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SUMMARY:Conference: What Can the Market Do? What Can Planning Do?
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis conference will be in German. \nThe description below has beeen taken and translated from the event website: \n“COORDINATING ECONOMIC PROCESSES – BUT HOW? \nMarket coordination and planning are no longer considered irreconcilable opposites. In light of the polycrisis comprising the climate crisis\, technological upheavals\, and massive trade and geopolitical interventions\, the question of how collective goals can be achieved democratically and efficiently is increasingly being raised anew. Digital control instruments\, demands for ecological economic planning in line with planetary boundaries\, and the geo-economic orientation of global supply chains provide opportunities to reflect on the potential of markets and planning for coordinating economic processes.\nAt the same time\, complex transformation processes—from the energy transition to industrial policy—require hybrid solutions: decentralized spaces for experimentation and central coordination\, artificial markets\, and decentralized mechanisms can be part of the toolbox\, but they have clear limitations. How can planning and the market be combined in such a way that democratic processes become fully effective with regard to the major issues of the future that affect everyone?\nHow can the market and planning be combined in a complex world of transformation in which technocratic planning concepts and perfectly functioning markets are equally obsolete?\nOf interest here are\, on the one hand\, the hybrids mentioned above—planning elements in capitalist markets—and\, on the other hand\, alternative concepts of democratic economic planning\, as initiated by new debates in recent years. This opens up a field spanning two different yet combinable poles\, whose history\, variants\, and theoretical foundations\, as well as changes brought about by big data\, algorithms\, and artificial intelligence\, offer a differentiated view of potentials and limitations in the face of transformative challenges.\nOur conference offers the opportunity to take up this debate and critically develop it further\, both theoretically and in terms of its practical implications. For the open part\, we invite researchers from the economic\, social\, and cultural sciences\, as well as representatives from the field\, to present their research in parallel panel sessions.” \nFor more information on the conference\, please contact this email: niedermaier[at]ev-akademie-tutzing.de \nConference Program: \nWednesday\, March 4th \nArrival from 11.30\n12.30 – Start of conference with snack\n13.30 – Welcome & Introdcution – Prof. Dr. Ulrich Klüh & Katharina Hirschbrunn \nI. Debates on market and plan yesterday and today\n14.15 – Market vs. plan in the ecological transformation – Prof. Dr. Oliver Schlaudt\n15.15 – Coffee\, tea & cake\n15.45 – Political economy of market-based criticism of community economies and socialist planning – Dr. David Mayer\n17.00 – What can markets and prices do? Functions\, problems\, limits – Prof. Dr. Richard Sturn\n18.00 – Dinner\n20.00 – Biophysical limits and necessities of planning – Prof. Dr.-Ing. Sven Linow\n21.30 – Encounters and conversations in the salons \nTursday\, March 5th\n07.45 – Morningprayer in the castle chapel\n08.00 – Breakfast \nII. Why planning? Why now?\nOn the renaissance of the planning debate\n09.00 – Limits of the conceptions of markets and transformationprocesses in economics – Dr. Christiane Heisse\n10.15 – Coffeebreak\n10.45 – After the failure of really existing socialism and capitalism: cybernetic and democratic economic planning for a good life within planetary boundaries – Dr.-Ing Walther Zeug\n11.30 – Planning the transition of our heating system: the example district heating – N.N.\n12.30 – Lunch\n14.00 – Plenary discussion \nIII. Economic policy praxis of planning and critical discussion\n14.15 – Economic planning and industrial policy: chinese experience and current practices – Dr. Rainer Land\n15.30 – Coffee\, tea & cake\n16.00 – Open conference part based on the call for papers\n18.00 – Dinner\n19.30 – Encounters and conversations in the salons \nFriday\, March 6th\n07.45 – Morningprayer in the castle chapel\n08.00 – Breakfast\n09.00 – Critique of the planning debate from a feminist perspective – Dr. Heide Lutosch\n10.15 – The political-economic and political-ecological limits of planning – Prof. Dr. Ulrich Klüh\n11.00 – Coffeebreak\n11.30 – Concluding discussion\n12.30 – Ending of conference with lunch
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/conference-what-can-the-market-do-what-can-planning-do/
