics.
Moreno, Camila
One of the most interesting experts on
Green Economy in Brazil/ Latin America
and on the financialization of nature;
articles include: “Die grünen Kleider
des Königs: Grüne Wirtschaft: eine neue
Quelle der ursprünglichen Akkumulation” (on green economy and primitive
accumulation); and “Green Economy
and Development(alism) in Brazil – Resources, Climate and Energy Politics”.
Muhr, Lisa
Trained architect, lecturer at Austrian
Marketing University of Applied Sciences, co-founder and CEO of Austria´s first
eco-fair fashion label “Göttin des Glücks”
(“Goddess of Happiness”). She is honorary ambassador and board member of the
"Association for the Advancement of the
Economy for the Common Good".
Müller, Christine
As a representative of the Church Development Service, she has been head
of the “Arbeitsstelle Eine Welt” in the
Protestant-Lutheran State Church of Saxony since 1996. She is a KAIROS EUROPA activist and member of the chamber
of the Evangelical Church in Germany
(EKD) for sustainable development; cofounded the Christian Initiativkreis “anders wachsen” in Leipzig.
Müller, Tadzio
Tadzio Mueller is a political scientist,
climate justice activist and translator
living in Berlin, where he works for
the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. His
research focuses on strategies of social transformation in social movements
working on questions of climate justice
and the German ‘Energiewende’.
Muraca, Barbara
Barbara Muraca is a senior scientist at
the DFG-Kolleg 'Post-growth-societies',
University of Jena, and co-director of
the International Association for Environmental Philosophy. Currently, she
is working on how to achieve a good
life for all in a democratic, solidary, and
just society beyond growth.
Narain, Sunita
Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a
major advocate of the Green concept
of sustainable development. Narain has
been with the India-based Centre for
Science and Environment (CSE) since
1982, currently as its director.
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Netzer, Nina
Head of the International Energy and
Climate Policy program at Friedrich
Ebert Stiftung (FES), Berlin. Implemented projects for the German Development Institute (GDI) in China and for
NGOs in India and South Africa. Holds
an MA in Political Science from the University of Heidelberg and a Post-Graduate from the GDI.
Norberg-Hodge, Helen
Is a pioneer of the new economy movement and producer of „The Economics Of
Happiness“. Director of the International
Society for Ecology and Culture, she is a
recipient of the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’.
Her book „Ancient Futures“ has been
translated into forty-five languages.
O`Hara, Sabine
Works at the University of the District
of Columbia. German-born, she earned
a doctorate in environmental economics
from the University of Göttingen. She is
a respected author, researcher and higher education executive, well known for
her expertise in sustainable economic
development, global education and executive leadership.
O'Neill, John
Is director of the Political Economy Institute at the University of Manchester.
He is on the editorial boards of several
journals, including New Political Economy, the Journal of Applied Philosophy, and Historical Materialism. He has
worked in several European projects on
environmental policy.
Ott, Hermann
Born 1961, married, two kids. Studies
of Law & Politics in Munich, London,
Berlin. Since 1994 with the Wuppertal
Institute, from 2009-2013 in Parliament
(Green Party), member of Enquete
Commission on „Growth, Prosperity
and Quality of Life“. Works on climate
& environmental policy, growth & welfare strategies.
Paech, Niko
Exceptional professor and visiting professor of production and environment
(PUM) at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg; head of the research
project EnGeno of the Federal Ministry
of Education and Research; key advocate of post-growth in Germany; board
member/chairperson of the Association
for Ecological Economics (VÖÖ).
Paternoga, Dagmar
Lives in Bonn, has been an Attac activist
since 2002, Attac council member, social worker/ psychotherapist; topics: unconditional basic income, also for the
countries of the global South, growth
critique, and healthcare.
Pichelmann, Karl
Directorate General for Economic and
Financial Affairs of the European Commission; senior advisor at DG ECFIN's
directorate "Structural reforms and
competitiveness".
Pinault, Eric
Eric Pineault is professor of sociology at
the University of Québec in Montréal. His
main areas of interest include financialization, the historical sociology of money
and economic institutions, the contradictions of advanced capitalism as well as
the political economy of degrowth.
Rätz, Werner
Political scientist, active in the association Informationsstelle Lateinamerika
in Bonn, Germany, the network Unconditional Basic Income Europe, and Attac Germany: coordinating committee;
working groups ‘Jenseits des Wachstums’ (beyond growth) and ‘Genug für
alle’ (enough for all); author of several
books on unconditional basic income
and the critique of growth.
Ringger, Beat
Beat Ringger lives in Zurich and works
as general secretary of the Swiss public services union VPOD and as managing secretary of the socio-critical think
tank Denknetz. See publication: 'Maßt
euch an! Auf dem Weg zu einem offenen Sozialismus.' (2011)
Rodriguez Labajos, Beatriz
Holds a BSc Economics and is a PhD
Researcher in Environmental Sciences.
Has held various lecturer positions, currently a member of the EJOLT coordinating unit. Her research interests are the
socioeconomic dimension of risks to
biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Rosa, Harmut
Hartmut Rosa is professor for Sociology
and Sociological Theory at the Friedrich
Schiller University of Jena and director
of the Max Weber Center for Advanced
Cultural and Social Studies. Since 2008
he has been co-editor-in-chief of the
journal “Time and society“.
Schaffartzik, Anke
Researcher and lecturer at the Institute
of Social Ecology of the Alpen-Adria Universität (Vienna). Her work focuses on
issues concerning the extraction, consumption and trade in resources, and
the material input in the production of
exported goods at national and global
level.
Schneider, Francois
Dissemination of the degrowth idea
2004-2005 with a donkey tour. Founded the research group Research and
Degrowth in 2006. Organized first degrowth conferences in Paris (2008) and
Barcelona (2010). Co-author of publications on degrowth, since 2009 with
ICTA at the AUB, involved in the practical development of Degrowth in Can
Decreix.
Schuler, Christiana
Runs a small dairy farm at Schloss Tonndorf in Thuringia, Germany; has long
been concerned with the numerous
issues around agricultural policy; has
cleared several fields of GM plants. She
studied agricultural sciences in Berlin
and spent a few summers as a shepherd
in Switzerland.
Sekulova, Filka
Filka Sekulova is based at ICTA, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She holds
a doctoral degree in ecological economics with a specialization in happiness
and climate change. Presently she is
doing a post-doctorate research on the
success factors of community-based initiatives.
Skinner, Lara
Associate Director of Research, has
worked with Cornell GLI since Fall 2008.
Skinner received her PhD from the University of Oregon in 2010; her dissertation was entitled “Is it Just Sustainability? The Politics of Urban Sustainability,
Labor Unions and Social Justice.“
Spash, Clive
Clive is an economist who writes,
teaches and researches on human behaviour, environmental values and the
transformation of the world political
economy to a more socially and environmentally just system. His work is interdisciplinary. He is Professor of Public
Policy & Governance at WU, Vienna.
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Stern, Bertrand
Freelance philosopher: engages in critical contemplation that engenders freedom - an activity independent from any
institution. At the heart of the civilisation-criticism: the (self-)liberation of
the individual from ideologies and institutions; since 1970 radical criticism of
institutionalised education impacts the
right to freely educate oneself.
Stoltenberg, Ute
University professor for 'Education
for Sustainable Development' at the
University Lüneburg; since 2000 she
teaches environmental education at
Free University of Bozen. Holds lectures
abroad and is involved in cooperative
research projects in Switzerland, Austria, Italy, El Salvador, Chile, Poland, and
the UK.
Strickner, Alexandra
Alexandra Strickner is an economist,
co-founder and currently chairwoman
of Attac Austria. She works with various networks in Austria and at European level on issues of social-ecological
transformation, e.g. with the alliance
"Wege aus der Krise" ('ways out of the
crisis').
Tremel, Luise
Studied history and literature, organised events and developed multimedia
material on German contemporary history at the Federal Agency for Civic Education BpB/FACE. Currently she is with
the non-profit foundation FUTURZWEI.
In her PhD thesis she looks at processes
of social change in the past.
Treu, Nina
Nina studied political science, economics and law in Heidelberg and Paris. She is a founding member of the
Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie and the
Team and Programme Coordinator for
the degrowth conference.
