When: 4.08 - 10.08
Where: Freie Feldlage, Harzgerode, Germany
Once again, this year we come together with friends and allies from the climate and social justice movements — those fighting at the intersections of anti-capitalism, anti-racism, feminism, anti-fascism, Indigenous sovereignty, and workers' struggles.
Join us in the forests of East Germany for seven days of resistance, renewal, and reimagination. In this temporary community, we co-create spaces for critical, embodied, transformative and playful education around post-growth cultures and practices. We’ll not only explore the many dimensions of post-growth but embody them—through collective care, common strategizing, radical solidarity and rest. Expect mind-tickling conversations, hands-on workshops, roundtables, art, music and performances that inebriate the senses, alongside nourishing food we cook and share together.
No one really told us what organizing a degrowth conference would entail. We simply knew we wanted to do it. Two years of organizing, meeting, discussing and struggling have passed and now we’re less than seven weeks away from the first day of the conference. The initial motivation we all had in the summer of 2018 has not gone, but it has faltered at times. There have been days when I wo...
The rise of far-right globalization criticism requires a new role for the Degrowth movement. ‘Progressive De-Globalization‘ could be the counter-project that is urgently needed. After the German and Austrian elections, it becomes clear once more that the rise of the new far-right is not a temporary phenomenon. Neither the difficult Brexit negotiations nor the missteps of Donald Trump are sto...
For our project “Degrowth from a future perspective”, we would like to present how Erik Assadourian, Senior Fellow at the World Watch Institute, envisions a Degrowth America in 2100 and looks back to the transiton towards a truly sustainable United States. Will this have become a place where we can still have personal (electric) vehicles, [...]
