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Position paper • 2014

Transition to Degrowth Facilitated by Existing Shadow Society

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Reproduction and Work.

Position paper • 2014

Urban Transformations: Infrastructures and Degrowth

By: Benjamin Best

This media entry is a stirring paper of the Group Assembly Process (GAP) at the Degrowth Conference in Leipzig in 2014. This paper belongs the group Urban Transformation.

Presentation • 2014

Keynote speeches - Visions and strategies for transformation

By: Michel Bauwens, Euclides André Mance

Recorded keynote speeches at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speeches by Michel Bauwens and Euclides André Mance. The topic of the day is "Visions and strategies for transformation". Michel Bauwens: The Transition to a Sustainable Commons Society in Ecuador and beyond Degrowth will only be possible by changing the...

Presentation • 2014

ShareEconomy, P2P, Transition Town: What do they share?

By: Tony Greenham, Silke Helfrich, Astrid Lorenzen, Benjamin Tincq

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Astrid Lorenzen, Benjamin Tincq, Tony Greenham Facilitation: Silke Helfrich From the conference programme: One can find many initiatives and discourses which put the misguided economy back on track. More and more people do not simply fight "the...

Presentation • 2014

Commons, Economy for the common good and Solidarity Economy: What do they share?

By: David Bollier, Euclides André Mance, Lisa Muhr, Anja Humburg

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Lisa Muhr, David Bollier, Euclides André Mance Facilitation: Anja Humburg From the conference programme: One can find many initiatives and discourses which put the misguided economy back on track. More and more people do not simply fight "the...

Presentation • 2014

Cultural Agency – potentials and limits of current civic movements

By: Friederike Habermann, Leonidas Martin, Michael Narberhaus, Luise Tremel

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Leonidas Martin, Michael Narberhaus, Friederike Habermann Facilitation: Luise Tremel From the conference programme: New forms of living, working, protesting as well as new economic and democratic practices develop form inside society and form...

Presentation • 2014

A worldwide energy revolution?

By: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale, Nina Netzer

Panel discussion at the the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Speakers: Camila Moreno, Patrick Bond, Jonathan Neale Facilitation: Nina Netzer From the conference programme: The extensive use of dirty energy sources causes severe environmental and social damages while 2,7 billion people have no access to modern energy...

Presentation • 2014

Scenarios for a post-growth economy

By: Niko Paech, Clive Spash

Scientific lecture at the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. Presentations by Niko Paech and Clive Spash. Niko Paech: An Introduction to Post-growth Economies Clive Spash: A Future Social Ecological Economy: Reality-Transformation-Utopia Discussion with Niko Paech and Clive Spash

Misc • 2014

This Changes Everything - Capitalism vs the Climate

By: Naomi Klein

thischangeseverything.org: Forget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed economic system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of the global bestsellers The...

Art contribution • 2014

[untitled] a space for monsters, ghosts and animals

By: friendly fire

[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="100336,100337,100338,100339,100340"] From the conference programme: In a performative audiowalk friendly fire explores together with the visitors individual and collective transformations in all their visionary, dreamy, scary, eerie, threatening, monstrous or incredibly funny facets. Stroll around in the conference area equiped with an audioguide to find...

Art contribution • 2014

Der neue Mensch. / The new Man.

By: LIGNA

[gallery link="file" columns="5" ids="100341,100342,100343,100344,100345"] Four Exercises in Utopian Movements From the conference programme: 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 : the poet Bertolt Brecht, the dancer Rudolf von Laban, the director Wsewolod...

Art contribution • 2014

The Game / Das Spiel

By: Hannah Baumann, Mirjam Hildbrand

[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

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...

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

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

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Quadratur des Kreises und wie es doch zu schaffen ist ...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Zwischen Untergang und Utopie: Degrowth als ein Weg aus der Krise?" mit Barbara Muraca. Aus dem Bericht: . . . Eine konkrete Utopie sei, wie die Referentin, Ernst Bloch zitierend, erklärte, nicht bloß ein Wunschdenken, sondern fasse das wirklich Mögliche, was in den Falten unserer gegenwärtigen Welt schon schlummere, ins...

Report • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Sozioökologische Auswege ...

By: Schattenblick

Bericht von der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig zur Veranstaltung "Sozial-ökologische Krise & Krise der Demokratie: eine Sicht aus Südeuropa" mit Haris Konstantatos. Aus dem Bericht:. . . Haris Konstantatos, der dem Zentralkomitee der Linkspartei Syriza angehört, stellt diesem orthodoxen Ansatz linker Politik und dem Neoliberalismus die seiner Ansicht nach aussichtsreiche Alternative der...

Interview • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Gemeinschaft wecken ... Barbara Muraca im Gespräch

By: Barbara Muraca, Schattenblick

Interview mit Barbara Muraca im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Interview: . . . BM: Ich glaube, das hängt wirklich davon ab, wie man Degrowth versteht. Degrowth ist sehr heterogen. Das ist eine Stärke, kann aber auch eine Schwäche sein. Wenn man aus Degrowth einfach eine Botschaft von individuellem Verzicht, einem anderen Konsum oder Suffizienz macht, ist das definitiv...

Interview • 2014

Aufbruchtage - Druck von unten ... Federico Demaria im Gespräch

By: Federico Demaria, Schattenblick

Interview mit Federico Demaria im Rahmen der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 in Leipzig. Aus dem Interview: . . . Diese Konferenz sollte nicht eine rein akademische sein, sondern eine akademische mit zivilgesellschaftlicher Beteiligung. Warum? Weil wir diese Fragen politisch diskutieren müssen. Die Gesellschaft kann von uns keine Antworten erwarten, da es andernfalls eine Technokratie wäre, in der...