Welcome to this years Overshoot festival. The festival works as a reminder of the day we overshoot this years planetary resources. For Sweden this was already 10th of April this year, and for the whole planet May the 7th.

The festival is a joint event where several organisations come together under the joint mission of a fair transition to a sustainable future, and fill the park with activities for all ages and interests.

This year the Institute of Degrowth Studies Malmö is represented with an infotable where you can meet representatives from the group.

LOCATION: FOLKETS PARK, MALMÖ

More info and program: Overshoot festival 2025

This meeting will be dedicated to plan the upstart of Degrowth in the Autumn and our annual meeting.

Bring calendars, good ideas, and engagement!

Location: STPLN

This time we meet to testrun the Agroecology + Degrowth workshop that will be held on the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo. This day we will tstrun the prototype for the workshop, thus this meeting is a closed meeting, primarily for our already engaged members and invited guests. You need to sign up for participating (plus sing up your invited guests) before - and you sign up in the message sent through Signal.

LOCATION: STPLN, 2-6 pm 20-30 people. Fika will be served.

Save the date! Topic TBA

LOCATION: STPLN

Join this talk and discussion on the forthcoming Routledge Handbook of Degrowth (out in June) with its editor activist-scholar Anitra Nelson and chapter contributor Nick Fitzpatrick.

Anitra is affiliated with the University of Melbourne (Australia) and Nick is based at Aarhus University (Denmark). They will talk about degrowth themes in the handbook, their other degrowth work and involvement in the degrowth movement over many years.

Up-dates on working groups, continuing planning spring activities

Location: STPLN TBA - comming soon. This meeting will not be an open meeting, so the location will be announced internally .

For those of you who are interested in contributing to the Overshoot Festival on the 29th of May in Folket Park are welcome to join this meeting. The meeting is arranged by ABF and the Overshoot Festival is a arranged as a collaboration between many organisation.

Location: ABF Malmö, Spånehusvägen 47

Degrowthers engaged in the working group for the ISEE Degrowth conference will meet with the group from Alnarp Agroecology Farm in Alnarp. We will interview the Agroecology group to decide on scenarios relevant for the conference workshop.

Location: at the farm in Alnarp (soup will be served, i think)

Now it is time to meet up with as many as possible. We will report what´s happening in the working groups and also discuss what we want to dedicate the up-coming meetings to. A lot is happening, so bring pen and paper/digital pen and paper and calender!

We will also discuss meeting places for the group.

If you are interested in joining Degrowth but has not been to any of our meeting yet, this is a perfect meeting for you to join!

Agenda:

18.00 Fika and intro to WeChange

18.30 Up-date from the working groups

19.00 Planning for spring
Location: STPLN

Planning meeting for the ISEE Degrowth Conference in Oslo 24th - 27th of June

Invited by the Alnarp Agroecology Farm, the Institute for degrowth studie will this year co-host a workshop on the international Degrowth conference. This meeting is a planning meeting for the workshop, travel etc. The meeting is for those who are interested in contributing to this collaboration and planning to go to the conference.

Location: zoom - link is on Signa - if you can´t find it, contact Sara

Everyone interested in joining the Material working group. The group will discuss about material needs and check out Degrowth books at the library.

Location: Malmö Stadsbibliotek. Host: Silfa

THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY SHORT NOTICE: A new day and time will be presented soon.

This meeting will be in a workshop style where we map out potential collaboration for a joint activity on something before the election 2026.

THIS MEETING HAS BEEN CANCELLED BY SHORT NOTICE: A new day and time will be presented soon.

For new and old degrowth:ers. This is an event where we will discuss degrowth together. This session will be co-hosted by Silvia and Ekatarina.

Location: ABF Malmö Spånehusvägen

Questions: contact Silvia, Ekatarina or our Degrowth info-email.

On request from new members: This session will be hosted by Ekaterina, experienced degrowth:er and researcher on degrowth. This session is mainly for new members, but for everyone interested in degrowth. If you have questions contact Ekatarina or the Degrowth info-email.

Time: 14-16. Location: ABF Malmö, Spånehusvägen 47

Join our first planning session for 2025. The aim of the meeting is to put together an agenda for spring 2025. We had some sessions for generating ideas for this semester and this meeting will be about putting everything together. Location: Direktörsvillan (Kirseberg) Lundavägen 51A. Welcome. Host: Sara - contact Sara or info-mail Degrowth if you have questions.

Let´s come together for a drink and catching up after winter-holidays. Place to be announced. Contact Annita for more info. If you don´t have her email, contact us on the degrowth info-email.

