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Art contribution • 2014

The Game / Das Spiel

[gallery link="file" columns="6" ids="100370,100371,100372,100373,100374"] From the conference programme: 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...

Art contribution • 2014

TAF! Photographic Action Workshop / TAF! Fotografie Aktions Workshop

By: Oriana Elicabe

[gallery link="file" columns="7" ids="100375,100376,100377,100378,100379,100380,100381,100382"] From the conference programme: TAF! is a theoretical-practical photography workshop over 3 days designed for action. It aims to share knowledge and practices in toolkit mode. We will look at photography and its use as a communication tool and as a way of collectively intervening in social issues....

Art contribution • 2014

Ideenreich ressourcenleicht | Participatory Design Workshop

By: Miriam Lahusen, Sirkka Jacobsen

[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="105124,105125,105126,105127"] From the conference programme: 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,...

Art contribution • 2014

Short film walk / Kurzfilmwanderung

By: Luc-Carolin Ziemann

[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="100383,100384,100385,100386"] From the conference programme: Join in for a stroll through the city of Leipzig. Equipped with a projector, sound system, generator and short films the short film walking 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...

Art contribution • 2014

Installations / Installationen Degrowth Conference 2014

By: Stella Veciana, Jaana Prüss, Dan Norton, Herwig Kemmerich

[gallery link="file" columns="4" ids="105123,105122,105121,105120"] From the conference programme: ELIJAHS BALL, Sculpture, Herwig Kemmerich 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...

Art contribution • 2014

Metamorphosen / Metamorphosen

By: Pablo Paolo Kilian, Melanie Bleckert

From the conference programme: n 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...

Report • 2014

Are there „natural“ limits to growth? An interactive debate

By: Unbekannt

Documentation of the event "Are there „natural“ limits to growth? An interactive debate" at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. From the conference programme: 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...

Position paper • 2014

Degrowth economy: What does this mean with regard to concepts of work?

By: Willi Haas, Adelheid Biesecker, Uta von Winterfeld

Documentation of the event "Degrowth economy: What does this mean with regard to concepts of work?" at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. From the conference programme: Roundtable discussion with short inputs: The reorganization of working societies and sustainable ways of living are closely linked. But the concepts of...

Report • 2014

Walk the line: Transformative practices for post-growth

By: Angelika Zahrnt, Jana Gebauer, André Reichel, Martin Schweighofer

Documentation of the event "Walk the line: Transformative practices for post-growth" at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. From the conference programme: Panel discussion & world café: Post-growth practices are already developing. Within this workshop we intend to discuss: - The co-evolutionary relation of...

Report • 2014

Working hours reduction as a part of degrowth agenda

By: Unbekannt, Ganna Gladkykh, Elena Bakhanova

Documentation of the event "Working hours reduction as a part of degrowth agenda" at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. From the conference programme: Participatory modelling: Degrowth paradigm implies significant changes in economy. Economic downscaling will cause an increase in unemployment rates. It will negatively...

Scientific paper • 2014

Πέρα από το δίλημμα λιτότητα ή ανάπτυξη: 11 κείμενα για την Αποανάπτυξη

By: Giorgos Kallis, Panos Petridis, Iliosporoi (Eds.)

Title: "Beyond the dilemma austerity or growth: 11 essays on degrowth" Contains, the following articles translated into greek as well as 3 others originally published in greek. 1. Kallis, G., Martinez‐ Alier, J., Norgaard, R. B. (2009), Paper assets, real debts: An ecological‐economic exploration of the global economic crisis, Critical perspectives on international Business, Vol. 5 No. 1/2....

Scientific paper • 2014

Post - Growth Economics: A Paradigm Shift in Progress

By: Samuel Alexander

postcarbonpathways.net.au: This paper reviews the key thinkers and movements in the emerging paradigm of ‘post-growth’ economics. By way of introduction, a brief overview of the growth paradigm is presented, in order to later highlight, by way of contrast, some of the most prominent features of the alternative paradigm. A substantial literature review of post-growth economics is then provided,...

Scientific paper • 2014

How to increase well-being in a context of degrowth

By: V. Andreoni, S. Galmarini

Degrowth; Economy of reciprocity; Well-being; Market work; Reciprocity work; Capitals

Scientific paper • 2014

Capitalist diversity and de-growth trajectories to steady-state economies

By: Hubert Buch-Hansen

Capitalist diversity; De-growth; Economic growth; Institutional change; Steady-state economy

Scientific paper • 2014

A meta-analysis investigation of the direction of the energy-GDP causal relationship: implications for the growth-degrowth dialogue

By: Panos Kalimeris, Clive Richardson, Kostas Bithas

Energy scarcity; Economic growth; Granger causality; Rough set data analysis; Multinomial logistic regression; Degrowth

Scientific paper • 2014

Essays on frugal abundance

By: Serge Latouche

Part of the introduction to part 1: The great Yale economist Irving Fisher (1867-1947) was said to have a parrot which he had trained to answer any question his students might ask with the words, ‘It’s the law of supply and demand.’ As I find myself facing the same old questions about degrowth over and over again in interviews and debates, I often wish I had such a partner. But if the laws of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Improving understanding on degrowth pathways: An exploratory study using collaborative causal models

By: Giorgos Kallis, François Schneider, Filka Sekulova, Nuno Videira

Degrowth; Systems thinking; Causal loop diagrams; Pathways; Participatory modelling

Scientific paper • 2014

Electronic currencies for purposive degrowth?

By: Claudio Vitari

Electronic currencies, degrowth, money, work system framework, Information and communication technology

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Brauch- und Wuchskultur auf die Gegenspur

By: Schattenblick

Der erste Artikel einer Berichtserie zur vierten Internationalen Degrowth Konferenz, die im September 2014 in Leipzig statt fand. In diesem Artikel wird mit einer ausführlichen Wachstumskritik auf die Konferenz Berichterstattung vorbereitet. BERICHT/028 aus der Rubrik "Bürger/Gesellschaft" > "Report" von der Zeitung Schattenblick > Mehr Artikel über die Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in...

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Schuld und Lohn ...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Growth, degrowth, and (the critique of) capitalism" mit Eric Pinault. Aus dem Bericht: Éric Pineault, Professor am Department für Soziologie an der Université du Québec in Montréal, mit seinem Vortrag über "Eine politische Ökonomie des Degrowth: die Widersprüche des Spätkapitalismus und der Imperativ eines ökologischen...