Unmüßig, Barbara
President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 2002. Responsible for Latin
America, Africa, Asia, the Middle East,
and for the GW Institute for Feminism and Gender Democracy. Amongst
others, her work focuses on issues of
globalisation and international climate
policy and the promotion of democracy.
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Urhahn, Jan
Studied geography and political science, subsequently worked at Oxfam
Germany. His work focuses on: climate
and energy policy, and food speculation. His work with INKOTA focuses on
land grabbing and the consequences of
agribusiness investments in the global
South.
Velegrakis, Giorgos
PhD researcher, HUA Greece, member
of ENTITLE. Area of studies and research refers to Political Ecology and to
extractive activities and regional/local
development in times of crisis. Currently researching the gold extraction
in Halkidiki, Greece and the anti-gold
social movement of that area.
Vetter, Andrea
Andrea Vetter, born 1981, is a cultural
anthropologist and lives in Berlin. Her
ongoing PhD project is about convivial
technologies for a degrowth society.
She is a feminist activist for a degrowth
society at Attac Germany and member
of the organizational team for the Degrowth Conference 2014.
von Thadden, Elisabeth
Works for the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT since 1999; since 2009 she is
responsible for reviewing new publications on political subjects. Member of
the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Assembly since 2009; fellow
at the DFG Research Group "Postwachstumsgesellschaften" at the University
of Jena. Publications: Familiäre Gründe
(2000), Wer denkt für morgen? (2010).
Weischer, Lutz
Is deputy spokesperson of the international policy working group at BUND
– Friends of the Earth Germany. He currently focuses on TTIP. He studied political science in Berlin and Paris and has
worked on trade and climate change in
Geneva, Beijing, Washington and Bonn.
Wichterich, Christa
Visiting professor of gender politics at
the University of Kassel; after completing her doctorate, she has been focusing on gender; worked as journalist,
author, reviewer and lecturer in various
countries.
Wolf, Winfried
Winfried Wolf ist Chefredakteur von
Lunapark21 – Zeitschrift zur Kritik der
globalen Ökonomie (www.lunapark21.
net), Mitglied im Wissenschaftlichen
Beirat von Attac und u.a. Verfasser von
„Verkehr. Umwelt. Klima – Die Globalisierung des Tempowahns“ und (zus.
mit B. Knierim) „Bitte Umsteigen! 20
Jahre Bahnreform“.
Zahrnt, Angelika
Prominent post-growth advocate and
honorary chairperson of BUND/ Friends
of the Earth Germany; co-editor together with Irmi Seidl of ‘Postwachstumsgesellschaft’ (post-growth society); co-edited ‘Gutes Leben einfach
machen’ (good life made easy) with
Uwe Schneidewind; member of the
German Council for Sustainable Development.
Zimmer, Matthias
Born in 1961 in Marburg/ Lahn, Germany; studied political science, modern
history and international law; M.A.
from LMU Munich in 1986; doctorate in Political Science from Helmut
Schmidt University/ University of the
Bundeswehr Hamburg in 1991. Habilitation from University of Cologne
in 2006, teaching as a professor since
2013. Member of the German Bundestag since 2009.
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Agulló, Diego
Video artist and performer, musician
and visual artist; studied philosophy in
Madrid and lives today between Amsterdam and Berlin. His works can be
seen at the Berlinale, in the Kampnagel,
at Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) and in the
Kaaitheater. www.diegoagullo.com
Baumann, Hannah
Studies dramaturgy at the Felix Mendelssohn College of Music and Theatre in Leipzig (HMT)/ University of
Music and Theatre “Felix Mendelssohn
Bartholdy” Leipzig (HMT); she also
works as a director and dramaturgy assistant at the Münchner Volkstheater,
the Volksbühne Berlin and the Kampnagel. She has been a member of the artists' association Werkstattmacher e.V.
in Leipzig since 2012.
Bugiel, Lukas
At present he is working and doing his
doctorate at the HMT Leipzig. Has been
staging independent theatre productions with the label and network INTERMEDIA ORKESTRA since 2009.
www.intermediorkestra.de
Deck, Jan
Political scientist, dramaturgist, director and curator; manages the performance group Profi Kollektion together
with Katja Kämmer; director of the state association laPROF, an association of
independent performing arts in Hesse,
and co-director of the Forum Diskurs
Dramaturgie; editor and author of scientific publications.
Bükü – Office for cultural translations
Art space in Leipzig Lindenau that explores the transmission and the mixing
of cultures; it was founded by Kristina
Semenova and Olga Vostretsova; they
are both students of the Cultures of the
Curatorial master’s programme at the
Academy of Visual Arts (HGB) Leipzig.
Dolgov, Ilya
Painter and media artist from Voronezh,
Russia; studied at the Moscow Institute
of Contemporary Art; co-founder of the
VCCI - Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art; explores in his works the
combination of the mechanical and the
organic; received the “Innovation 2012“
award.
Elicabe, Oriana
Lives and works as a photographer in
Barcelona. As a member of different
artist and activist collectives, among
others Enmedio, Las Agencias, Yomango, New Kids on the Black Block, she
uses photography as a tool to initiate
direct actions and processes of change.
She exhibits her works internationally.
www.orianomada.net
Fräulein Bernd – Miss Bernd
Performance-collective of artists Julia
Lemmle and André Vollrath; by using
quotes from the media, art and science,
they challenge the power structures in
(pop)cultural narratives and create together with their audience a common
space for utopia(s) and changes. www.
fraeuleinbernd.com
Friendly Fire
Theatre / performance group from/
based in Leipzig; core members are
Melanie Albrecht, Michael Wehren and
Helena Wölfl; they create a series of experimental set-ups between facts and
fictions, archives and hallucinations.
One leitmotiv of their works is the
question regarding the futures of the
21st century.
Ligna
Artist collective consisting of media
and performance artists Ole Frahm, Michael Hüners and Torsten Michaelsen;
through interventions and installations
set up in controlled public spaces, they
explore avenues for action of dispersing
and temporarily associating collectives.
Hemken, Lara
Studied art teaching in Düsseldorf;
studied liberal arts from 2011 to 2013
with Lucy McKenzie; completed various exhibition projects, among others
the trailer (Filmwerkstatt DD), Darling,
Darling (Sammlung Philara), Members
of the family (Kunstverein Emmerich).
Hildbrand, Mirjam
Studies dramaturgy at HMT Leipzig;
worked, among other things, at the
Theater Neumarkt in Zurich and sat
in on a prison theatre project in Lebanon; co-initiator of the Leipzig art
space “365”, and member of the Leipzig
“Werkstatt e. V.“.
Kadur, Sylvia
Therapist and strategy development
specialist in education and team management; lecturer and consultant for
companies, in particular in the health
sector; also an active fellow supporter
of the creative industry Leipzig.
Käptn Peng & Die Tentakel von Delphi
Apart from doing promotions and this
and that, the five-piece band enjoys exploring through experimenting and doit-yourself language landscapes, stage
design, costume and instrument creations which bring back simplicity and
let simple things appear in a new light.
www.kreismusik.de
Kemmerich, Herwig
Wood sculptor based in Leipzig; studied
liberal arts at the University of the Arts
Bremen; graduated as a pupil of Professor Bernd Altenstein; his wood sculptures integrate their local circumstances
and represent an interplay between city
and forest. www.herwigkemmerich.de
Kilian, Pablo Paolo
Musician, composer; studied sound engineering and psychology; classical music, improvised music and film music
shape his sound world; founded the audio-visual project Metamorphosen and
in 2006 he founded the film production
studio different-records. www. pablopaolo-kilian.de
Lahusen, Miriam
Design researcher at the Design Research Lab of the Berlin University of
the Arts since 2013; in the project “energy sufficiency“ she explores, using participatory design methods, possibilities
of how to reduce energy consumption,
examines structural problems which
occur when sustainable strategies are
used in everyday life.
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Layes, Clément
Works for the project “Public in private”, is based in Berlin and develops a
method of work that confronts choreography, visual arts and conceptual
thinking in a research around daily life
objects. This research has led to various
performances presented in numerous
venues across Europe and North America. www.publicinprivate.com
Mayer, Maix
Based on his natural science education,
Mayer explores in his artistic works and
installations different narrative models
of fiction and reality. His arrangements
form media experimental set-ups to
perceive time, space and history. www.
maix.be
Federation of Urban Imagination
Combines
participative
urbanism
(Stadtpflanzer e.V., ProstoRož), strategies of temporary space appropriation
through installations (MikroArt) and
performance (Mobile Albania, Pneuma
Szöv.); FUI is the winner of the competition kultur-im-dialog.moe 2014, a programme of the Ernst Schering Foundation and the association MitOst e.V.
