Building Degrowth: Strategies for Cities

The 10th of the #NoBackToNormal #DegrowthTalks will explore the possible pathways towards Degrowth strategies for cities. What are the entanglements between capitalist growth and urban processes ? What does practicing Degrowth in urban environments (can) look like ? What does the Covid-19 crisis and its multiple faces impact and will reshape our ways of being in the city, and what could be Degrowth responses?

We will address these questions with Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld, Dalia Milían Bernal and Paul Chatterton.

Bios :
Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld
Kim Carlotta von Schönfeld is a PhD Candidate in Urban Planning at Wageningen University & Research, The Netherlands. Her PhD explores critical approaches to social learning and social innovation in co-creative planning. She is interested in the power of learning in both challenging and maintaining the status-quo, the benefits and drawbacks of participatory forms of planning, and more generally possible pathways to inclusive and sustainable futures. In search of possibilities for this, she has engaged in the field of post-growth and degrowth, seeking ways to connect the socio-economic insights of related movements with planning research and practice.

Resources:
A recent academic article seeking ways to connect degrowth/post-growth and planning research and practice together with António Ferreira - a lay summary of this is currently being prepared and should be available by the time of the event on the 22nd
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/...

A short conference paper on "The dialectics between social acceleration and the growth paradigm: innovation and transport in neoliberal planning" with António Ferreira and Paulo Pinho
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

A video of a Roundtable co-organized by Christian Lamker, Viola Schulze-Dieckhoff and me on Planning and Degrowth
   • Roundtable: post-growth from international...  

A link to the Dutch degrowth movement site, of which I am a member (though currently not as active as I hope to become again soon)https://ontgroei.degrowth.net/about-us/

Dalia Milían Bernal
Dalia Milián Bernal is a doctoral researcher and lecturer in the School of Architecture, Faculty of the Built Environment at Tampere University in Finland. Her current research focuses on the appropriation and transformation of vacant and abandoned urban spaces in the context of Latin America. She is particularly interested in understanding how diverse urban activists strive for and enable societal change through the transformation of urban space. In addition, she is the the co-founder of the blog Interrogativa, a platform that brings together and gives voice to women interested in questioning the urban processes that aggravate the social fragmentation and injustices of our cities; that contribute to the depletion of the natural environment and that exacerbate the climate crisis.

Temporary Use facebook page :   / temporaryuses  
Further resources :
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1r...

Paul Chatterton
Paul Chatterton is a writer, researcher and campaigner. He is Professor of Urban Futures in the School of Geography. He is currently Director of the University's Sustainable Cities Group which has launched the ground breaking MSc Sustainable Cities. Paul is also co-founder and resident of the award winning low impact housing co-operative Lilac. He has gone forward to help set up Leeds Community Homes to help promote community-led housing. His recent books include Low Impact Living (Routledge) (20% off with code DC361) and Unlocking Sustainable Cities with Pluto Press. (see book website @ www.unlockingsustainablecities.org) He is also co-founder of the public charity 'Antipode' dedicated to research and scholarship in radical geography and an associate editor of the journal 'City'.
See https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/geogr...