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Art contribution • 2020

Decolonising Sleep: Or the reparative power of rest as a radical act to restore rhythmic cycles

By: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli

'The Dark Mountain Project' online series 'Becoming Human' explores the physical, psychological and experiential aspects of our current predicament and how we might realign our bodies and minds with the living systems. Uma Dinsmore-Tuli makes a case for the reclamation of sleep in an insomniac culture. Notes from a fractal encyclopædist on the interdependence of sleep and waking, delivered at...

Misc • 2018

This is not an atlas: a global collection of counter-cartographies

By: kollektiv orangotango+

"Maps articulate statements that are shaped by social relations, discourses and practices, but these statements also influence them in turn. Hence, maps (and atlases) are always political. "In this interplay between facts and perception, the cartographer is both witness and actor. [...] In order to create, or, more accurately: to invent, "his worlds", he finally arrives at a subtle mixture of...

Presentation • 2018

First North-South Conference on Degrowth-Descrecimiento, México City 2018 - Descrecimiento arte y vida

By: Rosa Belloso

¿ De qué tipo de arte hablamos cuando hablamos de arte y decrecimiento ?

Report • 2017

At Museums, Maybe It’s Time for ‘De-growth’

By: Nina Siegal

From the article: The last quarter of a century has been a period of pronounced growth in the cultural sector, with the rumble of jackhammers creating the soundtrack to 21st-century museum life. New buildings, multimillion-dollar expansions, new wings and collection growth have all helped drive visitor numbers to unprecedented heights. So it seemed a little counterintuitive when Beatrix Ruf,...

Misc • 2017

Art Against Empire: Toward an Aesthetics of Degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Abstract: What role might art need to play in the transition beyond consumer capitalism? Can ‘culture jamming’ contribute to the necessary revolution in consciousness? And might art be able to provoke social change in ways that rational argument and scientific evidence cannot? In this new book I explore these questions, both in theory and practice. I begin with a theoretical defence of art and...

Art contribution • 2017

Imagining a Better World: The Art of Degrowth

By: Samuel Alexander

Introduction: We are living in an age of gross ecological overshoot - our demands on the planet far exceed what is sustainable. Wealth is extremely concentrated while billions go hungry. And with the world’s population heading toward 11 billion by the end of the century, something has to give. One response to these overlapping crises is degrowth. This movement argues that the developed regions...

Art contribution • 2017

The Will of Life by Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi

By: Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi

Poem by Abu al-Qasim al-Shabi

Report • 2016

Artivism

By: John Jordan

Dies ist ein Beitrag zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en), in dem es um Artivism geht. Info zum Projekt Degrowth in Bewegung(en): Degrowth ist nicht nur ein neues Label für eine Diskussion über Alternativen oder eine akademische Debatte, sondern auch eine im Entstehen begriffene soziale Bewegung. Trotz vieler Überschneidungen mit anderen sozialen Bewegungen gibt es sowohl bei diesen als auch...

Misc • 2015

Ergebnisse des degrowth Sommerschul- Kurses Comic Helden* gegen den Klimwandel

By: Eva Kirschenmann

Dokumentation eines Kurses der Degrowth Sommerschule 2015 "Degrowth konkret: Klimagerechtigkeit" Titel des Kurses: Comic-Helden* gegen den Klimawandel Kursbeschreibung aus dem Programm: Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen (WBGU) formuliert international richtungsweisende Handlungsempfehlungen an Politik und Wirtschaft. In seinem Comic "Große...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Analyse, Selbstverständnis, Konsequenzen ... John Jordan im Gespräch

By: John Jordan, Schattenblick

Interview mit John Jordan im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: Der Künstler John Jordan ist seit vielen Jahren in sozialen Bewegungen aktiv. In den 90er Jahren war er an der Gründung der gegen den Automobilismus gerichteten direkten Aktion Reclaim the Streets wie auch der Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army...

Interview • 2015

Klimacamp trifft Degrowth - Unsäglich verträglich ... Klaus der Geiger im Gespräch

By: Schattenblick, Klaus der Geiger

Interview mit Klaus dem Geiger im Rahmen des Klimacamps und der Degrowth-Sommerschule im Rheinischen Braunkohlerevier 2015. Aus dem Interview: SB: Wenn du mit Straßenmusik speziell die normalen Menschen erreichen willst, wie ist dann die Resonanz auf deine Lieder? Sprechen sie die Leute heute noch an? KdG: Die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Menschen, daß die einen mit den anderen nicht...

Scientific paper • 2014

The Proposal of Degrowth and the Energy Issue: A Fabulist Presentation of the Literature Review

By: Sandrine Cuvillier

Abstract: This article revisits the famous fables of Jean de La Fontaine to illustrate key concepts and proposals of degrowth and its close ties with the energy issue. Through the curiosity of a hummingbird, we question the dominant paradigm reflected in unsustainable existing patterns of energy production and consumption. We introduce, in a simple way, the main ideas and references of current...

Scientific paper • 2014

Public Spaces: Everyday Resistance and alternative Societies

By: Anne Dietrich, Vera Denzer, Jörg Gertel

Abstract: The paper investigates urban public spaces as sites of daily resistance from theoretical and empirical points of view. Particular attention is paid to different forms of protest against social orders that find their expressions in nonconformist appropriations of space. Thus the contribution addresses the conference’s narrative step ‘Facing the Current Crisis: Critique and Resistance’....

Scientific paper • 2014

Critique and the Organization of Production

By: Nina Pohler

New Spirit of Capitalism, Artistic Critique, Social Critique, Growth Critique, Coordination of Work Strategies for transformation

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....

Art contribution • 2014

Des Kaisers neue Kleider

By: Marion Musch

Begehbare Kunstinstallation, 2014, Ständer mit Kleiderbügeln in dunklem Raum, Projektion von weiteren leeren Kleiderbügeln, Stimmen aus Lautsprechern. mamuk.de: Eine Installation zum „schönen Schein“ des Konsums und der Manipulation des Verbrauchers. Das Märchen „Des Kaisers neue Kleider“ ist eins der bekanntesten von H.C. Andersens. Es handelt von dem eitlen Kaiser, der von schmeichelnden...

Presentation • 2014

Degrowth Conference 2014: Opening event

By: Nina Treu, Alberto Acosta, Naomi Klein, Pablo Paolo Kilian, Melanie Bleckert, Daniel Constein

> The event starts with minute 38. Recorded opening event of the 4th International Degrowth Conference for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity in Leipzig in 2014. The opening event starts with a speech by Nina Treu & Daniel Constein, who are members of the organizing team of the conference. Further there are the opening keynotes by Alberto Acosta and Naomi Klein (via video), as...

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...