Growing Smaller: Degrowth, Sufficiency and Sustainability in Architecture, Planning and Society
Seminar by Dr. Gesa Lüdecke & Ana Hernández Chamorro (TUM)
18.10.2021 – 07.02.2022
This multidisciplinary seminar asks how we can live a good life without rapidly destroying the planet. In a dialogue with architects and civil engineer from the Technical University of Munich, humanities scholars from the Amerika-Institut and the Rachel Carson Center will discuss how green technologies, innovative infrastructures, social practices and lifestyles can contribute to new economic patterns and philosophies that will help to slow down the global ecological crisis. Overall, this seminar asks how the US and other 3 nations in the western world have seen nature and progress in the past and what it will take to shift ideologies of extraction and domination into new directions.