Norton, Dan
Obtained his doctorate from the University of Dundee in Art and Information Science; co-founder of the WAKA
Espai d'Art, a gallery managed and run
by artists in Palma, Spain; exhibits his
works in Europe, China, and North and
South America at film and music festivals, in technological centres and at scientific conferences.
Paranyushkin, Dmitry
Studied economics in Moscow and theatre and choreography in Dartington;
founder of “This Is Like”, a transdisciplinary network-research website; curator
of the music and art platform “Playberlin” and co-founder of the theatre collective “The Solvents”.
Peschke, Anna
Studied applied theatre sciences at
the University of Giessen; works as a
director of independent performance
projects, which create new and transborder forms in the interplay between
theatre, installation, scenic concert,
new music and visual arts.
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Peters, Sybille
Director, performer, curator; amongst
others things a member of the performance group “Geheimagentur”, manager of the postgraduate programme
“Assemblies and Participation: Urban
Publics and Performance” at the University of Hamburg; editor of “Das
Forschen aller. Artistic Research als
Wissensproduktion zwischen Kunst,
Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft”, a presentation and critical discussion of specific forms of ‘artistic research’.
Prüss, Jaana
Interdisciplinary cultural activist, artist
and curator from/based in Berlin; as
manager of “MORGENGRÜN Kommunikation”, she realises projects between
art, culture and sustainability; received
the Environmental Media Award 2010 of
Deutsche Umwelthilfe e.V., a German
non-governmental environmental consumer protection organisation.
www.morgengruen.de
Raunig, Gerald, Prof.
Philosopher and art theorist at the
Zurich University of the Arts and at
the European Institute for Progressive
Cultural Policies (eipcp); coordinator
of eipcp research projects republicart,
transform and Creating Worlds, and coeditor of the web journal transversal.
Roeder, Julian
Photographer, lives in Berlin. Based on
a conceptual-documentary approach,
his works negotiate power structures
which lie behind what the photographs
are directly depicting; Roeder has exhibited his works in Berlin, Sydney and
Tel Aviv, amongst other places. www.
julianroeder.com
Schäfer, Julia
Curator and art mediator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, a foundation based in Leipzig; formerly worked
at the New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York and at the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; studied liberal arts, art
education and German studies; teaches
at art colleges in Halle, Leipzig and Vienna, amongst other places.
Stamer, Peter
Works as director, dramaturg, mentor
and curator in the field of contemporary
performing arts; apart from works and
teaching activities in Europe, he has staged performance and theatre projects in
China, the USA and Egypt, among other
places. www.peterstamer.com
Veciana, Stella
Lecturer at the Leuphana University Lüneburg and head of the Research Arts
Platform; works for the civil society
platform ForschungsWende (shift in research); she obtained her doctorate on
interdisciplinary research between art,
science and technology from the University of Barcelona.
Waniek, Angelika
Studied liberal arts at the Muthesius
Academy of Fine Arts in Kiel and media
art at the HGB Leipzig; at the interface
between visual art and post-dramatic
theatre, she developed the format extended narratives (erweiterte Erzählung), a visual form of speech performance.
Wesser, Diana
Performer and visual artist with a postgraduate degree in media art from HGB
Leipzig; she has been engaged in awareness practices for a few years and integrates her experience in (audio)walks,
location-specific performances and participative projects.
www.dianawesser.de
Witt, Anna
Performance and installation artist; her
experimental interventions and experimental set-ups challenge, for example,
authority in public spaces and involve
random passers-by; however they have
no predetermined outcome; Witt’s
works have been exhibited in New York,
Stockholm und Taipei, amongst other
places. www.annawitt.net
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Bakhanova, Elena
Bakshi, Rajni
Author, Mumbai, India
Boccato-Franco, Alan
Brazilian Degrowth Network
Bofill, Pau
UPC, Col·lectiu Mostassa
Bollier, David
Commons Strategies Group, USA
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Baptista, Gualter, Dr.
Degrowth 2014
Aall, Carlo, Prof. Dr.
Western Norway Research Institute
Barras, Beatrice
Solidarische Textilkette Ardelaine
Abshagen, Marie-Luise
Forum Umwelt und Entwicklung
Barson, Leslie
The Otherwise Club
Ackerbauer, Sarah
Dresden im Wandel
Barth, Jonathan
Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik
Acosta, Alberto
Politician and economist, Ecuador
Barthel, Bettina
Technische Universität Berlin
Adaman, Fikret
Bogazici University
Bartonlini, Stefano, Prof. Dr.
University of Siena
Aguilar, Nils
Voices of Transition
Bassey, Nnimmo
FoE, Nigeria
Boyce, Christopher, Dr.
University of Stirling
Agulló, Diego
Artist
Bauhardt, Christine, Prof. Dr.
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bracarense, Natalia, Prof. Dr.
Aiginger, Karl, Prof.
WIFO
Baumann, Hannah
Dramatic advisor
Aillon, Jean-Louis, Dr.
Movimento per la Decrescita felice
Baumgarten, Nico
Kollektiv Orangotango
Brand, Ulrich, Prof. Dr.
Universität Wien
Akbulut, Bengi, Dr.
Bauwens, Michel
P2P
Brandl, Barbara
Universität München
Akhzarati, Djamilah
Eltern wachsen mit ihren Kindern
Bonaiuti, Mauro, Dr.
decrescita
Bonke, Michael
Freies Saatgut
Borowy, Iris, Dr.
Universität Aachen
Böttcher, Friederike
Lebensprojekt Eine Spinnerei
Bourcarde, Kay, Dr.
Institut für Wachstumsstudien
Bouvattier, Adèle
Bradley, Karin, Prof. Dr.
KTH, Sweden
Brand, Sebastian
Beck, Mareike
Bredemeyer, Jo
Albrecht, Melanie
Performance artist/ friendly fire
Beck, Marisa
University of Waterloo
Brehm, Susanne
Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
Alsina i Muro, Carla
Beck, Silke, Dr.
Bresnihan, Patrick
Altmann, Philipp
FU Berlin
Becker, Frank
Wissenschaftsladen kubus, TU Berlin
Brettin, Suse
HU Berlin
Alton, Roland
FH Vorarlberg & ALLMENDA Social Business e.G.
Becker, Sebastian
Universität Göttingen
Briens, François
Ecole des Mines ParisTech
Ančić, Branko, Dr.
Becker, Sören
Brown, Tenille, Dr.
Anders, Christina
Bender, Harald
Akademie Solidarische Ökonomie
Brownhill, Leigh
McGill University
Benning, Reinhild
BUND / FoE Germany
Brugvin, Thierry, Dr.
Andersson, Jan Otto, Prof. Dr.
Åbo Akademi
Andreas, Marcus
Research in Community
Andreucci, Diego
Benthin, Sven
Grüne Stadt-Planungsgemeinschaft
Anson, April, Dr.
University of Oregon
Bernholt, Norbert
Aoki, Hidekazu
University of Nagoya City
Berro, Chema
CGT Spain
Apostolidi, Catherine
Benjamin Best
Wuppertal Institute
Appel, Margit
Kath. Sozialakademie Österreich
Armiero, Marco
Arsel, Murat
International Institute of Social Studies at the Hague
Artola, Miren
Allmende-Kontor Berlin
Betz, Florian
Musician, Dance educator
Betz, Gregor
TU Dortmund
Betzl, Joachim
KompostKreis
Buckland, Kevin
350.org
Buenfil Rodriguez, Mario, Prof. Dr.
Instituto Mexicano de Tecnología del Agua
Bugiel, Lukas
Institut für Musikpädagogik
Buhl, Johannes
Wuppertal Institute
Bullard, Nicola
RLS
Burkhart, Corinna
R&D, Degrowth 2014
Büscher, Bram, Dr.
Institute of Social Studies
Biesecker, Adelheid, Prof. em.
