The cultural sector has a crucial role to play in both imagining and enacting sustainable futures. In this article Neus Crous Costa explores the interlinkages between culture and the environment, and how the international movement Culture Declares Emergency aims to make a change.
Culture • 22.08.2025
By: The degrowth.info editorial team, Lavrenty Repin, Russ Cubrich, Sofia Kovarich
At the end of the Degrowth Cabaret at the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo, a handful of conference attendees started a backwards walk from Christiania, Oslo, to Christiania, Copenhagen. Degrowth.info talked to them to learn more about this peculiar feat.
Culture • 17.07.2025
By: Seerat Bashir
In this article, Seerat Bashir documents the seasonal migrations and cultural heritage of nomadic and semi-nomadic communities in the mountains of Kashmir alongside the challenges they face in preserving their identity when confronted by modernisation and climate change.
Culture • 19.12.2024
By: Hannah Morris
Only days away from Christmas, Hannah Morris deplores its co-optation into a capitalist fiesta.
Culture • 04.11.2024
By: Oscar Krüger
Can the Catholic church be an ally for degrowth?
Culture • 21.11.2022
By: Julian Willming
In 2022, art collectives and curators of documenta15 restructured the practice of producing and presenting art: away from classicism and economical individualism towards a culture of commoning knowledge, sufficiency and embodied community. Is documenta15 thus a degrowth art event? Yes, to some extent. The way it failed demonstrates an important lesson for the degrowth movement.
