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METHODOLOGY - TTT MODULE
What is degrowth and where does it come from?
Aims:
1) to get to know 6 sources of degrowth
2) to see existing possible definitions of degrowth & formulate own ones
Trunk & Roots (+ questions)
What degrowth means according to you?
Peer reading (summary & questions)
Peer teaching - text: Demaria et al. (expert groups & home groups)
5 Definitions of degrowth
- Which sources the definitions accent?
- Which sources are missing?
Writing own definition of…
Aims:
- next steps
- networking
- common plans
I. why this group?
70% local / 30% global
networking and follow-up fundamental for making sense of international meetings
II. examples
- Sylvia establishing a regional community farm (educational), exchange of know-how, best practices, etc.
- Marketa interviewing Sylvia about WIR in Austria
- Anna founding a CSA in Ostrava with help of Jan Valeska
III. next steps
- Wojtek digitizes notes
- share Valec GROWL documentation…
SUNDAY MORNING SESSION
Aims: 1) learn from the experience of being participant for own future training practice
2) to understand the E-R-R model & practice it
- Reflection on the structure of the course
- E-R-R model
- Creation of own lesson
- Feedback & learning
- Life after GROWL
Own Lesson 1 - Degrowth for Beginners
Aim: 1) to initiate critical thinking about current system
2) to show them alternatives (degrowth)
E:
T-graph - what is good and bad about nowadays world?
Agreement…
Arguments collected for the academic debate:
PRO arguments | …
- solidarity on exclusion
- participatory decision-making process
- respect to environment
- alternative for banking & food system / local monetary flows
- alternative monetary time-based systems
- avoiding pollution
- making compost
- sharing risks & profits / no profits
- living degrowth (practice)
- alternative, non-exclusive access to resources and services
- gift solidarity
- creates employment for local people
- integration based on equality
- self-sufficiency - independence (energy, food, services)
- creates community, trust (…
degrowth = a political vision for a more just society, is it feasible though? (! lets not forget the hegemony is at the moment)
Degrowth (or sustainable degrowth) is a concept calling for economic localization, lower production & consumption in the name of good living conditions for future generations, thus protecting the envirinment and promoting well-being of all (?) individuals.
Sustainability and reasonable balance as an opposition for ideas and practice of permanent development and growth.
One lovely way to make beings acting actres [???]
Way to build…
These notes were on a reflection round on Saturday morning, about the 2nd day of the course. Feel free to add anything that you find is missing.
| Plus: - very good input - concrete - Pro-action café worked well, it was fast and fluid, despite the tiredness at the end of the day - Replicated a process, even if only giving a taste, that one can repeat in other context, to come from the information, to the action proposal. | Minus: - too less interaction - too long - open space too short, does not allow to… |