Universität Bremen
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Attac working groups EKU&JdW
Bischof, Carina
Upcycling Fashion Store Berlin
Cahen-Fourot, Louison
Université Paris
Ax, Christine
Independent author
Blaschke, Ronald
Calvario, Rita
ICTA - UAB
Bleckert, Melanie
Carestiato, Nadia, Prof.
Blobel, Jona
Caspar Jürgens, Anke
Oya
Asara, Viviana
R&D
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Cattaneo, Claudio, Dr.
R&D
Dietz, Kristina
desiguALdades.net
Centgraf, Salina
UFZ
Dittrich, Kerstin
Forno, Francesca
University of Bergamo
Dobrusskin, Janina
Generation Nachhaltigkeit e.V.
Frahm, Ole
Ligna
Dolgov, Ilya
Artist
Fremaux, Anne
Queens University Belfast
Domazet, Mladen, Dr.
Group 22
Freydorf, Christoph
WANG
Dönnebrink, Thomas
OuiShare
Freyendorf, Christoph
Sustainable Money Research Group
Döring, Ralf, Dr.
Freyling, Vera
Wuppertal Institute
Cevallos, Belen
RLS, Quito
Chancel, Lucas
IDDRI
Chimange, Getrude
Justice and Peace Commission, Zimbabwe
Christoph
solE - solidarische Energieversorgung
Clausing, Peter
Berlin
Drupp, Moritz A.
Universität Kiel
Conde, Marta
R&D
Duchrow, Ulrich, Prof.
KAIROS Europa
Constein, Daniel
Degrowth 2014
Duverger, Timothée
University of Bordeaux-Montaigne
Corn, Ula
DanceArtistBerlinMenorca
Cray, Christian
Verband Entwicklungspolitik Niedersachsen
Curran, Michael, Dr.
ETH Zurich
Cuvillier, Sandrine
University of Rio de Janeiro
Cvijanovic, Vladimir, Dr.
Grupa 22
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D’Alessandro, Simone, Dr.
University of Pisa
D’Alisa, Giacomo
R&D
Dal Santo, Elena
Kingston University
Dallmer, Jochen
Dannenberg, Janina
Leuphana Universität Lüneburg
Dauber, Heinrich
Universität Kassel
Daza, Mar
de Araújo, Thassio
University of Ceará
de la Vega-Leinert, A. Christina, Dr.
Universität Greifswald
de Miguel Wessendorf, Karin
Filmer
De Vogli, Roberto, Prof. Dr.
UC Davis Health System
de Zoysa, Uchita
Centre for Environment & Development
Deck, Jan
Dramatic advisor, curator
Del Bene, Daniela
R&D
Dellheim, Judith
RLS
Demaria, Federico
R&D
Derwanz, Heike, Dr.
HafenCity Universität Hamburg
Di Dio, Alessia
Moins! Journal romand d’écologie politique
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Ebenbeck, Hendrik
Freie Schule Leipzig
Ebinger, Frank, Dr.
BUND / FoE Germany
Egger, Dominic
Real World Economics Heidelberg
Fried, Barbara
RLS
Frisius, Thomas, Dr.
Universität Hamburg
Fritz, Martin
GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Fuchs, Corinna
Wandel.Gemeinsam.Performen
Füsers, Stefan
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Egia Olaizola, Andoni
Gabbert, Karin
RLS
Ehlers, Melf-Hinrich
The James Hutton Institute
Gallardo, Lucía
ICTA - UAB
Ekardt, Felix, Prof. Dr.
BUND / FoE Germany
Gamboa, Gonzalo
ICTA - UAB
Electronic Swing Orchstra Band
García-López, Gustavo
ICTA - UAB
Eliçabe, Oriana
Artist / enmedio
Gardiol, Francesca
Emanuelli, Silvia
Habitat International Coalition, Mexiko
Gebauer, Jana
IÖW, Germany
Embshoff, Dagmar
Forum Solidarische Ökonomie
Genus, Audley, Prof. Dr.
Kingston University
Esteva, Gustavo, Dr.
Georgiev, Nikolay
Open Source Ecology Deutschland
Euler, Johannes
Commons Institut
Ewald, Sonja
Kindertheater Mimekry
Eyrich, Ralph
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Fabricius, Wolfgang, Dr.
Akademie und Forum Solidarische Ökonomie
Faerber, Alexa, Prof. Dr.
Farrell, Katharine
Georgousi, Fotini
Nea Guinea
Gerstetter, Christiane
Ecologic Institute
Gheorghica, Anca
Mai bine Romania
Gieseking, Miriam
Amt für Werbefreiheit und gutes Leben
Gioia, Paula
Bündnis Junge Landwirtschaft
Giuliana, Giorgi
Forum Solidarische Ökonomie, attac
Gladkykh, Ganna
Faßmann, Alix
Haus Bartleby, Zentrum für Karriereverweigerung
Goepel, Maja, Dr.
Wuppertal Institute
Fellner, Wolfgang, Dr.
Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Görg, Christoph
UFZ
Fernandes, Lúcia
SOCIUS, CES, Portugal
Gorostiza, Santiago
ENTITLE - European Network of Political Ecology
Ferrari, Arianna, Dr.
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Gottschlich, Daniela
Field, Simon
World Carfree Network
Grabs, Janina
Diana Wesser
Fioramonti, Lorenzo, Prof. Dr.
Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation
Dibbern, Julia
Artgerecht Projekt
Fischer, Sylvain
Entesa pel decreixement, Spanien
Diefenbacher, Hans, Prof. Dr.
FESt
Flechter, Robert, Dr.
University for Peace, Costa Rica
Dietrich, Anne
Fleischer, Anna
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Forkasiewicz, Kris
Gran, Christoph
Universität Oldenburg
Granada, Soledad
Graugaard, Jeppe
Greenham, Tony
nef, Transition Network
Grünberg, Frederik
Degrowth 2014
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Guillen, Monica
University of Oslo
Hoettem, Kerstin
Oikos Köln
Kayemba, Patrick
EURIST Uganda
Guindani, Marta
Circolo per la Decrescita Felice di Torino
Hoffmann, Hartmut, Dr.
BUND / FoE Germany
Keller, Claudia
Rote Beete
Gustack Delambre, Mildred
Nova Oikos
Hofmann, Michael
Postwachstumskolleg Jena
Kellerhoff, Simone
Material Mafia
Haake, Hans
Holt-Giménez, Eric
Food First
Kempf, Hervé
Reporterre
Haas, Willi, Dr.
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
Holthaus, Anna
BUND Jugend/ Young FoE Germany
Kern, Bruno, Dr.
Initiative Ökosozialismus
Habermann, Friederike, Dr.
Author
Holz, Frederik
Open Source Ecology Deutschland
Kerschner, Christian, Dr.
R&D
Hable, Silvia
Author/Degrowth 2014
Hoogendyk, Willem
Kichler, Nikolas
Hooker-Stroud, Alice
CAT, zero-carbon Britain
Kiefel, Willi
Feasta
Horn, Nina
Horstink, Lanka
Kilian, Pablo Paolo
Musician & composer
Horstmann, Nina
BioRegional
Kiss, Veronika
CEEweb for Biodiversity
Hübner, Niko
BUNDJugend /Degrowth 2014
Klatt, Anne
UBA
Hueners, Michael
Ligna
Klein, Naomi
Author & activist
Humburg, Anja
Journalist
Kliemann, Christiane
freelance journalist
Hadjimichael, Maria, Dr.
Aalborg University, Denmark
Hafele, Jakob
Häger, Johanna
Permakultur Akademie
Halder, Severin
Allmende Kontor Berlin
Halfmann, Tabea
Handrich, Thomas
Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Klingler-Lauer, Maggie
S21-Protests
Hansjürgens, Bernd, Dr.
Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ
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Hartkemeyer, Tobias
Dialogprojekt, Hof Pente, Germany
Imai, Heide, Dr.
Hosei University
Hartz, Ronald
Haselbach, Dieter
Immendoerfer, Andrea
Knapp, Andreas, Dr.
Katholische Ordensgemeinschaft der Kleinen Brüder
vom Evangelium
Haubner, Tine
Universität Jena
Infante-Amante, Juan, Dr.
University of Pablo de Olavide
Knapp, Simone
Kirchliche Arbeitsstelle Südliches Afrika KASA
Hausotter, Jette
TU Hamburg-Harburg
Isphording, Angela
RLS
Knierim, Bernhard, Dr.
