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About Timo Kretschmer

Timo Kretschmer is a political organiser and facilitator for radical transformation, organised in the newly founded echo collective (education for collective horizons and organising). conducts workshops on topics such as degrowth, capitalism, oppression, collapse and utopias. By using critical and experimental pedagogies, they aim to facilitate both cognitive and embodied learning. Timo is currently also working on transformative justice and Nonviolent Communication (NVC). He is a white cis-man from Germany with the privilege of an academic background. He sees himself as a comrade to all those working towards liberation. You can contact Timo and the echo collective via echocollective@proton.me (website coming soon).

 

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Transformative (Un-)Learning: Education for a Degrowth Society

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By: Marion Krämer, Timo Kretschmer

“You cannot carry out fundamental change without a certain degree of madness.” This article explores five ingredients that education should include to enable a societal transformation at the scale envisioned by degrowth.