Workshop “Degrowth, Planning, Transformation”

Please note that this is a closed event.

In the face of growing multiple crises, especially the climate crisis, it is becoming increasingly clear that the economies and societies of the Global North must not only be fundamentally restructured, but in many areas deconstructed.

This implies not only overcoming capitalist structures and practices and a completely different model of prosperity, but also comprehensive planning processes, which are playing an increasingly important role in the degrowth debate. But many questions remain unanswered: The relationship between democracy and planning, the governance of innovation and investment, the coordination of production and consumption patterns, the relationship between labor needs, skills and individual freedom to choose one’s life path.

The workshop will take up current debates and go beyond them in exemplary ways. The aim is to specify important questions for policy practice and further research.

The workshop is a joint project of the DFG Research Group “Futures of Sustainability” at the University of Hamburg and THE NEW INSTITUTE.

Preparation: Alex Demirović, Kohei Saito und Ulich Brand

This event will be held in German.