LOCATION:Evangelische Akademie Tutzing\, Schlossstraße 2+4\, Tutzing\, Bavaria\, 82327\, Germany
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Angela Espinosa - The Viable System Model as an Emancipatory Approach to Sustainable Self-Governance: Examples from Applications in Communities and Nations
DESCRIPTION:This event is part of the INDEPxMetaphorum Online Talk Series for Stafford Beer’s Centennial. \nThis event will take place in English. \nTo participate\, please register here. \nWhen 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 50 years ahead of his time. His famous Cybersyn project in Chile attempted to put it fully into practice at the national level\, to reinvent the idea of governance. This webinar introduces recent work clarifying how the VSM understands sustainable self-governance in complex social organisations\, and the challenges of putting it into practice\, as an emancipatory systemic approach supporting the transition to a post capitalistic economy. It illustrates these ideas by reflecting on practical applications in Latin America and the EU\, in communities\, and nations. All together\, they demonstrate the potential for using the VSM as an emancipatory approach to support a transition towards fairer\, more democratic\, and more sustainable organisations and societies. \nAngela Espinosa has been an international leader in developing Organisational Cybernetics\, a cybernetic theory for viability of social organisations pioneered by Stafford Beer\, who she worked closed with. She co-founded and led the Metaphorum\, a cooperative developing his legacy\, when he passed away in 2002. She has developed innovative cybernetics’ theory and praxis and advised organisations in Europe and America on more effective ways of self-organising and being socially and environmentally responsible. She has taught Systems Thinking and Cybernetics for three decades and has published extensively in the European Journal of Operational Research and other systems and cybernetic journals. ‘A Complexity Approach to Sustainability’ and ‘Sustainable Self-Governance in Businesses and Society: The Viable System Model in action‘ summarise her recent work and applications. She is an Emeritus Fellow at the centre for Systems Studies – Hull University Business School; and a Board member of the World Organisation of Systems and Cybernetics.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-angela-espinosa-the-viable-system-model-as-an-emancipatory-approach-to-sustainable-self-governance-examples-from-applications-in-communities-and-nations/
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SUMMARY:Workshop - Planification Écologique: Reality and Aspiration
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn order to participate\, registration is mandatory. The registration form can be found here. \nThe workshop will take place in English. \nThe description and program have been taken from the event’s website: \nAbstract\nEcological planning has taken root in French policy circles\, with the “greening” of state budgets and billions of euros for low-carbon retrofits. Meanwhile\, Mexico legislates public grid expansion\, South Korea directs electric vehicle production\, Denmark pioneers offshore wind development\, and China barrels ahead with state-backed venture capital\, positioning itself as a global provider of green technologies. Together\, an emerging cohort of countries is rewriting the playbook for rapid decarbonization. The central message: transitions to low-carbon economies will require a strong state. \nSimultaneously\, researchers and climate advocates have turned their attention to planning as a promising if speculative alternative to market-led decarbonization. Flighty and risk-averse investors chasing dependable returns\, it is argued\, are proving incapable of providing the massive reallocation of capital necessary for low-carbon futures. In its place\, robust public coordination of investment across diverse sectors and geographies appears increasingly urgent. \nFor France\, ecological planning is now central to the state’s agenda\, yet remains conceptually thin and institutionally underspecified. This ambiguity is striking for a country whose postwar experience continues to serve as a global reference point for planning. Today\, clarifying the mechanisms that drive ecological planning — both in reality and in aspiration — is essential. \nIn response\, this workshop treats ecological planning not as a slogan\, but as a set of instruments and institutions. We will begin by revisiting France’s postwar period to capture how planning has functioned in the past\, then turn to ongoing experiments in the contemporary policy landscape\, and conclude with a forward-looking discussion of what ecological planning could become. \nProgramme\n9h30 | Morning Coffee \n9h50 | Opening Remarks\, Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po) \n10h | Morning Panel —  Postwar Planning: Historical Realities\nAntoine Jourdan (EHESS)\, Éric Monnet (Paris School of Economics)\nAudience Q&A \n11h30 | Break: Lunch \n12h30 | Afternoon Panel — Ecological Planning: Experiments & Aspirations\nClara Leonard (Institut Avant-Garde) Hannah Bensussan (Universität St. Gallen)\nAudience Q&A \n14h | Break \n14h15 | Roundtable with Speakers — Future Directions\nAntoine Jourdan\, Éric Monnet\, Clara Leonard\, Hannah Bensussan\nModerator: Gabriel Kahan (Sciences Po)