Netzwerk Solidarische Mobilität
Häußermann, Dorothee
ausgeCO2hlt / Arbeitsgruppe Krieg und Klima
Jakobsen, Sirkka
ifeu
Knips, Charlotte
Fraunhofer UMSICHT, Oberhausen
Hawkins, Richard
Public Interest Research Centre
Hehl, Frauke
Kunststoffe Berlin e.V.
J
Janssen, Georg
Arbeitsgemeinschaft bäuerliche Landwirtschaft
Klostermeyer, Theresa
Deutscher Naturschutzring
Knolle, Helmut
Décroissance Bern
Knoop, Bettina
Universität Passau
Kny, Josefa
FUTURZWEI
Heimstädt, Cornelius
ANNALINDE Gemeinschaftsgarten
Jeffrey, Karen
New Economics Foundation
Heinrichs, Harald, Prof. Dr.
Jensen, Annette
Author
Heise, Hannes
Wagenplatz Scherbelburg;
Haus- und WagenRat Leipzig
Jeronimo, Helena
Koch, Max, Prof. Dr.
Lund University
Jestel, Jana
Kolbe, Daniela
MdB/MP, SPD
Ji, Matt
Kollektiv AG Beratung
Juriga, Roman
Orthodox Academy Vilemov
Konne / Neuffer, Konrad
Autodidaktische Initiative Leipzig, Rote Beete
Hennicke, Peter, Prof. Dr.
Wuppertal Institute
K
Konstantatos, Haris
Harokopio University Athens
Henning, Christoph, Dr.
Kadur, Sylvia
Herrmann, Michael
UNFPA
Kallis, Giorgos, Prof. Dr.
R&D
Hildbrand, Mirjam
Dramatic advisor
Kaphahn, Janina
Annalinde Gemeinschaftsgarten
Hildmann, Christian
BUND / FoE Germany
Kaphengst, Timo
Ecologic Institute
Hinterberger, Friedrich, Dr.
Käptń Peng und die Tentakel von Delphi
Hinton, Jennifer
Post Growth Institute, Athens, Greece
Katz, Christine, Dr.
Hirschbrunn, Katharina
Hochschule für Philosophie
Kaudia, Alice
MoE, Kenya
Kratzwald, Brigitte
commons.at
Hirschnitz-Garbers, Martin, Dr.
Ecologic Institute
Kaufmann, Kerstin
Krause, Johannes
Impuls – Agentur für angewandte Utopien
Helfrich, Silke
Commons Strategies Group, Germany
Henkel, Andrea
Henn, Laura
Kaufmann, Nadine
Koch, David
Universität Freiburg
Köpke, Sören
TU Braunschweig
Kopp, Martin
University of Strasbourg
Korte, Jan
Amt für Werbefreiheit und gutes Leben
Kosonewski, Mike
Kothari, Ashish
Kalpavriksh, Indien
Kramp, Gunter
Krauss, Alexander, Dr.
Worldbank
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Lorek, Sylvia
Sustainable Europe Research Institute
McAfee, Kathleen, Prof. Dr.
San Francisco State University
Krönkvist, Rodrigo
Décroissance Basel
Lorenz, Ullrich
UBA
McNeil, Nadine
Autodidaktische Initiative Leipzig
Kuchenbuch, Ludolf
Lorenzen, Astrid
Fab Lab, p2p
Mehling, Melinda
Blue Engineering Gruppe
Löschmann, Heike
Meier, Thomas
Gen D.A.CH
Kung, Christoph
Löw, Christine
Fellow Postwachstumsgesellschaft
FSU Jena
Meyer-Renschhausen, Elisabeth
Solidarische Ökonomie
Kunze, Conrad, Dr.
Lübbermann, Uwe
Premium Cola
Kuttler, Tobias
Luber, Beate-Josefine
Universität Bielefeld
Kuhley, Lisa
Café Kaputt / Lebende Visionen
Kühne, Steffen
RLS
Michaelsen, Torsten
Ligna
Miller, Naomi
University of Bristol, UK
Ministery of Space
Ludewig, Damian
FÖS
Minkus, Noriko
The Japanese House Leipzig
Labaeye, Adrien
Lukas, Melanie
Wuppertal Institute
MitOst e.V.
Ladach, Martin
Bergwaldprojekt
Luthmann, Timo
imagine communication
Mohaupt, Anne-Carin
Lahusen, Miriam
Design Research Lab, UdK
Lutz, Christian, Dr.
GWS mbH
L
Lamanna, Davide
Binario Etico
Lang, Miriam
RLS
Lange, Steffen
Langen, Nina, Dr.
Langsdorf, Susanne
Larsen, Frederik
Copenhagen Business School
Latoufis, Kostas
Nea Guinea
M
Maclurcan, Donnie
Post Growth Institute, Southern Oregon University,
USA
Leidig, Sabine
MdB / MP, LINKE
Lemmle, Julia
Artist
Lenz, Anselm
Haus Bartleby, Zentrum für Karriereverweigerung
Maier, Michael
OpenStreetMap
Muhigirwa, Ferdinand
Arrupe Research and Training Center, DR Congo
Maïzi, Nadia, Prof.
Muhr, Lisa
Gemeinwohlökonomie
Manns, Florian
Müller-Plantenberg, Clarita, Prof. Dr.
Forum Solidarische Ökonomie e.V.
Müller, Christa
Anstiftung Ertomis
Manteuffel Essbarer
Waldgarten Halle, Germany
Müller, Christine
anders wachsen
Marbert Rocel
DJs
Müller, Florian
Dragon Dreaming Leipzig
Marching Band Leipzig
Band
Müller, Julian
Universität Jena
Maréchal, Aurélie
Beyond the Hill The What If Network
Müller, Michael
Naturfreunde
Marinho, Lina
Müller, Tadzio, Dr.
RLS, ifG
Markantonatou, Maria, Dr.
University of the Aegean
Leonardi, Emanuele
University of Bergamo
Martens, Dörte
Liegey, Vincent
A Degrowth Project
Martín, Facundo, Prof.
Martin, Leonidas
Artist/enmedio
LIGNA
Martinez-Alier, Joan, Prof.
UAB
Lindley, Mark, Prof. Dr.
University of Hyderabad
Martínez, Esperanza
Oilwatch and Acción Ecologica, Equador
Litsch, Franz-Johannes
Buddhanetz
Maschkowski, Gesa
Research in Community e.V.
Littig, Beate
Institut für Höhere Studien
Mauerhofer, Volker
UNU-IAS
Loeffler, Anthusa, Prof. Dr.
HTWK Leipzig
May, Felix
Lombard, Gabriel
Mayer, Maix
Artist
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Müller-Dechent, Christoph
FoodLoop GmbH
Manns, Melanie
Lenz, Sarah
Universität Frankfurt
Liesen, Andrea, Dr.
Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung
Moreno, Camila
Universidade Federal Rural de Rio de Janeiro
Mpofu, Elizabeth
Via Campesina
Mance, Euclides André
Solidary Economy, Brasil
Le Dû, Mathieu
Virage-Énergie Nord-Pas de Calais
Moreau, Vincent
University of Lausanne
Mahler, Hermann
attac Deutschland
Laville, Jean-Louis
Le Clanche, Jean François, Dr.
Montis, Alessandro
Movimento per la Decrescita Felice
Moths, Katharina
Universität Lüneburg
Malig, Fried
NEWW
Layes, Clement
Artist
Montez, Rui
Fairbindung
Mader, Simon
Laumanns, Christopher
Degrowth 2014/Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
Lay, Jenny
Mobile Albania
Münch, Lisa
FU Berlin
Muraca, Barbara
DFG-Kolleg Postwachstumsgesellschaften
N
Nakajima, Sayoko
Narain, Sunita
CSE India, per Video
Narberhaus, Michael
Smart CSOs Lab
Narberhaus, Michael
Smart CSOs Lab
Nascimento, Elimar
Nenov, Asen
activist Bulgaria
Netter, Sarah
Copenhagen Business School
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Netzer, Nina
FES
Pallante, Maurizio
Neuber, Frederike
Palma Galván, Fernando
Facultad de Estudios Superiores Aragón UNAM
Neumann, Kai
Consideo GmbH
Palzkill, Alexandra
Wuppertal Institute
Neumann, Martina
Ökolöwe - Umweltbund Leipzig
Pancewicz, Lukasz, Dr.
