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Scientific paper • 2014

The power of neighborhood – rethinking the way of life within co-housing projects in Switzerland

By: Sanna Frischknecht

Abstract: Focusing on the question of how people live and interact, co-housing projects, such as “Kraftwerk1”, “Nena1” and others attempt to withdraw imperatives of growth by establishing a new way of life in urban contexts. Some of the projects are closely connected to the ideas of an urban utopia “bolo’bolo” which was written by P.M. in the 1980ies. This ideal of a new way of life describes a...

Scientific paper • 2014

the potential of permaculture teachers as change agents for a sustainable modernity

By: Max Gaedtke

Abstract: Subject of this paper is to analyse the potential of permaculture teachers as change agents for a sustainable modernity. The theoretical basis of the work is the change agent approach by KRISTOF (2010). Permaculture is presented as a sustainable design approach. The change agent approach is used as a framework. The methodology consists of qualitative interviews with teachers and...

Scientific paper • 2014

Grassroots digital commons for a bottom-up transition towards sustainability

By: Adrien Labaeye

Digital commons; Sustainability transition; Niches; Self-organization; Innovation

Scientific paper • 2014

Alternative economic practices in the rural Catalonia

By: Emma Soy Massoni, Joana Conill, Diego Varga, Josep Pintó

Abstract: The present study describes alternative economy practices that are being developed in rural areas by individuals who live on the margins, in whole or in significant part, of the capitalist economic behavior patterns, and live according to rules and values that they have built. The observations were performed in a group of rural farmers living in the region of Alt Empordà (Girona,...

Scientific paper • 2014

Frugal Value: Designing Business for a Crowded Planet

By: Carina Millstone

Abstract: This paper concerns new business models for de-growth and the steady state economy. It argues that business models need to be developed that drive products and services with the attributes of efficiency and sufficiency. It identifies four such models, including new approaches to product creation and retail, a shift from ownership to access, a shift from products to services and new...

Scientific paper • 2014

THANCS – a process to address tensions that emerge in/with a transition towards sustainable development

By: Ines Omann, Felix Rauschmayer

ustainability transition, needs, tensions, sustainable lifestyles, quality of life

Scientific paper • 2014

Degrowth, Democracy and the Mafia. How do we face the issue?

By: Giusy Pappalardo, Candidate Giusy Pappalardo, Filippo Gravagno, Mirko Maccarronello

Abstract: We question how groups aimed at implementing degrowth practices have to face social systems that are influenced by mechanisms of Mafia. We argue that anti-mafia practices are necessary steps in order to nurture degrowth. Specifically we tell about a metropolitan context and a rural context in Sicily, IT, being the first a marginalized satellite city and the second a derelict landscape...

Scientific paper • 2014

The experience of the Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy in Friuli Venezia Giulia: new proposal for alternative economic models

By: Lucia Piani, Nadia Carestiato, Ferruccio Nilia

Abstract: Faced with the economic crisis that is affecting in particular the Western countries, in October 2012 in Friuli Venezia Giulia region (Italy) began the experience of the "Forum for Commons and Solidarity Economy". It is configured as a territorial laboratory in which different areas of knowledge, different subjects and different experiences confront each other with the purpose of...

Scientific paper • 2014

Education for Life: participation in the transformation of a common

By: Claudia Gómez Portugal

Abstract: The great challenge of our time is to build and nurture sustainable communities. Increasingly often environmental, social and existential crisis among others, evidence unsustainability of the development model. Face this systemic crisis involves recognizing the need to create new structures and organizational forms that include a new education, that primarily respond the paradigm...

Scientific paper • 2014

How degrowth can improve life quality: Using NonViolent Communication

By: Felix Rauschmayer

sustainability transition, needs, NonViolent Communication, sustainable lifestyles, quality of life

Scientific paper • 2014

Creating ruptures in actual representations to support the design of sufficient and convivial way of lives

By: Marion Real, Benjamin Tyl, Iban Lizarralde

strong sustainability, user behaviors, eco-ideation, learning and open environments

Scientific paper • 2014

Starting to Move on Campus: Connected Activities to join Forces

By: Gilles Renout

Abstract: The key ideas of "ActivCampus" are the following: a) It picks up two sorts of CRISIS many members of the University are suffering from: First, a leak of "sense" in what, why and how they are doing their work and how the University is organizing the cooperation between individuals and groups. Secondly, corporeal diseases and imbalances due to working structures that are not healthy for...

Scientific paper • 2014

Culture and communication of a de-growth project. Some lessons from the case of the Brazilian Fora do Eixo Circuit

By: Maximiliano Vila Seoane

Abstract: Culture and communication are areas under the all-embracing infinite growth and development discourse, like the popular "creative industries" approach. However, such frameworks generate in many developing countries dynamics against de-growth projects, because they favor concentration and cultural dominance of small regions over larger ones. This justifies the need to increase research...

Scientific paper • 2014

How to design in a degrowth society?

By: Eva Kristin Stein

Abstract: The approach of today’s design practise should give prospects for the transformation into a post-growth and sustainable field of work. The shifting from a technocratic to a social construction qualifies designers for this job because he/she is traditionally responsible for the definition of use the act of using and its shaping. The academic debates in design are all along critical....

Scientific paper • 2014

Extension of shelf life of fruits and vegetables from the Kaiserstuhl area through utilization of solar thermal drying and regional marketing of the products

By: Wolfgang Striewe, Friedemar Schreiber, Kurt Schüle, Gudawar Singh, Welf Aumann

Abstract: The presented project sets high standards for the sustainable preservation of food by drying. Fruits and vegetables are purchased from regional and ecological farms and gardens. In addition orchard meadows are harvested and cared for in order to preserve these important habitats. The drying process is driven by solar energy. The process is adapted and synchronized to the availability...

Scientific paper • 2014

Utopias, liminalities and the commons. The case study of Gavdos island.

By: Angelos Varvarousis

Abstract: Gavdos is a small limitary islet in the southernmost part of Greece wherein has been formed an alternative community that has remained active for almost two decades. Based on ethnographic data assembled through fieldwork, this article examines the crucial role of liminality in the creation, maintenance and expansion of this community. The residents of this community perform their...

Scientific paper • 2014

No good life in a bad life? – Experiences of degrowth-orientated actors in a growth economy

By: Jasmin Wiefek, Bernd Sommer

Bottom-up initiatives, Organization of businesses, Conditions for degrowth, Productivity beyond growth

Scientific paper • 2014

Learning and building knowledge for degrowth: communities of practice and peer production across scales and beyond roles

By: Gualter Barbas Baptista

communities of practice, nowtopias, peer production, postnormal science, open knowledge