This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. The polycrisis of economic inequality, climate change, and widespread political instability has lead to many looking for new and viable alternatives. The current political and economic order of capitalism […]

To participate, please register here. The deadline for registrations is February 18. Prices for participation are on a sliding scale, depending which services you choose to claim. For more detailed info, see the section “Preise & Informationen” on the event website. This conference will be in German. The description below has beeen taken and translated […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. When Stafford Beer invented the Viable System Model (VSM) for explaining complex social systems as self-organised neural networks, capable of consciously adapting to chaotic or changing environments, he was […]

This workshop is organized by Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) and supported by LIEPP’s Environmental Policies research group (project Ecological Planning in the 21st Century: Uses, Forms, Methods and Effects) and INDEP. In order to participate, registration is mandatory. The registration form can be found here. The workshop will take place in English. The description and […]

The description of the event has been translated from the original German from the event’s website. This online talk will take place in German. You can find the Zoom link for the talk here. Even people who advocate for a democratically planned economy as an alternative to capitalism become somewhat hesitant when confronted with the […]

This event will take place in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. Investment is a form of planning: it brings into existence what currently does not yet exist. Today, large-scale investment decisions are largely made either by […]

This event will take place in German. The description has been translated from the original German: The collapse of the Soviet Union was not only supposed to herald the victory of capitalism, but also to provide definitive proof that free markets are superior to the social planning of economic processes. In response, a new debate […]

This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. This talk examines the essence of the Viable System Model as originally conceived by Stafford Beer and discusses the application of his approach to governance in business, politics, and […]

This event will take place in English. To participate, please register here. INDEP and Common Wealth’s Green Planning Commission are convening a joint online panel to explore how green democratic economic planning can be translated into concrete policy proposals and integrated into broader transition strategies. Melanie Brusseler will introduce the Green Planning Commission (GPC), outlining […]

A new edition of a course from UNED (Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, an online university in Spain) explores democratic planning and post-capitalist models in the context of the climate crisis. It will be offered in Spanish from April 16th to April 30th. It can be attended in Person or taken online. Part of […]

On Wednesday 22nd April 2026 from 4PM-6PM CEST in room SFG 1030 in the Universität Bremen, Søren Mau will criticise anti-utopianism within Marxism and provide a Marxist defense for engaging in utopian thinking. This lecture is part of the lecture series “Contemporary Perspectives on Marx” that is being held by Universität Bremen. A summary of […]

An in-person colloquium in French, entitled “Planifier la transformation économique et sociale” (Planning Social and Ecological Transformation), will be held at the University of Lausanne on April 23rd. Here’s a translation of it’s summary: “The concept of planning refers to the idea of regulation and public policies capable of guiding and bringing about profound change […]