TU Gdansk
Neumüller, Denis
Commons-Institut
Pansera, Mario
University of Exeter, UK
Prüss, Jaana
Artist, Cultural activist
Nicoletti, Arianna
Upcycling Fashion Store Berlin
Pappalardo, Giusy, Dr.
Puglia, Stefano
WLAB Srl
Niebert, Kai
DNR, Naturfreunde Deutschland
Niedorf, Marco
Nierling, Linda
KIT
Niessen, Jonathan
Nilia, Ferruccio, Dr.
Nitzpon, Daniel
Netzwerk Vorsicht Freihandel / Attac Leipzig
Norberg-Hodge, Helena
Schooling the world, ISEC
Nørgård, Jørgen
TU Dänemark
Norris, Timothy
University of California
Norton, Dan
Artist
Notz, Gisela
Solidarische Ökonomie
Novy-Huy, Rolf
Stiftung Trias
Paranyushkin, Dmitry
Artist
Pardo Vallejo, Fèlix
DEA UPF, Col·lectiu Mostassa
Paschmann, Robert
Doktales
Paternoga, Dagmar
attac Deutschland
Posse, Dirk
Prätor, Klaus
Prochaska, Frieda
Handlungsnetz e.V.
Pröschi
Soned e.V.
Proztoroz
Pühl, Katharina
RLS
Pürckhauer, Andrea
Universität Potsdam, Germany
Pyhälä, Aili, Dr.
University of Helsinki
Paulina
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Pellegrini, Lorenzo
Erasmus Universität Rotterdam
Quade, Dorothee
Universität Jena
Penndorf, Thomas
GEN D.A.CH.
Quintana Diaz, Josué Manuel
Universität Frankfurt
Pérez-Rocha, Manuel
Institute for Policy Studies
Pérez, Imma Loper
L’Art du Soleil
Pershon, Jürgen
EURIST
Peschke, Anna
Artist
R
Rademacher, Max
Alternatiba Deutschland
Radhuber, Isabella
Universität Wien
Ragazzini, Irene Unitierra
Peter Stamer
Ramírez, Alejandro
Nu Jork Fackin Zitti
Musician
Peters, Sybille
geheimagentur, Universität Hamburg
Rassmann, Hannes
Stadt Karawane
Nüdling, Sarah
Doktales
Petit, Victor
TU Troyes
Rätz, Werner
attac Deutschland
Petrakos, Konstantinos
TU Athen
Rau, Henrike, Dr.
National University of Ireland
Petridis, Panos
Universität Klagenfurt
Rauch, Carolin
Ifo Institut
Petrin, Julian
Nexthamburg Plus
Raunig, Gerald, Prof.
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste, eipcp
Peukert, Helge, Prof. Dr.
Universität Erfurt
Rauschmayer, Felix, Dr.
UFZ
Oda, Masayo
Philipp, Katharina
Permakultur Institut
Real, Marion, Dr.
APESA
Oetsch, Silke, Dr.
Universität Innsbruck
Piani, Lucia, Prof. Dr.
University of Udine
Reckordt, Michael
PowerShift
Oettel, Falk
Ladebalken Leipzig
Piccoletti, Francesca
Movimento della decrescita felice
Reichel, André, Dr.
European Center for Sustainability Research
Omann, Ines, Dr.
UFZ Leipzig
Pichelmann, Karl
Europäische Kommission
Reiß, Kristin
Universität Kassel
Opper, Daniel
ZEIT-Stiftung
Pigeon Toed Band
Reitz, Tilman
Universität Jena
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O’Hara, Sabine
University of the District of Columbia
O’Neill, Daniel, Dr.
Universität Leeds
Ober, Steffi
Forschungswende c.o. VDW e.V.
Ortiz, Lucia
Brasil
Otero, Iago, Dr.
R&D
Ott, Hermann, Dr.
Wuppertal Institute
Otto, Birke Dorothea, Dr.
Pinault, Eric, Prof. Dr.
University of Québec
Pneuma Szöv
Podlaszewska, Ammalia
Bauhaus Universität Weimar
Poerting, Julia
Universität Heidelberg
Pohl, Christine
INKOTA
Restakis, John
FLOK Society, Ecuador
Reuter, Norbert, Dr.
Ver.di Bundesvorstand, RWTH Aachen
Režný, Lukáš
University of Hradec Králové
Richard-Elsner, Christiane
ABA Fachverband
Richter, Dolores
ZEGG Belzig, Bee School Berlin
P
Pohler, Nina
WU Wien
Pabst, Sabine
Stadtbauernhof Leipzig
Pohlmann, Jonas
Richter, Regine
urgewald e.V.
Poma, Muruchi
Ayni e-Verein für Ressourcengerechtigkeit
Richters, Oliver
NEWW, VÖÖ
Paech, Niko, apl. Prof. Dr.
Poscher, Eric
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Riffaud, Josie
Via Campesina
Schenk, Sandra
attac Leipzig
Siniarski, Agata
Artist
Ringger, Beat
Denknetz, Switzerland
Schepelmann, Philipp
Skinner, Lara, Dr.
Global Labour Institute
Rink, Dieter, Prof. Dr.
UFZ
Rippelbeck, Tanja-Maria, Dr.
Gemeinschaftskeimling Leipzig
Scheub, Ute
Author
Schirmer, Matthias
Zukunftsakademie Leipzig
Schlauch, Michael
Slabschi, Karl H.
Gemeinwohlökonomie
Smeds, Josefin
Lund University
Rittershaus, Tania
Permakultur Akademie
Schmelzer, Matthias
Universität Genf
Rodenhäuser, Dorothee
FESt
Schmidt, Nicola
Artgerecht Projekt
Rodriguez Labajos, Beatriz
EJOLT/ R&D
Schmidt, Tiina
Aalto University
Solé, Joan
IntegraRevolution
Roeder, Julian
Artist
Schmitz, Friederike
Sommer, Bernd
Universität Flensburg
Romano, Onofrio
University of Bari Aldo Moro
Schneeweiss, Johannes
Smith-Spash, Tone
Smulders, Sjak, Prof. Dr.
Tilburg University
Soldner, Sigrid
Sonnberger, Marco
Schneider, François, Dr.
R&D
Sophie
Römpke, Anne
Schneider, Hannah
Universität Tübingen
Space Busters Band
Rosa, Hartmut
Universität Jena
Schneidewind, Uwe, Prof. Dr.
Wuppertal Institute
Rost, Norbert
Büro für postfossile Regionalentwicklung, Dresden
Spash, Clive, Prof. Dr.
WU
Scholl, Gerd
IÖW, Germany
Roth, Stephanie
DIVERSU e.V.
Spitzner, Meike
Wuppertal Institute
Scholtyssek, Gregor
Permakultur Institut e.V.
Rux, Jana
ANNALINDE Gemeinschaftsgarten
Spott, Miriam
ADFC
Scholz, Dietmar
Stadtpflanzer e.V.
Ruzzene, Maurizio, Dr.
Associazione italiana per la decrescita
Scholz, Sarah
Commons-Institut
Rybnikova, Irma
TU Chemnitz
Schreiber, Friedemar
S
Schröder, Rolf F.H.
Sachs, Oliver
Schuler, Christiana
Tonndorfer Schlossmilch
Romero, Esther
L’art du Soleil / Cooperativa integral Catalana
Saes, Beatriz
UNICAMP
Salmela, Tarja
University of Lapland
Samerski, Silja
San Miguel, Miguel
Attac, Beta Kooperative Leipzig
Schröder, Andressa
Schüle, Kurt
Schulze, Karin
Gesellschaft für angewandte Tiefenökologie
Schäfer, Julia
Curator
Schaffartzik, Anke
Universität Klagenfurt
Schäle, Christoffer
Zirkeldreher
Schäpke, Niko
UFZ
Steffestun, Theresa
Stein, Eva Kristin
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Steinwender, David
Stella, Giordano, Dr.
Stephan Lessenich, Prof. Dr.
DFG-Research Group Postwachstumsgesellschaften
Sedlacko, Michal, Dr.
Stern, Bertrand
Philosopher
Seibt, Alexandra
Schachtschneider, Ulrich, Dr.