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/workshop-planification-ecologique-reality-and-aspiration/
LOCATION:SciencesPo Salle 900\, 9 rue de la Chaise\, Paris\, 75007\, France
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SUMMARY:Online Talk by Heide Lutosch - The Thirteenth Fairy: Caring for Children in a Liberated Society
DESCRIPTION:The description of the event has been translated from the original German from the event’s website. \nThis online talk will take place in German. \nYou can find the Zoom link for the talk here. \nEven people who advocate for a democratically planned economy as an alternative to capitalism become somewhat hesitant when confronted with the demand to consistently deprivatize care work\, including childcare. On the one hand\, this has to do with a widespread uncritical attitude toward the nuclear family\, as well as a downplaying of the suffering it causes. On the other hand\, historical attempts to collectivize childhood have in fact often wrongly ignored children’s basic needs\, especially the fact that they must be able to form close\, lasting\, and reliable bonds—both physical and emotional—with their immediate caregivers. This lecture proposes a model of alternative parenting for a liberated society and argues for placing the realm of social reproduction at the center of the planning debate. \nHeide Lutosch is a literary scholar and feminist activist. Her book Kinderhaben was published in spring 2023 by Matthes&Seitz Berlin. She works as a translator in Leipzig. \nThis is a joint event organized by Emanzipation und Frieden and teilbar e.V.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/online-talk-by-heide-lutosch-the-thirteenth-fairy-caring-for-children-in-a-liberated-society/
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20260324T180000
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SUMMARY:INDEP online Talk with Janina Urban and Solveig Degen - Who Plans the Future? Democratising Investment in a Financialised Economy
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in partnership with the Centre for Social Critique at the Humboldt University Berlin. \nThis event will take place in English. \nTo participate\, please register here. \nInvestment 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 states or by actors in the financial sector. But can finance – one of the central nodal points of contemporary capitalism – be transformed into a tool for democratically shaping the future?\nIn this talk\, Janina Urban (University of Witten-Herdecke) and Solveig Degen (Humboldt University Berlin) explore the principles that currently structure financial investment and the profound challenges these logics pose for social and ecological relations. Building on this diagnosis\, they examine how investment could be reorganised along democratic lines. They will discuss both historical and contemporary initiatives aimed at socialising investment and introduce two prominent approaches within current debates on democratic economic planning. Finally\, the talk reflects on the political and practical limits of such projects\, given that the financial system is often perceived as the domain of experts rather than an arena for democratic contestation.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/indep-online-talk-with-solveig-degen-and-janina-urban-who-plans-the-future-democratising-investment-in-a-financialised-economy/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Talk and Discussion about the new Debate on Democratic Economic Planning
DESCRIPTION:This event will take place in German. \nThe description has been translated from the original German: \nThe 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 on democratic economic planning began to emerge in the late 1980s and continues to this day. This lecture will provide an overview of this debate by examining its various strands of argument.
URL:https://www.indep.network/event/talk-and-discussion-about-the-new-debate-on-democratic-economic-planning/
LOCATION:Club Commune\, Weserstr. 17\, Kassel\, Hessen\, 34125\, Germany
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