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Post-Growth Planning

Post-Growth Planning

By: Christian Lamker & Viola Schulze Dieckhoff
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 Collective for leading common spaces beyond growth. #postgrowthplanning - A planning in which growth is neither a necessary starting point nor a goal that must be achieved. One that does work on change, but not on growth. One that works on quality of life, but not with more of the same growth solutions. One in which planners engage and motivate.© 2020-26 postgrowthplanning.com Philosophy Science Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #34: Julia Grosinger

    Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #34: Julia Grosinger
    Apr 29 2026
    Episode #34 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Julia Grosinger (ICTA-UAB, Barcelona, Spain). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). "Post-growth planning is not happening on the grid; it's something which happens in the mindsets of people". Discussing spatial, social, and emotional aspects of degrowth in rural areas throughout Europe. Understanding 'the backbone of human survival' and distinct narratives and experiences in rural areas and small municipalities. Identifying loved keystone places in participatory methods, walking interviews, and arts-based research. Highlighting the role of planned and unplanned spaces for meeting and fulfilling human needs for identity, leisure, and participation. Beyond romanticising degrowth to understanding values like care, conviviality, and solidarity, in rural contexts and connecting to existing social and physical infrastructures - "because we cannot go back the way we came from".
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    30 mins
  • Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn

    Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn
    Apr 27 2026
    Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #33: Matthias Kranke & Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn Episode #33 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Matthias Kranke (College for the Social Sciences and Humanities of the University Alliance Ruhr/University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany) and Dr Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). "You can't get beyond growth without really getting inside of it". Working through roads, ports, rails, and accounting and between growth and post-growth infrastructures. Moving the focal point from policy towards materiality and the realities of existing infrastructures. Reflecting on a special issue on post-growth infrastructures and several workshops. Criticising how infrastructures can facilitate 'ever more everything' (growth, consumption, production), and opening pathways in different spaces and places. Further extending thinking into bitcoins, crypto currencies, and ecological accounting. Finishing with the need for more political debates on infrastructures and how to take socio-material relations seriously to avoid post-growth planning as being myopic and failing to see infrastructures.
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    27 mins
  • Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #32: Anna Pagani

    Becoming a Post-Growth Planner #32: Anna Pagani
    Apr 23 2026
    Episode #32 of “Becoming a post-growth planner: obstacles and challenges to changing roles and practices” with Dr Anna Pagani (King's College London, United Kingdom). In conversation with Dr Christian Lamker (University of Groningen, the Netherlands). "We cannot think of any future if we do not think about housing!". Work with systems thinking and degrowth through housing markets in the United Kingdom. Pondering on housing as a basic need and experiences with housing associations and discussing a moratorium on new housebuilding. Challenging narratives around the housing crisis and the idea that building new means building better. Identifying leverage points for change and intervention in the housing system. Explaining perceptions of power (discursive, instrumental, structural) and organising packages of solutions by knowing about co-benefits and unintended consequences. Explaining the development, tensions, and intended uses of the 'Manifesto for housing in a post-growth world' for spatial planners today and tomorrow. Calling to action because "post-growth planning is a collective activity of mutual learning, and this mutual learning must be informed by a systems approach".
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    27 mins
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