RLS
Steffansen, Rasmus
Schweighofer, Martin
Zeppelin Universität
Sanne, Christer
Autor, Sweden
Sarkar, Saral
Initiative Ökosozialismus
Stanszus, Laura
Stenglein, Ferdinand
Seemann, Silke, Dr.
Zukunftsinstitut Österreich
Santarius, Tilman
University of California, Berkeley
Stamer, Peter
Performance artist
Schwausch, Christiane
good:matters, Germany
Sanders, Christoph Maria
Universität Tübingen
Sanpetreanu, Dan
The Permanent Culture Club
Spangenberg, Joachim H., Dr.
Seidl, Irmi
Seitz, Klaus
Bread for the World, Venro
Sekulova, Filka, Dr.
R&D
Semenova, Kristina
Curator
Stocker, Andrea
Sustainable Europe Institute Vienna
Stoll, Georg
Misereor
Stoltenberg, Ute, Prof. Dr.
Stör, Lorenz
Universität Wien, Austria
Strasheim-Weitz, Walter
Sen, Alok, Prof. Dr.
Stratford, Beth
Serlavós, Mònica
Strauch, Robert
Permakultur-Akademie
Serra, Ariadna
Cooperativa Integral Catalana
Siefkes, Christian
Keimform
Strickner, Alexandra
attac Österreich
Striewe, Wolfgang
Siemoneit, Andreas
NEWW
Strötzel, Maximilian
Sociologist
Sievers-Glotzbach, Stefanie, Dr.
Strunk, Friederike
Schauerhammer, Manuela
Silva, Rodrigo
Scheibler, Uwe
BUND / FoE Germany
Simon, Klaus
Swieder, Julia
Scheidler, Fabian
attac Deutschland
Simon, Rebecca
JabL
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von Thadden, Elisabeth, Dr.
ZEIT Journalist
Wild, Werner
BUND
Tamlit, Alistair
Tammilehto, Olli
von Winterfeld, Uta, Dr.
Wuppertal Institute
Wildhack, Anna
Nexthamburg Plus
Theodoropoulos, Michalis
iliosporoi network
Voß, Elisabeth
NETZ
Wilén, Kristoffer
Thürling, Marleen
Vosse, Corinna
Winkelmann, Bernd
Vostretsova, Olga
Kuratorin
Winkelmann, Markus
ITAS
Voswinkel, Stephan, PD, Dr.
Wissen, Markus, Prof. Dr.
Thylmann, Miron
Timaeus, Johannes
Toivakainen, Niklas
Tomasevic, Tomislav
Touissant, Ben
good:matters, Germany
Tremel, Luise
FUTURZWEI
Trettel Silva, Gabriel
Treu, Nina
Degrowth 2014/Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
Tuchscheerer, Tina
Ladebalken Leipzig
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Wächter, Petra, Dr.
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Wittmann, Felix
Wagner, Felix
Wolf, Roland
Permakultur Verein e.V.
Wagner, Katrin
FEMinistECOnomy Gruppe HU Berlin
Wolf, Winfried, Dr.
Journalist
Wahl, Stefanie
Denkwerk Zukunft
Wölfl, Helena
Wähning, Petra
Genussgemeinschaft Städter und Bauern
Turnbull, Shann, Dr.
Waitz, Colette
ITAS
Tuschen, Stefan
Commons Institute
Walnum, Hans Jakob
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Witt, Anna
Artist
Waniek, Angelika
Artist
Wanner, Matthias
Udovyk, Oksana
Södertörn University
Weber, Sabine
Hinkelsteindruck
Umpfenbach, Katharina
Ecologic Institute
Wédtke, Nils Christian
Musician
Unmüßig, Barbara
Wegener, Henrike
Impuls - Agentur für angewandte Utopien
Urban, Janina
Wehren, Michael
Urhahn, Jan
INKOTA
Weiger, Hubert, Prof. Dr.
V
Weimann, Carina
Dragon Dreaming Leipzig
Weihmayr, Benedikt
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Zahrnt, Angelika, Prof. Dr.
BUND/FoE Germany
Zeiger, Simone
Vegetable Cooperative Rote Beete
Ziai, Aram, Dr.
Ziegler, Robert
Bildungsreferent
Ziemann, Luc-Carolin
Film curator
Zieschank, Roland
FU Berlin
Zimmer, Matthias, Prof. Dr.
MdB/MP, CDU
Zimmermann, Lars
Open Source & Ökologische Ökonomie
Zimmermann, Theresa
ŽivĊiĊ, Lidija
Vadovics, Edina
Greendependent
Weischer, Lutz
BUND/FoE Germany
Zografos, Cristof, Dr.
ICTA - UAB
Vadrot, Alice
Weiske, Constanze
Universität Göttingen
Zummo, Stefano
Valentukeviciute, Laura
Gemeingut in BürgerInnenhand
Van der Wekken, Ruby
Vartanian, Anna
Environmental University Odessa
Varvarousis, Angelos, Dr.
Veciana, Stella
Leuphana Universität, Research Arts Plattform
Velegrakis, Giorgos
Harokopio University of Athens
Velicu, Irina, Dr.
Harokopio-University of Athens
Vergragt, Philip, Prof. Dr.
Tellus Institute, Boston
Verrea, Valerio, Dr.
Vetter, Andrea
Degrowth 2014/HU Berlin
Vidal, Malo
Educational consultant
Vila Seoane, Maximiliano
Vogel, Tobias
von Helldorff, Katja
Material Mafia
von Jorck, Gerrit
Attac Berlin
Welter, Hanni
Welzer, Harald, Prof. Dr.
FUTURZWEI, NEC
Wember, Carla
Werner, Dominik
Transition Theater Marburg
Wesser, Diana
Artist
Westerkowski, Janina
Westermayer, Till
Westra, Richard, Dr.
Nagoya University, Japan
Weth, Felix
Fairnopoly eG
White, James
University of Hradec Králové
Wieding, Jutta
BUND/FoE Germany
Wiefek, Jasmin
Universität Flensburg
Wiener, Ron
British Psychodrama Association
Wiesmann, Thorsten
think2share
Wild, Stephanie
Netzwerk Solidarische Landwirtschaft
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Logistics and general
information
Accommodation
When you registered for the conference, you were asked to make a prior
selection for your accommodation. The
options were to stay overnight in hotels/hostels, on our camping site on the
AGRA premises in the south of Leipzig
or in private homes of Leipzig residents.
For questions regarding accommodation and availability, please contact the
Infopoint .
Childcare
In order to enable participants with
children to take part in the conference
and thus also get involved in political
processes, we offer a full-day childcare
service at the university. From Wednesday to Friday from 8:30 am to 1:15 pm
and from 2:15 pm to 7:15 pm a fixed
childcare team as well as volunteers
(made up partly of parents) will look after the children and play, eat, rest, read
books, sing, paint and look at clouds
with them . ... They will do their very
best to make sure that the kids are happy while the parents are attending the
conference. For events that are suitable
for both child and parent, please look
out for the Teddy bear symbol.
Please contact [email protected] to let
us know whether you need childcare and
support (by indicating number of children, age, language, allergies etc.). Please
do not hesitate to contact us for
any other queries.
Food and drinks
During the conference, vegan, organic
and seasonal lunch and dinner will be
offered by “Le Sabot” in the University’s
courtyard. “Le Sabot” is an experienced
mobile interactive kitchen collective.
They have organised open kitchens at
various events over the years. Most of
the vegetables will be provided by the
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solidarity agriculture cooperative “Rote
Beete”, a project located 16 km north–
west of Leipzig. You will have the opportunity to get to know the project
during the conference.
The food will be provided on a donation
basis. This gives everybody the opportunity to enjoy a delicious and healthy
meal regardless of the participant’s individual financial situation.
Coffee will be provided by the collective „Cafe Libertad“ and will be served to
you by „Grüne Minna“. They have been
beverage providers at small and large
attac meetings for many years now.
Alcohol-free drinks and organic cakes
will also be offered by the team Libelle. Libelle is a libertarian shop project
that has been active in the city center
of Leipzig for 10 years.
Please also note special section on “coffee, drinks, cakes“.