Note the date! More info will come as well as where we will meet.

This meeting will be dedicated to plan our up-comming activities! We will do this in a workshop style and the only preparation you have to think of is to reflect on the following:

1. What would you like the Institute for Degrowth Studies to focus on this autumn, in the spring and more long-term?

2. Is there any activities you think the Degrowth group SHOULD engage with?

3. In what way do you want to contribute to these proposed activities?

This time we meet at Direktörsvillan in Kirseberg, Lundavägen 51 A.

See. you there!

Welcome to our annual meeting! As this is the only formal meeting, we have sent out more detailed info on our info-email list, as well as on our active email list. If you are not on one of these lists and are interested to join our meeting, send us an email!

Dear all! Have you come in contact with the Institute for Degrowth Studies or heard about us anywhere and got interested. This meeting is for you! We give a short introduction to Degrowth and to the group, who we are, we we have done etc. We meet at ABF Malmö. The meeting will be short from 17-18. After this we will go for a social drink/snack in Folkets Park - everyone that wants to join are welcome!

We meet at Sara´s place. We say hello to our new members and continue to discuss the autumn. Most welcome!

We meet at Spilios place for a final spring meeting, to reflect on our activities during spring, and to spark some ideas for autumn 24. + planning our first meetings after summer.

Topic: Deep dive 2: Degrowth perspectives on wellbeing and welfare

To attend this study circle, you need to have registered in advance.

More information at ABF’s website

Topic: Deep dive 1: Degrowth perspectives on labour and organising

To attend this study circle, you need to have registered in advance.

More information at ABF’s website

Topic: Contemporary currents within degrowth and constructive critical perspectives

To attend this study circle, you need to have registered in advance.

More information at ABF’s website

Topic: Fundamental Degrowth: The core of degrowth and the origin of the field

To attend this studycircle, you need to have registered in advance.

More information at ABF’s website

How can we better organise non-profit organisations, cooperatives and communities working on a socio-ecological transformation? Join us in a workshop with cooperatives from Malmö and Lund and discover what their challenges are and how they see the future of the cooperative model.
In the second part of the event, two experts will share their experiences with the cooperative model and community organising.

Program:
17:00 - 18:00 Workshop Capacity building for non profit organisations. Local cooperatives have been invited (Circle Centre Lund, Matvarukooperative Lund, Alnarp’s Farm, Swop Shop Malmö) to co-create a map of strategies to innovate the cooperative model in order to answer the emerging needs of the sector.
18:00 - 18:30: Food/fika
18:30 - 19:30 The degrowth institute in conversation with Jakob Rask, Founder of Copenhagen Doughnut and writer of Cooperative Handbook and Britt Jurgensen, co-developer of Homebaked Community Land Trust and Homebaked Bakery Liverpool

Attendees can choose to attend all the events or parts of it.

Fika will be served! Please mark "going" on the Facebook event so we know how much fika to prepare to avoid any waste!

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Degrowth of the digital? What can your old smartphone – and a website that sometimes goes offline – tell us about degrowth of the digital?

Please bring your oldest smartphone, laptop, tablet or other web-enabled device to put this degrowth concept to the test!

Discussions on how to think about planned obsolescence with Roel Roscam Abbing (Doctoral Student in Interaction Design at Malmö University) and Jessika Richter (Repair Café Malmö).

We will discuss the possibilities and challenges to repairing and the connection to degrowth!

The workshop will be in English, but Swedish interaction is also possible. We will have some old electronics for people that don't have any at home but still want to participate!

Tentative program:
15.30 – 15.35 Introduction the Institute of Degrowth studies
15.35-15.40 Intro to the theme: ‘Obsolescence driven consumption and the degrowth of production’
15.40 – 16.00 Introduction to ‘Right to Repair Movement’ by Jessika from Repair Café Malmö
16.00-16.20 Presentation by Roel
16.20-16.30 Fika break
16.30-17.00 Workshops with Roel and Jessica on what can be repaired
17.00 – 17.30 Panel discussion

Fika will be served! Please mark "going" on the event so we know how much fika to prepare to avoid any waste!

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Join us for the first event in our new series: Get to Know Degrowth!

For the first event, we will be screening the film FAIRYTALES OF GROWTH which introduces degrowth and many of its central ideas.

We will have a discussion with the film director Pierre Smith Khanna, in conversation with Cecilia Paulsson (director of Outgrow the System).

This event is perfect for people wanting to know more about degrowth and alternatives to the capitalist system. No previous knowledge of degrowth is required!

Coffee, tea, and fika will be served!

Everyone is welcome