After yearly conferences in Zagreb (2023), Pontevedra (2024) and Oslo (2025), the Support Group of the International Conferences on Degrowth for Ecological Sustainability and Social Equity decided to slow down and to organise the next one in 2027. In February, a call for expressions of interest was launched also inviting the applicants to explore new creative formats which may be more inclusive and open, more practical and culturally, socially, and politically impactful. Through this process, the support group recieved six wonderful applications!
As in 2018, in an open process with the applicants, it was decided to also organise complementary and articulated regional and thematic gatherings in Covilha, Portugal, and Cluj-Napoca, Romania. A fourth gathering is pending. Further details will be announced soon!
Networks from Malta and France also applied. The former were invited to organise a smaller scale event next year focusing on Degrowth and mass tourism, whilst the team in France would explore the organisation of a conference in 2028 for the 20th anniversary of the first edition of the international degrowth conferences.
The Wellbeing Economy Ireland Hub and their partners in Cork and across the island of Ireland are delighted to be hosting the 2027 International Degrowth Conference.
The Support Group is announcing it has been working alongside scholars, policy makers and some of the island’s most celebrated musicians and artists to build a popular movement in celebration of new socio-ecological imaginaries, including those that can tap into the island’s unique blend of European and post-colonial histories. The Conference will help accelerate the decolonial
momentum of the just transition, celebrating diverse, pluriversal voices from around the world and turning a critical eye on the extractivist aspects of the economies of both Northern Ireland and the Republic.
The Conference base in Cork is home to a wide range of practitioners, activists, scholars and artists working on the economic transition, making it a great location for a celebration of emergent community-and movement-led experiments that aim to seed a new future today.
Contact: degrowthireland2027 @ feasta.org
In the face of expanding sacrifice zones and the need to reduce the complexity of industrial civilization and the capitalist growth economy, the degrowth transition must be local and rely on less material and energy use. This event will enable co-creative processes for interstitial transformation that build on communities of knowledge and practice, encouraging diverse languages and repertoires of struggle.
Contact: degrowthportugal2027 @ riseup.net
Cluj-Napoca will host a space for organizers, artists, scholars and fellow activists to come together as a collective in addressing marginality and invisibility. The gathering seeks to challenge the dynamics that reproduce conditions for marginality, acknowledge societal impacts, and show why and how degrowth can drive necessary transformation. We ask how recognizing invisibility can open new political and socio-ecological possibilities on topics like peripheral geographies, infrastructures of (in)visibility, (neo)colonial echoes of growth or prefigurative practices.
Contact: degrowthro @ proton.me
Exact dates, more information about formats, and calls for participation will be communicated soon.
If you have any question, suggestion, please contact the Support Group or any Local Organising Committee.
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