Helping
The Degrowth-Conference 2014 comes
alive with your support! We welcome
everyone who can help us with a task it doesn't take long and contributes to a
successful conference. You can find the
volunteer coordination team and a list
of current tasks near the helpdesk in
the lobby of the Audimax (Augusteum).
Infopoint and
info-telephone number
From 2 to 6 September, if you have any
questions for the organizing team of
the conference, please do not hesitate
to come to the Infopoint in the lobby
of the Audimax ( Augusteum) or call the
following number: +49 176/98 28 93 92
Internet access / WLAN / WiFi
For the period of the conference from
2 to 6 September all participants have
access to free WiFi of the University
Leipzig network:
Name of WiFi:
Password (PSK):
UniLeipzig-Event
Degrowth-2014
After a successful connection, the
terms and conditions of the network
must be accepted in order to activate
the Internet connection for the computer / mobile devices. To do this, please
open a browser and the relevant page
should be shown automatically. This
activation must be repeated for every
conference day.
Leaflets
We would like to display leaflets at central points. Please think before if you really need to display your leaflet. Please register any leaflet or promotional material
with us by sending us a sample at info@
degrowth.de; you can also come to the
Infopoint before you distribute your material and present it to us. We reserve the
right to collect and dispose of any flyers
and promotional material that was not
registered with us. This excludes flyers/
promotional material of organisations or
individual persons which are represented
at the Fair for Degrowth.
Mobility in Leipzig
Your conference accreditation / wrist
strap allows you for the period of the
conference, from 2 to 6 September, to
use all public transport, such as buses,
trains and trams within the city zone
of Leipzig (Tarifzone/ fare zone 110). On
the day of your arrival, the confirmation you receive from us via email in
August can also be used as your ticket
for public transport.
Logistics and general information
For those of you who prefer getting
around by bicycle, you can rent a bike
with nextbike, our cooperation partner for bike rental. There are about 500
bicycles at different locations spread
around in Leipzig (also at the University). These bikes can be parked at any
official nextbike station after use. For
an overview of the stations go to www.
nextbike.de/en/locations.
In order to use nextbike’s offer, you
must register with them on their website www.nextbike.de/en. Go to their
website and under the category “partner” choose Degrowth Conference, and
under the category “Tarifoption/ fare
type” choose “KEINE Tarifoption/ NO
fare type”. By doing so, you don't need
to pay the basic fee. In the next step,
“payment”, even though another figure
may be indicated, you only have to pay
one euro or one euro is debited from
your account. With every nextbike use,
the first 30 minutes are free and only
after 30 minutes will the debited euro
be used. For every additional 30 minutes there is a fee of 0.50 euros. For more
information on bike rental and recharging your credit go to www.nextbike.
de/en/information.
Opening hours
Relaxation room
There is one relaxation room where
participants are welcome to go to have
some rest. It is located in the seminar
building on the 3rd floor in room S 301.
Please respect the designated silence in
this room.
Mutual respect
We would like all conference participants to show a culture of empathy and
mutual respect. If you become a witness
or victim of any form of harassment, attacks or discrimination, please come see
us at the Infopoint or talk to members
of the coordinating group (wearing Degrowth T-shirts). You will either be assisted immediately or asked to speak to a
contact person.
Office rooms for speakers
All speakers/contributors are welcome
to use the office rooms for speakers. You
can help yourself to something to drink
and there will be someone to help you
with any questions you might have.
For scientific speakers room S 204 (8.30
am - 8 pm), for workshop speakers, panel speakers and artists room S 202 (8:30
am – 6 pm).
The start and finishing time of the
events are listed in the programme. The
University of Leipzig is open from 7 am
to 10 pm. We can use the courtyard until 11:30 pm. Given that the courtyard is
closed overnight, we kindly ask you to
vacate the premises on time.
Photos und Videos
You are welcome to take and distribute
photos and videos at the conference.
This excludes concerts which take place
as part of the conference. Upon entering
the conference premises, every participant declares his/her approval that we
take photos and videos and use them afterwards for our documentation.
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Uni-Lagepläne
Maps of Leipzig University
Park next to the
Moritzbastei
Practical workshops, games und
Exhibitions
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• Workshops, mainly Practice &
Activism
• GAP
• Speakers/Contributors rooms:
S 202 & S 204
• Conference office: S 203
• Cloak room: S 210
• Relaxation room for all: S 301
• Childcare: I 129 und I 132
• Working room for the press (Press
Information at the Infopoint in the
lobby): I 119
• Working rooms for contributors:
I 201, I 215, I 302 und I 315
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Augustusplatz
Food and drink
Audimax
First aid (ground floor)
• Opening night
• Closing ceremony
• Big panels with translation
Registration and Infopoint
Paulinum
AUDIMAX
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Hörsaalgebäude
(Lectures building)
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University
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Hörsaalgebäude - 1st floor
Mostly events of Practice & Activism
• HS 3: Panels with translation
• Foyer: Fair for Degrowth
Elevator
Stairs
Lecture halls
HS3
HS4
HS2
HS5
HS1
HS6
Hörsaalgebäude - 2nd floor
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Scientific events
HS 9: non-translated panels
Foyer: Fair for Degrowth,
Poster Sessions, Open Space
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HS14
HS15
HS8
HS16
HS18
HS17
HS19 HS20
H220
HS21
HS9
HS10
HS11
HS7
HS12
Elevator
Stairs
Lecture halls
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11: Rad3, Erich-Köhn-Straße 63b
12: Café Kaputt, Merseburger Str. 102
13: Community garden ANNALINDE,
Zschochersche Str. 12.
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14: BÜKÜ - Büro für kulturelle Übersetzungen, Aurelienstraße 48
15: Tram-Stop „Felsenkeller“
16: Klingenstr./Markranstädter Str.
17: Zollschuppenstr. 1
Trams from Augustusplatz:
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Tram 7 Direction „Böhlitz-Ehrenberg“
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Tram 8 Direction „Grünau-Nord“
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Tram 14 Direction „Plagwitz“
Tram 15 Direction „Miltitz“
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City center
South (Connewitz)
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18: Werk 2 (Closing party)
19:Stadtgarten Connewitz,
Kohrener Str./Burgstädter Str.
19
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20:Degrowth 2014-camp site
agra Veranstaltungsgelände,
Bornaische Str. 210
Trams from Augustusplatz:
Tram 10 Direction „Lößnig“
Tram 11 Direction „Markkleeberg-Ost“
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Maps of Leipzig
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Center and East
0:Volkshochschule Leipzig (VHS),
Löhrstraße 3-7
1: Square in front of the Jobcenter,
Georg-Schumann-Str. 150
2: Leibniz-Gymnasium, Am Nordplatz 13
3: Haus 27, Schulze-Delitzsch-Str. 27
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4: Pöge-Haus, Hedwigstr. 20
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5: Vegetable Cooperative Rote Beete,
An der Schmiede 4,
04425 Sehlis/Taucha
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6. Museum of Fine Arts,
Katharinenstraße 10
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7: University of Leipzig,
Augustusplatz 10
8:Park next to the Moritzbastei
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9: Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst,
Karl-Tauchnitz-Straße 9-11
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Imprint
Publisher
Degrowth-Konferenz
c/o Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie
Klingenstr. 22
04229 Leipzig
Editors:
Corinna Burkhart und Nina Treu
Contributors:
Janna Aljets, Daniel Constein,
Steffen Lange, Christopher
Laumanns, Anne Pinnow, Anika
Reetsch, Christin Schmidt, Jonas
Streicher, Andrea Vetter
Overcoming the
growth paradigm
Lectures
Layout:
Ingo Bever, bilden & gestalten
Thomas Schoofs,
Christopher Laumanns
Organizing society
Discussions
Art and Music
Lector:
Gillian Laumanns
Science meets practice
Print:
Hinkelsteindruck, Berlin
100% recyled paper, 2 colour print
Edition:
2.250 (German), 850 (English)
Responsible person in
the sense of the law:
Nina Treu,
Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie,
Klingenstr. 22, 04229 Leipzig
Workshops
Social and ecological economy
Open Space
Our society and economy depend on growth.
At the Degrowth Conference more than 2000
people from all over the world discussed
alternatives.
Living conviviality
www.degrowth.de
Space to scribble
You can make your own postcard and then send or give it to someone. Either
right now or in a collective action at the closing event of the conference.
Why does degrowth matter?

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