01726nas a2200121   4500008004100000245010700041210006900148260001200217520120600229100001901435700002701454856012301481       2014                        eng d00aConvivial and Emancipatory Technologies – suitable conceptions for Technology in a Degrowth Society?0 aConvivial and Emancipatory Technologies suitable conceptions for  aLeipzig3 a<p>Special Session “Technologies &amp; Degrowth Part 1: Theory” Keywords: Conviviality, Emancipatory Technologies, autonomy, appropriation, open technosphere Summary: A degrowth society, like all human societies that ever existed, will need technology. But which conceptual frameworks could be suitable to denote such a “degrowth technology”? We look at two different proposals: first the idea of “Convivial Technologies”, coined in the 1970ies by the dissident thinker Ivan Illich and recently newly adapted in the “manifest for conviviality” written by a number of French intellectuals. Second at the notion “emancipatory technology” used mainly by some german anarchist thinkers like FabLab-organizer and activist Niels Boeing and the AG SPAK. What do these propositions have in common and what keeps them apart? We will examine both concepts regarding two crucial aspects: First, how they speak about the relations between technology and dominance. And secondly we will delineate connections to the current degrowth debate. Coming from different decades are both concepts suitable to apply to a wide range of thinkable degrowth technologies from FabLabs to compost toilets?</p>1 aVetter, Andrea1 aBarthel, M.A., Bettina  uhttps://degrowth.community/conference2014/science/content/convivial-and-emancipatory-technologies-suitable-conceptions