After the Hague, Manchester, Malmö, Budapest, Leipzig, Venice, Barcelona and Paris, the 9th International Degrowth Conference is taking place in Zagreb in 2023.
It will sit at the heart of a broader Zagreb Degrowth Week, a free arts and conviviality festival realised in cooperation with neighbouring capitals.
Follow this space for all information.
Photo by Eldar Nazarov on Unsplash
IMPORTANT: The entire SATURDAY program is taking place at CMR!
The conference schedule overview is here! →
Between the drying Mediterranean and the flooding Central Europe, between aging north and migrating south, between socialist plan and capitalist extraction ⤳
⤳ how do we build a future we can believe in?
Latest News
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Degrowth Week program!
The program of the Degrowth Week – the part of the Conference program that is free and open to all – has been published here. Join us and the movement for a just and sustainable future for all!
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Practical information as the Conference approaches!
Questions you might have beyond the FAQ.
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Post-growth Europe: 400+ experts call for wellbeing economy
Accompanying the start of the “Beyond Growth” conference at the European Parliament!
See all the news here!
Conference fees
Solidarity
Early Bird €380 / Regular €460
- extra cost of solidarity fee will be used to support participants from developing countries
Early Bird
€320
- March 16 – April 16
Regular
€400
- April 17 – May 31
Developing
€180
- March 16 – May 31
- fee for participants from developing countries, especially undergraduate and graduate students
Please note that the afternoon keynote lectures and the rest of afternoon sessions are FREE and open to everyone!
Conference thematic streams
Contemporary emancipatory internationalism: beyond peripheries, spheres of influence and afterlives of non-alignment →
Resilience building through degrowth: new alliances and real solidarities →
Feminist, decolonial, anti-racist and anti-ableist ecologies →
Hegemonic worldviews and degrowth horizon →
Artistic ecologies and eco-social practices →
Degrowth in the year 2023: cold, bombed and persecuted →
Degrowth as a political project? →
Communicating degrowth within a consumerist common sense →
Technology and science for degrowth →
Climate (in)justice →
Transformational climate politics – is neutrality achievable outside the overdeveloped regions? (METAR) →
Alternative economies →
Short introduction
What is degrowth?
Degrowth is a social movement and a research framework which advocates for a transition to sustainable and just forms of social organization.
Unlike the ideals of sustainable development, green growth, and green capitalism, degrowth insists that environmental stability and sustainability can only be achieved through a departure from the present growth-oriented global capitalist system.
The foundational insight of degrowth is that there cannot be endless growth on a finite planet.
What are international degrowth conferences?
International degrowth conferences have been taking place since 2008, when the first conference was organised in Paris. They are communal and convivial events where the theoretical, activist and political streams of the contemporary degrowth movement come together to exchange ideas, strategies and inspirations.
Who is the Zagreb conference for?
The conference and degrowth week will bring together activists, artists, academics, practitioners, political representatives, and the general public ⤳ everyone invested in possible pathways to care and resilience for people and the planet.
A bit of atmosphere from the Conference location (back in 2017) ⩺
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