POST GROWTH TOOLKIT

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What ideological, social and biophysical factors have precipitated the current environmental crises? What leverage is available for transformative practices and imaginaries to overcome the continuous growth of our energy consumption? The Post Growth Toolkit invites us to challenge the dominant narratives about growth and progress, and re-envision social metabolism through an understanding of the energy it requires, reconnecting human survival with the living, material qualities of the biosphere, drawing on ecofeminism, indigenous knowledge, environmental accounting and historical materialism.

An initiative by DISNOVATION.ORG (Nicolas Maigret & Maria Roszkowska) with Julien Maudet, Clémence Seurat, Pauline Briand & Baruch Gottlieb

Production: iMAL | Co-production: Biennale Chroniques - 3bis f | With support from: University of California Irvine, Productions Intérieures Brutes, ArTeC, La Labomedia, UCL Louvain La Neuve, CNC (Dicréam)

Interviewees: Geoffrey C. Bowker, Rose O’Leary, Valerie Olson, Bill Tomlinson | Transcription & translation: Dasha Ilina, Pauline Briand, Ana Ascencio, Camille Martenot

Pictures, design & illustrations: DISNOVATION.ORG | Camera assistant: Yubo Dong | Web design: Macha Savykine | Adapted from solar.lowtechmagazine.com by Marie Otsuka & Roel Roscam Abbing