Vor gut einem Jahr fand die Vierte Internationale Degrowth Konferenz für Ökologische Nachhaltigkeit und Soziale Gerechtigkeit in Leipzig statt. Dazu gibt es ein Jubiläumsvideo des Stückes "Metamorphosen":
Metamorphosen from Marc Menningmann on Vimeo.
Zur Eröffnung der Degrowth Konferenz 2014 trat der Klangkünstler Pablo Paolo Kilian mit seinem Stück "Metamorphosen" auf. Visuell begleitet wurde er von Melanie Bleckert. Sie kreierte live die von Matthias Strobl entwickelten analogen Lightmotive - Farbkompositionen, die an die Wand des Audimax der Uni Leipzig projiziert wurden.
As Vincent Ligey, coordinator of the Budapest Conference organizing team mentioned in the closing plenary, it was an experiment to hold an international degrowth conference in a former socialist country where the soil for degrowth ideas is not particularly fertile. The more it came as a surprise that the conference had received a widespread coverage in Hungarian media. Szandra Koves, press out...
In his welcome address at the opening plenary of the 5th International Degrowth Conference, Federico Demaria from Research and Degrowth made explicitly clear that immigrants, refugees and their struggles must be integral part of the degrowth community: "Refugees and the other oppressed shall always be kept in mind while imagining degrowth and the socio-ecological transformation we are walking. ...
http://www.degrowthindiainitiative.org/We are very excited that there's now a promising degrowth-iniatiative in India. The Degrowth-India initiative and blog aims at re-politicizing the Indian debate on the much needed socio-ecological transformation. A press-article about the kick-off of the initiative is available here. If you're interested in the further development of the debate, stay tune...
